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Bob Dylan will release his first album of original songs in eight years, Rough and Rowdy Ways, on June 19th. Early Friday morning, Dylan dropped a third song from the album, the swaggering, guitar-heavy “False Prophet,” which follows “Murder Most Foul” and “I Contain Multitudes.” “I ain’t no false prophet,” …

Zoë Boekbinder first met the inmates at New Folsom Prison in Folsom, California, in 2010 — and four years spent volunteering led to an album that would become Long Time Gone, a collaboration between Boekbinder, incarcerated men, and Ani DiFranco‘s Righteous Babe Records and the Prison Music Project. The album …

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Comedian and correspondent Jaboukie Young-White investigated the retrograde reason gay men still aren’t able to easily donate blood and plasma during the COVID-19 crisis on The Daily Show Monday. While a cure for the coronavirus is still a ways off, one fairly effective treatment that’s emerged is convalescent plasma therapy, …

This story was originally published in the June 11th, 1970 issue of Rolling Stone. KENT, Ohio — Just down the street from P. G. Sellman’s Tire & Appliance Store and Gas Station, close to the Cuyahoga River, the striped gate of a railroad crossing has lowered slowly, with dignity, until …

The newest chapter in Bruce Springsteen‘s monthly live concert download series is a show he played at New Jersey’s Brendan Byrne Arena on July 9th, 1981. The show can be downloaded on MP3 for $9.95 ($12.95 for lossless) and all net proceeds will be given to the New Jersey Pandemic …

Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks have unearthed their previously unreleased cover of the jazz standard, “What a Wonderful World.” The track is one of several rarities that will appear on the upcoming 25th-anniversary reissue of Wilson and Parks’ 1995 collaborative album, Orange Crate Art, out June 19th via Omnivore …

Soap company Dr. Bronner’s — a.k.a. the world’s #1 shower read — has announced its support of the therapeutic use of psilocybin, a.k.a. the psychedelic stuff in magic mushrooms. The company donated $1 million to a campaign supporting a voter initiative in Oregon that would create a framework for mental …

The writer Eva Holland had a way of announcing she was moving toward full freakout mode while out climbing and hiking with her friends. She would mutter, “I’m not having fun anymore.” This might be followed by tears, anxious breathing, and, sometimes, freezing in place, which happened during a rock …

A new podcast, Wind of Change, will explore the tantalizing possibility that Scorpions‘ 1990 power ballad of the same name was actually written by the CIA as a piece of late Cold War propaganda. The show is hosted by New Yorker journalist Patrick Radden Keefe and all eight episodes premiere …