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has diedSylvester Stallone turned down $34 million offer for 'Rambo IV'Discover “Trouble” by Gus Van Sant in ParisElon Musk to cut half of Twitter staff[Cinema] Armageddon Time by James GrayThe Complete Columbia Album Collection by Simon & Garfunkel[Read] Highway to AC/DCFirst Aid Kit: return between folk and popRed Beans & Pepper Sauce live session Rolling StoneLIVE SESSION – Ben Harper at the Paris summitLIVE SESSION – Shakey Graves, the Texas folk star"The First Time" with Bruce SpringsteenAyron Jones in "In My Room", the Rolling Stone concertThat feels good !The process was well underway, almost everything was recorded and, as with everyone, the pandemic arrived.It delayed us.We finished recording in January, in Florida, where our guitarist Dave Fortman lives.The pandemic didn't affect the album that much, but it was an interesting ordeal in many ways.We are happy to have finally been able to finish it.We were in the studio, in El Paso (Texas).We are all there, for a few days, in the middle of nowhere.We get into a van, and we discuss a song to cover, without being able to find which one.On the way, I really needed to go to the bathroom.We arrive in a fast food restaurant, which looks like a scene from a zombie movie.It turns out that The Kinks used to go to the restrooms of the restaurant, it reminded me that I had wanted to take it back two years before!I live in the moment, so I often forget things.Back at the van, I told the guys that we had to cover “Lola”, they accepted and we recorded it right after.I'm a big fan of Judas Priest, they influenced my life a lot, like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Ozzy Osbourne and others.When I was 14, I already knew Klaus Eichstadt, our guitarist.I was impressed by the way he played “Eruption” by Van Halen.I asked him if I could sing with him.He was cooler than me, so he refused.As I insisted, one day we listened to the album Screaming For Vengeance, which captivated me.He gave me the album and said “when you sing like that, you can sing in my band”.I ran home breathlessly and listened to it on repeat afterwards.A door had opened for me.I then explored the previous albums, with Rocka Rolla, Sad Wings of Destiny, Stained Class… I love Judas Priest, Rob Halford sang “Goddamn Devil” on America's Least Wanted and on stage with us in 1993, I also sang with Glenn Tipton on Baptism of Fire.So we have real ties.We just happen to say "Rad" in every sentence between us, so Rad Wings of Destiny came out on top.Find this interview of Whitfield Crane of Ugly Kid Joe in full version in Rolling Stone l'Hebdo n°96Rad Wings of Destiny is availableRed Hot Chili Peppers, The Return of the Prodigal BrotherJohnny Marr: "I felt like a stranger to myself"Ugly Kid Joe covers The KinksMusilac 2019 brings sunshine to the musicNovember 9, 1973: Billy Joel releases Piano Man, his second studio album, which sold over four million copies.Billy Joel hasn't released a new album since 1993, but that hasn't stopped him from performing to sold-out houses on the Madison Square Garden stage every month for the past five years;nor fill entire baseball stadiums every summer across the country.“I show up on stage and tell them that I have nothing new for them and that I'm going to play the same tunes as usual,” Joel tells us by phone from his home in Palm Springs, Florida.“And the audience responds 'Yeah'.And I sit in this stadium in front of 30,000, 40,000 or 50,000 people and I'm like, 'Good God, what the hell are they doing here?Now ?'I tell myself that I am an anachronism and that I am no longer much.I make myself rare, and that is perhaps what makes my value“.Are you planning to play at the Garden to celebrate your 70th birthday next May?I have mixed feelings about this.On the one hand, I'm very happy to be alive.On the other hand, I wonder how much we really need to celebrate.You see, it's a night job — I won't have a birthday cake, I have nothing to do with the staff people.However, 70 years is a real milestone.I do a Peter Pan job.You start, you're young and you rock and you do your show like that all your life.You don't realize you're getting old.I saw pictures of me the other day at the Garden.I figured there was something wrong.I looked old.I had lost my hair.I've never been a great beauty, but I stay on stage and I've been there since I was 16.Some of your peers are getting implants and everything they can to stay young.Have you done stuff like that?I don't want to look like a movie star.It's ridiculous.I've always had a little wrinkled face, and it hasn't improved over time.Plastic surgery, implants, all that stuff I don't know.All this has nothing to do with the music.Your youngest daughters are three and one year old.Has your relationship to fatherhood taken on wrinkles too?The difference is that people think I'm the grandfather of my children.I'm taking the older one to school.I meet