B ridget Everett still has restaurant stress dreams. Never mind that she is a writer, star, executive producer, and the driving force behind Somebody Somewhere, the critically acclaimed, cult-favorite HBO show about a directionless woman who moves back to her hometown in middle age (Season Two premieres April 23). When …
Read More »Original 'Tetris' Creators Reveal the Game's Wild Espionage Origin Story
Believe it or not, game development is not what most people would consider to be sexy. But anyone familiar with the story of Tetris knows there can be exceptions to the rule. Originally depicted in the 2004 BBC documentary Tetris: From Russia with Love, and now dramatized in the Apple …
Read More »Ellie Goulding Spills Secrets Behind Her New Album, Motherhood, and Her Best Unreleased Songs
Ellie Goulding doesn’t mind not knowing exactly who she is yet. She’s still learning, and she’s okay with that. “I think I will never know, and I think that’s just how I am,” she says with a shrug, sipping on champagne in front of a crowd of fans at aGrammy …
Read More »Two Decades Later, 50 Cent Still Wants That 'In Da Club' Feeling
This week marks 20 years of Get Rich or Die Tryin’, 50 Cent’s star-making opus that rode a bevy of hits, an Eminem co-sign, and Dr. Dre’s talismanic touch to sell 12 million records worldwide in 2003. 50’s mesh of New York bravado and melody catapulted him to instant superstardom, …
Read More »Mexican-American Band Fuerza Régida Is Making Music 'For the People'
Fuerza Régida’s corridos have become so popular that the California band never knows who might call them up next looking to collaborate. A few weeks ago, it was Marshmello. Today, it’s Myke Towers. Fuerza Régida’s lead singer Jesús Ortiz Paz had mentioned the Puerto Rican rapper just moments earlier when …
Read More »María Becerra Wants You to Meet 'La Nena de Argentina'
Over the last few years, María Becerra’s easy-going personality and versatile style of singing has made her a go-to collaborator in the Latin industry. She’s known for standout guest verses on songs with the likes of J Balvin, Camila Cabello, Natti Natasha, among others. But on her latest project, Becerra …
Read More »Reneé Rapp Is Putting Out Her Debut EP — And She Wants You to 'Be F-king Wrecked' by It
Reneé Rapp is stressed. Her debut EP, Everything to Everyone, is out today, and she’s been worried “no one’s going to fuck with it.” “I had a nightmare that I was playing the Hollywood Bowl and when I came onstage, everyone left,” she tells Rolling Stone a few days before …
Read More »'We Definitely Suck Our Own Dicks': Kevin Smith on the Meta Madness of 'Clerks III'
By his own calculation, writer-director-actor-Comic-Con personality Kevin Smith is not particularly imaginative. “I’m not very creative by any stretch,” the 52-year-old Smith tells Rolling Stone from his home in California, bobble heads bearing his characters’ names stacked in rows behind him. “I just take shit that happened to me and …
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