No one could have predicted what it was like sitting in the middle of the Jonas Brothers’ second sold out night at Yankee Stadium. The trio of Nick, Joe and Kevin rose to stardom in the Aughts as Disney’s handsome, Christian answer to Hanson, but not even Disney could prepare …
Read More »'1989' Streams Doubled After Taylor Swift Announced 'Taylor's Version'
Hype for for 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is already bringing Swifties back to the original album. Streams on 1989 doubled the day after Swift announced 1989 (Taylor’s Version) during her final show in Los Angeles for the Eras tour last Wednesday, Aug. 9, according to Luminate. In the week leading up …
Read More »Magoo, Rapper Who Made Indelible Party Hits With Timbaland, Dead at 50
Magoo, the Virginia rapper best known for his work in the late-Nineties and early-2000s with longtime friend/super-producer Timbaland, has died. He was 50. The Office for the Chief Medical Examiner for Virginia’s Tidewater District confirmed his death to Rolling Stone, though noted a cause of death was still pending. His …
Read More »Caroline Polachek Gives Lorde the 'Green Light' During Surprise Festival Appearance
Lorde‘s Melodrama single “Green Light” is made to be screamed — particularly alongside tens of thousands of people who will come get their things, but can’t let go. The singer ramped up her performance of the track at this year’s Sziget Festival in Budapest, Hungary with a special guest appearance …
Read More »A Little-Known Trump Ally Is in Major Trouble for Plotting Coup
Ken Chesebro’s name hasn’t been in as many headlines as some of Donald Trump’s other coup-plotting allies, but it may soon be listed next to several of them on a criminal indictment. The Justice Department indicted Donald Trump last month for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, listing …
Read More »Netflix's 'Depp v. Heard' Casts the Trial of the Decade in a New Light
On August 16th, Netflix will debut Depp v. Heard, a three-part docuseries about the infamous Virginia defamation trial between actor-exes Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Though the seven-week trial wrapped on June 1, 2022, with the court finding Heard liable on three counts of defamation (awarding Depp $10.35 million in …
Read More »HBO's 'Telemarketers' Exposes a Billion-Dollar Scam the Cops Are in On
Sam Lipman-Stern was 14, he’d just dropped out of ninth grade, and he needed a job stat. There wasn’t a host of options for an underage kid in New Jersey in terms of gainful employment, and his main interests at the time — skating, graffiti, filming his friends on his …
Read More »Foo Fighters Take 'Joke Too Far,' Bring Out Michael Bublé to Perform at Outside Lands
Foo Fighters’ tour-long gag of playing Michael Bublé’s “Haven’t Met You Yet” culminated Saturday with the Canadian singer joining the band onstage to perform the 2009 single at San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival. Since the onset of Dave Grohl and company’s tour in support of But Here We Are, the …
Read More »Grandmaster Flash on Rap's Earliest Days and Why We Need to Remember the DJs
HIP-HOP WAS BORNINTHEBRONXINthe summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary,“Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists throughout this year. It’s the eve of hip-hop’s birthday, and Grandmaster Flash’s phone has been blowing up lately. As one of rap’s founding fathers, his …
Read More »Robbie Robertson Tells All: Dylan, the Band, Shattered Friendship With Levon Helm
In June of 2020, with a pandemic raging, Robbie Robertson took some time to look back at his career with the Band, from writing their greatest hits to their work with Bob Dylan. The release of his documentary Once Were Brothers had him a reflective mood, ready to share new …
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