William F. Nolan, the science fiction author best known for co-penning the 1967 classicLogan’s Run with the late George Clayton Johnson, has died, a representative confirmed to Rolling Stone. He was 93. Nolan passed away on July 15th after a brief hospital stay following complications from an infection. The prolific …
Read More »Holly Herndon Releases AI Deepfake Tool That Lets Others Make Music With Her Voice
Holly Herndon has released a new artificial intelligence tool — which the composer is also referring to as her “digital twin” — called “Holly+” that allows users to upload any polyphonic audio and receive a new version of that music sung in Herndon’s own voice. Herndon has been working extensively …
Read More »Genetic Genealogist Co-Hosts New True-Crime Podcast 'Solvable'
Early in the morning of December 5th, 1982, a trucker stopped at a weigh station along I-10 in Jackson County, Mississippi, to call 911. He thought he’d seen a body in a river, he told the dispatcher. It looked like a person wearing a blue-checkered shirt floating near an ice …
Read More »Roblox, Sony Music Partner To Bring More Artists to the Game
Roblox and big-three music company Sony Music Entertainment announced a new partnership Tuesday that will funnel more of Sony’s extensive roster of superstars into the video game. The companies didn’t reveal any financial details of the deal but highlighted new opportunities available for artists to make money and reach fans. …
Read More »Even Pro-Vaccine Parents Have a lot of Questions. Here are the Answers We Found
Let me preface this by saying that vaccines are kind of my jam. My father is a doctor. I believe in science, not conspiracy theories. When a pediatrician has offered one of my kids a vaccine in the past, I have accepted that offer as I would a free upgrade …
Read More »Are Cult Legends Sparks the World's Most Interesting Band?
Edgar Wright‘s new film The Sparks Brothers is one of the most entertaining music documentaries in years, chronicling the improbably twisty, decades-spanning, genre-defying adventures of Ron and Russell Mael, the siblings behind the cult band Sparks. In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, the Mael brothers and Wright join host …
Read More »Metallica Plot 30th-Anniversary 'Black Album' Reissue With Massive Box Set, Covers Compilation
Metallica will mark the 30th anniversary of their 1991 self-titled classic — best known as The Black Album — with a special reissue and a compilation featuring 53 artists covering their favorite songs from the LP. Both will be released on September 10th. The official reissue will be released in …
Read More »Ranked-Choice Voting, Explained With Ice Cream
Ranked-choice voting. You’ve heard a lot about it. Maybe you’ve read a lot about it, too. But even if you understand the election reform that will be used this month to determine New York City‘s local primaries, including the primary for mayor, explaining it can be difficult. This is why …
Read More »Even Newsmax Doesn't Want Anything to Do With Matt Gaetz
Remember when Matt Gaetz was reportedly considering leaving Congress to join Newsmax, the pro-Trump propaganda network that helped push the election lie that inspired the insurrection? You might not, because the very same day news of Gaetz’s potential pivot to media broke, The New York Times reported that he was …
Read More »New Republican Demand: Defund the (Tax) Police
The GOP has long prided itself as the party of fiscal responsibility, but it’s important to keep one thing in mind as conservative lawmakers continue to scold Democrats over the cost of Biden’s infrastructure plan: They’re completely full of shit. There are countless glaring examples of the party’s hypocrisy on …
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