Cameron Crowe and collaborators are currently adapting Crowe's hit film Almost Famous into a stage musical, Rolling Stone reports. It's only appropriate that RS got the scoop, as the 2000 film was based on Crowe's own experiences writing for the magazine as a teenager in the 1970s. The former rock journalist wrote and directed the original Almost Famous and is writing the book and co-writing...

In his 2016 memoir Set the Boy Free, Johnny Marr resigns himself to a fate of being asked about a Smiths reunion for the rest of his life. The guitarist has worked with Hans Zimmer, Beck, The Pet Shop Boys, The Talking Heads, Modest Mouse, The Cribs, and the Pretenders, but he will always be known first and foremost as the co-founder and co-songwriter of a band that broke up when he was 23. He’s...

One of the most singular offerings among the trove of video rarities that made the rounds following Prince’s passing in 2016 is a short documentary clip from 1990. Prince is seated at a grand piano on a stadium stage in Osaka, effortlessly guiding his band through an instrumental jam on George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess standard “Summertime.” The clip is striking for many reasons, most crucially...