In a period where social media streaming has never been more saturated and competitive amid social distancing measures brought on by the ongoing crisis, social media app Triller has launched a new star-studded singing competition to break through the noise and draw some eyes. “Step Up to the Mic,” the …
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Sharon Van Etten will perform a livestream of her 2009 debut album, Because I Was in Love, on May 29th. Tickets are currently available and a portion of the event’s ticket proceeds will benefit the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) as well as her band and crew. Each ticket holder …
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The biopic Capone arrives on video-on-demand Friday and with it comes an original score by Run the Jewels’ El-P, the producer’s first full-length score since 2004. Ahead of May 29th release of Capone (Original Motion Picture Score) on Milan Records, Rolling Stone exclusively shares a pair of cuts from the …
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Norma McCorvey, who used the pseudonym “Jane Roe” in the landmark reproductive rights case Roe v. Wade, said that the reason she was an anti-abortion activist later in life was because she was paid. The revelation comes in the new FX documentary AKA Jane Roe, which premieres this Friday, May …
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Trump is all-in on hydroxychloroquine, a drug he has touted without proof as a miracle cure for those afflicted with COVID-19. The president told the press he has been taking the controversial drug — which he has promoted despite scientists finding it does not help treat COVID-19 — for the …
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Following performances from Dua Lipa, H.E.R., Kevin Hart and others, former president Barack Obama addressed the teens graduating high school amid a pandemic. “I couldn’t be prouder of all of you in the graduating class of 2020 as well as the teachers and the coaches and, most of all, parents …
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During the past few years, Kamasi Washington has found himself in places a jazz musician never would have expected to be. With the release of his aptly named 2015 triple LP, The Epic, the L.A. saxophonist and bandleader was deemed the genre’s next big thing. So there he was, in …
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The debut album from late Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke will be posthumously released June 12th via Victor Victor Worldwide. While the release date was shared, no other details about the album were made available, including a tracklist, title or possible guest features. Although the record marks Pop Smoke’s debut album …
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Early in The Great, Hulu‘s new satire about the younger years of Russian empress Catherine the Great, her husband, Peter III, insists, “People underestimate the joy in suffering.” The Great for the most part finds Peter to be an utter buffoon of a failson, but it agrees with him on …
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In 2020, disbelief is rare: Once-in-a-lifetime pandemics have a way of making even the most outlandish news seem unimpressive. Yet when Westside Gunn — a Buffalo rapper who channels 90s New York hip-hop of yore — released the tracklist for his latest album, Pray For Paris, fans were bewildered. In …
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