Rolling Stone August 11, 2016

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Future Rocks my favorite MC on the cover [“The Dark Past and Glittering Present of Future,” RS 1265/1266]. I remember exactly where I was when I first heard “Turn on the Lights” and wondered who this shape-shifting magician was. A really nice profile of the hardestworking rapper in the business. Ray Garcia, via the Internet future a lot of material to write from, but their relationship was also really sad to read about. Jan Robbins, via the Internet music and his candor in the story. At the same time, the first thing we read about are the bottles of soda and codeine cough syrup lying around the studio. Does he need to be that messed up to create music? Angela McSwain, Wilmington, NC felt like a classic image of a rapper who couldn’t be more current. Peter Donahue,…

1. Wilco “If I Ever Was a Child” This gentle, folky tune from Wilco’s new LP (due in September) is so laid-back and pretty, you almost don’t notice its haunted lyrics. But Wilco have always specialized in turning ambivalence into beauty. 2. Francis and the Lights feat. Kanye West and Bon Iver “Friends” Arty pop crew Francis and the Lights reunite the dream team from Ye’s Dark Twisted Fantasy for some synth-y falsetto bliss. 3. Justice “Safe and Sound” The French EDM duo are back after a long hiatus, and this sticky house-throbber is a reminder of what the global dance floors been missing. 4. Martha “Ice Cream and Sunscreen” “I know you wish for fireworks to light your July sky/I was the dampest box of matches you could ever hope to find,” these adorable U.K. indie…

“All these songs influenced my new record, The Westerner,” says the X frontman. “They have the same distance, silence and reverb that remind you of the desert.” Giant Sand “Stranded Pearl” Frontman Howe Gelb has a way of turning a phrase that is ingenious, funny and deep at the same time. His voice is so dry, it makes you think of the desert. Neko Case “I Wish I Was the Moon” Neko sings like she’s from another era. This song is lonely and warm. It’s got a real aching quality to it. Calexico “Fake Fur” Calexico represents that Tucson-desert sound. There’s a humor in their work. Think tuck ’n roll Chevys and the Latin influence. Plenty of people have followed them. Calexico/Iron & Wine “He Lays in the Reins” This song has that Ennio Morricone-style electric guitar with that lonely single-note reverb. Friends…

Odid something out of character: He released a protest song. The rapper had reportedly wired tens of thousands of dollars to bail protesters out of jail in Baltimore in 2015, and Tidal donated $1.5 million to Black Lives Matter-related causes earlier this year. But it was only after the shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile by police officers in Louisiana and Minnesota – as well as the shooting deaths of five Dallas police officers at a protest days later – that he finally spoke out. “Just a boy from the hood that/Got my hands in the air in despair/Don’t shoot,” he rhymed on “Spiritual.” He elaborated in a statement: “I’m saddened and disappointed in this America. We should be further along.” He was not alone. In the days after the…

A on Cleveland for the Republican National Convention, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was more crowded than usual. Bill O’Reilly, Caitlyn Jenner and Scott Baio all received private tours, taking in the massive new exhibit “Louder Than Words: Rock, Power and Politics.” Spread over two floors, it traces how rock has influenced attitudes about politics, patriotism and race, with items including Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock guitar and the sax Bill Clinton played on Arsenio Hall in 1992. After performing outside the RNC with his band Prophets of Rage, Tom Morello woke up early to see the exhibit. He singles out a poster for a segregated Little Richard gig and a listening station for Rod Stewart’s 1976 song “TheKilling ofGeorgie” – about a gay friend murdered by a homophobic gang…