Last month, Joe Satriani decided to postpone his European tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “I was pretty adamant about getting the ball rolling early,” he tells Rolling Stone from his home in San Francisco. “Because it was obvious. Some folks, maybe they were just frightened and didn’t want to …
Read More »'Absolute Clusterf-k': Inside the Denial and Dysfunction of Trump's Coronavirus Task Force
This story appears in the May 2020 issue of Rolling Stone, on newsstands May 5th. On February 24th, Dr. Duane Caneva, the chief medical officer at the Department of Homeland Security, sent an urgent email with the subject line “Red Dawn Breaking Bad” to a small group of doctors, epidemiologists, …
Read More »Impeachment Revenge Is Back as Trump Fires Intelligence Community's Chief Watchdog
While you slept late Friday night or decided to escape the hellscape of social media platforms and cable news networks that are deluged with depressing coronavirus reports by binge-watching Tiger King again, the president did something that has now become routine — fire someone who dared speak truth to power …
Read More »Nine Inch Nails Surprise-Release Album Sequels to 'Ghosts' Series
Nine Inch Nails have surprise-released a pair of sequels to the band’s 2008 instrumental series Ghosts:Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts. It’s all available to download viathe NIN website. “Weird times indeed… As the news seems to turn ever more grim by the hour, we’ve found ourselves vacillating wildly …
Read More »Watch Neil Diamond Transform 'Sweet Caroline' Into Coronavirus PSA
With most of the nation stuck indoors due to the coronavirus pandemic, Neil Diamond turned his hit “Sweet Caroline” into a public service announcement about social distancing Saturday. “I know we’re going through a rough time right now, but I love ya, and I think maybe if we sing together, …
Read More »Samantha Bee: 'Coronavirus Is Not an Excuse to Be Racist'
On the latest episode of Full Frontal, Samantha Bee urged people not be racist when discussing the current COVID-19 pandemic. Taking aim primarily at the news media, Bee discussed how the virus has been signified as “Chinese” and why it’s essential that we rephrase how it’s talked about. During the …
Read More »Will the Porn Industry Be Disrupted by Coronavirus?
For the past two years, Giselle Palmer has been shooting adult films in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley, the epicenter of the porn industry. Then at the beginning of this year, she started hearing about the coronavirus. It was, she says, a large part of her decision to move away …
Read More »Become an Olympic Skateboarder or MIT Architect? Alexis Sablone Chose Both
Skateboarding outside the Brooklyn townhouse she shares with five roommates, Alexis Sablone soars through a shaft of January light with her hoodie pulled over a beanie, her five-foot-four frame swimming in baggy jeans. A seven-time X Games medalist, her movement is effortless. Yet Sablone, 33, is more than just one …
Read More »Trevor Noah Talks Biden, Bernie Split, Bloomberg's Wasted Millions on Super Tuesday
Trevor Noah offered some on-the-spot analysis of Super Tuesday results on a live installment of The Daily Show, as the field narrowed to a race between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders — and billionaire Michael Bloomberg failed reap any real results from his millions. Noah was able to offer a …
Read More »Jason Segel: Why I Made 'Dispatches From Elsewhere'
“And now that I have your attention, I’ll begin.” This is what Richard E. Grant says, staring out at you from your TV screen, in a medium shot, against an orange background, after a good 10 seconds or so of complete silence. Why the noted, Oscar-nominated British actor is addressing …
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