Rolling Stone August 25, 2016

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The Zika Threat the Zika virus [“The Epidemic at Our Door,” RS 1264]. The piece couldn’t be more timely, as the first locally transmitted cases in the U.S. are now in Miami. Evidently, we’re completely unprepared. Eric Wasserman, via the Internet Janet Reitman’s story, it’s Florida Gov. Rick Scott begging the GOPcontrolled Congress for federal funds to combat Zika. The virus threatens unborn children, but elected officials (a majority of whom are pro-life) are on vacation and unavailable to help. Francis Fitzgerald Via the Internet makes the link between global warming and the “pandemic expansion” of mosquito-borne viruses. What level of damage – to global health, to coastal property, to the world’s food supply – will finally convince skeptics that the science on climate is real? ZackWilliams, via the Internet 80,000 Zika cases, Puerto Rico and its…

1. Father John Misty “Real Love Baby” Indie-folk hero Father John Misty usually undercuts his sensitive-Seventies tunefulness with dark irony. Not this time. The achingly lovely “Real Love Baby” might be his prettiest song, and it’s definitely his sweetest. 2. Green Day “Bang Bang” Green Day’s first studio album in four long years is out in October, and its first single is a harrowing punk rager, sung from the perspective of a mass shooter drunk on twisted fame. They’ve never channeled American angst so terrifyingly. 3. Noname “Sunny Duet” Chicago rapper-poet and Chance the Rapper pal Noname kicks some lithe, fluttery R&B with a summer-stoop vibe. It’s like vintage Erykah Badu at her most optimistically chill. 4. Radiohead “The National Anthem” (live) A Kid A classic thrown down on the first night of their U.S. tour. As the crowd sang, “Everyone…

The R&B icon, who celebrated his 75th birthday in January and just released the new LP Apache, is in the middle of a U.S. tour. Nat “King” Cole “Mona Lisa” I used to sneak my way into movie theaters singing this song. Whoever was working the door would just let me in for free after hearing it. Sam Cooke “A Change Is Gonna Come” From the opening notes on, this song just captures your heart and soul. He was killed before it even came out. Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On” If it came out now, this song would still be right on time. He’s singing about picket lines and police brutality. Linda Ronstadt “Cry Like a Rainstorm” I’ll be on an airplane trip and put this song on. It just soothes me. She has one of the greatest voices of all time. Beyoncé “At…

T Billie Joe Armstrong was driving into Manhattan when he came across a throng of protesters. Outraged by a grand jury’s decision not to indict a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer for the killing of Michael Brown, they filled the streets and backed up traffic for miles. Armstrong was moved. “I got out of my car and marched with the people,” he says. “It was a trip to see people rebel against the old order.” The experience inspired the title track of Green Day’s new album, Revolution Radio (due October 7th), a collection of songs about the chaotic state of America in 2016. It’s not a political concept album like American Idiot – there are also more-personal songs like “Ordinary World,” a sweet ballad that ends the album. But most songs touch…

Wand three future members of Pearl Jam came together in 1990 to record Temple of the Dog’s one and only album, they never could have imagined playing the songs in arenas a quartercentury later – it was merely a one-off tribute LP in honor of a friend, Andy Wood of the Seattle band Mother Love Bone, who had just died of a heroin overdose. Despite producing an MTV hit, “Hunger Strike,” the album remained a grunge footnote. So, last year, when the bandmates began talking about reuniting for their first-ever tour, they weren’t sure how it would be received. “We were anxious about what size venues we could play,” says bassist Jeff Ament. “We’ve never toured. We’re essentially a baby band.” Temple of the Dog decided to hit just five…