If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Long after the rise of action figures and limited-edition figurines of the Seventies and Eighties came Funko Pops, a series of miniature, caricature-style figures that depict famous celebrities …

A new documentary short takes a behind-the-scenes look at the Cramps and the Mutants’ infamous performance at a psychiatric hospital in 1978. Directed by Mike Plante and Jason Willis and produced by Field of Vision, We Were There to Be There explores the events that led to CBGB mainstays the …

Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names.Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.) …

Olivia Rodrigo has dropped new track “The Rose Song,” which will appear in a new episode of Disney+ series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. The singer-actress portrays Nini in the show. “‘Cause I am more than what I am to you/You say I’m perfect, but I’ve got thorns …

Almost exactly five years ago, a 29-year-old man with a semi-automatic rifle and a 9 mm Glock walked into the Pulse nightclub in Orlando and killed 49 people and wounded over 50 more. It was the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11. It was also the …

Maybe you remember The Hitman’s Bodyguard. Maybe you don’t. We wouldn’t blame you if the details regarding this pulpy 2017 buddy comedy had faded from your memory banks like so much post-headshot pink mist. Ryan Reynolds is a disgraced bodyguard. Samuel L. Jackson is a hitman who’s supposed to testify …

Amazon Prime Video has released the final trailer for the upcoming Chris Pratt sci-fi flick, The Tomorrow War, which will premiere on July 2nd. The film’s premise is that time travelers from 2051 return to the present to demand help fighting a global war against an alien enemy. Pratt plays …

This story appears in Rolling Stone‘s 2021 Future of Music issue, a special project delving into the next era of the multibillion-dollar hitmaking business. Read the other stories here. Two decades after digital downloads replaced physical CDs, and 10 years into streaming’s dominance of music consumption, music’s tech boom still …

T he pistol the boy is holding is a plastic toy. He and two other kids from Honduras are playing on the pedestal of a statue of an Aztec eagle in Reynosa, a Mexican city just south of the tail end of Texas. The three of them are wearing face …

“You’ve won the hearts of many people who should have hated you, so many times,” Dave Burd’s manager Mike assures him. “Like who?” Dave wonders. Mike does not have a good answer, admitting that he only made the original comment because he’s high. The real Dave Burd — a.k.a. comic …