You know how it goes. You’ve got a rowdy kid in the backseat who won’t sit down, won’t shut up and isn’t wearing her seatbelt, so you reach back with one eye still on the road to play parent and gain control over the situation, only to realize that you …
Read More »Chris Brown Won't Be Charged in Battery Case
Chris Brown won’t face any criminal charges for allegedly striking a woman during an argument in June. The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office rejected the misdemeanor case “this week,” a spokesman for the office confirms. “It was rejected because of insufficient evidence,” spokesman Rob Wilcox tells Rolling Stone. He declined …
Read More »Biden: Republicans 'Playing Russian Roulette' With the World's Largest Economy
President Biden warned Americans that he cannot guarantee the U.S. will not run out of money to pay its bills because Republicans in Congress are blocking a vote on the debt ceiling, a move the president called “disgraceful” and akin to “playing Russian Roulette” with the economy. If Congress doesn’t …
Read More »Kacey Musgraves Performs 'Star-Crossed' Songs on 'SNL' Season Premiere
Kacey Musgraves performed songs off her new album Star-Crossed on the 47th season premiere of Saturday Night Live. Musgraves played a stripped-down version of “Justified” as her first number, seated on a stool and strumming a guitar that obscured any clothes she may have been wearing — creating the illusion …
Read More »Joe Manchin Just Cooked the Planet
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin just cooked the planet. I don’t mean that in a metaphorical sense. I mean that literally. Unless Manchin changes his negotiating position dramatically in the near future, he will be remembered as the man who, when the moment of decision came, chose to condemn virtually …
Read More »Taylor Swift to Release 'Red (Taylor's Version)' in November
UPDATE (9/30): Taylor Swift took to Instagram to announce a new release date for her re-recorded version of Red: November 12th. “Can’t wait to celebrate the 13th with you and our new/old autumn heartbreak album,” she wrote on Stories. *** Taylor Swift will release a re-recorded version of her 2012 …
Read More »So, What Was 'Rolling Stone' Thinking When We Made Our New 500 Greatest Songs List?
Rolling Stone’s brand-new list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time got the whole world talking (including Carson Daly, who was super-mad about a perceived lack of classic rock). On the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we begin what will become a multi-part discussion of …
Read More »Noel Gallagher Says Brother Liam — Who Recently Fell Out of a Helicopter — Isn't Real
Liam Gallagher once famously compared his brother Noel to a potato, and now Noel has upped the ante by taking their feud out of the realm of root vegetables and into the metaphysical, suggesting Liam is “not actually real.” For context, the quip came during an interview Noel gave on …
Read More »The War on Drugs' 'I Don't Live Here Anymore' is Pure Bob Dylan Fan-Fiction
There are too many Bob Dylan references to count in “I Don’t Live Here Anymore,” the latest arena-ready single from the War on Drugs. Some are lyrical nods to beloved songs like “Shelter From The Storm,” “It Ain’t Me Babe,” and “Standing in the Doorway.” Others are even more on-the-nose, …
Read More »10 Best Movies at Toronto International Film Festival 2021
The crowds were gone — that was the first thing you noticed at this year’s Toronto Film Festival. Normally, over the course of the 10 days that this annual gathering of film lovers and lookie-loos fans, you’ll find throngs of people outside the Princess of Wales Theatre or the Roy …
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