The new border wall that President Trump bragged would be “impenetrable, powerful, beautiful” fell Wednesday amid heavy winds and heavier metaphors. Moving air proved too much for what the president said would be a “great wall” that “can’t be climbed” and is “virtually impenetrable.” Trump paid a visit to a …
Read More »Three Members of Genesis Went to a Knicks Game — Speculations Abound
Genesis fans who have spent the last 13 years praying for a reunion woke up this morning to the news that Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, and Tony Banks were photographed together last night at a Knicks game. According to the fan site Genesis News, there are rumors that the group …
Read More »Brandi Carlile Heals, Exalts at Night One of Her Ryman Auditorium Residency
A little over two years ago, Brandi Carlile played a small show at Nashville’s Basement East for the holiday party thrown by her new producer and label, Dave Cobb and Low Country Sound. It was there that she debuted songs from her album By the Way, I Forgive You, which …
Read More »Raconteurs Cruise Through 'Austin City Limits' With Blistering 'Sunday Driver'
The Raconteurs dart through “Sunday Driver” in a preview clip from their upcoming episode of Austin City Limits, set to air January 11th at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT on PBS. The Raconteurs released “Sunday Driver” back in December 2018, and, at the time, the explosive ripper marked the band’s …
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 »Drake Makes Surprise Cameo at DaBaby Concert, Teases New Album
Drake popped up at DaBaby‘s concert in Toronto Tuesday to perform his single, “Money in the Grave,” praise the North Carolina MC and promise a new album in 2020. On Instagram, the rapper shared a snippet of his performance, launching into “Money in the Grave” with abandon as the crowd …
Read More »37 Years Later, Prince's '1999' Leaps to Top 40 of RS 200
Thanks to a “super deluxe” reissue, Prince‘s 1999jumped to Number 31 on the latest Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. 1999earned 19,200 album-equivalent units, a total driven almost entirely by sales — 12,100 album sales and 3,200 song sales. In addition, songs on the reissue amassed more than 1.2 million …
Read More »'Varda by Agnès': A French-Cinema Icon Says Au Revoir
For roughly 65 of the 90 years she walked among us mere mortals, Agnès Varda made movies. The petite photographer-turned-filmmaker was considered a card-carrying member of the nouvelle vague, even though her first feature, 1955’s La Pointe Courte, predated the French New Wave’s big bang. It was not uncommon to …
Read More »CMA Awards 2019: Carrie Underwood, Tanya Tucker, Highwomen Open the Show
Carrie Underwood, Dolly Parton, and Reba McEntire opened the 53rd annual CMA Awards with their rendition of “Those Memories of You,” a song that Parton originally recorded with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris for their 1987 Trio album. Following the easygoing rendition, the co-hosts’ trio quickly grew in number as …
Read More »Jeff Goodell's 'The Big Melt' Chronicles Two-Month Journey to Antarctica
Earlier this year, Rolling Stone contributing editor and environmental journalist Jeff Goodell went on an extraordinary journey to Antarctica to learn how climate change is irrevocably changing our planet. Goodell traveled aboard the Nathanial B. Palmership for a two-month journey to the world’s coldest locations — Western Antarctica and the …
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