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Former President Barack Obama delivered a virtual commencement address to graduating students from historically black colleges and universities on Saturday. Obama first spoke to the unusual circumstances this year’s graduating students are having to endure because of the ongoing pandemic, telling them, “Even if half this semester was spent at …

John Waters will always remember how an interview he conducted with Little Richard crashed and burned. The Polyester and Hairspray filmmaker had met the Architect of Rock & Roll — Waters’ idol to the point that he modeled his mustache after the singer — in a shockingly normal hotel room …

When Nelson George sat down to write about the state of R&B for The Village Voice in the late Eighties, two super-producers were frequently on his mind: Teddy Riley, who helped invent a vicious new fusion called New Jack Swing in New York City, and his rival Babyface, a melodic …

The Trump administration blew $349 billion in small-business pandemic aid in four weeks, less time than it took for me to grow out my quarantine beard. That is nothing to be proud of, but President Trump still took his victory lap on Tuesday, boasting about breaking speed records for loans …

Dead & Company have canceled the 17-date tour they were planning to launch this summer, joining a long list of musicians whose live events have been impacted by the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The band is promising full refunds to all fans who have already purchased tickets to the shows. “Because …

Billie Joe Armstrong paid tribute to the late Adam Schlesinger by covering the Wonders’ “That Thing You Do!” as part of his “No Fun Mondays” quarantine series. Schlesinger, who died earlier this month at the age of 52 due to COVID-19 complications, wrote the title track to That Thing You …

South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott said that President Trump saw into the future while making his State of the Union speech on February 4th and claimed Trump referenced the coming financial collapse that would eventually hit America because of the coronavirus. “I think during his State of the Union …

This is the first installment of Rolling Stone‘s Music in Crisis series, which looks at how people all across the music industry are coping with the coronavirus pandemic. ____ In early March, Toni Globis and Brandon Burney were planning for a busy few months ahead. The couple were part of …

Back in 2016, John Prine was having trouble writing new songs. It had been more than a decade since his last album, 2005’s excellent Fair & Square,and the longer he waited to release a new one, the more anxious he felt. “One of the reasons I’m having such a difficult …

Todd Rundgren and an all-star crew are re-recording his 1973 anthem “Just One Victory” and giving it away for free to Democrats all over America running for public office this year. It’s still early in the process, but Joe Walsh, Daryl Hall, and Paul Shaffer have already pledged to join …