Damon Dash has filed a lawsuit against Jay-Z over Reasonable Doubt streaming rights, as The Hollywood Reporter reports. The new suit follows a separate one filed by Roc-A-Fella Records last month which accused Dash of allegedly trying to mint and sell the copyright for Jay-Z’s Reasonable Doubt as a non-fungible …
Read More »Kurt Vile and the Violators Contribute Hypnotic Cover of the Velvet Underground's 'Run Run Run' to New Tribute Album
Kurt Vile first covered the Velvet Underground‘s “Run Run Run” when he was 18 at a show in Landsdowne, Pennsylvania — complete with “take a drag or two” subbed out for the local crowd-pleasing “Landsdowne Avenue.” He then performed it with the Velvets’ John Cale in 2017 in honor of …
Read More »How Navajo Students Overcame the Pandemic School Year
This story was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico and is posted here as part of an ongoing collaboration with Rolling Stone. The story was produced with support from the Doris O’Donnell Innovations in Investigative Journalism Fellowship, awarded by the Center for Media Innovation at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, …
Read More »'Monsters at Work': A Classic Comic Dynamic That's Fun for All Ages
https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-lists/best-pixar-movies-characters-164982/ From 1995 to 2009, Pixar released one sequel to a previous film: Toy Story 2, made in the shaky early days of the company’s relationship with Disney, and originally planned as a straight-to-video production. From 2010 on, Pixar has released seven different sequels or prequels, and extending franchises has …
Read More »Mark Ronson Delivers a Stripped-Back, Vibey Version of Foo Fighters 'Making a Fire'
Mark Ronson has released a completely reimagined version of Foo Fighters’ Medicine at Midnight track, “Making a Fire.” For the so-called “Re-Version,” Ronson stripped away Foo Fighters’ big guitars and instead crafted a groove that feels more like Let It Bleed-era Stones crossed with Primal Scream’s Screamedelica. Ronson also enlisted …
Read More »Deb Haaland Announces Plan to Investigate Tragic History of Native American Assimilation Schools
Deb Haaland was confirmed as the first Native American Cabinet secretary in March. She isn’t wasting any time using her new post at the top of the Department of the Interior to advocate for indigenous people. Haaland announced on Tuesday that the DOI is launching an initiative to address the …
Read More »Jay-Z Sues Hip-Hop Photographer Jonathan Mannion Over 'Reasonable Doubt'-Era Photos
Jay-Z has filed a lawsuit against hip-hop photographer Jonathan Mannion, accusing him of selling photos of Jay-Z and subsequently profiting off his likeness without the rapper’s permission. Jay-Z (whose real name is Shawn Carter) hired Mannion as a photographer in the mid-Nineties, and Mannion snapped “hundreds of photographs” of the …
Read More »This 1995 Bob Dylan Concert Is One of the Best Never Ending Tour Bootlegs
Bob Dylan played over 3,000 shows on the Never Ending Tour and it’s gone through countless iterations since beginning in 1988, but when Rolling Stone asked author and longtime scholar Clinton Heylin to name his favorite period, he instantly went with 1995. “That year was amazing, absolutely amazing,” he said. …
Read More »'Betty' Season 2: This Female Skate Crew Is Still on a Roll
Season Two of Betty, the warm and irresistible HBO dramedy about a group of female skateboarder friends, was filmed and takes place in those cold, harsh New York months when the city was largely shut down due to the pandemic. On the one hand, this turn of events clears out …
Read More »Smokey Robinson Reveals Origin Story Behind 'I Second That Emotion'
Smokey Robinson explains how some Christmas shopping inspired not only the Miracles’ 1960 hit ”Shop Around,” but the group’s 1967 track “I Second That Emotion,” on the first installment of AARP Studios’ new series Smokey Wrote That. In the clip, Robinson calls “I Second That Emotion” another “happenstance song,” which …
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