Henry Rollins has partnered with Los Angeles Tourism for a five-part YouTube series offering tips and tricks on how to navigate a visit to the City of Angels. “To help travelers coming in and out of LAX in 2020, we enlisted one of our favorite world travelers, Rollins, to share …
Read More »Miley Cyrus Reaches Settlement in $300 Million 'We Can't Stop' Lawsuit
Miley Cyrus has reached a settlement in the $300 million copyright infringement lawsuit that accused the singer of stealing her 2013 hit “We Can’t Stop.” Cyrus’ lawyers previously revealed a settlement agreement had been made in a December 12th letter that would be filed “pending payment of the settlement proceeds.” …
Read More »Dierks Bentley's Faux Band Hot Country Knights Signs Real Record Deal
Nineties country music nostalgia has reached its peak with the announcement that Hot Country Knights, a faux band fronted by a costumed Dierks Bentley, has signed a record deal with Universal Music Group’s Nashville division. Bentley, who also releases his solo albums through UMG Nashville, started playing one-off gigs with …
Read More »Look Back at the Best Songs of 1999 in Our Podcast
As the end of the decade approaches, our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast takes a look back at the best songs from the last days of the 20th century, via Rob Sheffield’s list of his 99 favorite tracks from 1999. Host Brian Hiatt and Brittany Spanos joined Sheffield in our …
Read More »'A Charlie Brown Christmas' at 50
This story was originally published on December 9, 2015 The legend goes like this: In 1963, producer Lee Mendelson made a documentary about Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, for which he needed music. One night, Mendelson was driving over the Golden Gate Bridge, tuned into a San Francisco jazz station. …
Read More »Ed Sheeran Announces He's Taking a Break to 'Travel, Write and Read'
Ed Sheeran is dropping his New Year’s resolutions early. Tuesday, he announced that he’s planning to take a break from social media — and work — to “take a breather to travel, write and read. I’ll be off all social media until it’s time to come back,” he wrote on …
Read More »Go Behind the Scenes of 'Moulin Rouge! The Musical' Original Broadway Cast Recording
Like Baz Luhrmann’s groundbreaking 2001 romantic-tragedy movie before it, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is a poptastic spectacle with a grab bag of famous pop songs. For the stage production, music supervisor, arranger, and orchestrator Justin Levine expanded its sonic landscape, using more than 70 pop songs (credited to 161 writers) …
Read More »Elton John, Taron Egerton Share '(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again' Purple Disco Machine Remix
Taron Egerton stars as Elton John in the biopic Rocketman, and earlier this year, they dueted on a brand new song for the film, “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again,” penned by John and long-time collaborator Bernie Taupin. On Wednesday, after the track was shortlisted for Best Original Song at the …
Read More »So, How Was Your Decade, Mastodon's Brann Dailor?
So, How Was Your Decadeis a series in which the decade’s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their decade. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. “What the hell happened in the last 10 years?” Brann Dailor asks Rolling Stone …
Read More »Wu-Tang Clan Associate, Mentor Popa Wu Dead at 63
Popa Wu, the longtime Wu-Tang Clan affiliate and spiritual mentor to the group, has died, a representative for the Wu-Tang Clan confirmed to Rolling Stone. While no cause of death was given, according to The Source, Popa Wu — who was also known as Freedum Allah — died at his …
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