Kesha performs as a one-woman band in her black-and-white video for “Here Comes the Change.” The acoustic ballad appears in On the Basis of Sex, the upcoming film chronicling the career of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The clip opens with the singer lugging a bass drum into an …
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Kanye West visited President Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday. It was something. Sitting across the Resolute Desk from Trump and surrounded by a gaggle of reporters, the rapper and self-proclaimed “Free Thinker” delivered a 10-minute soliloquy about a perplexing array of issues. He pitched the president on a …
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Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie that’s available to stream or download and worth seeing again through the lens of our current moment. We’re calling the series “Revisiting Hours” — consider this Rolling Stone’s unofficial film club. This week: Craig Lindsey on the Chuck Barris “biopic” Confessions of a …
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The Late Show With Stephen Colbert satirized the ongoing controversy surrounding Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday with a parody of UB40‘s 1983 hit “Red Red Wine.” Over a bouncy reggae groove, an unseen vocalist croons lyrics about alcohol consumption and remorse –a reference to The New York …
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Samantha Bee went full Carrie on Wednesday’s Full Frontal, setting a telekinetic fire to a “shit tornado” of a week that found Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh facing – and denying – more sexual misconduct allegations. “Watching the sexual-assaulter-in-chief [President Trump] do some classic victim blaming is just one reason …
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With cymbals crashing and string basses moaning, composer Angelo Badalamenti narrates a bawdy, bizarre and horrific story on “Woodcutters From Fiery Ships,” a track off his upcoming collaborative album with filmmaker David Lynch. The pair recorded the LP, Thought Gang, in spurts throughout the early Nineties, and though Lynch has …
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Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), heading into the final weeks of his long-shot bid to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), took a break from criss-crossing Texas to appear on The Late Show with Stephen ColbertWednesday night. TheLate Showhost made it worth the trip, offering O’Rourke botha new campaign slogan (“Beto for …
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From the very first shot of Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma — a close-up of a floor in a hallway, the sound of soapy water splashing in the background before washing over the tiles — you can sense that something sui generis is about to happen. It’s not just the lack of …
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Elton John was about two-thirds of the way though his set on the opening night of his farewell tour at Allentown, Pennsylvania’s PPL Center when he paused the tell the audience why he’s calling it quits. “I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you’ve …
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This year,President Donald Trump broke ranks with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and signaled he supports new legislation called the STATES Act, which would end the outright federal ban on marijuana by allowing each state to decide their own pot policy. This was good news for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), one …
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