If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. What would The Beatles be without Ringo Starr or Rush without Neil Peart? While the two are now celebrated as legendary songwriters and producers, they first won acclaim …
Read More »RZA Spent 10 Years Making This TV Show
RZA speaks about his new office-bound lifestyle with reverence — the grind and mundanity, structure and camaraderie. The writers’ room for Hulu’s new original series, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, is, in his words, a utopian ideal. He describes working on the show with words like “sacred” and “therapy.” From October …
Read More »How Teens on TikTok Drew National Attention to a Teachers' Labor Issue
Grown-ups tend to believe that teens are only obsessed with Snapchat kitty filters, Lil Nas X, and crawling into bathtubs with dead squids. But this is both unfair and inaccurate. When all is said and done, the kids are alright, as demonstrated by the recent efforts of Gillian Sullivan, a …
Read More »Hear Motorhead Frontman Lemmy Kilmister's Lost Country Duet 'The Mask'
Lemmy Kilmister started writing the outlaw country song “The Mask” in 1979 — the same year he put out the screaming, hard-rock albums Overkill and Bomber with his band Motörhead — but didn’t finish it until three decades later. Now, a decade after that – and a couple of years …
Read More »Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss Confirmed for Fourth 'Matrix' Film
Get ready for a whole new pill to swallow when The Matrix returns for a fourth installment, with both Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss set to reprise their roles as Neo and Trinity, Varietyreports. Filmmaker Lana Wachowski, who co-directed the original film with her sister Lilly, will write and direct …
Read More »Guns N' Roses to Settle Trademark Lawsuit Over Brewery's Guns 'N' Rose Beer
Guns N’ Roses have agreed to settle a trademark infringement lawsuit against a brewery, Colorado’s Oskar Blues, that sold beer and corresponding merchandise dubbed “Guns ‘N’ Rosé” without permission. In a Monday court filing by the band’s lawyers, both parties agreed to settle in principle on July 31st and are …
Read More »'Blinded by the Light': Bruce's Music Is a Gift for a British-Pakistani Teen
For some people, Bruce Springsteen doesn’t just write lyrics — he sings words to live by. That’s the case for Javed (dynamite newcomer Viveik Kalra), a no-hope British-Pakistani teen feeling the financial squeeze of Thatcherism in 1987 Luton. Then he hears Springsteen for the first time, and the words of …
Read More »Hear Bruce Springsteen's Previously Unreleased Track 'I'll Stand By You'
Bruce Springsteen‘s previously unreleased song “I’ll Stand by You” is one of several Springsteen tracks to be included on the soundtrack to Blinded by the Light, a new film inspired by his music. The musician originally penned the song for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, but it never made …
Read More »The Follow-Up to 'Please Kill Me' Is an Oral History About Charlie Manson
There’s nothing like the impact of hearing an outrageous story from someone who experienced it firsthand. That’s why Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain wanted to publish an oral history of the Manson Family murders and the late Sixties. “It’s people making bad decisions in real time,” McNeil says. For more …
Read More »'BH90210' Review: Head-Spinning Reboot Wins Points for Sheer Weirdness
BH90210 is a reunion of Beverly Hills 90210 in which most of the original stars of Beverly Hills 90210 play themselves as they try to mount… a reunion of Beverly Hills 90210. It would probably not make a list of the five weirdest TV revivals of all time, in part …
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