Monthly Archives: October 2019

Composer and engineer Scott Freiman deconstructs the band’s work and unveils some little-known facts ByJAMES SULLIVAN  Scott Freiman’s first record was by the Partridge Family. An uncle quickly rectified that, lending the 10-year-old copies of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper and the White … Continue reading →

Laurence Myers’ memoir recounts his time as a rock & roll accountant, an early manager to stars like David Bowie, and a music exec in music’s heyday ByAMY X. WANG  “I’m not going to be singing rock & roll when … Continue reading →

With a new box set collecting the original lineup’s first eight albums, we pay tribute to the lords of this world ByKORY GROW When Black Sabbath first attempted to tour America in 1970, they had a Hell of a time. “We had … Continue reading →

Following Rolling Stone’s previous investigation, several radio-industry veterans reached out to report that over the past year, the number of indie promoters demanding pay-for-play is growing ByELIAS LEIGHT  Last year, “Luke,” a music-industry veteran who oversees label radio campaigns, received a dispiriting message: A … Continue reading →

A new Grateful Dead LP collects previously unreleased live songs from the early to mid-Nineties that envisioned a potential track list for an unrecorded final studio album. Band archivist David Lemieux curated the nine-song Ready or Not, which arrives November 22nd on CD, … Continue reading →

Marilyn Manson turned heads with the 1994 breakout release Portrait of an American Family, continued the momentum with the 1995 EP Smells Like Children, but truly catapulted toward stardom with 1996’s Antichrist Superstar, the first portion of an album trilogy that saw Manson truly … Continue reading →