Now 50 years after the Stonewall Riots, the month of June has become synonymous with LGBTQ Pride. ‘Tis the season for campy pop classics to start creeping back into the airwaves — as well as seasonal releases that teeter between opportunistic cash grabs and gifts of sweaty, dancefloor catharsis. But …
Read More »The Official Democratic Debates Drinking Game
The first Democratic Party primary season debates will be held this week. Because there are two debates, it will require an unusual set of official Rolling Stone drinking game rules, listed below. We thought 17 candidates was a lot last time. Now it’s 23. Or is it 24? By 2024 …
Read More »How Colbie Caillat Went From 'Bubbly' to Country With New Band Gone West
Back when a then-unknown Colbie Caillat released her breakthrough song “Bubbly” in 2007, in a time when MySpace still walked the earth, she and her songwriting partner Jason Reeves didn’t know what to call the relaxed, acoustic pop song when they posted it to her gleefully decorated profile. So they …
Read More »Introducing 'Birding With Charles,' Featuring Valee
“I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.” ― Henry David Thoreau “Birds are cool …
Read More »Former Rep. Joe Sestak Announces He's Running for President
The Democratic presidential field continues to grow as former Pennsylvania congressman Joe Sestak threw his hat in the ring on Sunday. The 67-year-old Sestak served two terms in the House, is a retired Navy admiral, and lost twice while trying to reach the Senate. In a video on his website …
Read More »'Midsommar' Gets the Goofy Rom-Com Treatment in Latest Trailer
The early reviews for Ari Aster‘s latest A24 horror flick,Midsommar, are in, and the general consensus appears to be, “It’s a great horror. It’s a great summer rom-com. It’s both!” It’s apparently both very scary and – perhaps upping the campy melodrama of its predecessor Hereditary – very funny. The …
Read More »The Music Industry Signs a Pledge Against Fake Streams
Streaming manipulation – the practice of artificially inflating stream counts to produce false listening data – is the music industry‘s hot-button issue at the moment. On Thursday, an assortment of music publishers, record labels, royalty-collection societies and other groups signed a code of conduct condemning fake streams and pledging to …
Read More »Ta-Nehisi Coates Dismantles Mitch McConnell's Remarks on Reparations
“No, I don’t think reparations are a good idea,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday, calling slavery “something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible.” The senator from Kentucky went on to cite the Civil Rights Act and President Obama’s election as …
Read More »Lost Kings Crash Funeral, Create Zombies in 'Too Far Gone' Video
Rising DJ duo Lost Kings crash a funeral and accidentally spark a zombie outbreak in their campy and mildly grisly “Too Far Gone” video. The clip opens with the pair wheeling their live equipment into a funeral home, mid-ceremony, with guest vocalist Anna Clendening displayed in an open casket. They …
Read More »Watch Toots and the Maytals Cover Fleetwood Mac's Lovesick Blues 'Man of the World'
Toots and the Maytals transformed Fleetwood Mac‘s 1969 tune “Man of the World” into an aching reggae ballad for the upcoming compilation, Red, Gold, Green and Blue, out July 12th via Trojan Jamaica. The cover arrives with a video featuring live footage and clips of Toots and the Maytals recording …
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