If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Quick Answer: The best way to watch the Astros vs. Rangers Game 7 is DirecTV Stream. Get a five-day free trial here. Free Trial DirecTV Stream We’re in …
Read More »
“Cruel Summer” has officially taken over the Fall. More than four years after Taylor Swift‘s Lover track was released in August 2019, the song has finally topped Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, the publication announced on Monday, marking yet another victory for Swift that likely would have been unexpected until a …
Read More »
Jay-Z has officially settled the most online “would you rather” since the great horse-sized duck debate of the early-2000s: Would you rather have one meal with Jay-Z and pick his brain, or get $500,000 cash? “You gotta take the money,” Jay quipped without hesitation when asked about the conundrum in …
Read More »
J. Cole‘s Dreamville festival will make its return to North Carolina in Spring 2024. On Monday, the rapper announced that the music event will celebrate its fourth anniversary on April 6 and 7 in Raleigh. The lineup will be revealed in the lead-up to the festival. “Dreamville Fest 2023 was …
Read More »
Rolling Stone was founded in 1967 in San Francisco by a music critic and his 21-year-old protégé, a Berkeley dropout who borrowed money from his future in-laws to get it off the ground. For decades, Rolling Stone gripped tight to the beliefs and cultural blinders of that boomer beginning. Most …
Read More »
PLEASE ALLOW THIS ASIAN AMERICAN music writer to articulate this at the level it deserves: Egregious racism and misogyny have a long history in rock & roll — from those on the industry side who have appropriated Black artists’ work to those at the top of the publications who dictated …
Read More »
A version of this response appeared on the Black Rock Coalition’s website. When Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner made offensive comments in The New York Times about women and Black artists, the Black Rock Coalition, which has battled stereotypes and musical categorizations about what rock is “supposed to be” since …
Read More »
IT’S THE BROKEN RECORD that continues to play despite repeated forewarnings: An influential white man says something racist and sexist, instant public backlash ensues, and swift consequence occurs. As a Black queer millennial journalist, Jann Wenner’s offensive remarks to The New York Times weren’t shocking to me at all. His …
Read More »
Negative news has an adverse effect on us. For instance, one 2022 study that examined the impact of violent Facebook content on women from five cities in Pakistan found that it made them “feel insecure, fearful, and distressed” — and that “the world is a nasty place to live in.” …
Read More »
Let the games begin. After Squid Game premiered on Netflix in 2021, it quickly became one of the streaming giant’s biggest shows thanks to the bizarre yet captivating premise of having 456 players compete for a multi-million dollar prize in a series of deadly games. Now, Netflix is turning the …
Read More »