Hurricanes and wildfires are ravaging the United States, and President Biden is on the road reminding everyone that the climate crisis is real, it’s here, and action — bold action — must be taken to combat the devastation being wrought by rising temperatures. Last week he was in New Orleans …
Read More »Ms. Minaj Isn't Going to Washington
Last week, Nicki Minaj‘s husband Kenneth Petty pleaded guilty to failure to register as a sex offender after moving from New York to California. And, in August, the rapper was sued — alongside Petty — for intimidation by the woman Petty attempted to rape in 1994. Yet, all the internet …
Read More »A Guide to Larry Elder, the Right-Wing Extremist Who Could Be the Next Governor of California
After a circus of a summer spent hearing appeals from a motley crew of gubernatorial candidates, Californians will decide on Tuesday whether to recall Gavin Newsom. If they do, the man who replaces him will probably be Larry Elder, a libertarian radio host who rose to the top of a …
Read More »Our Summer From Hell
Now you can see how it works, this whole climate collapse scenario that writers and scientists have been hollering about for years. In the space of a few short months, the Pacific Northwest was baked by an extreme heat wave, California was (and still is) consumed by wildfire and parched …
Read More »Flashback: Bob Dylan Covers 'Pancho and Lefty' at Bonnaroo in 2004
In a world where Hurricane Ida and other horrific storms hadn’t battered America over the past couple of weeks, Bonnaroo would be kicking off tonight with an evening of music by the Grand Ole Opry and special guests. Foo Fighters and Megan Thee Stallion were booked for tomorrow, with Lizzo, …
Read More »Bassist Neil Murray on His Years with Black Sabbath, Whitesnake, and Brian May
Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …
Read More »'Ted Lasso' Recap: Devil Inside
A review of this week’s Ted Lasso, “The Signal,” coming up just as soon as I make a joke for people born in the early- to mid-Seventies… Midway through “The Signal,” Roy Kent offers a characteristically blunt assessment of what Ted’s leadership has done for Jamie on the pitch: Ted …
Read More »Sturgill Simpson Goes Wild West on 'The Ballad of Dood and Juanita'
Give it up to Sturgill Simpson: In a music world that doesn’t always value artistic left turns, he’s been making them relentlessly for nearly a decade. When his 2013 hard-country debut High Top Mountain arrived, who would have predicted that it would be followed by forays into soul, headbangers, and …
Read More »New Bob Ross Doc Trailer Hints at Darkness Behind Those 'Happy Little Trees'
Netflix teased an eyebrow-raising mystery lurking behind the famously easygoing painter Bob Ross in a new trailer for the documentary, Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed. The new clip is just 20 seconds long and is completely upfront about the fact that it won’t provide a single detail about …
Read More »And the First Streaming Service to Partner With TikTok Is…
If the music streaming landscape were a horse race, Audius would be a multi-colored pigmy unicorn. The young blockchain-powered service may be hard to spot in the dust that trails stallions like Spotify and Apple Music, but it has been steadily making headway since its arrival in 2018. As “crypto” …
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