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Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …

It’s a dramatic, messy era on the internet. Everything is changing rapidly. There’s broad dissatisfaction with the dominant search engine, and activists are worried about the privacy implications of increasingly intrusive online surveillance. While investors prattle on about esoteric topics like digital currencies and virtual reality, back in the real …

Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke, director Ridley Scott, singer Leona Lewis and Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis were among those recognized by King Charles’ 2024 New Year Honours list. Clarke will receive a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) not for her acting but for her charitable …

There was actually a time when we didn’t need social media to drum up mass hysteria, and the new HBO documentary Time Bomb Y2K is ready and raring to take us back there. This superbly edited dash through pre-millennial anxieties is a time capsule of archive footage — no narrator, …

Tom Wilkinson, the Oscar-nominated British actor best known for roles in The Full Monty, In the Bedroom, and Batman Begins, has died at the age of 75. Wilkinson’s family confirmed the charactor actor’s death Saturday in a statement (via the BBC), noting that he died “suddenly.” “It is with great …

“Variety shows are complicated,” Tom Smothers toldRolling Stonein 2015. The occasion was the launch ofBest Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris, the ultimately short-lived attempt to revive the long-standing song-dance-and-skits format for TV. Few knew how thorny such undertakings could be than Smothers, who died this week at age 88. …

Former South Carolina Gov. and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is drawing scrutiny for failing to say slavery was the cause of the Civil War when asked by a voter on Wednesday. She’s trying to clean up the mess now, but Haley’s latest comments reflect her longstanding political approach. …

Ask anyone who works at Rolling Stone what they’ve been listening to lately, and you’re guaranteed to get an interesting answer. In the final weeks of the year, more than 30 colleagues from across the departments that make RS submitted their personal picks for the 10 best albums of 2023. …

Ellie Goulding has been reflecting on how things have changed in the music industry since she got her start in 2010. In a new interview with BBC Radio 4, the British pop star reflected on how the #MeToo movement ended up helping the music industry and effect change in how …

For some, life is a series of chance meetings with historical consequences. Little Brother, the trio comprised of rapper/singer Phonte, rapper Big Pooh, and (formerly) producer 9th Wonder met on the campus of North Carolina Central University and went on to craft one of rap’s most beloved catalogs. Their story …