It’s a privilege befitting an ambient icon who once soundtracked a moon landing documentary: On Tuesday, the science festival Starmus V presented Brian Eno with a certificate commemorating that Asteroid 81948 has been named in his honor. Astronomer Marc Buie of the Southwest Research Institute, who discovered the asteroid, presented …
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Cardi B struts through a perp walk and leaves a trail of blood at a trial in the wild new video for “Press.” The outlandish clip opens with a steamy menage-a-trois scene that soon turns violent as Cardi pulls on a cigarette as she takes out a handgun. From there, …
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Migos, Future, G-Eazy and Lil Uzi Vert will headline the 2019 Rolling Loud Bay Area festival. 21 Savage, Juice WRLD, Playboi Carti, Young Thug, Kodak Black, Gunna, Nav, Tyga and Lil Yachty will also perform at the event, scheduled for Saturday, September 28th and Sunday, the 29th at the Oakland …
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Lana Del Rey staged the live debut of her Sublime cover “Doin’ Time” during a concert Saturday at Dublin, Ireland’s Malahide Castle. Set against an orange sunset backdrop and palm trees, Del Rey swayed as she sultrily crooned the lyrics to “Doin’ Time” while the audience sang along. The performance …
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“I make soulless electronic pop,” Lady Gaga once said. “But when you’re on Ecstasy in a nightclub grinding up against someone and my music comes on, you’ll feel soul.” That kind of contradiction — between the mechanical and the spiritual, between isolation and connection, between escapism and meaning — is …
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Evangelical Christians love President Trump. They voted for him in 2016 by a staggering margin — 80% to 16% — and a Pew Research poll released in March found that 69% of white evangelicals approve of the job Trump is doing as president. The fact that Trump is a lewd, …
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Unbeknownst to just about everybody, Kevin Costner could not have become Kevin Costner — that is to say, the biggest movie star around for a 10-year run starting in the late 1980s, with him swinging bats at balls in Bull Durham (1988) and Field of Dreams (1989), flashing badges at …
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Near the end of a recent conversation with Rolling Stone, in which he emphasized time and again that his musical tastes aren’t confined to any one style, eminent avant-gardist Anthony Braxton illustrated his point by sharing a nickname he’s earned from those close to him. “My friends call me Anthony …
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Last week, Jon Stewart testified before a House Judiciary subcommittee on behalf of 9/11 survivors and first responders, who are waiting for lawmakers to extend September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. For nearly 10 minutes, the former Daily Show host laid into Congress, only a few members of which attended the …
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Interning at Rolling Stone is an incredibly transformative experience. It’s one you never forget, even after you’ve written “Uptown Funk” and “Shallow.” Last night on The Late Show, the Grammy and Oscar-winning songwriter-producer Mark Ronson reminisced about his first job in the “business”: researching the music charts page for Rolling …
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