Bob Dylan fans woke up this morning to the stunning news that the songwriter had released a 17-minute epic titled “Murder Most Foul.” “Greetings to my fans and followers, with gratitude for all your support and loyalty over the years,” Dylan wrote. “This is an unreleased song we recorded a …
Read More »Jackson Browne Tests Positive for Coronavirus
Jackson Browne was suspicious that something was not right when he started feeling ill in recent weeks. “As soon as I had a small cough and a temperature, I tested [for COVID-19],” he says. The Rock Hall of Fame inductee tells Rolling Stone that he has tested positive for the …
Read More »Jason Segel and Paul Rudd: Neil Peart Was a 'Thunderbolt of a Human Being'
Paul Rudd and Jason Segel — who portrayed perhaps cinema’s biggest Rush fans in I Love You, Man — both remembered drummer Neil Peart in loving statements to Rolling Stone. Peart, along with his Rush bandmates Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, appeared in the 2009 comedy, as well as a …
Read More »From Miss Piggy to Lemmy: 5 Great Ozzy Osbourne Duets
Ozzy Osbourne will always be the quintessential heavy-metal maniac, but at heart, he’s an old-school song man. His new single — the nostalgic, bittersweet, Elton John–featuring title track off his upcoming solo LP, Ordinary Man — is the latest in a long line of tender ballads from the Beatles-worshipping singer, …
Read More »New York Inches Closer to Legal Pot
On Thursday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his plan to legalize and regulate adult marijuana use by establishing a working group of 20 experts in the fields of public health, safety and economics to draft a bill over the next five months, to be presented to the state legislature …
Read More »Pop Loner Kali Uchis on Growing Up Punk in Colombia and the Struggle to Stay Bilingual
“Where I come from, nobody thinks they’re ever gonna leave,” Kali Uchis tells Rolling Stone. “Most people don’t leave to tell the story,” she adds enigmatically, “so I’m telling you today.” Insideher hotel room in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, the 24-year-old singer lays out her origin story. She lounges in …
Read More »Area President Falls Asleep on Caps-Lock Key, Threatens Historic Suffering
President Trump spent most of Sunday tweeting about the Witch Hunt from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey – nothing out of the ordinary. But just before midnight, Trump smashed the caps lock key and fired off a strongly worded warning to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. “NEVER, EVER THREATEN …
Read More »Linkin Park Remember Chester Bennington on Anniversary of Death
Linkin Park paid tribute to Chester Bennington Thursday on the first anniversary of the singer’s death. “It has been a year since your passing – a surreal rotation of grief, heartbreak, refusal, and recognition,” the band wrote on Twitter. “And yet it still feels like you are close by, surrounding …
Read More »Amanda Shires, Americana Visionary, Makes Her Rock-Star Move
It’s lunchtime, and Amanda Shires is at Puckett’s, a local barbeque joint in Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee, spooning heaps of sugar into her large cup of iced tea. Somehow Shires – a Nashville-residing Texan – got stuck with the unsweetened variety, and that simply will not suffice. So Shires, in a …
Read More »See Congressman Beto O'Rourke Jam With Willie Nelson at 4th of July Picnic
Despite a spate of thunderstorms that necessitated the cancellation of sets by Ray Wylie Hubbard and the Wild Feathers, among others, Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic near Austin provided transcendent musical moments – including one political cameo. Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic congressman from El Paso, Texas, who will challenge …
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