“I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this as the first option for both delivering a child and putting a record out,” a very pregnant Katy Perry says, laughing over Zoom for the latest installment of Rolling Stone Interview: Special Edition.Both her baby and fifth album Smile are due around the same time …
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Tom Morello, Bob Weir and Jesse Malin and Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme and Troy Van Leeuwen were among the artists who covered the Clash classics as part of a livestream event celebrating what would have been Joe Strummer’s 68th birthday Friday. “A Song for Joe: Celebrating the …
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Known as the Russell Crowe road-rage movie, Unhinged hits theaters — or at least the ones that dare to open stateside — on August 21st. Is it worth going masked and still risk infection to sit in a poorly ventilated multiplex, no matter how socially distanced, to see Crowe play …
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Quarantining with the Osbournes is a lot like quarantining with anyone else. “It’s kind of just fucking boring with this pandemic shit,” Ozzy exclaims drolly. “It’s great at first, and then you get on each other’s nerves; then it’s great again,” says his wife and manager, Sharon. “Then the cycle …
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Though the coronavirus is still, as President Trump put it last week, a “thing,” universities around the country are opening for the fall semester, albeit with an array of restrictions in place that are intended to tamp down the virus’ spread among students and faculty. But those restrictions seem to …
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Daisy Coleman, the rape survivor who was featured in the 2016 Netflix documentary Audrie and Daisy,was found dead by suicide at the age of 23. Coleman’s mother Melinda posted about the death of her daughter on Facebook, writing that police found her body after she requested a welfare check on …
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Alanis Morissette channeled mothers across the world during quarantine when she performed with her daughter in tow on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, which will air on Thursday night. Morissette and her band joined the late-night show virtually to debut “Ablaze,” off her ninth studio album, Such Pretty Forks …
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In a normal year, a few thousand lucky ticket-holders would be descending on Fort Adams in Rhode Island right now for the Newport Folk Festival, gearing up for a series of one-off performances in one of the most stunning settings imaginable. One unforgettable Newport performance happened in 2017, when John …
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John Oliver delivered a detailed and devastating look at China’s treatment of the Uighurs, a predominately Muslim ethnic minority in northwest China, on Last Week Tonight. The Uighurs, as Oliver explained, live primarily in the Xinjiang province; they’re culturally and ethnically distinct from most of the rest of China (which …
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Charity Carson-Hawke never thought she’d be best friends with a porn star. She’d grown up a preacher’s daughter, and largely led what she describes as a “biblical life.” Then she married one of the brothers of John Wayne Bobbitt, the tabloid fixture and ex-husband of Lorena Bobbitt, and appeared on …
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