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 …
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“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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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“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 …
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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 …
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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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“I’ve been telling people for 40 years that ‘I will survive,’” Gloria Gaynor tells Rolling Stone Country backstage at an intimate album release event at the Analog lounge in Nashville’s Hutton Hotel. “With this record, what I’m hoping to accomplish is to show people how to survive. How I survived …
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After months of hunting for album-related “Easter egg” clues, Taylor Swift revealed her seventh studio album is called Lover and comes out on August 23rd. Her new single “ME!” featuring Brendon Urie will be included on the record along with a subsequent track, “You Need to Calm Down,” which drops at …
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