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 …
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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 …
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Bandcamp will be donating 100 percent of its revenue on Juneteenth (June 19th) to the NAACP in solidarity with recent protests against police racism and brutality. CEO Ethan Diamond made the announcement on Monday, adding that Bandcamp would repeat the practice annually. “The recent killings of George Floyd, Tony McDade, …
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In a live address on Friday, presidential candidate Joe Biden said the killing of George Floyd was “an act of brutality” that “denied him of his very humanity.” Related:Global Protests Begin After Police Killing of George Floyd Biden’s emotional speech came before the arrest of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, …
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Dave Grohl. Peter Gabriel. T Bone Burnett. Twenty years later, the bold-face names that helped launch Joseph Arthur’s career return in a flood of memories. “The cast of characters who made that project brings back so much love in my heart about it,” Arthur says. The project was Arthur’s career-defining …
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While on tour in 2018, rising electro-pop artist Elohim kept having chronic panic attacks. Once she returned home, Elohim — who keeps her real name hidden and has often appeared with her face obscured — filmed a soothing video for “Panic Attacks,” a song featuring singer-songwriter Yoshi Flower. She views …
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On Friday morning, Andrew Yang dropped his first U.S. Senate endorsement of 2020. For those who’d been wondering how Yang might wield the political capital accrued during his giddy run for president — beyond championing Universal Basic Income and toying with a run for mayor of New York City — …
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This is the 12th installment of Rolling Stone’sMusic in Crisisseries, which looks at how people all across the music industry are coping with thecoronavirus pandemic. This edition features Peter Shapiro — renowned concert promoter and owner of Brooklyn Bowl, the Capitol Theatre, and Relix Magazine — who’s doing his best …
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A few weeks before President Trump was impeached last December for attempting to blackmail Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden, Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan warned the House Judiciary Committee of a future in which the president used similar tactics on his own country: “Imagine living in a part of Louisiana …
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Though he spends a big part of his life onstage in entertainer mode, Kip Moore doesn’t mind a bit of solitude. Since the pandemic began forcing shutdowns in March, the “More Girls Like You” singer has been hunkered down in East Kentucky, just being quiet and contemplative —writing songs, reading, …
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