If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. There’s a lot for music-loving travelers to like about the Guitar Hotel at Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida. The place has a 7,000-seat entertainment venue, suites suitable …
Read More »Shakira Concert at Boston's Fenway Park Canceled Just Hours Before Showtime
Shakira was scheduled to take the stage at Boston‘s Fenway Park today as part of her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran tour. Leading up to the show, she shared Instagram Story posts expressing her excitement and teasing appearances from Will.i.am and Wyclef Jean. But hours before doors opened for the …
Read More »Kim Petras and Trixie Mattel Will Headline First Outloud Fest in Boston
West Hollywood’s Outloud Music Festival is coming to the East Coast. Rolling Stone can officially reveal that Kim Petras and Trixie Mattel will headline the first-ever Outloud Music Festival in Boston on June 21 at the Stage at Suffolk Downs. “OUTLOUD understands the assignment: queer talent, great music, and hot …
Read More »The Everlasting Cool of My Uncle, Garage-Rock Trailblazer Larry Tamblyn
I grew up in a bohemian household in Southern California where icons of the literary, film, and music worlds would often converge. On any given evening, there might be a noted author in our living room reading something they’d just written, or a titan of the fine arts drinking whiskey …
Read More »Lost 1980s Indie Rock Pioneers Salem 66 Are Getting Their Moment in the Sun
Think of the most iconic bands associated with the exploding U.S. indie-rock scene of the 1980s, and who comes to mind first? R.E.M., Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, and the Pixies, perhaps? Salem 66 were peers to all four of those groups. They shared a label with Sonic Youth, a recording …
Read More »Ed Sheeran Plays Surprise Set at Boston Pub for St. Patrick's Day
Ed Sheeran popped up at a Boston Irish pub to perform a surprise acoustic set in front of a celebratory St. Patrick’s Day crowd on Monday night. The British singer-songwriter was backed by a fiddle and an accordion, in addition to other band members of the Irish folk band Beoga …
Read More »'The Instigators': Movie Stars Plus Boston, Divided by Gunshots and Laughs
Perhaps you’ve heard that Matt Damon is from the beautiful city of Boston. True story! So are his friends and professional colleagues the Affleck brothers — Casey and the other guy — and they seem to like to going back and filming in their hometown whenever possible. Watch these guys …
Read More »Boston Calling Addresses Overcrowding Complaints at Festival
Boston Calling has responded to complains that certain areas of the festival seemed overcrowded this weekend. In a statement released on Tuesday, the festival assured attendees that while the official count was “several thousand” below capacity, they’d work to make sure people feel safe in the future. “We deeply appreciate …
Read More »Seth MacFarlane's 'Ted' TV Show Is Surprisingly Funny
Kids have always talked to their stuffed animals. In Ted, the bawdy teddy bear fantasy that has yielded two R-rated movies and now a new prequel series on Peacock, the furry beast talks back, often in a four-letter flourish, always with the delivery of some out-of-time Boston vaudevillian. He also …
Read More »'Boston Strangler' Wants to Be 'Zodiac' So Badly
In 1962, Loretta McLaughlin, a reporter at the Boston Record-American, noticed a small item buried on page five of a local paper. It detailed the murder of a woman who had been found strangled in her apartment. Something about this seems familiar to McLaughlin, who digs through some old clippings …
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