other parents who tell me “Oh, how pretty your granddaughter is!» And I answer them « OK, thank you very much ».It basically doesn't change anything.It's wonderful to be a father.I don't know if I'll ever be a father again, but I'm glad I was.It rejuvenates.You've done dozens of gigs over the past few years, but you've never played "Captain Jack."Why ?He hasn't aged well.Captain Jack became Private Jack.The whole song is based on two chords, which I repeat over and over.And it's a pretty dull song if you listen to the lyrics.A kid is sitting in a corner of his house.He swings.His father drowned in the swimming pool.He endures a grim suburban life until the moment he cams off.The last time I sang this song, I said to myself that it was really the big depression.The only time we breathe a little is at the beginning of the chorus.Have you planned a farewell tour?No.I believe that my retirement will come when I can no longer play well, when I no longer sound good, when I am no longer fit enough to be in the game.When that day comes, I won't have to perform on stage anymore.I will decide it, like that, overnight, and there will never be a show again, even if my agent showed up and said to me, 'Oh, no!We can still make a lot of money with other shows.Rock star biopics are a hit.Do you imagine a film about you?I don't have the back for that.At one time, I wanted to write my autobiography — in fact I did.But there wasn't enough sex or drugs in my editor's eyes.I had to give him back the advance.And I was like, 'Damn, that's all me!'I'm not sure I'm interesting enough to be the subject of a film.I lived.I'm not going to redo myself.You and Donald Trump are about the same age.You were both born in the suburbs of New York.Does it bring you closer to him?No.For me, he comes from another planet.I know he grew up in Queens, but he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.His father was rich.He left her a fortune.I don't know how much empathy he has for people who aren't like him.In 2017, you wore a yellow star on stage to protest Trump's claims that he called protesters in Charlottesville "good people."Why ?I was mad with rage.What bullshit !There are no good Nazis.Men of my father's generation fought those Nazis.I don't understand how we can tolerate these people who wear swastikas without wanting to chase them and smash their face in with a baseball bat.Does it bother you to be asked when you're going to make new songs?It's a legitimate question.I still compose, but I don't record.These are bits of stuff.I have plenty of songs that no one has ever heard and will ever hear.It's the creative process that interests me, not the rest.Are you ready to swear that you will never record anything again?No.Don't say never.And I might end up with the idea of doing a song.I may start writing a symphony.I do not know.Everything is possible.After celebrating this spring the 25th anniversary of her first album, whose commercial success remains unequaled in French rock, Louise Attaque is releasing her fifth opus, which rediscovers the raw, lyrical and orchestral accents of her recording debut.Gaëtan Roussel: Indeed, if we look at the overall picture.This is no longer the case if we consider the counter-alleys of our history.With Arnaud [Samuel, historical violinist of the group, editor's note], we made two records with our group, Tarmac.I wrote four solo albums.We certainly produced few albums because we took long breaks.This allowed us to realize ourselves elsewhere and to bring this energy, this richness to the group.The incredible success of our first album (2.7 million albums), in 1997, opened many doors for us, made us meet lots of incredible people.We didn't have time to get fed up with the “group” structure.This freedom allowed us to go the distance.Like all groups, we have experienced dissension, disagreements, anger, but we have always managed to overcome them.Arnaud Samuel: Over the past twenty-five years, we could have forced ourselves, at times, to write albums together, even if the inspiration wasn't necessarily there.This would certainly have given less accomplished records.However, we cannot know.We preferred to oxygenate ourselves elsewhere and collect sap for Louise Attaque.Arnaud Samuel: It was fantastic, there was such enthusiasm… We had a round, central stage built, like a cake, with the audience all around.25 years old is a good age for our dear Louise [smile].Gaëtan Roussel: It was a joy to sing yesterday's songs.It made us want to write new songs.Fortunately, we had anticipated a bit when we started writing and composing at the end of last year.This concert allowed us to maintain this dynamic.Arnaud Samuel: With Gaëtan and Robin [Feix, bassist and historical graphic designer of the group], we met in my home studio, in Arles, between last December and February 2022. Then we collected these models and we invested the studios of La Frette-sur-Seine, in Val-d'Oise, joined by our