If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The best technology saves time by doing manual, tedious work for us. Robot vacuums are one of the best examples of this, and they just keep getting better. …
Read More »Flashback: Kurt Cobain Rips Through 'Dive' in Lingerie at 1993 Nirvana Show
Decades before Harry Styles angered conservatives by wearing a dress on the cover of Vogue, Kurt Cobain regularly dipped his toes in gender fluidity — donning dresses and makeup onstage, in photo shoots, or just hanging at friend’s houses. One memorable moment is when the late Nirvana frontman performed an …
Read More »Hear the Stories Behind Neil Young's Lost Masterpieces
Neil Young’s monumental Archives Volume II: 1972–1976 is packed with unheard treasures recorded in his artistic peak, from a Crazy Horse version of “Ride My Llama” to a legendary late-night jam with Joni Mitchell on “Raised on Robbery” to “LA Girls and Ocean Boys,” a song previously heard only in …
Read More »Gym Class Heroes' Travie McCoy on Surprise TikTok Resurgence: 'It's F—ing Awesome'
It’s been 10 years since Gym Class Heroes released a new album, and the group has been completely inactive since wrapping up a 2018 summer tour with the Offspring and 311 — so frontman Travie McCoy was more than a little surprised to learn recently that their song “Cupid’s Chokehold” …
Read More »Recording Academy Announces 2022 Grammys Date
The Recording Academy has announced that the 64th Annual Grammy Awards will take place January 31st, 2022. The show plans to return to the Staples Center in Los Angeles, and will air from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. ET on CBS, while simultaneously streaming on Paramount+. It will also be …
Read More »Sonos Makes Some of the Best Speakers We've Ever Heard — These Are the Four to Get
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Sonos was the first company to release a modern, wireless audio system you could build piece by piece. Each speaker sounds great on its own, but you’ll have …
Read More »'Violation' Is Latest Rape-Revenge Thriller That Seeks to Subvert the Genre
Violation — written, directed, and produced by ongoing collaborators Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli — is a rape-revenge thriller that’s adamant to upset the norms of the genre. Among those ostensible norms: the linear path from inciting assault to bloody revenge. It isn’t so much that the rules of rape-revenge …
Read More »At a Pivotal Moment in Afghanistan, Journalists Are Being Killed in Record Numbers
On March 4th, 2021 a member of the Helmand shura council was shot by unknown gunmen in the street, part of a gathering wave of targeted killings that have terrorized Afghanistan. “Abdullah,” a veteran Afghan journalist based in Kabul who was covering the story for a major U.S. newspaper, would …
Read More »A Concert Pro's New Gig: Licensing Music for Funerals
At 32, Steve Muncaster is working a nine-to-five job for the first time in his life. The U.K. native is normally a stage manager and drum tech for acts like Irish singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy and British rock band Enter Shikari. But with concerts still on hold, he’s picked up a …
Read More »Iceage Find Comfort Among Friends and Family in New 'Shelter Song' Video
Danish punks Iceage have released a new track, “Shelter Song,” from their next album, Seek Shelter, out May 7th via Mexican Summer. “Shelter Song” boasts shades of Britpop at its most reverb-soaked and festival-ready, with big guitars and the Lisboa Gospel Collective backing up frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt as he …
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