Billie Eilish will be hosting a new Apple Music radio show, Me & Dad Radio, featuring music and conversations with her dad Patrick O’Connell. The debut episode will premiere this Friday, May 8th at 3 p.m. ET on the music streaming service. “My dad and I have been putting each other …
Read More »Buffy Sainte-Marie, David Byrne Lead Virtual LemonAid Lineup for COVID-19 Relief
Buffy Sainte-Marie and David Byrne are among the artists who will appear during the upcoming Northern New Mexico festival Virtual LemonAid, which will stream for free on May 8th at 10 p.m. ET via Instagram TV, Facebook Live, Youtube Live, with additional channels to be announced on the event website. …
Read More »'Half Truth': Ken Jennings, Richard Garfield Break Down Their New Game
Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings andMagic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield have teamed up to create a new trivia card game, Half Truth. In a conversation with Rolling Stone, the two explained that Garfield was inspired to design the game after reading Jennings’ best-selling bookBrainiac. “I love trivia games — nobody …
Read More »RS Charts: Youngboy Never Broke Tops RS 200; Rap and R&B Claim Entire Top Ten
Youngboy Never Broke Again’s 38 Baby 2 debuted at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart, amassing 71.8 million streams across its 17 tracks. Youngboy Never Broke Again is remarkably prolific, and he consistently debuts high on the RS 200: 38 Baby 2 follows February’s Still Flexin, …
Read More »Rolling Stones Kick Off 'Extra Licks' Series With Bonus 'Olé Olé Olé!' Performances
The Rolling Stones kicked off their Extra Licks streaming series Sunday with the bonus footage from their 2017 concert film/documentary Olé Olé Olé! (A Trip Across Latin America), with seven performances from that 2016 South American tour making their digital debut. The performances — “Out of Control” and “Paint It …
Read More »How a Top Producer Is Rethinking Collaboration in the Age of Quarantine
This is the sixth installment of Rolling Stone’sMusic in Crisisseries, which looks at how people all across the music industry are coping with thecoronaviruspandemic. On March 15, as several states were getting close to ordering residents to shelter in place, the writer-producer Ricky Reed (Lizzo, Halsey, Kesha) published an open …
Read More »Lesley Knope and Ron Swanson Reconnect in 'Parks and Recreation' Reunion Clip
The socially distanced cast of Parks and Recreation will reunite via video chat Thursday night for an NBC special to benefit Feeding America’s COVID-19 Response Fund. In this short clip from the special, Amy Poehler’s Lesley Knope checks in with Nick Offerman’s Ron Swanson to see how her former co-worker …
Read More »Grammy Museum Honoring Amy Winehouse With Instagram Live Event
The Grammy Museum will host a special Instagram Live event to honor the 13th anniversary of Amy Winehouse‘s single “Back to Black” on Thursday, April 30th. It’s a virtual extension of the Los Angeles museum’sBeyond Black — The Style of Amy Winehouse exhibit, which opened in January. Taking place on …
Read More »Flashback: Roger Waters Performs Side 1 of Pink Floyd's 'Animals' in 2000
Earlier this month, Roger Waters told Rolling Stone that he recently sat down for a “peace summit” with his ex–Pink Floyd bandmates David Gilmour and Nick Mason that ultimately went nowhere. “I wrote out a sort of a plan because we’d come to something of a … I don’t really …
Read More »Kobach and Trump's Spectacular Voter-Fraud Failure
Excerpted from “Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy,” by David Daley. Published by Liveright, a division of WW Norton and Co. Copyright 2020. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission. Kris Kobach wears the aw-shucks smile of the star quarterback on prom night, naturally winning the approval of …
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