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 …
Read More »'Frankie' Review: Isabelle Huppert Plays Puppetmaster in This Uneven Film
Isabelle Huppert works her unique magic on Frankie, a film whose insistence on staying in a minor key robs it of the chance to achieve major dimension. Huppert and a stellar cast do their best for Memphis-born director Ira Sachs (Keep the Lights On, Little Men, Forty Shades of Blue) …
Read More »Catalan Separatists Protest in the Streets Over Sentencing of Leaders
Half a million pro-independence protestors marched in the streets of Barcelona during a general strike on Friday, still angry over sentences handed down Monday to the leaders of Catalan separatist movement. According to the Associated Press, more than 200 people have been reported injured over the five days of demonstrations …
Read More »Watch Howard Stern Talk Therapy, Feuds With Bill Maher on 'Real Time'
Howard Stern talked therapy, relationships, old age and his recent book in a wide-ranging interview Friday on Real Time With Bill Maher. “This is so rushed. I should really have the whole hour to myself,” the shock jock quipped midway through the 20-minute interview, which at that point had already …
Read More »'Modern Love' Review: Star-Studded Anthology Wears Its Heart on Its Sleeve
In the second episode of Modern Love, Amazon‘s anthology series based on the famous New York Times column, a journalist played by Catherine Keener tells us, “Sometimes, you realize that true love, in its absolute form, has many purposes in life. It’s not actually just about bringing babies into the …
Read More »New State Laws Are Criminalizing Protest to Protect Oil and Gas Companies
This story originally appeared in Grist. It is republished here as part of Rolling Stone’s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. It was early in the morning last Thursday, and Jonathan Butler was standing on …
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