Sabrina Carpenter brought out guest Kacey Musgraves to cover the Nancy Sinatra hit “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” during the “Espresso” singer’s set at the San Francisco area’s Outside Lands Festival. “OK Bay Area, I have a surprise for you. Do you want it? “Well, I do have a …
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Beyoncé‘s Cowboy Carter is much more than a country album — it’s actually a tour through the Black roots of American music that manages to be both thematically rich and stuffed with indelible pop songs, in multiple genres. Kendrick Lamar‘s virtuosic “Not Like Us,” meanwhile, completely transcends its status as …
Read More »Black Midi 'Indefinitely Over,' Singer of Acclaimed British Band Says
Black Midi, the London group whose brand of noise-rock and prog-punk weirdness earned them the title of “the most exciting new band in Britain” early in their career, has apparently called it quits. Fans of the band learned the band’s fate Saturday on social media, where singer/guitarist Geordie Greep was …
Read More »Billie Eilish, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snoop Dogg to Perform at Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony
Billie Eilish, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Olympics correspondent Snoop Dogg — all Los Angeles-based artists — will perform at the 2024 Paris Olympics’ closing ceremony Sunday night as part of the “handover celebration” looking ahead to the LA28 games. H.E.R. was also deliver the National Anthem live from Paris …
Read More »How to Watch the Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony Online
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. After two weeks of non-stop action, the 2024 Paris Olympics are coming to a close. On Sunday, the festivities wrap up with a closing ceremony, delivering some final …
Read More »TikTok's Biggest Edit Trend Is Borrowing From 'Chicago'
In a hazy, smoke-filled theater, dozens of red strings dangle from the ceiling. They’re connected to the backs and hands of reporters, all slumped over in their seats, notebooks in hand. There’s a man in the spotlight, with what appears to be a marionette doll over his knee and another …
Read More »'Good One' Is Pure Brooklyn Sad-Dad Catnip — and a Great Movie
There may not be a movie that has more BDE (Brooklyn Dad Energy) than Good One — you’d have to go to closing time at a Park Slope bar with nothing but The National on the jukebox to find a more concentrated dose of paternal moodiness than writer-director India Donaldson’s …
Read More »Donald Trump Brings Plenty of Loathing and the 'Cats' Soundtrack to Montana
It’s Day 20 of the Kamala Era, but Trump World remains in the Before Times. Sure, the Let’s Go Brandon merch is being sold at a discount, but otherwise the mood in the non-swing state of Montana is very July 2024. Or July 2016. The ex-president is on his way …
Read More »Rolling Stones Background Singer Chanel Haynes on Her First Tour: 'I Was Living in My Dream'
When we last spoke to singer Chanel Haynes, it was June 2022 and she was still reeling from a surprise call from the Rolling Stones that led to her joining them for “Gimme Shelter” at a show in Milan. Haynes was staring as Tina Turner in a London production of …
Read More »The CIA Sent Him Deep Undercover to Spy on Islamic Radicals. It Cost Him Everything
O ne day well into President George W. Bush’s second term, an ultra-deep-cover Central Intelligence Agency officer flew back to the United States for a break from a yearslong assignment in the Middle East. The man had a bushy beard and a distinctive, needled scar on one arm from an …
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