If you’re a regular Rolling Stone reader you’re familiar with our My Lists. For every issue of the magazine, we ask artists to tell us what’s playing on their stereos. Now we’re taking that feature online, with this first installment of the RollingStone.com edition of My List. Read on to find out what everyone from Conor Oberst to Kelly Clarkson are name-checking these days.
- What is Conor Oberst listening to? “There’s a band from Omaha that’s amazing called Cap Gun Coup, they’re my favorite Omaha band right now,” the Bright Eyes frontman tells us. It’s a full band, four or five people, and they made this great record — it’s sort of all over the place, pretty weird indie rock.”
- What is Nick Lowe listening to? “Jim Ford,” the legendary singer-songwriter tells us. “He’s a very strange man. He’s a white guy, but he’s got this fantastic sort of black soul. He wrote all the songs for Bobby Womack.” Lowe went on to tell us that he met Ford years ago but was too young to appreciate playing with the man. “He came to London to make a record, and I was hired to play on it, but we really weren’t good enough…I can highly recommend it for lovers of really good soul and R&B.”
- What is Dave Matthews listening to? Matthews tells us about Xiu Xiu, the experimental indie project of Californian singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart, who, Matthews says, Tim Reynolds turned him on to. “There’s something about it where you can’t put it down,” he says. “It’s like crazy person music, but it’s really slammin’ and it’s really beautiful. He’s a little bit precious maybe — and ‘a little bit’ may be understating it — but there’s something about it that I go back and I listen to it again, and I like it.”
- What is Kelly Clarkson listening to? “I love Brandi Carlile,” the pop star enthuses. “Her voice makes me so happy.” Clarkson went on to tell us about her thing for Miranda Lambert, a 2003 finalist on American Idol-like country talent show Nashville Star. “She’s a country girl but she is so great,” Clarkson gushes. [Lambert’s song] ‘Drytown’ reminds me of the town I grew up in.”
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