Rolling Stone June 16, 2016

BOOKS MOBY’S WILD NINETIES Moby talks about Porcelain, his killer new memoir covering a decade in the downtown New York music scene. “I did a lot of throwing up into porcelain toilets, so it seemed like the perfect title,” he says. MUSIC MITSKI HITS THE BIG TIME The 25-year-old Brooklyn indie-pop singer-songwriter discusses the making of Puberty 2, one of the most emotionally powerful albums of the year so far. FEATURE THE LOST BEATLES COVER Read the story behind the infamous 1966Yesterday and Today “Butcher” cover, which was withdrawn from sale and is now one of the most valuable LPs in rock history. FILM INSIDE THE O.J. DOCUMENTARY Ezra Edelman, director of O.J.: Made in America, delves into the trial’s racial backdrop: “This was a victory for black America, which speaks to how little they’ve had to celebrate.” CRAZY VIP PACKAGES On the…

to read Joe Levy’s honest obituary [RS 1261]. Prince was a musical chef, mixing funk, rock and R&B. His songs transcended boundaries, genres and generations. Thank you for a funky time, your Purpleness. Your music will live forever in my heart. Ron Morrison, Bourbonnais, IL for producing something meaningful, reverential, informative . . . and also, somehow, healing. Karina Fox Landward, Salt Lake City Joe Levy’s wonderful Prince retrospective was breathtaking, but as a hawk-eyed Prince fan, I couldn’t help but notice that, judging by his hair, outfit and guitar, this is Prince on the 1988-89 Lovesexy tour and not Purple Rain. Considering this legendary dresser’s meticulous attention to detail, I say we owe it to him to get it just right. Adrian Carter, New York in the Prince tribute issue. I loved the details Levy…

1. Chance the Rapper “Blessings” The Chicago MC’s new gospel-steeped album, Coloring Book, is the year’s richest hip-hop LP so far, and “Blessings” gorgeously sums up its message: “I don’t make songs for free/I make ’em for freedom.” 2. The Strokes “Oblivius” The Strokes are back – and not the goofy synthpop Strokes, either. “Oblivius,” from their new three-song EP, has darting, skeletal guitars, desperate over-thephone vocals, and a chorus that shoots you from the gutter to the stars in seconds. 3. Mudcrutch “Trailer” A fine, forlorn rocker – off the second LP from Tom Petty’s re-formed pre-Heartbreakers band – about love and loss and dancing to Skynyrd in a sad mobile home. 4. Car Seat Headrest “Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales” Will Toledo battles his angst and bearhugs the world. The result: a perfect underdog anthem. 5. Lizzo “Good as Hell” On this euphoric hip-hopsoul…

The former Ramones drummer will spend this summer playing the group’s classic tunes with his band Marky Ramone’s Blitzkrieg. The Kinks “All Day and All of the Night” The raunchiness of the production and Dave Davies’ guitar sound were the beginnings of punk. When I first heard it I was like, “Holy shit!” The Trashmen “Surfin’ Bird” This is an off-the-wall song that’s crazy and insane beyond description. It was different than anything on the radio. Love “7 and 7 Is” This came out 10 years before the genre was really consolidated at CBGB, but it’s still punk. It should have gone Number One. Richard Hell and the Voidoids “Blank Generation” I was in this band. This song spoke for the populace at the time CBGB was going. It reflects a moment in time. The Music Machine “Talk Talk” The…

One night last fall, Dead and Company were closing a show with “Brokedown Palace,” from 1970’s American Beauty, when singer-guitarist John Mayer spotted “the real thing,” as he puts it: a veteran Deadhead with long white hair, matching beard and a tie-dye shirt. “He was in tears,” Mayer recalls. “You could tell he was there on behalf of his youth, the friends he’d lost and what these songs meant to him. I thought, ‘This is what I get to do – have this artistic freedom and give some freedom in return. And I get to do itwith the guys who were there.’ ” On June 10th, Dead and Company – formed last year by Dead guitarist Bob Weir and drummers Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart with Mayer, former Allman Brothers Band…

Paul McCartney was talking recently to a woman who works at his New York office when he got an idea. She was about to embark on a road trip and wanted an extensive playlist of his music. He made one – it will be released as Pure McCartney, out June 10th, a 67-track collection that covers every corner of his post-Beatles catalog, from “Big Barn Bed,” a 1973 country rocker, to “Sing the Changes,” from his 2008 album with the Fireman. For McCartney, hearing the old songs was a time trip. “Maybe I’m Amazed” reminded him of the satisfaction he felt recording it after the Beatles’ breakup, and “Live and Let Die” evoked his children’s youthful days. “My kids said, ‘My dad wrote that,’ and nobody at school would believe…