Five years ago, country singer Randy Houser was on a blissful commercial hot streak. His How Country Feels album spawned four consecutive radio hits; the title track, which came on like 1997 Shania Twain with chugging guitars and titanic drums, was a strong entry in country’s long tradition of songs …
Read More »Pedophile Confesses to Killing JonBenet Ramsey in Letters to Friend
A longtime suspect in the 1996 murder of JonBenét Ramsey in Boulder, Colorado, has allegedly confessed to “accidentally” killing the six-year-old in a series of letters sent to a former high school classmate, according to the Daily Mail. Gary Oliva, 54, is a convicted pedophile currently serving a 10-year sentence …
Read More »'Sopranos' Cast And Creators Reunion: 5 Things We Learned
Settling into a seat at a theater in New York City’s Chelsea district last night, Sopranos creator David Chase was asked how he felt about celebrating the show’s 20th anniversary. “Confused,” he murmured, after a pause. “I never expected this to happen.” But two decades after it premiered, the mythology …
Read More »Robert De Niro Says Trump Is a Con Artist and White Supremacist
Robert De Niro has never been shy with his feelings about President Donald Trump, and in a new interview with theGuardianpublished on Sunday, he is still throwing barbs at the man in the White House. Here are just a few of the insulting names he called Trump in his latest …
Read More »Flashback: Neil and Pegi Young Sing 'Four Strong Winds' in 2005
We’re still processing that shocking news that Pegi Young died on January 1st after a short battle with cancer. Not only was she married to Neil Young for 36 years, but she was a gifted singer-songwriter in her own right and as the founder of the Bridge School she was …
Read More »Pete Davidson Talks Ariana Grande Split, Mocks Louis C.K. in Stand-Up Return
Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson performed a pair of stand-up shows on New Year’s Eve, marking his return to the stand-up stage for the first time following a troubling Instagram post he shared two weeks ago, which appeared to hint at suicidal thoughts. Soon after, he deleted his …
Read More »How Bad Bunny Channeled Blink-182, Reggaeton and Ukulele on the Same Album
At age 29, the producer Marco “Tainy” Masís has already been working on hits professionally for roughly half his life. While most producers eventually lose their hot hand, this one keeps finding another path to the charts, and this year, he helped put together Cardi B’s “I Like It,” a …
Read More »How Def Leppard Rode a Love of Pop Into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Joe Elliott of Def Leppard, who will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March, gave a career-spanning interview on our podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now. Below, he explains at length how the band drew on more diverse influences than many of their peers. To hear …
Read More »Investigation into Inaugural Committee Spending Reportedly Closes in on Ivanka Trump
New York federal prosecutors are looking into potential financial wrongdoing by President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee and Ivanka Trump’s involvement in price negotiations for space rental in the Trump International Hotel in D.C. According to reporting by WNYC and ProPublica, President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee paid large sums of money …
Read More »Cardi B Announces Split With Offset
Cardi B has announced her split from husband Offset in an Instagram post Wednesday morning. The post, which included the caption “There you go..peace and love,” detailed the couple’s decision to call it quits. “So everybody been bugging me and everything,” Cardi said in the video. “And you know, I …
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