The eighth annual Luck Reunion was supposed to draw around 4,000 people to Willie Nelson’s Texas ranch this week, with a lineup that included Nelson, Lucinda Williams, John Prine, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff, and more. Those plans, of course, went out the window due to COVID-19. Instead of canceling altogether, …
Read More »'SNL': Coronavirus Briefing Turns Into Democratic Debate in Cold Open
Saturday Night Live returned from its two-week hiatus to tackle the most pressing issue to emerge in recent weeks, the coronavirus, with the show’s Vice President Mike Pence leading a press conference on the spreading illness that gets hijacked by the remaining Democratic presidential candidates. “Most of you know me …
Read More »The Rolling Stones Behind the Scenes: Intimate Photos From Bill Wyman's Personal Archive
“I took photos long before I was a musician,” former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman tells Rolling Stone. “I started out using an old Brownie box camera my uncle Jack Jeffrey gave me as a boy.” Photography followed Wyman into his music career (“I find photography and music similar mathematically,” …
Read More »Neil Young Reverses 2020 Tour Stance, Planning Crazy Horse Trek
Less than a week after telling fans to “not expect anything” regarding future concerts, Neil Young has announced plans to take Crazy Horse on a tour across America. There are no dates yet, but the tour will hit vintage arenas and bypass newer ones completely. “Many of the old places …
Read More »Paul English, Willie Nelson's Longtime Drummer, Dead at 87
Paul English, Willie Nelson‘s longtime drummer who was immortalized in Nelson’s road song “Me and Paul,” has died at 87 following a bout with pneumonia. Nelson’s publicist confirmed English’s death to Rolling Stone. Born in 1932 in Vernon, Texas, English joined Nelson’s Family Band in 1966 and continued to perform …
Read More »Bernie Sanders Leads Trump, All 2020 Candidates in Donations From Active-Duty Troops
No other 2020 candidate for president, including Donald Trump, can come close to matching Bernie Sanders’ level of support among members of the U.S. military, to go by the most recent campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines have donated a total of $185,625 …
Read More »Watch Elizabeth Warren Corner Chief Justice Roberts, Forcing Him to Question Aloud His Own Legitimacy
Sen. Elizabeth Warren submitted a question during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial about the legitimacy of the chief justice, the Supreme Court and the Constitution, leaving the chief justice no choice but to read it aloud. On Thursday while presiding over impeachment, Chief Justice John Roberts read the Democratic presidential …
Read More »'It's Time for All Hands on Deck': Jerry Brown on Why the U.S. Needs China — And China Needs Us — to Fight the Climate Crisis
WASHINGTON —Jerry Brown doesn’t want to talk about impeachment. He won’t say if he has a preferred candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential field and professes not to be following the race all that closely. At a time when it can feel like Donald Trump and the nonstop coverage of …
Read More »How Green Day's Tré Cool Wound Up in Willie Nelson's Band
Fans who attended Willie Nelson’s show at San Francisco’s Fillmore earlier this month were surprised to see an unexpected guest onstage: Tré Cool, the longtime drummer of Green Day. According to reports, Cool was onstage for almost the entire show, playing bongos and a washboard, without being formally introduced. Cool …
Read More »Trump Brags About Concealing Impeachment Evidence: 'We Have All the Material, They Don't'
President Trump said he’s happy with the way the impeachment trial is going thus far because his administration has not released “materials” that would hurt his cause. “When we released that conversation all hell broke out with the Democrats,” Trump said. “Because they said, ‘Wait a minute, this is much …
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