If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Lily Allen wants you to talk about masturbation (and no, she doesn’t mean the Zoom dick incident). The British singer, songwriter, and author has released her own vibrator, …
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Adam Sandler’s bulldog Bagel is the latest “celebrity” swept up in the Fleetwood Mac “Dreams” craze with a new video posted on the actor’s Twitter. https://thisforall.net/AdamSandler/status/1318889823877402624 The short clip finds Bagel frolicking in a field, daydreaming of Nathan Apodaca — the original “Dreams” longboarder — and encountering a bottle of …
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Nashville blues singer Laura Reed and guitar wizard Laur Joamets are teaming up for a new project. Lore, a grungy rock band that mixes Reed’s mesmerizing vocals with Joamets’ second-nature playing, release their debut single “Surrender” on Tuesday. It’s the first taste of an upcoming self-titled album, produced by Dave …
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A review of this week’s Fargo, “The Birthplace of Civilization,” coming up just as soon as I’m punctilious with my elocution… “Why would I fight for a country that wants me dead?” —Loy “The Birthplace of Civilization” gets its title from a conversation between Ethelrida Pearl Smutny and Deafy Wickware. …
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Elton John has unearthed his bluesy early demo of “Here’s to the Next Time” — recorded in 1967 when the artist was still known as Reg Dwight — as the latest offering from John’s upcoming Elton: Jewel Box collection, due out November 13th. This solo rendition of “Here’s to the …
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Last week on the TV’s Top 5 podcast, Star Trek producer Alex Kurtzman dropped some numbers that made hosts Lesley Goldberg and Dan Fienberg, two jaded, longtime television writers, stop in their tracks. As talk turned to the strange new world of Covid-19, Goldberg asked how much Kurtzman’s budget had …
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The Kinks will mark the 50th anniversary of their music industry-satirizing 1970 album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround Part One with a massive reissue that pairs the remastered album with studio outtakes, demo recordings, BBC performances, and previously unreleased material. The Lola Versus Powerman reissue arrives on December 18th. …
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It must be painful for Low Cut Connie mastermind Adam Weiner to keep himself from going overboard. The group’s sixth and latest album, Private Lives, is a double album, featuring 17 songs that Weiner recorded with nearly 40 of his closest friends. They indulge gospel-choir sing-alongs, channel classic-sounding soul horn …
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Portugal. the Man have joined forces with “Weird Al” Yankovic for “Who’s Gonna Stop Me,” a new single in honor ofIndigenous Peoples Day. Featuring the Last Artful, Dodgr and directed by Aaron Brown and Josué Rivas, the video opens with the band sitting around a fire as indigenous artists and …
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By the dawn of the Seventies, the protest song was considered as much a relic of the previous decade as the word “groovy,” with notable exceptions like Edwin Starr’s “War,” Neil Young’s “Ohio,” and Bob Dylan’s “George Jackson.” As Arlo Guthrie told Rolling Stone this summer, “The music business went …
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