Rolling in the Deep: 8/14/14

rs1215The march of progress! Some of my recent work for Rolling Stone, if you’d like to catch up: I interviewed Beck about his all-star Song Reader album (for the print magazine, but also available in a longer version online). Also in the print magazine: my home studio visit with Avicii. I conducted a five-way Q&A with G.R.L., a girl group on the rise (who were much funnier than I expected). I spotlighted cool old live performances by Michael Stipe with Bruce Springsteen, Beck, Hole, Bjork and PJ Harvey, David Bowie and Cher, and New Order (on the set of Baywatch). I interviewed club promoter and convicted killer Michael Alig, musicians Nico & Vinz, producer Quincy Jones, and director Spike Lee (about Do the Right Thing). If you’re feeling list-oriented, you might want to check out my rundowns of drummers who became guitarists, big hit singles not sung by the band’s usual lead singer, bizarre free-throw shooters, sports fans humiliated on cameraextraordinarily long home runs, and crazy Rick James stories–and my contributions to the ranking of the 100 greatest Seinfeld characters.

In a newsy vein, I wrote about the death of Bobby Womack, an upcoming Johnny Ramone tribute, a potential Kinks reunion, and Star Wars spinoff director Josh Trank. I also reviewed a live Jack White show. And I’m particularly proud of my analysis of a sequence from Pulp Fiction (the section featuring Bruce Willis and the Gimp).

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