drummer, Nicolas Musset.We set ourselves twenty-five days of recording, divided into four sessions.Orchestrator Rémy Galichet then recorded the arrangements at Ferber Studios in Paris, with a string and brass section.Gaëtan Roussel: In terms of inspirations, we looked at bands like Last Shadow Puppets or Vampire Weekend, orchestral, ample rock.We managed to land, for the mixing, the collaboration of Chad Blake, known for his work with Arctic Monkeys, U2 or The Black Keys.Compared to our first albums, where we didn't let anyone interfere in our creation and in our songs, we opened up to outside influences, an undeniable source of wealth.Find this interview in full in Rolling Stone n°147, available on newsstands on our online store.Planet Earth is availableI don't really think so.It's half a joke and half marketing.It's also a way to challenge, to make fun of the new ambient ideology that believes that words are real violence.Freedom of expression is the right that underpins all other rights, and it's a recurring theme in all of my recent stand-ups.I am joking !I care about humanity as much as anyone, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't care.Comedy, at its best, reveals that we are all idiots.All scared.All a bit screwed up.Laughing about it makes life a little more beautiful.As for humanity, I don't hate it.I don't really want her to go away, I just think the world would be better off without her, unless she changes her ways.I just think that as a species we are destroying nature.Most people don't even realize it.It is clear that we are destroying the ecosystem.We are cutting down forests, polluting the oceans and destroying the ozone layer.We are eliminating entire species.By mass, the animals remaining on earth break down into 36% humans, 60% farm animals and only 4% wild animals.We use so much water, we chop down forests, we use grain from poor countries, and we even grind up fish and other sea creatures to feed livestock.If we cut meat consumption by 10%, we could feed 100 million more people.We are not that important.If humanity disappeared tomorrow, the earth would become a paradise again in a few hundred years.If we lost the bees, the earth would become a desert.So, I guess I would save the bees.(Laughs)The role of the comedian is above all to make people laugh.To make them feel better about life for a short time.Fortunately, telling the truth, ridiculing the ridiculous and exposing the hypocrisy can be comedic elements.Traditionally, the role of the idiot was to stand in the mud with the other peasants and mock the ruling classes.This is a healthy tradition that must be preserved.I try to avoid the blatant presence of political parties in my show, because I think if you only get a reaction from people who agree with you, you lose something comedically.Explicitly political humor can sound more like speech.I don't think humor should be a window into an actor's true soul.Like I said in my last show, SuperNature, I'll take any point of view to make people laugh: I'll pretend to be right-wing, I'll pretend to be left-wing.I'll pretend to be smart, I'll pretend to be stupid.Anything that makes the jokes as funny as possible.Find this interview with Ricky Gervais in full version in Rolling Stone n°147, available on newsstands on our online store.Find Ricky Gervais performing at L'Olympia (Paris) on November 9th.The ticketing is open.There are too many questions to ask Björk.For years, it has been a kind of beacon whose creativity guides artists of all disciplines.We would like to ask her to describe in her own words the mysterious sound of her voice, what goes on in her head when she explores the sounds that make up her work.It would be fascinating to hear her talk about her evolution from Reykjavík street punk to the sonic and visual avant-garde of the world.To hear him explain his success with the general public with such innovative music.Approach the clips of “Human Behavior”, “Army of Me” or “Bachelorette”, true masterpieces produced by Michel Gondry.We could talk about all that and a thousand other things, but we don't have time.However, any conversation with Björk ends up touching on the more transcendental issues.She is an artist with a unique history and heritage, full of nuances that are so many reflections of a rich, diverse and profound work.We had the opportunity to talk to her at length at the end of August.Here is the result of our discussion.I really enjoyed being in Iceland during Covid, it was amazing.Walking to the cafe and the pool, meeting all my friends and family, working with the local musicians.It was very pleasant for me.The restrictions were not as important [as elsewhere] here.Sometimes people understand better when you use visual shortcuts because they have trouble using words to describe a sound.I described my last album, Utopia, as an island in the clouds.There were a lot of flutes, almost no bass or rhythm: everything was floating