The Killers have posted a new, stripped-down rendition of their 2019 protest song “Land of the Free” to address the death of George Floyd. “How many killings must one man watch in his home?” Brandon Flowers sings before spelling out the exact length of time that former Minneapolis police officer …
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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian resigned from the board of Reddit on Friday, asking fellow board members to replace him with a black candidate. “I’ve resigned as a member of the Reddit board, I have urged them to fill my seat with a black candidate [and] I will use future gains …
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Update (6/5): A Nashville judge has ruled that Tennessee must provide registered voters the opportunity to vote by mail-in ballot. “In this time of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic and its contagion in gatherings of people, almost all states – both Republican and Democrat – are providing their citizens the health …
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This story was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico and is posted here as part of an ongoing collaboration with Rolling Stone. More from this series can be read here. SHIPROCK, N.M. — Four miles down Farm Road, just off U.S. Route 491 in northern Navajo, a group of young …
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Over the past weekend, activists across the country have joined together to protest against police brutality and mourn the brutal death of George Floyd, a black man who died while in police custody in Minneapolis last week. In the midst of the protests, another police killing of a black man …
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The new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast celebrates the 20th anniversary of Britney Spears‘ classic second album, Oops!… I Did It Again, with Rob Sheffield (who wrote Rolling Stone‘s original rave review) and Brittany Spanos joining host Brian Hiatt for a track-by-track discussion. Plus, Nigel Dick, who directed …
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The Puerto Rican rapper Anuel AA, who helped popularize Latin trap before heading to prison, only to reemerge and pick up right where he left off, put out his second album on Friday. Emmanuel is sprawling, stretching across 22 songs and nearly 90 minutes, incorporating verses from Anuel’s peers (Bad …
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Bluegrass and roots musicians will all perform at the new multi-day streaming event Porch Pride: A Bluegrass Pride Queer-antine Festival, starting June 27th. The event takes place on the days when San Francisco Pride was originally scheduled; like many Pride celebrations in 2020, it’s since been canceled because of COVID-19. …
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Led Zeppelin will be holding an exclusive YouTube streaming event for the band’s concert film Celebration Day, chronicling their 2007 tribute concert to Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun. The film will be available on Led Zeppelin’s YouTube channel in its entirety for just three days, premiering Saturday, May 30th at …
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Darren Criss and Kether Donohue star as Top 40 pop songwriters in the new Quibi musical comedy seriesRoyalties, which dropped its first trailer on Tuesday. The show is co-written and executive produced by Criss along with long-time collaborators Nick and Matt Lang — the team behind the YouTube series Team …
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