Mark Zuckerberg will hop on perhaps the most scrutinized conference call of his life on Wednesday to testify, via video, before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust. For more than a year, the committee has been investigating potentially monopolistic practices by tech giants, and the Facebook CEO — who will …
Read More »Stevie Nicks on Peter Green: 'His Legacy Will Live on Forever'
Stevie Nicks paid tribute to Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green Saturday following the guitar great’s death at the age of 73. Although Nicks didn’t join Fleetwood Mac until five years after Green’s departure, the singer admitted that the group’s Green-era music was one of the reasons she decided to join …
Read More »Earl Sweatshirt Shares New Song 'Ghost' From Expanded 'Feet of Clay'
Earl Sweatshirt dropped the expanded edition of his 2019 EP Feet of Clay Friday, and with it new song “Ghost” featuring Navy Blue. Built around a soul sample, the Black Noi$e-produced track finds the enigmatic Sweatshirt bookending the two-minute song with a potent chorus while his guest Navy Blue delivers …
Read More »Aaron Dessner 'Excited and Honored' by Taylor Swift's 'Folklore' Collaboration
Moments after Taylor Swift announced her surprise new album Folklore, the National’s Aaron Dessner — one of her main collaborators on the LP — released a statement on Twitter about the genesis of the project and his contribution. “I was excited and honored when Taylor approached me in late April …
Read More »The Faces of Deportation
The year Donald Trump was carried into office on a frothing anti-immigrant platform, there were an estimated 10.5 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. Roughly two-thirds had been here for more than a decade. Prior administrations had abysmal records, but generally acknowledged that the U.S. was enriched by …
Read More »The Regrettes' Lydia Night Accuses SWMRS' Joey Armstrong of Sexual Misconduct
The Regrettes’ Lydia Night has accused Joey Armstrong, drummer of punk act SWMRS and son of Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, of sexual misconduct. “I was in a relationship with Joey that started when I was 16 and ended right before my 18th birthday,” Night wrote Monday on Instagram. …
Read More »Paul McCartney Calls for Pettus Bridge Be Renamed After John Lewis
Paul McCartney was among the many artists to remember Rep. John Lewis following the death of the civil rights icon Friday at the age of 80. “Sad to hear the news that civil rights legend John Lewis died yesterday,” McCartney tweeted Saturday. “He was such a great leader who fought …
Read More »W. Kamau Bell Talks Dismantling White Supremacy on 'Colbert'
Comedian W. Kamau Bell appeared on Thursday’s episode of A Late Show With Stephen Colbert to talk discussing George Floyd with his daughter, learning about white supremacy from his mother and how his CNN show United Shades of America plans to tackle those issues. Early in the interview, Bell noted …
Read More »These Smart Coffee Makers Start Brewing at the Sound of Your Voice
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The problem with morning coffee is that you have to be awake enough to make the coffee, which you need in order to actually wake up. In order …
Read More »'So Are White People': Trump Dismisses Idea That Black People Dying at Hands of Police Is a Problem
It’s been nearly two months since George Floyd was killed. President Trump has had enough of all of this hubbub about racial justice. When asked on Tuesday why African Americans are still dying at the hands of law enforcement in the United States, a problem that has of course persisted …
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