Janelle Monáe wasn’t made for these times – no wonder she’s always got her eye on the future. From an early age, she’s been a sci-fi/fantasy fan, grooving on The Twilight Zone and Star Wars as a kid. Yet for the 32-year-old musician and actress those genres have never been …
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When former Spinal Tap bassist Derek Smalls speaks with Rolling Stone for our Last Word interview series, he’s a bit nervous. “You’re not talking to people who are dying, are you?” he asks in his famously thick English accent. “I mean is that the idea of ‘The Last Words’? It’s …
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When the Foo Fighters hit the stage on any given night, they only sort of know what will happen. Dave Grohl will make a set list, mapping out each gig’s mega-length sets to include songs from each of the band’s albums and a spate of raucous covers, but the group’s …
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“I hate the sun. I hate the beach. I don’t lay out. I don’t like to be hot,” says Kim Deal dryly. The singer-guitarist and co-leader of the Breeders is sitting on a couch in a basement of her record label’s Soho offices, having just flown up from Florida, where …
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Although Dr. Dre had already helped put L.A. gangsta rap on the map as a member of N.W.A, it was his solo debut, released in December 1992, that made the good doctor a household name and turned Death Row Records into a hit factory. The Chronic introduced the world to …
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Richie Sambora suspected that Bon Jovi would get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when he saw that they absolutely dominated in the fan vote, but he didn’t know for sure until his longtime buddy Steve Van Zandt called him up at 2 a.m. to deliver the news. …
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Thirty years after the Smiths ended, Morrissey carries on being his outrageously caustic self. The British rock legend just released a well-received new solo album, the mordantly witty Low in High School. He’s spent most of the fall on an American tour, despite the usual controversies over his last-minute cancellations. …
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At an industry panel in 1992, radio host Rick Dees explained the popularity of Right Said Fred‘s tongue-in-cheek disco confection “I’m Too Sexy”: “Everyone is so busy they don’t have time to devote to memorize [rap songs]. With Right Said Fred you know he is too sexy for a dozen …
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