If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Like 2020, Quibi started out with so much promise when it was unveiled last year. The short-form video streamer launched to a ton of hype in April of …
Read More »I Stayed Up Past Midnight to Watch Mike Pence Eat Shit, and It Was Beautiful
Related: The Radical Crusade of Mike Pence Mike Pence sowed the wind on July 15th, 2016, signing on to become the running mate of a man manifestly unfit to sit in the White House. On January 6th 2021, he reaped the whirlwind. More than any other Republican, Michael R. Pence …
Read More »What to Stream This January: 12 Movies and Shows Worth Watching Online
Well, we made it through 2020 though it’s easy to forget that awful year is behind us. It’s cold outside, the vaccine is still making a slow rollout, and movie theaters remain closed in much of the country. Change is coming but it’s not here yet, so the only sensible …
Read More »The Pastor, the Pandemic, and the Political Race of a Lifetime
Kenya Harmon and Keynan Williams are cutting it up on a December afternoon at the Kayton Homes in Savannah, Georgia. Williams, a wiry man with big eyes, sits in a wicker chair with a sun-bleached cushion, cigarette in his hand, Miller High Life at his feet, dog staring quizzically out …
Read More »Why Tony Rice Was Bluegrass Music's Great Experimentalist
When guitarist Tony Rice died on Christmas Day in his North Carolina home, bluegrass music bade farewell to a second-generation star who expressed his music in modern terms and embraced bluegrass’s potential to both blend with and influence other genres. “The music business has lost a true innovator,” says Jimmy …
Read More »Bandcamp Fridays Brought in $40 Million for Artists During Covid Pandemic
Online music marketplace Bandcamp announced Tuesday that its pandemic-inspired Bandcamp Fridays initiative — in which it waives its full revenue share on its sales to help artists better fend through Covid — will continue in 2021. Starting in March, when the pandemic cut off touring and removed artists’ most reliable …
Read More »Year in Review: So, How Was Your 2020, Wayne Coyne?
So, How Was Your 2020?is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture, and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. It takes Wayne Coyne a minute to remember he put out a record this year. “Oh …
Read More »Brad Elterman Channeled the Sunset Strip of the Seventies for Rolling Stone Cover
When Brad Elterman met Miley Cyrus, the photographer felt as if he’d gone back to his early days on the Sunset Strip, where he’d cut class as a teenager to take a candid shot of David Bowie walking down Fairfax Avenue and followed his runaway muse and friend — Joan …
Read More »Year in Review: So, How Was Your 2020, 'Weird Al' Yankovic?
So, How Was Your 2020? is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. “Weird Al” Yankovic was always planning on spending much of 2020 at home after touring …
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 …
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