On the heels of last year’s Imagine reissue, a new documentary will examine John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s relationship before and leading up to the album’s release. John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky features new interviews with Yoko Ono, Julian Lennon, and the musicians who played on Imagine, among …
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Orange Is the New Black was technically the second of Netflix’s original series to debut, arriving five months after House of Cards in 2013. But where Cards was exactly the kind of antihero drama that had been made for years on cable TV (Netflix in fact won a bidding war …
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Darrell Johnson, R. Kelly‘s crisis manager who for the last seven months has acted as a spokesperson for the singer, resigned from his position Monday evening, citing “personal reasons.” Kelly is currently facing federal indictment sex crimes charges. On Monday night, Kelly’s lawyer Steve Greenberg, who employed Johnson for his …
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From Carly Rae Jepsen and Lizzo to Bruce Springsteen, Vampire Weekend and Billie Eilish, the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now podcast takes a look taste of 2019’s best albums so far. Rob Sheffield, Brittany Spanos, and Jon Dolan join host Brian Hiatt to take a look at the …
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It’s been seven months since a Senate-confirmed secretary of defense has presided over the Pentagon. This isn’t likely to be the case for much longer, as the Republican-controlled Senate is expected to confirm Mark Esper to the position soon, possibly by the end of the week. President Trump’s Cabinet is …
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Writer-director Lulu Wang draws on her own life to create the story of a Chinese family who come together to celebrate a wedding that’s closer to a funeral. Awkwafina, the rapper-comic and laugh-delivering dynamo of Crazy Rich Asians and Ocean’s 8, dials down to give a sublime and finely textured …
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After nearly five years,Friends is parting ways with Netflix. Unfortunately, it looks like it’ll be more than “a break.” The popular sitcom, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, will leave Netflix on an unspecified date in early 2020. HBO Max will launch that spring with 10,000 hours of content, …
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Two years ago, Willie Nelson delivered God’s Problem Child, a tragicomic heart-stopping meditation on the singer’s rapidly advancing age. A year later, he released an equally sturdy follow-up (2018’s Last Man Standing), and after detouring with his collection of Sinatra standards, the 86-year-old legend is back with Ride Me Back …
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UPDATE: The bill to legalize cannabis in New York State did not pass, according to the New York Times. When Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his full-throated support for marijuana legalization last year, cannabis advocates were cautiously optimistic. That optimism was significantly dampened, however, when a push for legalization earlier this …
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The former drummer of Pink Floyd is sitting in the catering area backstage at the Beacon Theatre eating from a tiny bowl of pea soup about three hours before his new band, Nick Mason‘s Saucerful of Secrets, make their New York debut. The last time the 75-year-old played a venue …
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