Last year, Mick Jagger started feeling restless. Seventeen years had passed since the Rolling Stones had released an album of original material, and though they’d toured regularly — and made the difficult choice to soldier on after the devastating 2021 death of drummer Charlie Watts — the on-and-off sessions they’d …
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Almost no figure from the early days of the internet was more misunderstood and maligned than Julia Allison. In the mid-2000s, Allison dominated the online world as one of the first multi-platform content creators. But practically no one recognized her as such, in part because there wasn’t language to talk …
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O h, my God —look!” Olivia Rodrigo says. “I just parallel parked for you!” We’re sitting in Rodrigo’s black Range Rover in L.A.’s Highland Park, stopped outside her producer Dan Nigro’s home studio. Rodrigo has a killer late-July outfit on — short, summery floral dress; tall, brown leather boots; her …
Read More »How Olivia Rodrigo's 'Rolling Stone' Cover Came Together
On her first solo Rolling Stone cover, Olivia Rodrigo appears deeply poised, leaning into a world that’s all her own. Wearing a classic black 1998 Versace bodysuit with beaded rhinestones, the young superstar shimmers as she leans forward and applies lipstick with a deadpan expression. A tiny version of Rodrigo …
Read More »Bernie Sanders on Trump, A.I., and Elon Musk the Space Pirate
A new presidential election cycle is heating up, and Bernie Sanders finds himself in an unfamiliar position: on the sidelines. The independent senator from Vermont, who rallied millions of progressive supporters behind his bids in 2016 and 2020, is not making a run for the White House in 2024. Instead, …
Read More »Millionaire Biohacker Says Algorithm Runs His Life: 'My Mind No Longer Decides'
The name Bryan Johnson may not ring a bell, but odds are you’ve already seen the man shirtless, posing with a vial of his son’s blood. The 46-year-old tech millionaire has made the rounds time and again on social media for going to extreme lengths to curb the effects of …
Read More »They Played Football as Children. Now Their Families Mourn
S ince DuQuan Myers died six years ago, he’s come back in ways that are mysterious and magical and hard to explain. It started the day of his funeral, when the doves that were released over his coffin refused to fly home, perching instead in the oak tree just above …
Read More »Olivia Rodrigo Crushes the Expectations and Delivers Another Witty, Pissed-Off Classic
Olivia Rodrigo knocked it out of the park on her first try, with her instant classic of a debut, Sour. So expectations have been sky-high for her next move. But the suspense is over: Her excellent newGutsis another instant classic, with her most ambitious, intimate, and messy songs yet.Olivia’s pop-punk …
Read More »The Club Chalamet Blow-Up Proves There's Something Deeply Wrong With Stan Culture
On a balmy Monday evening at Inglewood’s SoFi stadium, as Beyoncé performed in front of screaming fans clad in all shades of silver, two people shared a kiss. The couple in question was Oscar-nominated actor Timothée Chalamet and beauty mogul Kylie Jenner. Rumors had been swirling around the couple for …
Read More »Chaos, Comedy, and 'Crying Rooms': Inside Jimmy Fallon's 'Tonight Show'
I t was a particularly tense day on the set of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The host, known for his warm and congenial presence onscreen, was acting especially dismissive and irritable during production meetings, a former longtime employee tells Rolling Stone. Then he stumbled through rehearsal in front …
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