Michael Cohen’s testimony Wednesday was by turns explosive and chilling, as the president’s former fixer detailed crimes he committed to help put Trump into office, and warned the world, in his closing statement, that Trump might not leave the White House without a fight: “I fear that if he loses …
Read More »Hear the Wild, Untold Story of the Making of 'Walk This Way'
A new episode of our podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now, spotlights the story of “Walk This Way,” from Aerosmith‘s original 1975 recording to their Rick Rubin-produced collaboration with Run-DMC in 1986. The original song’s producer, Jack Douglas, gives a blow-by-blow of its genesis on the episode, while Washington Post reporter …
Read More »Oscars 2019: Queens, Spikes and the 'Green Book' Best Picture Blues
It was hostless yet somehow the wheels stayed on. It played that “Bohemian Rhapsody” guitar riff roughly 60 gajillion times in a little over three hours — and boy, did the Oscars producers keep their promise about keeping the show way below the Satantango-running-time length. It gave the stage over …
Read More »See Taylor Swift Surprise Engagement Party With Acoustic 'King of My Heart'
Taylor Swift dropped into two fans’ engagement party to serenade them with the romantic Reputation anthem “King of My Heart.” Alexander Goldschmidt orchestrated the surprise for his fiancé Ross Girard at their engagement party on Saturday where he said he was grateful for everyone keeping secrets surrounding their engagement, but there …
Read More »Michael Jackson Estate Files $100 Million Lawsuit Over HBO's 'Leaving Neverland' Doc
Michael Jackson’s estate is suing HBO for more than $100 million over its controversial Leaving Neverland documentary. The Jackson estate has been fiercely critical of the film since it premiered at Sundance in January. The film prominently features the story of two men, James Safechuck and Wade Robson, who claim …
Read More »Watch Paul McCartney, Little Steven Cover Beatles' 'I Saw Her Standing There'
Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul were nearly done with their set at London’s Roundhouse in November of 2017 when Van Zandt told the crowd that a special guest was going to join them on the stage. “I got a friend of mine that wants to come out,” he …
Read More »Grammys 2019: Alicia Keys Sings Songs She Wishes She Wrote
Midway into the 2019 Grammy Awards, the show’s host, Alicia Keys, sang a medley of songs that she wished she’d written. She kicked it off by playing Scott Joplin’s “The Maple Leaf Rag” on two grand pianos, one black, one white, sitting between them on a stool. “I wanna welcome …
Read More »Parkland, One Year Later: Fred Guttenberg, a Father-Turned-Activist
On Valentine’s Day 2018, a 19-year-old ex-student took an Uber to his old high school; he walked across the campus and into a three-story building, where he killed 17 people and injured 17 more. It was the sixth of 24 shootings in U.S. schools last year, but the incident at …
Read More »Blackface Is Just One Part of the Problem
Not long after Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam immolated what was left of his political career, I got the Reverend Dr. William Barber on the phone. The fiery civil rights leader, known for founding the Moral Mondays movementand for revivingRev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign, did not focus …
Read More »Super Bowl LIII: See Maroon 5's Surprise-Free Halftime Show Feat. Travis Scott, Big Boi
Maroon 5 delivered a surprise-free set with a plethora of career-spanning hits including “This Love,” “Girls Like You,” “Sugar” and “Moves Like Jagger” during theSuper Bowl LIII Halftime Show. The Red Pill Blues band kicked off the show with singer Adam Levine leading a melodic performance of the Songs About …
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