Lil Nas X scored his second Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart with “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” earning more than 20,000 downloads and more than 24 million streams. “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” appeared earlier this year in a Super Bowl commercial. Its …
Read More »Elvis Presley's Rock & Roll Ambitions Grow in New Graphic Novel Excerpt
A young Elvis Presley navigates a treacherous high school landscape and hones his musical ambitions in a new excerpt from Elvis: The Graphic Novel, which is set to arrive in August via Z2 Comics (pre-order here). Elvis was written by Chris Miskiewicz and illustrated by Michael Shelfer. The graphic novel …
Read More »The Return of Sister Kate
F ive decades later, she can still remember the high points, like meeting a few Beatles, encountering Mick Jagger or a very young Michael Jackson in the studio, or sharing a bill with Tina Turner. And she can also recall the precise moment when she decided to shut it all …
Read More »'Right Now I'm Scared': CDC Director Expresses 'Recurring Feeling of Impending Doom' as U.S. Surpasses 30M Covid Cases
During a White House covid-19 briefing on Monday, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave powerful testimony about the current increase in cases, warning Americans, “When we see that uptick in cases, what we have seen before is that things really have a tendency to surge, …
Read More »The Strokes on Blues Rock: 'Please, No More of That'
The Strokes took home the Grammy award for best rock album forThe New Abnormalon Sunday, beating out the likes of Grace Potter and Sturgill Simpson and marking the influential garage rock band’s first ever Grammy after forming more than 20 years ago. When asked about the state of rock music …
Read More »Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon Discuss Harry and Meghan's Interview With Oprah
Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers (with some help from Amber Ruffin) busted out the tea and crumpets as they broke down Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey on their respective late-night shows Monday, March 8th. On The Late Show, tea kettle full of …
Read More »Why the Equality Act Is So Important
When trying to explain the importance of the Equality Act, Kierra Johnson, director of the National LGBTQ Task Force, only had to think as far as her next trip. “It’s just two and a half hours,” she says from her home in Washington D.C. to visit her mom in Texas. …
Read More »Backup Singer Dolette McDonald on Her Years With Talking Heads, the Police, and Don Henley
Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …
Read More »Clairo on Feeling Seen and Supported by Carly Simon's Music
For this year’s annualWomen Shaping the Future issue, we asked 12 of today’s top musical acts to talk about the women who have inspired them most in their lives and careers. Here, Clairo talks about the cross-generational appeal of Carly Simon‘s songwriting. I was introduced to Carly Simon through my …
Read More »'Spoken Dialogue': 'Hamilton' Actors Daveed Diggs and Leslie Odom Jr.
Hamilton actors Daveed Diggs and Leslie Odom Jr. caught up with each other as part of Rolling Stone‘s Spoken Dialogue series. The duo kicked off the discussion by reflecting on the huge impact that Hamilton has had on their careers. Odom Jr. notes that while his latest role as Sam …
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