Over the weekend, Metallica treated fans in Munich, Germany, to a live debut of “Inamorata,” a track off the band’s 2023 album 72 Seasons and the longest original track in their catalog. A fan-shot video from the May 26 show captured the performance, complete with James Hetfield’s introduction. The frontman …
Read More »Rising to the Top Together: Finding Strength in Numbers as an Emerging Artist
Life as an independent artist can bring unique struggles that not everyone seems to understand. Family members might put pressure on you to get a “real job,” or non-musician friends may ask why you’re always so busy creating content. When you’re chasing something you believe in, it’s important that others …
Read More »Robert De Niro Spars With Trump Supporters at Chaotic Press Conference Outside Trial
Actor and New York native Robert De Niro clashed with pro-Trump protesters outside of the former president’s criminal hush-money trial in Manhattan on Tuesday. The legendary actor was tapped by the Biden-Harris campaign to provide counter-messaging to the constant stream of Trump allies who have used the trial as a …
Read More »Trump Trashes Loyalist Republican Who Attended Hush-Money Trial
It turns out that crawling on one’s proverbial knees to pay homage to Donald Trump at his ongoing hush-money trial won’t actually stop the former president from trashing you publicly. Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) is learning this the hard way. Earlier this month, Good, chair of the pro-MAGA House Freedom …
Read More »Dead and Co. Will Stay 'Dead Forever' at the Sphere a Little Longer
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Dead and Company have extended their residency at the Las Vegas Sphere with a bunch more shows scheduled to take place in August. The Grateful Dead offshoot group …
Read More »Social Distortion, Old 97's Set for Inaugural 'Little Steven's Underground Garage Cruise'
Little Steven’s Underground Garage is one of the most eclectic channels on SiriusXM’s rock lineup, playing everything from legit garage bands like the Chesterfield Kings and the Dollyrots alongside cowpunk kings Old 97’s and SoCal punk legends Social Distortion. In May 2025, the channel will take that aesthetic and those …
Read More »Rare Bob Dylan Painting Fetches Nearly $200K at Auction
When Bob Dylan lived in Woodstock, NY, he took up painting. After trading one of those pieces for an astrology chart 50 years ago, the piece has now sold for $196,156 at auction. RR Auction announced the release on Friday, May 24th, which coincidentally happened to be Dylan’s birthday as …
Read More »Years & Years' Only Remaining Member Olly Alexander Officially Disbands Pop Project
Years & Years has officially been disbanded as Olly Alexander steps away from being the synth-pop project’s sole remaining member. During a recent performance under his own name at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend, the singer and songwriter told the audience: “I used to be in Years & Years, I …
Read More »Who's Afraid of 'White Boy Summer'?
A year after hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, and only a few weeks after Kendrick Lamar’s feud with Drake culminated in a chart-topping track where he calls Drake a “colonizer,” the hottest topic on the rap internet right now is a white kid from St. Louis rapping over vintage-sounding Atlanta rap beats. …
Read More »The Cable Bundle Strikes Back
On 30 Rock, Liz Lemon’s terrible sometime-boyfriend Dennis Duffy, a.k.a. “The Beeper King,” insisted the pager business would boom again because “technology’s cyclical.” Every idea Dennis espoused was meant to be as nonsensical and willfully ignorant as that one, like when he told Jack Donaghy that, politically, he was a …
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