A concertgoer who claims they were struck by Cardi B‘s microphone at the rapper’s Las Vegas show on Saturday has filed a police report, Rolling Stone has confirmed. “On July 30, 2023, an individual came into an LVMPD police station to report a battery,” the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department …
Read More »The World Destroyed Sinead O'Connor
The late Sinead O’Connor was a major influence on generations of performers — Garbage‘s Shirley Manson among them. In her interview from the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Manson talked in depth about O’Connor. Here are her thoughts in her own words. To hear the whole podcast, go …
Read More »Pee-wee Herman Was the Greatest Pop-Culture Manchild Ever
It was the laugh that got you first: A staccato giggle combined with what sounded like a T. rex’s roar. If you watch The Pee-wee Herman Show, the HBO special taken from Paul Reubens’ 1981 stage show that — along with a handful of appearances on Late Night with David …
Read More »Whatever Heart 'Euphoria' Had, It Lay in Angus Cloud
A lot of people loved Angus Cloud, the star of Euphoria who abruptly died today at the age of 25, for his voice — that syrupy laconic drawl that sounded like a podcast at .5x speed. But I loved him for his eyes, these wet Easter-egg blue pools of emotion …
Read More »DeSantis' Donors Want More Than a Reboot. They Want Him to 'Clean House'
During a “reboot” that Ron DeSantis’ allies had hoped would prove his terminally online campaign could change its ways, the governor has pivoted to more of the same —and key allies and donors are threatening to jump ship. Various big DeSantis donors have been furious that the campaign seemed to …
Read More »Why Sinéad O'Connor Was 'One of the Most Incredible Women of Modern Times'
The late Sinéad O’Connor was “one of the most incredible women of modern times,” Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson says in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, praising her as a “monster musician” who was a major influence on her own work —and on the entire Nineties. “Up until …
Read More »Zooey Deschanel Is Tired of Being Likable
Zooey Deschanel doesn’t need you to like her. Sure, the California native has spent almost two decades bringing her signature deadpan comedy and effortless emotion to screens big and small. She went from a few television appearances to a part in the rock film Almost Famous, and followed it up …
Read More »David Bowie 'Co-Wrote' a New Country Song. Wait, What?
When country singer Chris Young heard a demo of a new song in consideration for his next album, he didn’t need a rock encyclopedia to identify a key part of it. “This song started and I said, ‘That’s the lick from ‘Rebel Rebel,’” Young recalls. “I immediately knew what it …
Read More »Paul Reubens, Actor Who Portrayed Pee-wee Herman, Dead at 70
Paul Reubens, the actor who portrayed beloved character Pee-wee Herman that amused kids and adults of multiple generations, died on Sunday night at the age of 70. The cause of death was an unspecified cancer. “Last night, we said farewell to Paul Reubens, an iconic American actor, comedian, writer, and …
Read More »Travis Scott's 'Utopia' Is an Empty Paradise
After his 2018 album Astroworld, Travis Scott reached a commercial steeple that allowed him to sell candles and McDonalds meals and Forgiatto rims and anything else he wanted to pick up and wail, “It’s lit!” with. He carried that eye for consumerism into his Utopia rollout to middling effect. Even …
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