Rolling Stone November 16, 2017

MOVIES MEET THE NEW ‘PUNISHER’ He’s angry, he’s heavily armed and he’s storming your Netflix queue. ROLLING STONE paid a visit to the show’s set to speak with star Jon Bernthal and showrunner Steve Lightfoot, and we took a behind- the-scenes look at how Marvel’s killer vigilante was reinvented for the binge-watching set. MUSIC GOD SAVE THE SEX PISTOLS As Never Mind the Bollocks turns 40, the band breaks down every track of 1977’s crowning punk masterpiece. TV STORIES BEHIND THE STRANGE From Steven Spielberg to Stephen King, this is your guide to every in-joke and hat-tip in Stranger Things’ new season. COUNTRY TOTAL CMAS COVERAGE We recap the best – and worst – from country’s big show, as Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood return as hosts. MUSIC NOW PODCAST Photographers Baron Wolman, Mark Seliger and Max Vadukul join ROLLING STONE’s Jodi Peckman…

Kesha’s Resilience journey Kesha’s been on [“The Liberation of Kesha,” RS 1298]. The new music is beautiful, and the way she has overcome internal turmoil is an inspiration to us all. I’m thankful for her opening up and showing the world her vulnerability and beauty. Ryu Tsubura Yorba Linda, CA the lies we were all told at one time or another, regardless of our background – the lies that tell us we are not enough and that we gain more respect from conforming and suffering than from being ourselves and cultivating resiliency. Iman L. Khan, Milwaukee The Pipeline Fight Keystone Pipeline [“A Final Fight for the Keystone Pipeline,” RS 1298]. I’m surprised the president isn’t demanding answers to the following: Why does a Canadian company named TransCanada need to build its pipeline trans-USA, and how does a…

1. Margo Price “Pay Gap” One of the sharpest new country songwriters around just released her excellent second album, All American Made,an LP full of political indictments like the deceptively pretty “Pay Gap.” Price sings, “Women do work and get treated like slaves since 1776,” proving the roots of Trump-Weinstein America run deep indeed. 2. Ryan Adams “Back in Your Head” Adams takes a delicate rocker by indie-pop duo Tegan and Sara and makes it sound like a Replacements B side. It’s the best moment on The Con X: Covers, an album of artists covering T&S’s 2007 album The Con. 3. Tee Grizzley “Win” A trunk-rattling ode to stacking hundred-dollar bills to the moon, from a Detroit rapper who also knows how to explore the darkness and ambiguity that complicate his sky-high dreams. 4. Destroyer “Tinseltown Swimming in Blood” Destroyer’s Dan…

The former Police drummer just released the debut LP by his new band Gizmodrome, which features King Crimson’s Adrian Belew on guitar. Captain Beefheart “Tropical Hot Dog Night” This sounds like a large band gone mad. He couldn’t get real Brecker Brothers-type players, so the result is creativity rather than chops. Dr. John “I Walk on Guided Splinters” This has a dark, echoey, Cajun atmosphere. But it has that atmosphere from the wrong side of midnight. Martha and the Vandellas “Dancing in the Street” It’s about wild abandon. When you hear this song, you know it’s going on down in the street. Let’s get down there. Jimi Hendrix “Spanish Castle Magic” This is one of the more explosive Hendrix tracks, where the drums are thrashing nonstop and his riff just doesn’t quit. Kendrick Lamar “For Sale? (Interlude)” At last, after a half-century of domination by…

I killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 others at Las Vegas’ Route 91 Harvest festival, Kevin Lyman, producer of the long-running Warped Tour, has been thinking a lot about security at his outdoor festival. In recent years, he’d already added police dogs and more barricades, and started contacting Homeland Security for help before shows. “It’s at the forefront of my mind: How am I going to keep the kids safe?” he says. “My job hasn’t been fun for a while. I used to worry about weather patterns and lightning storms. There’s no way that anyone could’ve thought something like this would’ve happened.” Deadly attacks over the past two years, from Orlando, Florida, to Manchester, England, have forced concert organizers to drastically heighten their security, adding measures like anti-drone technology…

Eumentary Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge, a 22-year-old Jann Wenner is seen sitting at his desk in the cramped San Francisco loft where he started the magazine 50 years ago. The Berkeley dropout is surrounded by a bulging Rolodex, a rotary telephone and a photo of the Beatles, discussing why he started the new publication. “Rock & roll is a particular form [of music] that’s changed tremendously, has changed, keeps changing,” he tells a local TV reporter. “There was no publication that covered it the way it should be covered, that treated it the way it deserved to be treated.” Wenner had forgotten about that interview until he saw a rough cut of the film recently. “I’d never seen it,” he says, before talking about watching his younger self onscreen:…