Since his fans can’t travel to Saturn, Rauw Alejandro is bringing the extra-terrestrial world of Saturno to Earth. On Tuesday, the Puerto Rican pop star announced a massive world tour on his Instagram — and Rolling Stone has the exclusive tour dates. Alejandro teased the tour with an alien-inspired video …
Read More »Kanye West to Proud Boys Founder: 'Jews Should Work for Christians'
Less than a week after Kanye West praised Adolf Hitler in an interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, West – flanked by white supremacist Nick Fuentes – sat down with Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes to demand that Jewish people “forgive Hitler.” The 45 minute episode titled “Saving Ye” on …
Read More »Billy Burnette on His Brief, 'Magical' Stint in Fleetwood Mac: 'No Regrets'
Rolling Stone‘s interview series King for a Day features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and singers who had the difficult job of fronting major rock bands after the departure of an iconic vocalist. Some of them stayed in their bands for years, while others lasted just a few …
Read More »Herschel Walker's Campaign Greatest Hits: Werewolves, Secret Kids, and Compulsive Lying
Herschel Walker’s campaign for Senate in Georgia comes to an end on Tuesday. It’s as of yet unclear whether the former football star will unseat incumbent Democrat Raphel Warnock, but his bid for Congress has been one of — if not the —most chaotic and generally incoherent the nation has …
Read More »Bob McGrath, Longtime 'Sesame Street' Star, Dead at 90
Bob McGrath, one of Sesame Street’s first human characters appearing as Bob Johnson in its pilot in 1969, died on Sunday at age 90, his family confirmed on social media. “Hello Facebook friends, the McGrath family has some sad news to share. Our father Bob McGrath, passed away today. He …
Read More »Rare John Lennon-Yoko Ono Issue of Rolling Stone Headed to Auction for Charity
On December 8, 1980 — just hours before he was murdered by a deranged fan near the entranceway to his New York apartment building — John Lennon welcomed photographer Annie Leibowitz into the home so she could take his photo for the cover of Rolling Stone. “The session took place …
Read More »A Spooky Dance, a Collective Memory, and a Weird Little Puppet: Inside TikTok's Newest Obsession
The human brain is thought to start forming memories around the age of two and a half. Anything that happened before? We’ll have to take someone else’s word for it. Such is the premise for what surely ranks among the strangest TikTok trends of 2022: people trying to convince each …
Read More »Even Borat Thinks Kanye West's Antisemitism Is Getting Out of Hand
Sacha Baron Cohen unexpectedly popped up at the Kennedy Center Honors as Borat to joke about Kanye West’s antisemitism and confuse Joe Biden for Donald Trump. Baron Cohen/Borat was technically on-hand to help celebrate U2, who are one of this year’s Kennedy Center honorees. While he did eventually do that, …
Read More »New Jersey's Torso Killer Pleads Guilty to Brutal 1968 Rape and Murder
Ailing serial killer Richard Cottingham — a.k.a. the Torso Killer — pleaded guilty to the 1968 murder of Long Island mother Diane Cusick Monday in front of a Nassau County, New York judge, as well as four other Nassau County murders (per Newsday). He was charged with 25 years to …
Read More »How Caroline Polachek's New Album Became a Globe-Trotting, Rave-Going 'Whirlwind'
STANDING IN THE kitchen at a house party in Rome not long ago, Caroline Polachek heard a song that struck her deeply. “Ti Sento” (“I Hear You”), the 1985 single by Italian pop group Matia Bazar, is peak Eighties Europop kitsch: sparkling synth-pop paired with big, operatic vocals. Polachek thinks …
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