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Ahead of Thursday’s Parks and Recreation reunion special, Nick Offerman — who played Pawnee, Indiana’s resident curmudgeon Ron Swanson on the popular sitcom — sat down via video with Rolling Stone senior writer Stephen Rodrick for the latest Rolling Stone Interview: Special Edition. During the in-depth conversation, Offerman discusses the …

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards went on Zane Lowe’s Apple Music show this week to promote the new Rolling Stones single, “Living in a Ghost Town,” which also gave them an opportunity to respond to Paul McCartney’s recent claim that the Beatles were a better band than the Stones. “[The …

The costs of slowing the spread of coronavirus are enormous. Large sections of the economy have ground to a halt. The stock market has crashed. Unemployment claims surged by more than 3 million last week alone. Congress was forced to pass a $2.2 trillion rescue package — and it will …

As Olivia Harrison remembers, her future husband, George, drove himself to work on the first day on his new job. It was October 1974, and George Harrison had flown to Los Angeles to visit the offices of the record label he’d just launched. The only problem was that no one …

Mick Fleetwood should be relaxing. He just wrapped up a 13-month world tour — Fleetwood Mac‘s first since parting ways with Lindsey Buckingham and replacing him with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell and Crowded House frontman Neil Finn — but the 72-year-old drummer is already deep into …

The noise that a helicopter makes resonates differently here in Los Angeles. The blades reverberate through our neighborhoods more forebodingly here, often conjuring images of police and media surveillance. You hardly ever hear a chopper and think that something is going right. Typically, the sound evokes calamity. After this hazy …

In our new series, we look at eight cities where live music has exploded — from legendary hubs like New Orleans and Nashville and Chicago, to rising hot spots like Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Portland, Maine. The first city we’re spotlighting: Denver, where nearby Red Rocks is only the beginning of …

O n a recent L.A. afternoon, Brandi Carlile is talking about the moment when everything changed for her. It was the 2019 Grammys, when she played her ballad “The Joke” live and took home three awards. “I was 39, kind of an outlier underdog character,” says Carlile. That week, her …

For nearly two decades, Edward Norton has been trying to realize his passion project — a film version of Jonathan Lethem’s landmark 1999 novel Motherless Brooklyn. Now the film is here, sporting a few signs of artistic struggle, but nonetheless an ardent and ambitious triumph for writer-producer-director-star Norton. You might …

Bruce Springsteen eases into a damn fine feature-film directing debut, aided and abetted by his longtime collaborator Thom Zimny, with Western Stars, a transporting musical ode to the American West — old, new, and all those hypnotic and haunting shades in between. It’s true that the movie, in which Springsteen …