Patti Smith and her daughter, Jesse Paris Smith, headed to Rockaway Beach on New Year’s Day to celebrate the release of the latter’s first solo single, “Legacies.” A simple yet haunting track, the song kicks off a new project by the younger Smith’s climate action organization Pathway to Paris, a …
Read More »'The Far Side' Returns With Updated Website and (Potentially) New Comics
After a 25-year hibernation, the beloved comic strip The Far Side returned Tuesday with a revamped website, unseen sketches and the promise of new comics in the future. In September, cartoonist Gary Larson hinted on the long-dormant Far Side website that the comic would reappear in 2019 in some capacity; …
Read More »Great Grandpa's Peaceful, Easy Folk-Rock Feeling
When Pat Goodwin brought an acoustic guitar onstage at a sold-out Great Grandpa show in Brooklyn this past fall, one audience member responded by shouting “Free Bird!” “I wish we fucking played ‘Free Bird!’” Goodwin told the crowd. “I really don’t,” said lead singer/bassist Alex Menne. Acoustic guitars are still …
Read More »Kanye West Brings Family and a Choir to 'Closed on Sunday' Video
Kanye West spent his Thanksgiving releasing the video for “Closed on Sunday,” the latest single off his new album, Jesus Is King. The clip opens with West, wife Kim Kardashian West and children North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm lying in a rock formation before an armada of armored vehicles unload …
Read More »RS Charts: Celine Dion's 'Courage' Powers to Number One
Celine Dion swept to Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart this week. Courage, her first release since 2016’s Encore un Soir, earned more than 120,000 album-equivalent units. The overwhelming majority of those came from album sales, which were boosted by a bundle offer tying albums to …
Read More »Chris Martin Joins Beck for Lively Performance of 'Loser'
Beck joined forces with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin for a rendition of “Loser” during the Hammer Museum’s annual Gala in the Garden event in Los Angeles. The event honored filmmaker Jordan Peele and artist Judy Chicago, and brought Beck in to perform for the attendees. In the performance — as …
Read More »Sharon Van Etten Talks New Doc, Springsteen and Leaving New York
Sometime in 2016, Sharon Van Etten was heading to her rehearsal space when she stumbled upon her past. “I walked by an old bar that had closed and I saw these kids living in a neighborhood that I couldn’t afford anymore,” the singer-songwriter said. “I started feeling old, but then …
Read More »Taylor Swift Cancels Gig at Australian Horse Racing Event After Animal Rights Activists' Outcry
Taylor Swift has canceled her controversial performance at Australia’s Melbourne Cup horse racing event following outcry from animal rights activists over the treatment of the horses. Swift was scheduled to perform at the Victoria Racing Club on November 5th as the singer embarks on a promotional tour in support of …
Read More »Rush's 'A Farewell to Kings' LP Chronicled in New Graphic Novel
Fantoons, an L.A. studio known for creating rock-themed animation, has released a new full-length graphic novel that chronicles the making of Rush‘s 1977 prog-rock classic, A Farewell to Kings. Spanning 144 pages, fully authorized by the band, and based on interviews with Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson and Kings producer Terry …
Read More »'Untouchable' Review: The Rise and Fall of Harvey Weinstein
The stories are legion, and they are remarkably similar. Some begin in a Buffalo, New York, concert hall in 1978; others in a five-star hotel in Venice in 1998. But it usually starts with a seemingly benign offer of help, or a friendly chat, or a meeting about the next …
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