The midterm elections are on the horizon, the war in Ukraine shows little sign of cooling down, we’re in approximately the billionth straight month of Covid, and Nichelle Nichols just died. So it’s little surprise that Americans are in serious need of therapy: four in 10 U.S. adults recently reported …
Read More »Did Hip-Hop Vets the Pharcyde Reunite? Depends Which Member You Ask
Nearly three decades have passed since Fatlip exited the Pharcyde, one of the cleverest, funniest hip-hop groups to emerge in the early Nineties. Since then, he has put out a solo album, The Loneliest Punk, scored an underground hit with “What’s Up, Fatlip?” and even buried the hatchet with some …
Read More »Georgia's Gun Laws Are Forcing Atlanta's Midtown Music Festival to Cancel This Year
Georgia gun laws are to blame for the cancellation of the 2022 Music Midtown festival in Atlanta, Georgia. On Monday, Live Nation announced that the festival was canceled, stating only, “[D]ue to circumstances beyond our control, Music Midtown will no longer be taking place this year. We are looking forward …
Read More »Amazon's Fire Tablets are Perfect for Reading or Streaming Video — and They Start at $60
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Amazon’s Fire Tablet line has grown a lot since it originally launched in 2011, and become one of the few iPad competitors we recommend. The tablets’ greatest strength …
Read More »Guy Fieri Can't Stop Rocking Out at Rage Against the Machine Shows
When he isn’t getting deep in his flavorful feels to Phoebe Bridgers songs, Guy Fieri, it turns out, loves himself some Rage Against the Machine. The celebrity restauranteur, TV host, and one-and-only “Mayor of Flavortown” has been to at least three shows in a row on Rage’s long-awaited reunion tour. …
Read More »Exclusive: 83-Year-Old Paroled for Starved Rock Murders Claims New DNA Results Prove His Innocence
A hair found on the glove of a woman brutally beaten to death in 1960 Illinois does not match that of the man convicted of her murder. Chester Weger, who was paroled in 2020 after serving nearly 60 years in prison for killing Frances Murphy, 47, along with her two …
Read More »Travis Scott Announces 'Road to Utopia' Las Vegas Nightclub Residency
After having just secured his first individual ticketed concert since last November’s deadlyAstroworld tragedy, Travis Scott‘s performance calendar is continuing to fill up. On Monday, the rapper announced that he’s set to be a “resident artist” at Resort World Las Vegas‘ Zouk Nightclub starting in September. His first two headlining …
Read More »Ace of Cups Deserved Much Better
T hey didn’t boo, they didn’t walk out, and they certainly didn’t applaud. The strangest thing — and maybe the most telling sign of things to come — is that they just stared, as if aliens had landed at a high school in Northern California. The members of Ace of …
Read More »Nichelle Nichols, Trailblazing 'Star Trek' Actress, Dead at 89
Nichelle Nichols, the actress who played the groundbreaking role of Nyota Uhura on the original Star Trek series, has died at the age of 89. Nichols’ son Kyle Johnson announced his mother’s death Sunday on her official website, writing that she died Saturday night from natural causes. “I regret to …
Read More »Beyoncé Hits a Seductive Sweet Spot on 'Renaissance'
Beyoncé is the dark-mode version of the pop megastar — an upgrade that has now become the norm. The Houston luminary is sleeker, cooler, and Blacker, making everything about the way we viewed things a hot-minute ago seem bland, primitive, and flat-out draining. Indeed, the 28-time Grammy winner may be …
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