Kanye West, Dua Lipa, Pusha T, and Future are among the artists that will feature on Pop Smoke’s second posthumous album Faith, out at midnight Friday. The rapper’s manager Steven Victor revealed the entire 21-song tracklist Thursday, hours before Faith’s release, with Pharrell Williams, 21 Savage, Rick Ross, the-Dream, Migos’ …
Read More »Biden's Voting Rights Record Is Long on Talk, Short on Action
There’s a vintage Texas phrase that perfectly sums up President Joe Biden’s career-long record on voting rights: “all hat and no cattle.” It’s a way to describe a dude who’s all talk and no action —and it evokes the image of a fake cowboy strutting around in a Stetson hat …
Read More »The Best Pocket-Sized Digital Cameras to Take On the Road
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. For the most part, DSLR cameras can take some seriously impressive photos and video, but they can also be a burden to carry around. A high-end camera can …
Read More »NYC's Democratic Mayoral Nominee Eric Adams Meets With Biden to Discuss Gun Violence
President Biden met with local mayors and law enforcement leadership to discuss violent crime and urged them to make use of federal funds available through Covid-19 relief to help combat crime in their cities. “Our strategy provides including funding for law enforcement through the American Rescue Plan for states, cities …
Read More »Garth Brooks Tells Touring Musicians to 'Get Back in the Game' in First Stadium Concert Since Pandemic
Pandemic? What pandemic? That seemed to be the vibe among the 68,000 people at Garth Brooks’ concert at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Saturday night, the first major stadium concert anywhere in the U.S. since the arrival of Covid-19. Social distancing? Nope. Masks? Maybe a few wore them. Heck, …
Read More »How Tom Scharpling Discovered He Wasn't a New Monkee 'or a New Anything'
Tom Scharpling has developed one of America’s most unique comic sensibilities over the past couple of decades, thanks largely to a radio show that earned him a deeply devoted following but not, for much of its run, any money. As host of “The Best Show With Tom Scharpling,” which began …
Read More »Arlo Parks Shares Poetic Video for 'Too Good'
Arlo Parks has released a colorful music video for her song “Too Good,” the latest single from her new albumCollapsed in Sunbeams. “I did this one with [producer Paul Epworth] in one of our first days of sessions,” Parks says of the song. “I showed him all the music that …
Read More »Flashback: Blink-182 Play a Scorching 'Dammit' in 1999
Blink-182 fans have dealt with some pretty heavy news in the past few weeks. It started in late June when Mark Hoppus revealed that he’s battling cancer and is in the middle of chemotherapy. “It sucks and I’m scared,” he said in a statement, “and at the same time I’m …
Read More »Amen Dunes Returns With First New Song in Three Years, 'Feel Nothing'
Amen Dunes, the project of Damon McMahon, has returned with a new song, “Feel Nothing,” which marks his first in three years and first for new label Sub Pop. “Feel Nothing” finds McMahon lacing his dry, slightly fried voice over a bustling drum groove and an increasingly expansive array of …
Read More »ExxonMobil Lobbyist on Playbook for Plastic: “It's Just Like on Climate Change”
Greenpeace UK has released additional video clips of its explosive, undercover interview of one of ExxonMobil‘s top lobbyists. In these new video segments, Keith McCoy, senior director of federal relations for the oil giant, describes how the company’s playbook for dealing with public outrage over its plastic pollution is “just …
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