On March 16th — just one day after the Korean American film Minari clinched six Oscar nominations — shootings at three greater-Atlanta-area spas claimed the lives of eight victims, including four women of Korean descent: Hyun-Jung Grant, 51; Yong-Ae Yue, 63; Sun-Cha Kim, 69; and Soon-Chung Park, 74. “Like many …
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There’s been a running joke these last few months as successive scandals have engulfed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The joke is that each new allegation of personal or professional misconduct seems curiously accompanied by the abrupt announcement of a long-awaited event — almost like an offering to restive New …
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I n the fall of 1990, the Louisville band Slint found itself at a crossroads. They’d just finished recording their second album over the course of a rushed weekend in Chicago. They knew that one of their favorite labels, the esteemed indie Touch and Go, would be putting it out, …
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The filmmakers behind the new docuseries Allen v. Farrowsaid their use of the audiobook of Woody Allen’s memoir, Apropos of Nothing, was protected under the “fair use” doctrine after the book’s publisher attacked the series. While Allen himself did not participate in the documentary, the filmmakers use parts of the …
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The straw-man argument at the center of Truth to Power, a documentary about the art and activism of System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian, is: “Can music change the world?” If you know anything about Tankian — or Fela Kuti, Pete Seeger, Billie Holiday, N.W.A, Ludwig van Beethoven, and …
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Showtime‘s new docuseries, Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine, will premiere on February 21st, with all episodes available on the network’s on-demand platforms starting that day. Showtime andRolling Stone,which co-produced Supervillain alongside Imagine Documentaries and Lightbox, are also presenting an exclusive advanced screening of the first episode, followed by a …
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There’s no way to precisely quantifythe colossal amount of drugs Black Sabbath inhaled in 1972 while making their fourth album, which they’d hoped to title Snowblind, in tribute to their favorite powdered narcotic. All they have to go on is the bill their manager presented to them when they were …
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On Tuesday evening, a video of Morgan Wallen casually tossing off a racial slur emerged. By Wednesday morning, his career was systematically being dismantled. In a blowback unprecedented for a white male country music star — the Chicks were ostracized for far less in 2003 — Wallen had his music …
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Jason Isbell, Maren Morris, Mickey Guyton and Cassadee Pope were among the country artists to condemn Morgan Wallen after the singer was caught on video uttering a racial slur. Wallen, whose new LP Dangerous: The Double Album has spent three straight weeks atop the Rolling Stone Top 200 album chart, …
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There’s a throwaway scene a couple episodes into Netflix’s new reality series, Bling Empire, where three of the cast members meet up to confer about recent events, while shopping for soup ingredients at a Chinese health food store. As the guys work their way through bins of deer antlers, sea …
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