Rolling Stone held its first Morning Sessions during ACL Fest 2018 on Saturday, October 6th, at Wanderlust Yoga in Austin. Hosted by Rolling Stone‘s digital director Jerry Portwood, the intimate chat series kicked off with singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile, whose latest album By the Way, I Forgive You is being heralded …
Read More »How Yella Beezy Scored a Number One Hit During the Summer of Drake
The rapper Yella Beezy was barely known outside of Dallas just six months ago, but when Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s On the Run II tour came to town in September, they invited the 26-year-old to open for them. That’s thanks to “That’s on Me,” which is both a great single and …
Read More »Kurt Vile Abides
Follow a long strip of one-lane blacktop through the woods off New York State Route 28 and you’ll find a spooky old estate called Big Indian Springs. A 20-bedroom Victorian hall perched on 37 acres of rolling Catskill foothills, it was once a summer camp for young women who worked …
Read More »11 New Albums to Stream Now: Cat Power, 'A Star Is Born' and More
EDITORS’ PICK: Cat Power, Wanderer “Chan Marshall, aka: Cat Power, lays full claim to the title of her tenth album,Wandererwith the authority of a blueswoman who’s seen some shit,” writes Will Hermes, “alternately conjuring trances and slapping you out of them, projecting clear-eyed, uncompromising strength on one of the most …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Molly Burch, 'Candy'
Listening to Austin-based singer-songwriter Molly Burch, you feel like you could be in a European nightclub in the 1930s or a Texas bar in the 1950s, or a retro-lounge in the last couple decades; there’s Buddy Holly in the way her vowels take joyfully wide-open anticipatory leaps, and some Marlene Dietrich in …
Read More »Sonic Youth Detail '30 Years of 'Daydream Nation” Film Event
Sonic Youth will mark the 30th anniversary of their 1988 landmark double-album, Daydream Nation, with an event that features three films and “unseen gems from the band’s archives,” according to a statement. Dubbed ‘Sonic Youth: 30 Years of Daydream Nation,‘ the program takes place on October 20th in Portland, Oregon, …
Read More »Sexual Harassment, Assault Increases Risk of Health Problems, New Study Finds
Just a week after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both in high school, and spoke in detail about the lasting impact that event has had on her life, a new study …
Read More »Johnny Depp Proclaims the 'Truth Will Come Out' in New Profile
Johnny Depp called a recent Rolling Stone feature story about him “a sham” during an interview with British GQ. Rolling Stone published “The Trouble With Johnny Depp” in June and it appeared in the July print edition. The article offered an in-depth look at Depp’s life, including the numerous lawsuits …
Read More »Hear Afrobeats Star Wizkid's Buoyant New Songs
Wizkid, a champion of the Nigerian genre known as afrobeats, released a pair of new songs this week, “Master Groove” and “Fever,” to mark his country’s independence day. Both songs add a lone, squeaky horn line to the usual lilting melodies that define afrobeats. In “Master Groove,” the beat is …
Read More »The Family of Murdered DNC Staffer Seth Rich Finally Gets an Apology
WASHINGTON —The family of Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer whose 2016 murder was twisted into a right-wing conspiracy theory, has finally received its first public apology. On Sunday evening, the Washington Times published a lengthy retraction and apology for a March 1st opinion column that promoted the theory …
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