WASHINGTON — President Trump put a nauseating new spin on Bible-bangin’ when he ordered flash grenades and tear gas to be lobbed at peaceful protesters outside of the White House so he could take a picture holding a Bible in front of a church. He has proven himself a Tartuffe …
Read More »Killer Mike Delivers Emotional Speech to Atlanta Protestors at Mayor's Press Conference
As protests in Atlanta escalated toward looting and clashes with police, Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike appeared at the mayor’s press conference to deliver an emotional speech pleading with protestors not to vandalize their city. The rapper, the son of an Atlanta police officer, said that while he has “a …
Read More »'The First Time' With May Calamawy
With the second season of Ramy dropping this week on Hulu, May Calamawy discussed the role of Dena Hassan, crying to Swan Like, meeting penguins, and more in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s The First Time. Calamawy kicks off by recounting the first album she ever bought, either Alanis …
Read More »Dan Auerbach on His Assorted Projects: 'Everything's Been Ground to a Halt'
Before the coronavirus slammed the country, Dan Auerbach says he had a sense of what was coming. In late January, on the way back home to Nashville after the Grammy Awards in L.A., the Black Keys singer-guitarist donned a mask on the plane. “I’d heard about all this stuff kinda …
Read More »Beach Boys Hint at Possible 60th Anniversary Reunion Tour
The surviving members of the Beach Boys have been touring in two competing camps since the bitter conclusion of their 50th-anniversary tour in 2012, but Mike Love told Rolling Stone he is open to the idea of another reunion — this time for the 60th anniversary. “I’m not against anything …
Read More »Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck Tear Through John Lennon's 'Isolation' in New Video
Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck deliver a searing rendition of John Lennon’s “Isolation” in the new video for their recently released cover of the 1970 song. The clip pairs Depp and Beck’s studio version of the track with footage from what looks like one of the concerts they played last …
Read More »Lenny Kravitz Remembers Andre Harrell: 'He Was Such a Wonderful Person'
Lenny Kravitz had just woken up when he saw back-to-back notifications that rock & roll architect Little Richard and influential Uptown Records founder Andre Harrell had both died. “My God, I hadn’t even gained consciousness yet,” he says, calling from his home in the Bahamas where he has been self-isolating …
Read More »Ani DiFranco, Zoë Boekbinder Team Up to Tell Inmates' Stories in Song
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 …
Read More »Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks Share Cover of 'What a Wonderful World'
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 …
Read More »Watch Post Malone's Nirvana Tribute Concert for COVID-19 Relief
Post Malone staged a virtual Nirvana tribute concert Friday, a livestreamed YouTube gig that raised over $500,000 for the United Nations Foundation’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund. “What’s up, party people” Malone said during the gig.“We’re gonna play some Nirvana for you, and have some fun, and hopefully I don’t fuck …
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