{"id":481267,"date":"2019-01-24T06:57:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=783766"},"modified":"2019-01-24T06:57:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:57:25","slug":"rain-phoenix-teams-with-brother-rivers-band-michael-stipe-for-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/rain-phoenix-teams-with-brother-rivers-band-michael-stipe-for-new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain Phoenix Teams With Brother River\u2019s Band, Michael Stipe for New Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RR-by-Gus-Van-Sant.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Rain Phoenix, the sister of the late <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/river-phoenix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_river-phoenix\" data-tag=\"river-phoenix\">River Phoenix<\/a>, has teamed up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/michael-stipe\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-stipe\" data-tag=\"michael-stipe\">Michael Stipe<\/a> for a new song called \u201cTime is the Killer.\u201d\u00a0The song will appear on <em>Time Gone<\/em>, a Double A-side single with her brother\u2019s band Aleka\u2019s Attic. It drops on February 14th via Kro Records\/LaunchLeft.<\/p>\n<p>The release features two previously unreleased Aleka\u2019s Attic tracks, \u201cWhere I\u2019d Gone\u201d and \u201cScales &amp; Fishnails,\u201d alongside Rain and Stipe\u2019s \u201cTime is the Killer,\u201d which is Rain\u2019s first single as a solo artist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, [\u2018Time is the Killer\u2019 is]\u00a0about impermanence, our\u00a0futile attempts at avoiding it and the bittersweet\u00a0outcome of everything changing all the time,\u201d Rain tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cI like to hear what other people think about what it means.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of her collaborating with Stipe, she says they have been friends for a long time, but the request didn\u2019t come easily. \u201cIt was so close to home for me, it was difficult, but I got up the courage and asked. Stipe asked to hear the song,\u201d she says. \u201cHe loved it. He said yes. I am still in shock. His voice is magic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A trailer for <em>Time Gone<\/em> features childhood footage of Rain and River along with scenes of River performing live. The clip is soundtracked to Aleka\u2019s Attic\u2019s \u201cScales &amp; Fishnails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rain says she originally mixed the Aleka\u2019s Attic\u2019s songs back in the late Nineties, but \u201cI felt compelled and driven to. I can\u2019t explain it except to say the time feels right\u201d to put them out now, around the 25th anniversary of River Phoenix\u2019s death. Phoenix died on October 31st, 1993). She says she was already considering releasing the songs when Kro Records approached her. \u201cI love it when things unfold like that,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRiver was so ahead of his time. I feel the songs are still relevant in 2019,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rain-phoenix-river-michael-stipe-783766\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rain Phoenix, the sister of the late River Phoenix, has teamed up with Michael Stipe for a new song called \u201cTime is the Killer.\u201d\u00a0The song will appear on Time Gone, a Double A-side single with her brother\u2019s band Aleka\u2019s Attic. It drops on February 14th via Kro Records\/LaunchLeft. The release features two previously unreleased Aleka\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 00:58:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}