Earlier this month, 11E1even Group hosted an all-star livestream in tribute to Bill Withers, who died on March 30th. The entire one-hour livestream, featuring performances from Finneas, Stephen Marley and more, is now available to view on YouTube. Other performers who paid their respects to Withers included Nicki Bluhm, Marc …
Read More »Billie Eilish, Finneas Cover Bobby Hebb's 'Sunny' for 'Together at Home' Concert
Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas covered Bobby Hebb’s Sixties hit “Sunny” during Global Citizen’sOne World: Together at Home special to raise money for COVID-19 relief. The eight-hour concert helped raise $127 million to help the World Health Organization’s efforts to fight the pandemic around the globe. Eilish prefaced the …
Read More »Charli XCX's 'Forever' Video Is a Shining Document of Quarantine Life
Charli XCX has taken on an ambitious project during quarantine: writing, recording and producing a full-length album, How I’m Feeling Now, by May 15th — using only the tools at her disposal in self-isolation and feedback from her fans via social media. Charli dropped the project’s first single, “Forever,” earlier …
Read More »See Onipa's Bracing Video for 'Promised Land'
The band Onipa, which specializes in merging traditional African musical styles with contemporary electronics, shine a light on the “everyday struggles of hard working people” in their new video for “Promised Land.” The lyrics offer a blunt indictment of contemporary inequality. “There was a promise of a promised land/Milk and …
Read More »Youth Climate Activist Jamie Margolin on Why We're Caught in a Climate Emergency
In honor of Rolling Stone’s Climate Crisis issue, we asked artists to contribute messages about what they, their governments, and everyday people can do to stand up to the threat of climate change. From England to Jamaica to the United States, we are hearing from artists and activists around the …
Read More »Social Distancing With Jesse Malin: 'Taxi Driver' Workouts and Bob Marley
Jesse Malin played his last live show before entering this quarantined life on March 13th in London. “The crowd was so good, I said to the band, ‘We’re going to leave some blood on this stage because we may not be back for a while,’” he says, calling from his …
Read More »Hear a Podcast Tribute to John Prine and Bill Withers
The latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now honors two legends, gone too soon, with a never-before-heard interview with Bill Withers (conducted by senior writer Andy Greene, who spent time at Withers’ home for a 2015 feature ), along with intimate memories of John Prine from senior writer Patrick Doyle, …
Read More »Paul Simon Helps Detail 2020 Jazz at Lincoln Center Gala Lineup
Wynton Marsalis and an array of musicians from around the world will perform remote sets for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2020 gala concert, Worldwide Concert for Our Culture, which will premiere April 15 at 7:30 p.m. EDT on various digital platforms. Paul Simon helped announce the event in a short …
Read More »'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Recap: Let the Games Begin (Again)
A review of this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, “Valloweaster,” coming up just as soon as the vests add gravitas… Nine-Nine co-creator Dan Goor likes to say that the annual Halloween heist has a higher degree of difficulty than anything else the show does, because it has to work as a satisfying …
Read More »Women Are Trying to Survive COVID-19. Politicians Are Trying to Take Away Their Care
Alexis McGill Johnson is the acting president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Women are trying to survive this. Moms laid off or missing wages to stay home with their children, still trying to make ends meet. Women in abusive relationships, weathering shelter in place orders. Women hiding …
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