I recently traveled with a posse of fantastic colleagues to this year’s South by Southwest Conference in Austin to present a panel titled “Psychedelic Entrepreneurship and the Underground Economy.” My session with master satirist Dennis Walker, journalist Mary Carreon, and mushroom testing pioneer Reggie Harris was a blast, and we …
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For the past few weeks, Vivian Jenna Wilson, the estranged daughter of Elon Musk, has taken to the Threads platform to deliver scathing criticism of her father, characterizing him as a cruel absentee father who is “desperate for attention and validation from an army of degenerate red-pilled incels and pick-mes,” …
Read More »Sturgill Simpson Debuts Melancholy New Music at Outside Lands Festival
Sturgill Simpson is, once again, in the midst of an intriguing creative restart. The ambitious country/psych-rock/bluegrass artist announced earlier this summer that you can call him Johnny Blue Skies now, the better to match the melancholy tone of his eighth studio album, Passage du Desir. If you’re wondering why he’s …
Read More »Post Malone Says His Daughter Saved His Life Following 'Rough Path' Struggling With Loneliness
Post Malone doesn’t have to look far to find a reminder of his daughter: Her initials, “D.D.P.,” are tattooed on his forehead. The sweet tribute is just one example of how fatherhood has impacted Malone. During an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, the musician opened up about the ways in …
Read More »Miley Cyrus Tearfully Dedicates Disney Legend Honor to Hannah Montana: 'She Made Miley'
During her final audition for Hannah Montana, 12-year-old Miley Cyrus wore her heart on her sleeve and her life-changing manifestation on her chest. “I should have my own TV show,” read the shirt she wore beneath a blue jacket in the tape. She was right. In the nearly two decades …
Read More »Severe Weather Is Threatening the Future of Outdoor Concerts
When organizers were mapping out this year’s pop-punk Summer School tour, they envisioned it as a daylong event akin to its spiritual predecessor, the Warped Tour. Although most shows on the July and August run would be indoors, a few would take place outside. But before the 25-city trek even …
Read More »Isaac Hayes Estate Demands $3 Million for Trump's Unauthorized Use of 'Hold On, I'm Coming'
Donald Trump is guilty of many crimes (starting with at least 34 felonies, to be exact), and one of them is questionable taste in music. We say “questionable,” not “bad,” because while the song choices at his campaign rallies are often fine in themselves, the former president has the nasty …
Read More »How Ravyn Lenae Used Her Imagination to Travel Back in Time on Her New Album 'Bird's Eye'
When Ravyn Lenae looks back at her childhood, there’s one image in particular that stands out to her. In it, she’s 12 years old and rocking a tutu skirt from Hot Topic on top of her jeans. It was a different time — before too many perceptions and opinions got …
Read More »Alesso Set to Headline Las Vegas Grand Prix for Second Year of Formula 1 Race
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Formula 1 is returning to Vegas this November and the lineup of performers headed to Sin City is growing by the minute. Alesso, Ludacris and OneRepublic have been …
Read More »Racing Golf Carts and Talking Hollywood With Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
“We’re not jaded to the point that we don’t appreciate the golf carts,” Seth Rogen says when I tell him I rode one over to our meeting. “No,” says Evan Goldberg. “We raced them the other night.” Let that reassure anyone who suspects these lifelong creative partners, now in their …
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