Céline Dion paid tribute to her mother Therese Dion during a concert in Miami over the weekend, performing a cover of “Over the Rainbow” with an image of her mother projected onto the stage’s backdrop. Dion’s mother died on Friday at age 92 and the singer assured fans that the …
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Evanescence conjure a post-apocalyptic wasteland in the new video for their cover of Fleetwood Mac‘s “The Chain.” The clip was directed by P.R. Brown and finds the band performing the song while bathed in red light as smoke hovers around them. The clip is interspersed with some footage from the …
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Drake said he was uninterested in squashing his feuds with Kanye West and Pusha T in an interview on Elliott Wilson and Brian “B.Dot” Miller’s Rap Radar podcast, via Tidal. He also discussed his new album and getting booed off stage at Camp Flog Gnaw. Speaking on Pusha T, Drake …
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In the first episode of Michael Moore’s new podcast,Rumble,he tells a story of being given a gift of a new reel-to-reel tape recorder as a child, kicking off his media career. He taped everyone in sight, produced his own ad-hoc version ofThe Tonight Showbefore nap time, and went on to …
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Like Pete Buttigieg, I’ve been the guy dispatched by a more senior television producer to get a camera crew into a place where we are unwelcome. Investigative journalist Renee Ferguson told The Washington Post’s Robert Samuels the story of how the current South Bend, Indiana, mayor and presidential upstart, then …
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In the midst of impeachment buildup and “Hot Girl Summer” and Greta Thunberg’s voyage to the U.S. and Lizzo-mania, perhaps you missed 2019’s true song of the summer. You know, the one about the Ice Cream of the Future. “Got myself one cup / Now I’m feeling like I’m on …
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David Lee Roth is taking his solo comeback way beyond the confines of Las Vegas next year. Kiss has just announced that the Van Halen frontman will open up for them at 43 North American shows between February and October 2020. Roth hasn’t been active as a solo act since …
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Before she married a Beatle, Linda McCartney was renowned photographer Linda Eastman. She was the first woman to shoot a cover for Rolling Stone — of Eric Clapton — and photographed icons like Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan (and, yeah, the Beatles). From the 1970s until her death in 1998 …
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UPDATE: Warner Bros. has responded to the Atlanta Journal Constitution‘s accusations, calling them “baseless.” “The film is based on a wide range of highly credible source material,” a spokesperson for the company told Rolling Stone. “There is no disputing that Richard Jewell was an innocent man whose reputation and life …
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A review of this week’s The Mandalorian, “The Gunslinger,” coming up just as soon as I play cards with my droids… “The Gunslinger” takes place around and then on the most famous planet in Star Wars lore, Tatooine, and includes familiar landmarks like the Mos Eisley Spaceport (which is festooned …
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