in the air.Fossora's sound is more grounded.There are six bass clarinets and a lot of stuff happening on the floor.This is why I speak of a “mushroom album”.This album, I recorded it over a period of five years.The songs are obviously very different from each other.And then, it's a bit like my landing after my period in the clouds.A landing here in Iceland.When you spend so much time in one place, you have time to put down roots.Emotionally, it just means I'm very calm.Musicians have to travel a lot, and sometimes it's too much.I find the balance to be similar.In the last album, I had flutes.In the previous one, strings.I've always had acoustic instruments.But generally the beats are more electronic, as is the processing on my vocals, because I edit my albums myself.I spend a lot of time on the computer editing everything and adding the beats.I usually work with Pro Tools or Sibelius, which is software where you can make arrangements for acoustic instruments.I like analog and digital to be friends, to get along, and in my ideal world, there are both.You have your friends, your family, real people, in the flesh.But you also have your phone and internet.It's quite similar to the life we live.I assume you are talking about the reggaeton rhythm.I don't know why I wrote these beats for these songs.It was unconscious, but it was the form that could bring everything together, because the clarinet and trombone arrangements in “Atopos” or in “Ovule” are quite complex.So I needed a very, very simple rhythm with a lot of energy that could bring everything together.And reggaeton rhythms are like that.I happened to be working on these songs when I was in Lanzarote.I listened to the local radio, which may have influenced me without my knowing it.Also, at the beginning of [the design] of this album, I was hanging out a lot in Barcelona with Arca, Rosalia and El Guincho, which may have also influenced me.If I listened to beats, it was mostly East African, like Ugandan techno and things like that, Afrobeat.The rhythm structure is similar.She died four years ago.I wrote a song about him about a year before he died, and then another one right after.It is a sort of eulogy and epitaph for her.It has always been very difficult for me to go to funerals because they take place indoors.I would like them to take place outside, to take you back to nature, in a way.“Ancestress”, the song I wrote after her death, is like my ritual for her, like a funeral, but outside.We shot the clip last June, I'm very happy to share it.I asked my brother to be part of it.Find this complete interview in Rolling Stone l'Hebdo n°94Meet Courtney Barnett on June 24 at the La Magnifique Society festivalAt the start of 2020, Courtney Barnett was looking forward to a hyper-productive year of writing, with only one condition."It's important to remember to live and experience and to have something real to write about," she told Rolling Stone in an interview in January of that year."Not just sit in a room and write an album for the sake of making an album."Barnett laughs when reminded of that conversation now."It's funny," the Australian singer-songwriter, 33, said on a call from her home in Melbourne.“Very ironic… Whether I like it or not, that's what the world has given us.It's probably the quietest year I've ever had.»This is perhaps the most personal album ever recorded by an artist who has already revealed many of her emotions to the world.The album she's spent most of 2020 writing is called Things Take Time, Take Time, and it's coming November 12 on Mom + Pop Music and Marathon Artists.For fans of Barnett's distinctive writing, it's a rich reward, full of sly observations about the peaks and valleys of everyday life that have made her one of the most beloved freelance artists in the world. last decade.The album also has some surprises in store: The album's ten songs shine in a new light, mostly devoid of the crushing rock band sound that filled his first two solo albums, and instead presented in a more close to the radical honesty of chamber music.This is perhaps the most personal album ever recorded by an artist who has already revealed many of her emotions to the world.Barnett describes Things Take Time, Take Time as an album about finding "a kind of joy and gratitude out of pain and sadness".She had started writing new songs shortly after the spring 2018 release of her second solo album, the rambunctious Tell Me How You Really Feel, but ended up shelving most of them.“Write a List of Things to Look Forward To” is one of the first songs she kept.She arrived towards the end of 2019, at a time when she felt deeply distraught, not least because of Australia's devastating bushfire season.“I was just really sad,” she recalls.