Rolling Stone March 24, 2016

TV SAMANTHA BEE We talk to the host of the new show Full Frontal With Samantha Bee about the upcoming presidential election and busting up the late-night-TV boys’ club. VIDEO DEADPOOL’S FIGHT TRAINER We spent a day at the gym with master comic-bookmovie fight coordinator Philip J. Silvera, who broke down his process for creating the battles in Deadpool. LIST 40 GREATEST EMO ALBUMS What’s the greatest emo album of all time? A selective history of the saddest, most sensitive rock genre, from Rites of Spring to Dashboard Confessional to Fall Out Boy. MUSIC THE REAL JOHN PAUL JONES From cutting “Mellow Yellow” with Donovan to the rumor that he nearly quit Led Zeppelin in 1973 to work as a choirmaster, check out 20 things you didn’t know about the bassist. RIVERS CUOMO SPEAKS In the latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now,…

Martin’s Magic Chris Martin [“Into the Great Wide Open,” RS 1255]. It was refreshing to see the spotlight placed on one of life’s genuine nice guys, who says, “Two percent of the day, I’m a celebrity. Most of the time I’m just a guy trying to figure it out.” If you are reading this, Chris Martin, don’t ever change. Sabine Chalmers, New York fan, I was stoked to see Chris Martin on the cover. I love that he and his music are constantly evolving. He’s never content to rest on his laurels, but is always pushing and experimenting. The one constant? The gorgeous music he writes and sings. Anne-Marie Smith, via the Internet Mexico’s Master master [“Hollywood’s King of Pain,” RS 1255]. Like Herzog’s and Coppola’s, his films are beautiful endurance tests, something perfectly captured by…

1. Lorde “Life on Mars?” Lady Gaga’s David Bowie medley at the Grammys was more Viva Las Vegas than Ziggy Stardust. But Lorde’s incredible performance of “Life on Mars?” at the Brit Awards is the Bowie tribute we all needed. Backed by his touring band and bathed in red light, she dived deep into his towering 1971 ballad, honoring its power and making it her own. No wonder Bowie was a Lorde fan. 2. Bleached “Wednesday Night Melody” If Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino went for a midweek-day drink with Joan Jett and ended up at the studio around sundown, it might sound like this L.A. band’s radiant bubble-punk crunch. 3. Mitski “Your Best American Girl” “Your mother wouldn’t approve/Of how my mother raised me,” this Brooklyn songwriter sings against waves of distortion. Mom’s just nuts…

The pop-parody king will be on his Mandatory Fun tour throughout the summer, wrapping up September 24th at Radio City Music Hall. Wild Man Fischer “Merry-Go-Round” Fischer was a certified bipolar/acute-schizophrenic street musician. Hearing this loopy song about a merry-go-round on repeat might send you to an institution yourself. John Hartford “Boogie” An aggressively weird solo a cappella track to which Hartford grunts and growls about exactly how and where he’d like to “boogie-woogiewoogie” with you. The Five Blobs “The Blob” From the soundtrack to 1950s horror movie The Blob, this was one of Burt Bacharach’s first hits. Parry Gripp “Up Butt Coconut” This is a 30-second song by Parry Gripp from Nerf Herder. He’s a master at producing earworms, but this one is particularly subversive. Styx “Plexiglass Toilet” A hidden track from Styx’s third album, this could be used as a nonviolent way to…

F Kesha, a rough day in court turned into an unprecedented moment of global-pop-star solidarity in February, as some of the biggest names in music, from Lady Gaga to Adele, stepped up to support her legal fight against producer Dr. Luke. In the process, her case became bigger than one artist’s career-threatening battle with a producer she alleges raped and mentally abused her over the course of a decade – charges he unequivocally denies. Artists painted the case as emblematic of the entertainment industry’s – and society’s – treatment of women. “Women in music and film have long been controlled and coerced by abusive Svengalis,” wrote influential Hollywood feminist Lena Dunham, accusing the legal system of “failing to protect [women] from the men they identify as their abusers.” Kesha was in a…

Bernie Sanders Favorite Artists The Supremes, Temptations, Abba and old-school disco like the Trammps’ “Disco Inferno,” which the senator danced to on Ellen. Go-to Rally Songs Tracy Chapman’s “Talkin’ Bout a Revolution,” Steve Earle’s “The Revolution Starts Now,” Bob Marley’s “Revolution.” Sense a theme? Key Supporters The Atlanta rapper Killer Mike has been a vocal champion for the senator. So have rockers like Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, to whom the senator endeared himself by refusing to let them pay for a venue where they played a benefit. “He said, ‘You’re a group, you’re incorporated, so I can’t accept that money,’_” says Flea. “Amazing.” History of Rock In 1987, Sanders recorded the cassette-only We Shall Overcome at the same studio where Phish made A Picture of Nectar. It…