Theater at its core is storytelling, but the theater world has wrestled for decades with the integration of technology with these stories. Famous Broadway producer and director George Abbott was born in 1887 and lived to be 107. It’s often purported that when asked what was the most exciting change …
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Tyler, the Creator Scores First Number One on RS 200 With 'Call Me If You Get Lost'
Tyler, the Creator scores his first Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums Chart this week with Call Me If You Get Lost, his seventh studio album. Call Me If You Get Lost pulled in just over 167,000 units in its first week, which marks the fifth biggest …
Read More »The Best Backpacks for Musicians
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. You have enough to worry about when you’re on the road, the last thing you should be fretting over is how to store and carry all your stuff. …
Read More »Dev Hynes Song Featured in Trailer for Netflix's 'Beckett'
An American tourist in Greece finds himself the target of a manhunt in Beckett, a new thriller film from Netflix and director Ferdinando Cito Filomarino that released its first trailer on Thursday. The film premieres on August 13th only on the streaming platform. John David Washington stars as the tourist, Beckett, …
Read More »Itzy: A Girl Group Blazing a New Path of Its Own
“I really want to take a selfie with the crowd,” Itzy‘s Lia says. “I just miss them,” Chaeryeong adds. It’s been a long year without seeing their fans or hearing them do chants and cheer for the group, and Itzy is dying to see them again. Assembled in 2019 by …
Read More »Peloton Has Its Own Music Festival Now
I was being puckish when I first wrote that, thanks to Peloton, “fitness classes are the new music festivals” — but it seems the exercise company may have taken me seriously. On Tuesday morning (June 29th), the at-home fitness company announced All For One Music Festival, a three-day, virtual event …
Read More »Inside the July/August 'Rolling Stone' Cover Shoot With Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish first appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone in August 2019, sporting a spiked collar, claw-like nails and an apathetic teen glare. Nearly two years later, the 19-year-old star graces the cover once more — this time shot in soft focus, wearing a minimalist button-down blouse and her …
Read More »Does Britney Spears Stand a Chance of Dissolving Her Conservatorship?
Britney Spears offered a harrowing public statement on Wednesday about her ongoing, 13-year conservatorship. During her court testimony, done over Zoom, Spears alleged years of abuse, including forced labor, prescriptions of debilitating drugs like Lithium and restrictions put on pregnancy and marriage. Spears also claimed that she had never been …
Read More »Jay-Z to Celebrate 25th Anniversary of 'Reasonable Doubt' by Selling First NFT
Jay-Z will celebrate the 25th anniversary of his debut album, Reasonable Doubt, by minting and selling his first non-fungible token. For the NFT, Jay-Z tapped artist Derrick Adams to create a one-of-a-kind animated digital piece inspired by the Reasonable Doubt cover.The new piece is titled Heir to the Throne, which …
Read More »The Sky Thief
The stolen airplane began rolling forward under its own power, with no one in the cockpit. The twin engines of the Horizon Air Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft had been set to idle. But without anyone riding the brakes, the 13-foot propellers began pushing the plane slowly toward the runways …
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