{"id":482182,"date":"2019-02-13T11:28:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T18:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=794315"},"modified":"2019-02-13T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T18:28:37","slug":"see-rain-phoenixs-time-is-the-killer-video-with-michael-stipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/see-rain-phoenixs-time-is-the-killer-video-with-michael-stipe\/","title":{"rendered":"See Rain Phoenix\u2019s \u2018Time Is the Killer\u2019 Video With Michael Stipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/michael-stipe-rain-phoenix.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Rain Phoenix has shared the video for her new song \u201cTime Is the Killer,\u201d a collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/michael-stipe\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-stipe\" data-tag=\"michael-stipe\">Michael Stipe<\/a>. The track appears on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rain-phoenix-river-michael-stipe-783766\/\">a double A-side single<\/a> featuring a pair of unreleased songs by Aleka\u2019s Attic, her late brother River Phoenix\u2019s band.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/rain-phoenix-and-michael-stipe-share-video-for-new-song-time-is-the-killer-watch\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Pitchfork<\/a> debuted the video for the song, which finds Phoenix and Stipe recording the slow-burning track in the studio and slow dancing in the street.<\/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 Phoenix <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rain-phoenix-river-michael-stipe-783766\/\">previously told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI like to hear what other people think about what it means.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added of collaborating with her longtime friend and former R.E.M. singer, \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. He loved it. He said yes. I am still in shock. His voice is magic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime Is the Killer\u201d marks Rain Phoenix\u2019s first release as a solo artist and a now-rare musical appearance by Stipe. The single, which also boasts Aleka\u2019s Attic\u2019s \u201cWhere I\u2019d Gone\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rain-phoenix-river-michael-stipe-783766\/\">Scales &amp; Fishnails<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0is out February 14th via <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.krorecords.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Kro Records\/LaunchLeft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rain-phoenix-time-is-the-killer-video-michael-stipe-794315\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rain Phoenix has shared the video for her new song \u201cTime Is the Killer,\u201d a collaboration with Michael Stipe. The track appears on a double A-side single featuring a pair of unreleased songs by Aleka\u2019s Attic, her late brother River Phoenix\u2019s band. Pitchfork debuted the video for the song, which finds Phoenix and Stipe recording [&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-482182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 00:45:09","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\/482182","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=482182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}