Trevor Noah is set to host the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, which will air January 31st, 2021 on CBS. The gig marks the first time The Daily Show host has served as the master of ceremonies for the Grammys, or any of the other major awards shows. For the Grammys, …
Read More »Bon Jovi Prep Free Concert Film 'On a Night Like This'
Bon Jovi will release the concert film On A Night Like This — Bon Jovi 2020 on November 27th via Facebook. Filmed in Nashville, the documentary will mark the first time the band performs their new album 2020 live. The preview below shows the band playing and Jon Bon Jovi …
Read More »Steve McQueen Captures a Pivotal Uprising of British West Indians in 'Mangrove'
Steve McQueen’s Mangrove — which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video — is an opening statement. The film is the first of a quintet of related-but-distinct feature films to be released on Amazon at the rate of one film per week. All five films, which range in style, tone, …
Read More »500 Greatest Albums Podcast: Taylor Swift on How 'Red' Changed Everything For Her
In the the second episode of our new podcast on Amazon Music, Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums, we tackle one of the best and most important albums of the past decade: Taylor Swift‘s 2012 pop masterpiece Red. Swift joins hostBrittany Spanos to discuss why this is her “one true break-up …
Read More »The Doors' John Densmore on His Eternal Musical and Spiritual Bond With Ray Manzarek
Doors drummer John Densmore discusses his musical and personal relationship with the band’s keys maestro Ray Manzarek in this new excerpt from the drummer’s upcoming book, The Seekers: Meetings With Remarkable Musicians (And Other Artists), out November 17th. The book, as its title suggests, is less a straight memoir or …
Read More »Britney Spears Won't Perform Under Father's Conservatorship, Lawyer Warns
A lawyer for Britney Spears warned that the singer would not perform again as long as she remained under the conservatorship of her father, James Spears. The judge overseeing the Los Angeles case declined to suspend the conservatorship — which has been in place over the 38-year-old pop singer for …
Read More »Steve Earle to Pay Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver on SiriusXM
This weekend, Steve Earle devotes an entire episode of his Hardcore Troubadour Radio show on SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country to the memory of Billy Joe Shaver, who died Wednesday at 81. Earle wrote the liner notes for Shaver’s last album, 2014’s Long in the Tooth, and he reads from those words …
Read More »'Synchronic' Review: Time Travel — The Ultimate Bad Trip
Something strange is happening in New Orleans — even by Big Easy standards, it’s some bizarro shit. Young folks have been discovered all over the city in highly unusual situations, from being bitten by rare, non-regional snakes to dismembered at the bottom of elevator shafts. Odd bits of detritus (an …
Read More »'White Riot': When Punk Rock Fought the Nazis and Won
The guy with mask and the cape runs onstage, to the screams of thousands of people standing in Victoria Park on a characteristically brisk April day in 1978. He calls himself “Mr. Oligarchy,” but folks backstage — and some of the savvier people attending this outdoor concert — know him …
Read More »Watch Mick Fleetwood Drink Cranberry Juice and Lip-Sync to 'Dreams'
Mick Fleetwood made our “Dreams” come true when he recreated a massively viral TikTok that catapulted the 1977 Fleetwood Mac song up the RS Charts last week. The song hit Number 29 on the RS 100. The TikTok in question was created by user Nathan Apodaca (a.k.a. doggface208) and featured …
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