Few of us knew it at the time, since its credits were skimpy and vague, but the Rolling Stones’ Tattoo You — released 40 years ago this fall — was far from the typical album cranked out to accompany a tour. Desperate for fresh product to plug in time for …
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Kanye West — or, technically, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, and now legally just “Ye” — enjoyed a lovely fall afternoon in New York City with former Trump lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, The New York Post reports. West donned an uncanny, feature-less mask for the meet-up, which …
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W elcome to Rolling Stone’s 2021 Musicians on Musicians package, the annual franchise where two great artists come together for a free, open conversation about life and music. Each story in this year’s series will appear in our November 2021 print issue, hitting stands on November 2nd. Even by her …
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Pete Buttigieg spun an attack by Tucker Carlson into an opportunity to promote paid parental leave, refusing to “apologize” to the host for taking paternity leave to care for two children he adopted with his husband, Chasten Buttigieg. The Fox News host made homophobic comments while attacking the transportation secretary …
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One frigid morning in January 1969, Ringo Starr walked into London’s Twickenham Studios and took a look around. “Morning, everybody,” he cheerily told his bandmates. “Another bright day. Morning, camera.” Beatles studio banter always offers us a glimpse of what the Fab Four were really like — a dusty stained …
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In the new episode of our Rolling Music Now podcast, we continue our deep dive into Rolling Stone’s new and totally revamped 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list, with Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield joining host Brian Hiatt for the discussion. The panel debates some of the most controversial …
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W elcome to Rolling Stone’s 2021 Musicians on Musicianspackage, the annual franchise where two great artists come together for a free, open conversation about life and music. Each story in this year’s series will appear in our November 2021 print issue, hitting stands on November 2nd — with four special …
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“You see a fucking group” in the street, a Minneapolis police sergeant in a riot helmet told his fellow officers: “Fuck ‘em up, gas ‘em, fuck ‘em up.” It was the evening of May 30th, 2020, five days after Officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. An 8 p.m. curfew was …
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Texas’ Republican Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order banning any entity in the state, including private businesses, from mandating a Covid-19 vaccine for employees or customers. “No entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine by any individual, including an employee or a consumer, who objects to …
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UPDATE (10/11):After a handful of cancellations, Modern English have pushed their tour celebrating their 1982 album, After the Snow, to 2022. The headlining tour will be split into three legs: The first will kick off March 12th in West Palm Beach, Florida and wrap March 27th in Phoenix; the second …
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