In the span of less than a week, the bluegrass community was rocked to its core: Jesse McReynolds and Bobby Osborne, two pioneering voices and musicians of the “high, lonesome sound,” died within mere days of each other. McReynolds died June 23 at 93, while four days later, Osborne died …
Read More »Peso Pluma Expands First-Ever U.S. Tour to Larger Venues, New Cities
Peso Pluma is bringing his tuba-backed corrido hits on the road this summer. Three months after revealing the dates of his first-ever tour across the U.S. to Rolling Stone, the Música Mexican rising star announced new shows and larger venues for his time on the road after several stops sold …
Read More »Getting Inked? Here's Exactly How to Care For Your Tattoos, According to the Pros
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. So you’ve thought long and hard (or not) about your next (or first!) tattoo design and found a pro artist to get the job done — now it’s …
Read More »Nothing Young Thug Says Would Change People's Opinion About Gunna
Young Thug’s new album Business is Business dropped last week, and, as usual with an A-list rap release, the music isn’t the only thing making headlines. Thug’s third studio album, which debuted at number 2 on the charts, is his first full-length release while incarcerated and awaiting trial on the …
Read More »Rosie O'Donnell, Rita Wilson, and More Send Well-Wishes to Madonna After Health Scare
Madonna‘s famous friends (and fans) are thinking of her! On Wednesday, the singer’s manager Guy Oseary announced that the singer was in recovery after suffering from a “serious bacterial infection” that required her to stay in the ICU. By Thursday afternoon, a source told Rolling Stone that the singer was …
Read More »Take a Ride on the Worm in the New Trailer for 'Dune: Part Two'
Timothée Chalamet‘s Paul Atreides seeds a revolution and, more importantly, rides the worm in the latest trailer for Dune: Part Two, director Denis Villeneuve’s epic take on the classic sci-fi novel. While the second installment’s first trailer in May gave brief glimpses of the film’s cast additions — including Florence …
Read More »Netflix Exposes the Secret Gay History of Nazi Germany
The Eldorado, the swinging, anything-goes nightspot that gives the new Netflix documentary Eldorado its name, was an LGBTQ haven during Germany’s Weimar Republic, popular among Berlin’s trans population and anyone else who liked to let their hair down in public. It was also, as the film’s subtitle puts it, Everything …
Read More »Madonna Is 'Home' And 'Feeling Better' After Hospitalization for Bacterial Infection: Source
Madonna is on the mend. One day after the singer’s manager announced that the pop music legend was hospitalized after suffering from a “serious bacterial infection,” a source tells Rolling Stone that she’s now resting “at home and feeling better.” In his original statement Wednesday, Madonna’s manager Guy Oseary informed …
Read More »What Was Affirmative Action Really About? And What Happens Now?
Universities can no longer consider race in college admissions, the Supreme Court ruled today. The ruling was expected, on 6-3 ideological lines, and it will forever change access to higher education in America. Like it or not, “affirmative action” was extraordinarily effective — in its first year at Harvard, admissions …
Read More »Blur Drop New Single, the Britpop Throwback 'St. Charles Square'
Blur continued the march toward their reunion album, The Ballad of Darren, Thursday with the LP’s latest single, the Britpop throwback “St. Charles Square.” “I was just really relieved it went this way in the studio,” Damon Albarn told Apple Music Radio of the track following its premiere Thursday. “It’s …
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