OnlyFans announced Thursday that the platform will begin blocking its more sexually explicit content in October. While the company will still allow their adult-content creators to post nude photographs and videos as permitted by their updated guidelines, the more pornographic material will be prohibited on the site, Bloomberg reports. OnlyFans …
Read More »Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Who Recently Banned Mask and Vaccine Mandates, Tests Positive for Covid-19
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has tested positive for Covid-19, his office announced in a statement on Tuesday. “Governor Greg Abbott today tested positive for the COVID-19 virus,” wrote Communications Director Mark Miner. “The Governor has been testing daily, and today was the first positive test result. Governor Abbott is in …
Read More »Tony Bennett Retires From Performing Following Tour Cancellation
Tony Bennett‘s two 95th birthday concerts at Radio City Music Hall with Lady Gaga last week were his last, according to his son and manager Danny Bennett, as Variety reports. The news comes after he canceled the remainder of his 2021 tour dates. Earlier this year, Bennett’s family revealed that …
Read More »See Nanci Griffith Cover the Rolling Stones' 'No Expectations'
Nanci Griffith wrote songs that the music world loved to cover. With news of her death on August 13th at the age of 68, many are revisiting her folk and country standards — or learning about her incredible singing and songwriting gifts for the first time. But throughout the 1980s …
Read More »Chucky Thompson, Hitmaker for Notorious B.I.G. and Mary J. Blige, Dead at 53
Carl “Chucky” Thompson, a producer and multi-instrumentalist whose slick samples of Seventies and Eighties soul underpinned some of the most popular R&B and hip-hop tracks of the Nineties, died on Monday at age 53, his rep confirmed to Rolling Stone. A cause of death was not immediately available. In the …
Read More »'Ted Lasso' Recap: There Goes My Hero
A review of this week’s Ted Lasso, “Do the Right-est Thing,” coming up just as soon as I’m so dehydrated, I look like one of them trees from a Tim Burton movie… “Do the Right-est” thing is simultaneously Ted Lasso at its most heartwarming and Ted Lasso at its silliest. …
Read More »Bob Daisley on His Years With Ozzy Osbourne, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and Dio
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 »George Harrison's New 'All Things Must Pass' Box Set: An Exclusive Guide
When George Harrison went into the studio in 1970 to make All Things Must Pass, he was a man on a mission. He’d spent years waiting for this moment. George had so many songs saved up from his years in the Beatles, when he was limited to two or three …
Read More »Yasiin Bey to Play Jazz Legend Thelonious Monk in New Biopic
Years ago, screenwriter-producer Peter Lord Moreland watched Straight No Chaser, the landmark 1988 documentary on bebop pianist-composer Thelonious Monk. Thus began a near-obsessive fascination with the jazz legend that “was already triggered by one of my favorite jazz ballads of all time: ‘Round Midnight.’” As his career progressed, Lord Moreland …
Read More »Dierks Bentley Drops Surprise 'Live From Telluride' EP Featuring War & Treaty, Larkin Poe
Dierks Bentley’s collaborative performance with Larkin Poe and the War and Treaty at the 2021 ACM Awards was too good to be a one-off. “It’d be kind of hard to suck with that band onstage with you,” he told Rolling Stone during tour rehearsals this spring. “I was like the …
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