“I was in a really dark moment.My friends didn't know how to help me.They said to me, “Why don't you try to write down a list of positive things in your life that you look forward to?".At that point, I said, “Nothing.There's nothing I'm looking forward to.»When Barnett felt ready to record some demos, she turned to a vintage Roland CR-8000 drum machine.She then performed at a bushfire fundraiser in early 2020, then flew to the United States for a short solo tour that ended with a charity performance at Los Angeles on Valentine's Day.By the time she got back to Melbourne, a certain Covid forced her to self-quarantine.With no place to stay, she moved into a friend's empty apartment.“I ended up staying there for the whole year,” she says.“It was an amazing little apartment, with big windows and lots of light.I was very lucky to have this place.»As the reality of confinement sets in, Barnett learns to cook, subscribes to the Criterion channel, immerses herself in the films of Agnes Varda and Andrei Tarkovsky, reads books and paints watercolors."I had a lot of big plans," she laughs.But most of the time she sat by the window, drinking coffee and playing the acoustic guitar.One of the new album's sweetest songs, "Turning Green," directly reflects that experience in its lyrics, which evoke renewed hope after a sluggish season ("The trees are turning green/And this springtime lethargy/Is kinda forcing you to see/Flowers in the weeds”)."I sat by that window, and there was a huge tree out front, so I watched the seasons change," Barnett says.“I guess it's also metaphorical.There is something so joyful about this song.We feel that the characters have undergone a kind of transformation, and that they have come out of it on the other side.»When Barnett felt ready to record some demos, she turned to a vintage Roland CR-8000 drum machine she had purchased a few years earlier after a visit to Wilco's loft in Chicago, filled with instruments."It's a bit of a bulky analog device," says Barnett, who describes himself as "addicted to small drum machines."So she called her friend Stella Mozgawa — the Warpaint drummer who had played drums on Lotta Sea Lice, Barnett's 2017 duet album with Kurt Vile — and followed a tutorial.Soon she and Mozgawa were trading playlists of artists who had made innovative use of programmed beats, from Arthur Russell to Yo La Tengo.“It was fun and exciting,” says Barnett."This regular drum machine does something to my brain that makes it calm and peaceful."Realizing that Mozgawa was "the perfect musical match", Barnett invited her to co-produce his next LP.In December 2020, she and Mozgawa reunited at Golden Retriever Studios in Sydney to begin recording.At this point in his process, Barnett would normally have called his live bandmates and put the drum machine back on his shelf."I think I just thought it was for the demos, and when you go into the studio, you take a real drummer and you stay authentic," she says."I was adamant about that.»“Finding beauty in a place where you least expect it.This is the lesson I constantly teach myself.»This time, however, she wanted to preserve the meditative magic of her demos.Most of the songs contain lo-fi beats programmed by Mozgawa on various drum machines, as well as a few lines of real drums.All accompanied by Barnett's voice and guitar.“There's practically only us”, says the musician."It feels so alive to me, like it's all happening at once."Other songs were developed."Here's the Thing," the floating, beautiful ballad that is one of the album's centerpieces, came to Barnett when she was playing guitar in front of television.She captured the vocal take later, while traveling in the countryside in northern New South Wales."We were staying near this huge mountain," she recalls.“It was the most beautiful environment.There's something so special about those vocals."Soon Barnett will hit the road for his first gigs since early 2020, starting with a few solo dates in New Zealand.In November, around the release of the album, she will set her bags in North America for a tour with the whole group which will extend until next February.She can't wait to get back on tour and see how her new songs unfold."As the shows go on, there will be other versions of these songs, as I play them live with the band," she says.“They will start to sound different again.It's always like that.»In the meantime, she has a new album that she can't wait to share with the world.“On the one hand, nothing happened to me last year,” she says.“But at the same time, so many things happened!There's this text in “Turning Green” about flowers in the weeds – finding beauty in a place where you least expect it.This is the lesson I constantly teach myself.»His new album is availableInterview by Simon Vozick-LevinsonGoing back to the sources of his vocation and his convictions, Armageddon Time is James' most personal film...Simon & Garfunkel ****1/2 The Complete Columbia Album Sony/Legacy Collection For them, it all started in 1965 with "The Sound...Discover AC/DC, The group, the albums, the music, a book which traces nearly 50 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