IT’S THE BROKEN RECORD that continues to play despite repeated forewarnings: An influential white man says something racist and sexist, instant public backlash ensues, and swift consequence occurs. As a Black queer millennial journalist, Jann Wenner’s offensive remarks to The New York Times weren’t shocking to me at all. His …
Read More »Jimmy Fallon's Lack of Public Apology Upsets Former 'Tonight Show' Staffers
In his first show back following the writers’ strike on Monday, Jimmy Fallon didn’t address allegations about The Tonight Show’s workplace environment published in a Rolling Stone investigation from September. Fallon privately apologized to current staffers in a Zoom meeting on the same day the investigation was published, but former …
Read More »Jimmy Fallon Doesn't Address Workplace Allegations in 'Tonight Show' Return
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon returned to television on Monday night for the first time since the writers went on strike in May. While the talk-show host privately addressed his staffers in a Zoom call on Sept. 7 and apologized after an in-depth Rolling Stone investigation into the show’s …
Read More »'San Francisco Sounds' Reveals the Discovery of Janis Joplin
The San Francisco music scene was bursting with magic during the Sixties and Seventies, from the rise of radio DJs and eye-catching poster artists to Rolling Stone magazine and a number of iconic acts who emerged from it, including the Grateful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Steve Miller, Santana, …
Read More »'The Other Two' Stars Talk Roasting Hollywood (and Rolling Stone!) in Season 3
Drew Tarver and Heléne Yorke — the titular stars in the HBO Max comedy The Other Two — are joking about the time they first met one another. “We did a screen test together and, Heléne…, “ Tarver begins, “Remember you touched my face? Was that what it was? It …
Read More »How boygenius Replicated Rolling Stone's 1994 Nirvana Cover
In January 1994, Nirvana graced the cover of Rolling Stone in matching pinstripe suits. 28 years later, boygenius — Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus — are bringing it to a new generation. The new cover features the indie supergroup posing as each member: Baker is drummer Dave Grohl, …
Read More »The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time: How the List Was Made
As the Rolling Stone staff stared down the task of culling decades worth of television to a list of the 100 best shows of all time, we knew we needed help — lots of it. So, we hit up Hollywood. In addition to polling our most pop culture-obsessed staffers, we …
Read More »John, Yoko, and Me
J ANN WENNER FOUNDED Rolling Stone in the fall of 1967, when he was a 21-year-old UC Berkeley dropout working out of a tiny San Francisco loft. One of his main goals was to pull the curtain back on the most fascinating cultural and political figures of our time and …
Read More »Welcome to the New Rolling Stone
It’s time for something new. We’ve been remaking Rolling Stone to be faster, harder-hitting, and more vital. Now we’ve got a site to match that mission – highlighting the kind of world-class journalism, iconic imagery, and must-see videos that you’d expect from the bible of pop culture. Here’s a sample …
Read More »John Burks, Rolling Stone's First Managing Editor, Dead at 83
John Burks, Rolling Stone’s first managing editor who helped guide the rock magazine’s coverage of political issues, died earlier this month at the age of 83. Burks’ wife Deborah Nagle-Burks confirmed her husband’s death to the San Francisco Chronicle, adding that he died at their Pacifica home on February 17th …
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