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The Unsolved Case of the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet
With its rigid beat and dry, monotone vocals, the song sounds like a synth-pop hit you would have heard in a dance club in the Eighties. (Or at least on an Eighties Spotify station.) Close your eyes...
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The Cure’s Robert Smith Looks Back: ‘I’ve Never Thought About Legacy’
Although Robert Smith says he hopes the Cure never truly fit in with the cultural landscape, he is very aware of just how unusual the group’s success has been over the past four decades. “One of the...
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In the Jungle: Inside the Long, Hidden Genealogy of ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’
This story was originally published in the May 25, 2000 issue of Rolling Stone. Introduction Once upon a time, a long time ago, a small miracle took place in the brain of a man named Solomon Linda. It...
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Will Furries Ever Go Mainstream?
“In photo-shoot six, we’ll have everyone who wears scales on the outside,” the announcer drones over a microphone, as dozens of six-foot alligators, snakes, lizards, and other assorted reptiles...
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How Neil Peart’s Perfectionism Set Him Free
“Subdivisions,” one of Rush’s most beloved songs, is also one of their simplest. Geddy Lee’s insistent synth riff gives the track — a fan favorite from 1982’s Signals — a muted, almost drone-y quality....
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False Idol — Why the Christian Right Worships Donald Trump
On the morning of September 29th, six weeks before the 2016 election, Donald Trump was in a conference room at Trump Tower in New York talking to leaders of the religious right about sex-reassignment...
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America’s Radioactive Secret
Justin Nobel is writing a book about oil-and-gas radioactivity for Simon & Schuster. This story was supported by the journalism nonprofit Economic Hardship Reporting Project In 2014, a muscular,...
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Josh Klinghoffer Talks Red Hot Chili Peppers Firing: ‘It Truly Felt Like a...
Last December, former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer got a text from Flea, asking him to come over to his Los Angeles home to “discuss the state of things.” Right away, he had a...
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Pleas of Insanity: The Mysterious Case of Anthony Montwheeler
On the morning of January 9th, 2017, Anthony Montwheeler kidnapped his ex-wife Annita Harmon near her home in Weiser, Idaho, and drove 20 miles across the state border to Oregon. At a Sinclair gas...
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How Natasha Lyonne Battled Her Demons — and Won
“I feel like I haven’t used the bathroom at Veselka since the Nineties, but I’m going to go for it,” Natasha Lyonne announces from within an aura of red curls and cigarette smoke when she arrives at...
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Planet Plastic
Every human on Earth is ingesting nearly 2,000 particles of plastic a week. These tiny pieces enter our unwitting bodies from tap water, food, and even the air, according to an alarming academic study...
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GRIMES: Live From the Future
1:45 p.m. on a Thursday, and Claire Boucher just woke up. She didn’t sleep well. Twenty-six-weeks pregnant, the arc of her belly currently nudging against a black Marvel Comics T-shirt, she had the...
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John Prine: The Secrets Behind His Classic Songs
Back in 2016, John Prine was having trouble writing new songs. It had been more than a decade since his last album, 2005’s excellent Fair & Square, and the longer he waited to release a new one,...
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‘Teenage Dirtbag’ 2.0
“The choruses of ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ are doubled, Ozzy Osbourne-style,” says Brendan Brown, singer, songwriter, and sole remaining original member of Wheatus. “Those high notes have to be good or else...
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Inside the John Hartford Revival
In Todd Snider’s mind, the most unusual aspect of Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires’ wedding in 2013 wasn’t that Snider was asked to marry them or that he wasn’t legally ordained to do so until that day....
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‘He Made the World Bigger’: Inside John Zorn’s Jazz-Metal Multiverse
One day in the late Nineties, Dave Lombardo, the metal drumming powerhouse best known for bringing a tornado-like fury to Slayer’s early thrash masterpieces, was driving from San Francisco to his home...
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Ghosts, Guitars, and the E Street Shuffle
Bruce Springsteen is standing on a gravel driveway outside his house, squinting up at the sky. This morning, an early-August thunderstorm straight out of one of his own metaphors rumbled through New...
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‘Wonderwall’ at 25: How Oasis’ Unlikely Ballad Became One of the Last Rock...
Liam Gallagher is rarely at a loss for words, snide or otherwise. But during a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the singer was left momentarily speechless after being informed that “Wonderwall,”...
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‘Good Steely Dan Takes’: A Chat With the Man Behind the Funniest Rock Fan...
For those who might be wondering, there’s no sure-fire way to end up on Good Steely Dan Takes. Alex, the 35-year-old Brooklyn resident in charge of the improbably entertaining and increasingly popular...
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Keith Richards on His New Box Set, the Next Stones LP and Who Really Inspired...
It’s late September, and Keith Richards is back at work after a six-month pause. He boasts that his temperature clocked in at 97.8 degrees (“I’m chilling,” he says) when he arrived at Manhattan’s...
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