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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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 …
Read More »Portugal. the Man, 'Weird Al' Yankovic Team Up for 'Who's Gonna Stop Me'
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 …
Read More »Music at Home: Seventies Soul Protest Classics
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 …
Read More »New Bonkers Interview: Trump Says He Beat Biden in Second Debate, an Event That Has Yet to Happen
In his first live interview since announcing that he tested positive for the coronavirus, President Trump called into Maria Bartiromo’s Fox program on Thursday and wasted no time in proving that he is still an awful human being. The president, with guidance from the Trump sycophant Fox host, hit many …
Read More »Chaos and Cannabis: A Hemp Empire Brings Trouble to Navajo Land
This story was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico and is posted here as part of an ongoing collaboration with Rolling Stone. SHIPROCK, N.M. — In the fertile northeast corner of the Navajo Nation, fields that only months ago were traditional open-air corn farms are now stuffed with hundreds of …
Read More »Linda Ronstadt on New Documentary, Her Mexican Heritage and the 2020 Election
One year after The Sound of My Voice, Linda Ronstadt will star in another documentary:Linda and the Mockingbirds. Directed by James Keach, the film chronicles her 2019 visit to Mexico with Jackson Browne and the students of Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy. In the new trailer, Ronstadt, Browne, and Los …
Read More »Van Morrison to Release Protest Songs Against Covid-19 Lockdown
Van Morrison accuses the U.K. government of “taking our freedom” in three new songs bashing the worldwide lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19. In “No More Lockdown,” the most on-the-nose of the three tracks, Morrison plainly lays out his thoughts: “No more lockdown/No more government overreach/No more fascist bullies/Disturbing …
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Billie Unreleased interviews with the jazz icon, newly restored color pictures and videos, pus conversations with other musical greats like Tony Bennett, Charles Mingus, Sylvia Syms, and Count Basie – the new documentary examines the life and cultural legacy of Billie Holiday as it’s never been before. The film was …
Read More »Fallon, Seth Meyers Mock Trump Over Reports That He Denigrated Fallen Soldiers
Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers ridiculed President Donald Trump on their respective late-night shows Tuesday over a damning Atlantic report that claimed he called fallen soldiers “losers” and “suckers.” Fallon threw out a litany of one-liners about the comments, which Trump has denied, even as several other news sources have …
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