If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The footwear and clothing resale site StockX inadvertently found itself trending this weekend after Kanye West posted an exchange he had with someone who the rapper claimed was …
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No group had it locked like Public Enemy the year Mandela was finally let out of prison. In 1990, when their momentum-grabbing third album dropped, its songs and the band’s logo — a defiant, beret-adorned B-boy in the crosshairs of a gun — were as ubiquitous as the African medallions …
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Donald Trump and his allies devised several harebrained schemes to enable the former president to stay in power after the 2020 election. The Washington Post on Thursday reported on a memo detailing yet another such scheme: sifting through National Security Agency data to try to prove foreign election interference. The …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Work from home and distance learning have become a reality for millions of people this year, which means in-person meetings and classes are being conducted virtually over services …
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MIAMI — The strobes are pulsing. The fog machines are pumping. Three professional dancers wearing haute-couture costumes that appear to be made of newsprint contort themselves on stage to the all-encompassing roar of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance. Their dance partners, dressed in blue windbreakers and FBI caps, run their hands …
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Wrestling fanatic Bad Bunny made his surprise return to the ring Saturday during the WWE‘s Royal Rumble event at the Dome in St. Louis. According to the WWE, Bad Bunny was the 27th person to enter the ring during the 30-wrestler event, with the reggaeton superstar eliminating a pair of …
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Swifties, rejoice: The Holy Swift podcast has created a new version of Wordle, Taylor Swift style. Taylordle premiered on Friday, with the podcast announcing it in a tweet. “Calling all Swifties who Wordle,” they wrote. Spoiler alert: Today’s answer will put your knowledge of the 10-minute version of “All Too …
Read More »Rosanne Cash, Katie Pruitt Set for 2022 Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion
Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion will return to northeastern Tennessee in late summer 2022. Set for Sept. 9 to 11, the annual music festival presented by the Birthplace of Country Music museum will include performances by headliners Rosanne Cash and JJ Grey & Mofro. In addition to Cash and Grey, …
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It’s not glamorous, but it’s true: The modern music industry is largely tethered to what’s dubbed “research,” steady feeds of real-time data from streaming services and social media platforms that labels believe will predict the next star. But interest in underscores, a 21-year-old singer-songwriter-producer, was driven more by old-fashioned word-of-mouth. …
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The Bridgeport, Connecticut police department has opened a criminal investigation into the death of Lauren Smith-Fields, the 23-year-old woman who died in mid-December.On Monday, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled her death to be accidental by way of acute intoxication, due to the combined effects of fentanyl, promethazine, …
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