Jay-Z took the witness stand in Manhattan Supreme Court on Friday to testify about perfume. This industry is not typically known for generating controversy, but But Parlux Fragrances is suing the 51-year-old rapper and accusing him of failing to properly promote his Gold Jay-Z cologne line. The rapper, whose real …
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Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), who was denied a seat on the House’s Jan. 6 Select Committee, appears to be running his own investigation into what happened that day, and has even sent letters to Cabinet agencies requesting the same information being sent to the committee be shared with him. “You …
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On Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, three residents of the same apartment building bond over their obsession with a true crime podcast. After the mysterious death of a neighbor, they can’t resist diving headlong into an investigation — and recording it for their own podcast debut. The unlikely friend …
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This is, by some distance, the music business story of the year. Tomorrow morning (September 21) in Europe, as New Yorkers are sleeping and Los Angelenos are drifting off, 60 percent of the world’s biggest music company will hit the stock market. That’s the slice of Universal Music Group (UMG) …
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A review of this week’s Ted Lasso, “Beard After Hours,” coming up just as soon as I share a few thoughts on the fragility of life… Season One of Ted Lasso was 10 episodes. Season Two, you may have heard, was originally planned to be the same length, but the …
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Rod Stewart has been off the road since the pandemic shut down his Las Vegas residency and world tour plans early last year, but he’s clearly been busy during the forced downtime. He just announced that his 31st album, The Tears of Hercules, will arrive on November 12th. Check out …
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Britney Spears’ lawyer has accused the pop star’s father, James “Jamie” Spears of trying to “extort” $2 million to step down from her conservatorship. Mathew S. Rosengart made this claim in a new filing Monday, August 31st, weeks after Jamie Spears said he was willing to step down from his …
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Two of the key albums of the classic-rock era, The Who‘s Who’s Next and Led Zeppelin‘s Led Zeppelin IV, came out within months of each other back in 1971, and their legacy is the subject of the latest episode of our weekly podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now. The episode grapples with the …
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Ministry have shared a bruising new cover of the Stooges’ 1973 classic, “Search and Destroy.” The industrial metal outfit noticeably slow down the song from its frenetic original pace, settling instead into a menacing stomp as Al Jourgensen bellows, “And I’m the world’s forgotten boy/The one who’s searching to destroy.” …
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Tierra Whack is back with a new fashion-themed track, “Walk the Beat.” The song is a lyrical ode to Whack’s favorite clothing designers, and even sounds like something you’d hear a model strut down the runway to. “Alexander Wang with that Helmut Lang/Ghetto fab so I’m still eatin’ chicken wings/Versatile …
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