Rolling Stone December 1, 2016

MOVIES ‘THE LAST WALTZ’ IS THE GREATEST Forty years on, a look at how Martin Scorsese went behind the scenes of the Band’s epic November 1976 show in San Francisco to create the most revolutionary concert film of all time. INTERVIEW JAILHOUSE ROCKER Known for her role as a hardened inmate on Orange Is the New Black, actress Jessica Pimentel tells us about the death-metal band she fronts in her spare time. BEATLES HARRISON UNCOVERED Fifteen years after the death of George Harrison, we rounded up 15 things you might not know about the life and music of the Beatles’ legendary guitarist. MUSIC 50 BEST ALBUMS OF 2016 Beyoncé’s Lemonade dominated music once it dropped, but here are the other 49 records – from Chance the Rapper to Radiohead – that defined our year. HEAR US LIVE ON SIRIUSXM! Following the release of…

Durant’s New Life Liberation of Kevin Durant,” RS 1273]. Much respect to Durant, whose honesty will only make people like him more. Glad that you’re at peace, KD. Play like you’re eight years old again! Armando Jamies, via the Internet light on the socioeconomic structure black Americans – and especially black athletes – are forced to deal with. I wish Durant had given it another shot, but leaving Oklahoma was the best decision. A. Dixon, via the Internet City Thunder management failed to provide Durant with a good supporting cast is ridiculous. The team was loaded last season; you don’t go up 3-1 on the winningest team in NBA history without a solid lineup. If Durant had an ounce of competitive blood in his veins, he’d have stayed another year to complete the job that…

THIS WAS ONE OF THE best political articles I have read in this election cycle. Excellent understanding and analysis. Too bad that my state, sad Wisconsin, had to be the starting point. We will need decades to recover from the Republican regime currently in power here. Elizabeth Butler Madison, WI “ROLLING STONE” HAS long been a staple in my home, but Matt Taibbi’s biased reporting bugs me. We the people out here see what’s happening on both sides of the political debate, and we will make up our own minds when we vote. John Daniels Via the Internet TAIBBI’S PIECE – ALONG with Neil Strauss’ “The Age of Fear” [RS 1272] – should be distributed to every American of voting age. Hell, let’s make them required reading in our high schools. Our electoral system needs to…

1. Japandroids “Near to the Wild Heart of Life” Japandroids are punk rockers with a Springsteen soul, and this ode to ditching your hometown to chase your dreams is guitar-bashing bliss. 2. The xx “On Hold” No one does refined rapture like this U.K. dance-music trio. “On Hold” is one of their most straight-ahead pop moments yet, an electro-lush breakup ballad that samples Hall and Oates’ classic “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do).” So sad, so sweet. 3. Alicia Keys “The Gospel” A standout from Keys’ political, hard-hitting new LP, Here. Over blues-lit piano, she spits verses like a battle-tested New York rapper speaking ghetto truth to power. 4. Jim James “Eternally Even” The My Morning Jacket main man’s election-themed new solo set ends with this gorgeous moment of spacey, soulful Zen – something tender to soothe your post-Trump…

The Eurythmics co-founder just teamed up with Louisiana blues singer Thomas Lindsey for the collaborative album Spitballin’. Oliver! “Consider Yourself” My dad used to play the Oliver! soundtrack on his gramophone record player, and the whole house came alive. This song always cheered me up. Bob Dylan “Tangled Up in Blue” The bit about abandoning the car out West feels like it comes from a Raymond Chandler novel. And the melody is fantastic. R.L. Burnside “Jumper on the Line” This just stays on the same blues riff over and over. It shows you don’t need complicated lyrics and epic chord changes. Tyrannosaurus Rex “Debora” I saw Marc Bolan in my hometown of Sunderland when he first started out. About 800 girls were spellbound, and you couldn’t get this song out of your head. The Rolling Stones “Love in Vain” If any other band tried to…

F years, the who have been on what they called their “last big tour,” performing some of their most wide-ranging sets in decades with a renewed energy. The tour has been especially reinvigorating for Pete Townshend, who for years had found playing live increasingly dull: “People would say, ‘Were you having fun onstage?’ I’d say, ‘Not really. It’s just what I do,’ ” he says. Townshend’s attitude started changing during the final five weeks of the tour’s most recent leg, which included a set at Desert Trip in Indio, California, that for many fans was the highlight of the festival. Townshend has been encouraged by younger faces in the audience, and a new sense of effortlessness in his playing. “Maybe it’s because I can see the end in the distant,…