“No one confesses on the stand!” a friend assures the title character of HBO‘s Perry Mason remake. The line is meant as a wink at Mason’s previous incarnations, where, in both the books by Erle Stanley Gardner and the Fifties/Sixties TV series starring Raymond Burr, the defense lawyer famously won …
Read More »Folk Uke Stomp Out Toxic Masculinity on 'Small One'
Folk Uke, the rootsy music project from Amy Nelson and Cathy Guthrie, address toxic masculinity and the threat it poses to all living things in their new song “Small One.” Under deceptively sweet guitar strums and melancholic steel pedal, Nelson and Guthrie target a man who has gotten too “big-headed” …
Read More »Racism Kills: Why Many Are Declaring It a Public Health Crisis
Working as a nurse at the St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio in the 1950s and 1960s, Mary Gregory saw a healthcare system that was broken. In fact, just getting to that position was a struggle: After initially being rejected from the St. Vincent School of Nursing, in 1951, …
Read More »Metallica's Lars Ulrich Teases 'S&M2' Box Set on Kimmel
Metallica will put out their S&M2 concerts — where they performed alongside the San Francisco Symphony last year — as a box set this summer. Lars Ulrich announced the release Wednesday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live! when he surprised Long Island nurse Tracy Bednar during the host’s #HealthcareHero segment. She …
Read More »Watch Jeff Tweedy, Daniel Johnston Play 'Walking the Cow' in Previously Unreleased Clip
The Hi, How Are You Project — the mental health nonprofit inspired by the life and legacy of Daniel Johnston — has shared a previously unreleased clip of Johnston and Jeff Tweedy performing “Walking the Cow.” The footage comes from the Chicago stop on Johnston’s 2017 farewell tour. At each …
Read More »Joan Osborne Previews First Album in Six Years With 'Boy Dontcha Know'
Joan Osborne will release her first album of all-new material in six years this September. Trouble and Strife is the soul singer’s 10th studio LP and comments on various social issues of life in 2020. In a statement, Osborne says the album is “a recognition of the important role music …
Read More »Ani DiFranco to Perform in Prison Reform Livestream
Ani DiFranco, Zoë Boekbinder, Terence Higgins and more will be participating in a prison reform benefit livestream, produced by Live From Out There and Righteous Babe. Prison Music Project Sessions: Long Time Gone will air as an album release party for the compilation LP of the same name on June …
Read More »At Work With Rhea Pasricha, the Publishing Exec Putting More Women in Music Studios
InRolling Stone‘s weekly series At Work, we go behind the curtain with decision-makers across the fast-changing music business — exploring a range of responsibilities, burgeoning ideas, advice for industry newcomers, and more. Read earlier interviews here. The moment Rhea Pasricha was legally allowed to drive — which, in the state …
Read More »Fight the Power: 18 Docs to Help Explain Today's Unrest
At the end of a recent appearance of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert asked his guest, Run the Jewels rapper Killer Mike, what white people could do to be better allies in what has become a serious moment of reckoning in our country. The artist’s answer: go watch the …
Read More »Chris Redd of 'SNL' Launches COVID-19 Fund for George Floyd Protesters
Saturday Night Live cast member Chris Redd has launched a GoFundMe page to provide COVID-19 aid to the George Floyd protesters. “As thousands of people take to the streets to protest racial discrimination and the many black lives lost at the hands of injustice, we also have the unfortunate fact …
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