A self-taught songwriter, frontman, label head and festival promoter, Drew Holcomb has spent much of the past decade on the road, building a grassroots following for his folk-rock band, Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors. “It’s been, ‘Hustle, hustle, hustle,’” he says, talking to podcast host Chris Shiflett about his work …
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On Saturday night at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland, Richie Sambora took the stage with his former Bon Jovi bandmates for the first time in nearly five years. Rolling Stone spoke to the guitarist and songwriter backstage about how it felt to reunite with …
Read More »Sugarland Announce New Album 'Bigger,' Taylor Swift Collaboration
Sugarland will release their first new studio album in eight years on June 8th. Titled Bigger, the LP reunites core members Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, who took a five-year hiatus after concluding their last tour in 2012. Bigger includes 11 new songs, 10 of them written by Nettles and …
Read More »See Dierks Bentley Salute Mother, Daughter in 'Woman, Amen' Video
The new music video for Dierks Bentley‘s fist-pumping anthem “Woman, Amen” celebrates the bond between a real-life mother and daughter from Nashville, Jennifer and Sydnee Floyd. At the beginning of the video, Jennifer recounts her experiences as a mother, from Sydnee’s difficulties at birth to her issues with bullying that …
Read More »Thomas Rhett on New Tour, Timberlake Choreography, Writing With Chris Stapleton
Thomas Rhett was doing his best to keep a handle on his two young daughters and their dogs traveling with him on his tour bus when country’s most pop-forward male artist connected with Rolling Stone Country from the road on Friday. The night before, Rhett kicked off his headlining Life …
Read More »Backpage Seized by Justice Department After Sex Trafficking Act Passage
Backpage.com, a popular classified ads website that has been linked to illegal sex trafficking, was seized and shut down by the Justice Department Friday. “Backpage.com and affiliated websites have been seized as part of an enforcement action by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the …
Read More »Watch Michael B. Jordan Burn Books in New 'Fahrenheit 451' Trailer
Michael B. Jordan turns against a dystopian, book-burning society in the chilling new trailer for HBO’s upcoming adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s classic novel, Fahrenheit 451. Jordan stars as Guy Montag, a “fireman” whose job isn’t to extinguish fires, but burn all books, which have been outlawed. While the clip opens …
Read More »Kathy Griffin Makes TV Comeback as Kellyanne Conway on 'President Show'
Kathy Griffin made her television comeback on Tuesday’s episode of The President Show, portraying President Trump‘s former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway as a shallow, blood-drinking “lady vampire.” In the segment, Trump (Anthony Atamanuik) challenged Griffin’s Conway to defend “the worst people in history,” a task she gleefully accomplished. “At the …
Read More »How Corey Graves Became the Neck-Tattooed, Wise-Cracking Voice of the WWE
For someone who’s torn both MCLs, had a broken tooth lodged in his cheek and occasionally asked his wife to pull thumbtacks and glass from his back, nothing hurt more for Corey Graves than being told he could no longer be a pro-wrestler. It’s an obsession that drove him to …
Read More »Inside PETA's Fight to Take Down the Iditarod
The Iditarod, the annual thousand-mile sled-dog race across Alaska, starts with something in between a parade, a dog show and a wilderness carnival. The streets of downtown Anchorage fill with more than a thousand yapping huskies, tied to trucks, harnessed to sleds and fitted into trucks specially outfitted to haul …
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