Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022, can still face the death penalty if convicted, despite a recent autism diagnosis, a judge has ruled. In documents unsealed last month, it was revealed that Kohberger’s attorneys had filed a request to remove the death …
Read More »How Pokimane and Fuslie Made Themselves the Antidote to Online Negativity
It’s not easy being a woman streamer, and the last few months have made it even harder. Social media accounts that target and denigrate high-profile Twitch streamers (who are often women or people of color) were once relegated to the more obscure corners of the internet; now they’re pushed to …
Read More »Kiss Drummer Peter Criss Announces First Solo Album Since 2007
Peter Criss will emerge from a long period of inactivity this year with the release of his first album since 2007’s One for All. “I want to let the Kiss Army and all my rock fans know that my new ‘rock’ album will be coming out this fall,” Criss tells …
Read More »Never-Aired Frank Zappa Television Concert From 1974 Finally Set for Release
A long-in-the-vaults Frank Zappa television special, recorded in June 1974 but never aired, will finally be released next month as a concert film and live album. Cheaper Than Cheep captures Zappa and his Mothers of Invention on June 21, 1974, performing to a small crowd in their intimate Sunset Blvd. …
Read More »Megan Thee Stallion Dares You to Name the Time and Place in 'Whenever' Video
Megan Thee Stallion is locked and loaded on her latest single “Whenever.” The record arrives alongside a chaotic music video that finds the rapper twisting into contortions on top of a reception area desk, dancing in the desert, and posing in a fish tank. When she raps “It’s whenever, bitch, …
Read More »David Thomas Was Pere Ubu's Heart of Darkness
Here’s a long goodbye to David Thomas of Pere Ubu, one of the most defiantly eccentric and uncompromising voices in American rock. He made history with Pere Ubu, a garage band of Cleveland art-noise crackpots sending out a roar from the mid-Seventies’ Midwest industrial wasteland. In his early days, he …
Read More »What We Lose When America Loses AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps programs play an essential role in disaster recovery across the country. They helped communities hit by hurricanes Helene and Milton last fall, as well as after the Los Angeles wildfires in January, supporting shelter operations, managing call centers, volunteers and donations, mucking and gutting out buildings that were destroyed, …
Read More »Is There Really a Serial Killer Stalking New England?
When Michele Romano went missing last August, her family and their close friend, podcaster Lauren Lee Malloy, labored over flyers bearing her image: a woman with a gentle smile and a spill of braids, wrapped in a cozy, pale rainbow cardigan. “So many people shared the flyers, but she was …
Read More »Young Thug and Future Pile It High on 'Money on Money'
Young Thug has reunited with Future for a new song, “Money on Money,” as the rapper gears up to release his first new album in two years, Uy Scuti. The track marks Thug’s first proper solo single since his release from jail last year, though he has guested on tracks …
Read More »Hear the Song that Sammy Hagar Wrote With Eddie Van Halen in a Dream
About a year after Eddie Van Halen died in 2020, Sammy Hagar had a dream that they were sharing a chill moment together. “He had a guitar around his neck and we were having a love fest since we hadn’t seen each other in a long time,” Hagar tells Rolling …
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