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Skrillex
Ace Of Bass
Eight wild nights and busy days in the life of Skrillex, electronic music superstar.
By Neil Strauss
Photograph by Frank W. Ockenfels 3
"Want to go to a party at the drummer from Muse’s house?” Skrillex turns and asks. “Sure, why not?” Fifteen minutesl ater, the car is full and navigating through the Hollywood Hills. Skrillexis in the back seat with his girlfriend,U.K. singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding, and the bartender from the hotel we just left. In the front seat is his tour manager, Road Hog, who’s never been in the hills before. Ratatat’s “LoudPipes” is blasting through the car. Goulding and Road Hog are celebrating the moment, singing “the Hog is in the hills” to the instrumental track.
Whitney Houston
The Diva and her Dark Side
By David Browne
Early in the evening of February 7th, Whitney Houston was ready to reclaim her place in music. Wearing black pants and a matching black sweater, she rolled into producer Harvey Mason Jr’s North Hollywood studio with her sister-in-law and manager Patricia Houston. Whitney had just finished filming a role in an upcoming movie, Sparkle, and tonight she would lay down her part for as ong on its soundtrack, “Celebrate”, a duet with co-star Jordin Sparks written by R Kelly. After singing a few warm-up scales, Houston hit the mic. Her voice was no longer the brawny, octave-spanning instrument heard on her platinum hits of the Eighties and Nineties.
Paul McCartney
Yesterday & Today
In the time it took you to read this, Paul McCartney just wrote a new song. What makes a 69-year-old Beatle run?
By Brian Hiatt
Photography by Nadav Kander
On his way to work this morning, Paul McCartney had to wait for some pedestrians at a white striped crosswalk. They stood in groups, cameras in hand, blocking a tree-lined London street. As McCartney sat patiently in his SUV, none of them looked his way– the tourists were too busy taking pictures of themselves crossing Abbey Road. “It’s happened to me a few times,” McCartney says later, with a small laugh. “It’s a moment I quite enjoy. There’s a good, strong metaphor there. But there’s so many metaphors in my life – I don’t look for them.The life of a Beatle is full of metaphors.”
Rolling Stone Issue 5
Johnny Depp
June 11, 1998
“He’s a fucking disease that has penetrated my fucking skin,” said Depp after playing Hunter S Thompson in ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’. Now, as Depp brings the writer’s ‘The Rum Diary’ to the big screen, we revisit the meeting of these kindred spirits in this classic article.
By Chris Heath
Johnny Depp Sighs. Hell. Maybe none of this can be explained. He puts down his pool cue and reaches for his drink. It is now four weeks since he finished playing Dr Hunter S Thompson’s alter ego, Raoul Duke,in the film of ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’, but many of Thompson’smannerisms and behavioural tics are still with Depp, and they show nosigns of letting go. Inside his head, it may be even worse. Depp considers howthis splendidly terrible state of affairs ever came to be.