Tina Filled with never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, and audiotapes, the new HBO documentary tells the story of the legendary Tina Turner. In the film’s first trailer, the singer tells the story of her mother. “I thought she was so pretty March,” she says. Turner recalls how she used to …
Read More »A Matter of 'Time': Director Garrett Bradley on Making the Year's Best Documentary
At the tail end of Time — the feature-length documentary that, since its heralded Sundance debut last year, has deservedly made its director, Garrett Bradley, one of the film world’s women of the hour — an extraordinary thing happens. The movie follows a black family living in the shadow of …
Read More »How 'Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?' Landed That Axl Rose Guest Spot
It’s been many years since Axl Rose released a note of new music or agreed to an in-depth interview, but the elusive Guns N’ Roses frontman has shown a surprising willingness to lend his voice to cartoons. Two years ago, he appeared on Boomerang’s New Looney Tunes where he saved …
Read More »Hear 'Nike Soldier' From Upcoming Lost Alan Vega Album 'Mutator'
Sacred Bones Records has released “Nike Soldier,” the first offering from an upcoming lost album from late punk pioneer Alan Vega. Mutator isset to arrive April 23rd. The album comprises recordings Vega made with frequent collaborator and wife Liz Lamere during sessions that took place in New York City between …
Read More »Mick Jagger Celebrates 150 Years of the Royal Albert Hall in New Video
Mick Jagger narrates a new film on London’s Royal Albert Hall in celebration of the iconic venue’s 150th birthday. Directed by Tom Harper, the 90-second film includes scenes of the empty venue during the pandemic as Jagger recites the poem “For Friends Only” by W.H. Auden. Rare archival footage of …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Pardoner, 'Donna Said'
Here is a song you need to know, especially if the “you” in question just lost all their Parquet Courts and Sonic Youth records in a tragic mishap. San Francisco’s Pardoner have all the Nineties (and neo-Nineties) guitar moves down, pilling up easy noise and weird hooks in their frantically …
Read More »Rosamund Pike's Smile Says It All in 'I Care a Lot'
There’s a genre of smile, that wide, gleaming, shit-stirring grin that says: I hate you. And also: I’m going to kill you. Can we call it the Pike? After Rosamund, of course, who serves it better than most anyone working in movies at the moment, and who has the added …
Read More »U-Roy, Reggae Artist and Toasting Pioneer, Dead at 78
U-Roy, the influential reggae artist who specialized in the art of toasting and whose style became a key precursor in the early development of hip-hop, has died at the age of 78. The singer and producer died in his native Jamaica Wednesday after a long illness, Loop Jamaica reported. “We …
Read More »The Best Unlocked Phones That Skip the Contract
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Back in the early days of smartphones, options for unlocked ones were slim, and were usually lesser-known brands, while phones from the biggest tech players were locked up …
Read More »Luke Bryan Tops Apple Music Pre-Add Chart
Born Here Live Here Die Here is shaping up to get a big second life on the charts. Luke Bryan takes Number One on the Apple Music Pre-Add Chart for the week of February 5th through February 11th with a deluxe reissue of his album Born Here Live Here Die …
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