Olivia Rodrigo is out with her new single “Deja Vu,” off her upcoming debut album, out May 21st. Rodrigo begins the song by listing a series of romantic memories with a partner: “Car ride to Malibu/Strawberry ice cream/One spoon for two,” she sings above an idyllic chorus of la-la-las. She …
Read More »'The Breakdown' With Eric Andre and Kitao Sakurai
Comedian Eric Andre and director Kitao Sakurai discuss the intricacies and mayhem that went into their new prank movie, Bad Trip, on the latest episode of Rolling Stone’s The Breakdown. Andre explained that he’d been tinkering with Bad Trip off and on for years but finally started working on it …
Read More »See Addison Rae Perform 'Obsessed,' Teach TikTok Dances on 'Fallon'
TikTok star-turned-pop singer Addison Rae made her late-night TV debut Friday to perform her first single “Obsessed” live on The Tonight Show. Rae, who accumulated millions of followers on TikTok thanks to her viral dance videos, presented a movement-heavy virtual performance on the episode, which also marked the first time …
Read More »Erika de Casier Makes Sensitive R&B For Club Kids
Erika de Casier spent a few weeks recently holed up in a century-old house on a small island off the coast of Denmark, called Fanø. She was there with a group of other musicians and artists who’d all decided to isolate together while they worked on various projects — something …
Read More »The Everyday Poetry of Dry Cleaning
When Florence Shaw was small, she dreamed of cows. She collected pictures and distributed them throughout her family’s large, run-down house in southeast London, which was soon filled with grazing bovines as far as the eye could see. “I was just completely enamored with everything about them,” she says now. …
Read More »Yaphet Kotto, Star of 'Alien' and 'Homicide: Life on the Street,' Dead at 81
Yapeht Kotto, the prolific character actor who starred in Alien, the James Bond film Live and Let Die, and the long-running TV series Homicide: Life on the Street, died Monday night at the age of 81. Kotto’s wife, Thessa Sinahon, announced his death in a Facebook post, though acause of …
Read More »'Genius: Aretha': The Queen of Soul Gets Some Small-Screen Respect
Among the the music biopic‘s many tropes is the inevitable recording-session scene, where we watch a recreation of the artist at work — or, if the subject is a band, see them quarrel and throw drum sticks at each other. Rare, though, are the sequences where you feel as if …
Read More »Joe Biden Inherited the Forever War. Will He Give it Away?
Last Friday, Joe Biden announced that U.S. forces had dropped seven 500-pound bombs on a small building complex in Syria believed to be used by members of an Iranian-backed militia responsible for a rocket attack on U.S. forces in neighboring Iraq earlier last month. Already, it is easy to get …
Read More »Blondie Chronicle Their Rise to New Wave Stardom in New Graphic Novel
Blondie have teamed up with Z2 comics for Against the Odds, a new graphic novel out this fall. The novel is co-written by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti — who previously relaunched the Harley Quinn series for DC Comics — and illustrated by John McCree. It chronicles the New Wave …
Read More »'Icons and Influences': Chloe x Halle Honor Their Mentor Beyoncé
Chloe x Halle — who are both featured in Rolling Stone‘s March “Women Shaping the Future” issue — honor their mentor Beyoncé and discuss her legacy for our Icons & Influences video series. The sister duo kicked things off by recalling how they first got into Beyoncé’s music. In 2003, …
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