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 »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 …
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 »Watch Tucker Beathard's Gut-Punch Video for 'You Would Think'
Tucker Beathard‘s new single “You Would Think” is an emotionally-heavy ballad about the desire to be there for someone in times of need — if only they’d let you. Beathard personifies that conflict in a music video that follows a daughter as she tries to care for her alcoholic mother. …
Read More »Aphex Twin Drops Six New Songs on His Secret SoundCloud
Aphex Twin has updated his not-so-secret SoundCloud page with a batch of new music, including six previously unheard songs in the past week. Resident Advisor first reported on the latest drop from “user18081971,” which for five years has hosted hundreds of unreleased songs from the electronic music pioneer’s vaults; although …
Read More »'Hey Siri, Play Songs to Calm Me Down': What the World Is Listening to Amid COVID-19
Everyone’s spending more time indoors amid the spread of COVID-19. And the music we’re seeking out is changing. Numbers from Alpha Data (the analytics company that powers the Rolling Stone Charts) and data from streaming services show that listeners in America and abroad are tuning into chiller, more mood-oriented music …
Read More »As Job Losses Grow, Newly Unemployed Embrace Sex Work by Camming for Cash
At the start of last month, Buffy Montgomery, 35, was a massage therapist by day, and a professional mermaid (officially, an “underwater performer”) by night. By the end of the month, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Fort Lauderdale native was neither. “It literally was one minute I had a …
Read More »Marianne Faithfull Hospitalized After Testing Positive for Coronavirus
Marianne Faithfull is currently in a London hospital after testing positive for the coronavirus, Rolling Stone has confirmed. “Marianne Faithfull’s manager François Ravard has confirmed that Marianne is being treated for COVID-19 in hospital in London,” the singer’s reps said in a statement to Rolling StoneSaturday. “She is stable and …
Read More »Hear Loretta Lynn's New Recording of Patsy Cline's 'I Fall to Pieces'
Just ahead of the forthcoming Me & Patsy Kickin’ Up Dust, Loretta Lynn’s memoir of her friendship with fellow country-music icon Patsy Cline, Lynn releases a new version of one of Cline’s most indelible hit songs, “I Fall to Pieces.” Backed by the familiar 4:4 shuffle beat and stinging steel …
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