How scratchy field recordings, Gwen Stefani and a Leonardo DiCaprio flick transformed him from a “has-been” into an international star
When Play was released, I kind of thought my career was over,” says Moby. He’s speaking from the sparse, utilitarian Manhattan studio where he recorded the 1999 smash in the years before the walls were dotted with awards documenting its 10 million copies sold. Play wasn’t the first album to make a rock star out of an insular techno nerdnik, but it was the first to make one a pop sensation. An effortless blend of atmospheric swoops, block-rocking beats and blu (more…)
It was billed as three days of peace and music, but the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was really the culmination of months of planning, begging, borrowing and countless hours of hard work. To mark the 40th anniversary of that historic concert, the man at the heart of it all, Michael Lang — the producer who co-created Woodstock — peels back the curtain and reveals the stories and the passion behind one of rock’s most powerful moments.
Lang and Holly George-Warren deliver The Road…
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Look back at the King of Pop’s remarkable career in Rolling Stone’s archives. Check out photos, cover stories, album reviews and more at our Michael Jackson hub.
Soon after word of Michael Jackson’s death got around…
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Look back at the King of Pop’s remarkable career in Rolling Stone’s archives. Check out photos, cover stories, album reviews and more at our Michael Jackson hub.
The night Michael Jackson died: a street corner in…
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Look back at the King of Pop’s remarkable career in Rolling Stone’s archives. Check out photos, cover stories, album reviews and more at our Michael Jackson hub.
Culling a playlist from an artist as estimable and…
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