Memphis rapper Pooh Shiesty is home after serving more than four years in federal prison. In April 2022 the artist, real name Lontrell Williams, was sentenced to 63 months in prison after pleading guilty to a gun conspiracy charge stemming from an October 2020 confrontation that left a man shot …

At the end of 2024, OpenAI unveiled Sora, a text-to-video AI model that could generate moving images based on user prompts, ranging from stylistic animations to photorealistic “footage.” Although these snippets often included visual errors that clearly marked them as products of AI processing, the ramifications of such technology were …

Before PlayStation became a household name, before Neo learned kung fu, before the internet ruined our lives and ChatGPT put the AI in “paranoia,” there was Tron, the 1982 Disney movie that answered the burning question: What if Jeff Bridges was trapped inside a first-generation video game? The crude CGI-animated …

Cody Johnson is canceling his remaining 2025 shows due to a burst eardrum, which the country singer said will require surgery and “many weeks” of recovery. He was expected to perform six upcoming dates through December, with his next performance originally scheduled for Oct. 18 at PPG Paints Arena in …

Mark Ronson, fresh off the release of hismemoirNight People: How to Be a DJ in ’90s New York City, offers a glimpse into his music tastes and shares his first impressions of Aaliyah’s music in a new episode of Rolling Stone‘s Song Shuffle. The DJ and production mastermind started the …

Hollywood tends to portray life in the military through one of two lenses: propagandistic sagas or scathing polemics. Boots, a Netflix original series premiering Oct. 9, takes a decidedly more irreverent approach. The show follows Cameron Cope, a closeted teen played by Miles Heizer (13 Reasons Why), as he and …

Hardy is going back on the road. The Nashville country songwriter and metalhead live performer has announced the Country! Country! Tour!, which kicks off in February and runs through August of 2026. The trek is in support of the Mississippi native’s latest album, Country! Country!, and features a well-curated rotating …

New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was once a rapper named Mr. Cardamom — and his rap career is still past tense. On Oct. 4, attorney Jim Walden, who recently backed out of his own independent mayoral campaign weeks before the November election, made an X post featuring an Apple …

Jay Som is teasing her new album Belong (out Friday) with a song featuring Hayley Williams. On Tuesday, the artist (whose real name is Melina Duterte) released the single “Past Lives,” which she previously told Rolling Stone was one of the hardest on her album to complete. “It’s a dream …

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