CLOCKWISEFROMTOP^ LEF
T:^
CAMERON^
MCCOOL;^ DEWAYNEROGERS;^ ERIKPENDZICH/SHUTTERSTOCK;^ AFF- U
SA
/SHUTTE
RSTOCK;^ GRAHAM^DENHOLM/GETTY^ I
MAGES;^JA
SPERRISCHEN22 | Rolling Stone | September 2019
The Mix
For
reviews,
premieres,
and more,
go to
Rolling
Stone.com/
music- Miranda
Lambert
“It All Comes Out in
the Wash”
Ever brought a brides-
maid’s ex to a wedding?
Ever accidentally told
your mama that your
sister got knocked up in
a truck outside 7-Eleven?
Hey, it happens. And
the country queen’s
latest blast of wry, rocking
wisdom is the perfect
antidote to the stains and
aches of everyday life —
a Tide stick for the soul. - Velvet Negroni
“Wine Green”
A Minnesotan raised
on classical music and
evangelical Christianity,
Jere my Nutz man (a.k.a.
Velvet Negroni) blurs art
pop, R&B, and dub into
something uniquely weird
and delicately gorgeous.
Keep an eye on this dude. - Haim
“Summer Girl”
Written to send good
vibes to their producer,
Ariel Rechtshaid, who had
contracted cancer, Haim
came up with a jazzy pick-
you-up, pulling back their
sleek Eighties sound to
highlight its tender core. - Anuel AA,
Daddy Yankee,
Karol G, Ozuna,
and J Balvin
“China”
A veritable Justice League
of Latin pop convenes for
a Spanish-language cover
of Shaggy’s reggae-pop
classic “It Wasn’t Me,” and
mind-breaking catchiness
ensues. - Charli XCX
“Cross You Out”
The punky U.K. pop diva
is releasing her first
LP in five years, full of
confrontationally weird
party jams like this emo
collabo with fellow rules
hater Sky Ferreira. Over a
stomping, synth-glazed
groove, they detonate the
memory of an ex, creating
their own killer moment of
sisterly chaos. - DaBaby and
Lil Baby
“Baby”
Lil Baby’s Drip Harder was
one of our favorite hip-
hop albums of 2018, and
DaBaby’s Baby on Baby is
one of our favorites from
this year. What can we
say? It’s a good time for
rappers named Baby, as
their frenetically banging
tag-team “Baby” attests. - Vivian Girls
“Sick”
The Vivian Girls make
sweetly bracing indie pop
somewhere between the
Go-Go’s and My Bloody
Valentine, and they’re
finally back after a way-
too-long eight-year hiatus.
The former Sonic Youth
singer-guitarist is releas-
ing the three-CD box set
Spirit Counsel on Sep-
tember 21st and touring
America in December.MYLIST
PATTI SMITH
“Godspeed”
This is a stream-of-con-
scious piece of music that
sounds like it was done
in the middle of the night
with the lights out.MINOR THREAT
“In My Eyes”
There’s a rage in the
vocal delivery here
that is undeniable. It’s
taking on a youth culture
that believes in the lies
of^ capitalist society.BUSH TETRAS
“Too Many Creeps”
This is about these girls
walking around New York
dealing with creepy guys.
It’s punk mixed with hip-
hop, jazz, and salsa vibes.GLENN BRANCA
”Lesson #1 for Electric
Guitar”
Glenn is one of my big-
gest influences. This is an
instrumental guitar piece
that helped inform a lot of
what I did in Sonic Youth.TAPPER ZUKIE
“Man ah Warrior”
This is reggae music, but
really stripped back. It’s
just intonation and the
clack of a guitar pick on
the strings. Tapper Zukie
is cooler than cool.FIVE SONGS
THAT
SHAPED ME
By Thurston
MoorePLAYLIST
OUR FAVORITE
SONGS AND VIDEOS
RIGHT NOW- Ariana Grande
and Social House
“Boyfriend”
The generosity of “Thank
U, Next” is nowhere to
be found on Grande’s
new breakup jam: “I don’t
want to miss your touch/
And you don’t seem to
give a fuck,” she sings, re-
minding us why her “train
wreck” is pop’s top drama. - Diiv
“Skin Game”
These noise junkies do
Nineties shoegaze with
the creepily obsessive
dedication of Civil War
re-enactors — and it sure
does work. - Bonny Light
Horseman
“Bonny Light
Horseman”
Anaïs Mitchell, author of
the Tony-winning musical
Hadestown, fronts this
fine new folk band,
channeling an ancient
ache on its first single.
2
6
4
9
1