Dear Zoë Kravitz and Robert Pattinson, We are the co-hosts of Don’t Let This Flop, a podcast about internet culture sponsored by Rolling Stone.It is, for the most part, a silly little show where we talk about things like Hilary Duff’s dancing and men who eat sandwiches shirtless and whether …
Read More »Jack White Convinced the Prince Estate to Let Him Drop the Mythical, Unreleased 'Camille'
Jack White’s Third Man Records is reportedly planning to release Prince’s unreleased 1986 album, Camille. The label’s co-founder Ben Blackwell broke the news in a recent interview with Mojo (via the fansite, Ultimate Prince, and social media screen grabs). While no release date or details were given, Blackwell confirmed the …
Read More »Bernard Fowler on His Years With the Rolling Stones, Herbie Hancock, and Michael Hutchence
Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …
Read More »After Two Years of Shopping at Target and Building Benches, Jack White Is Back With Two Bonkers Albums
The musical Willy Wonka has mellowed out — 2022 Jack White giggles; 2022 Jack White hasn’t had sugar in two years; 2022 Jack White was transformed by the past two years. “There’s been a complete rebirth on all levels of my life throughout the pandemic,” he says. “I made a …
Read More »These 10 Roles Remind You Why William Hurt Was a Once-in-a-Lifetime Actor
He could play it cool or white-hot, philosophically curious or passionate to a fault — a movie star with leading-man good lucks and a character actor’s way of digging into the idiosyncrasies of a role no matter what size it was. William Hurt, who died today at the age of …
Read More »Jussie Smollett Wanted to Be a Hero. Instead, He Destroyed His Career
“Above all, I fought the fuck back.” It was Feb. 2, 2019, and Jussie Smollett, the most talked-about celebrity of the moment, was performing at a sold-out show at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. Days earlier, the young, Black, queer star of Empire had told police he’d been assaulted on …
Read More »'The Adam Project': Ryan Reynolds Time-Travels Back to a 1980s Blockbuster. It's Not as Cool as It Sounds
What would you say if you could go back in time and talk to your 12-year-old self? Something like, “Look, kid, you do not grow up to be rich, famous or a rock star — but you do have a family and a very fulfilling life, it does get better, …
Read More »Zelensky Thirst Is Making Liberals Look Like Absolute Clowns
Every few years, during times of great political and sociocultural turmoil, liberals seek respite by sexually objectifying the first halfway decent-looking man they see. It happened with Michael Avenatti in 2016, then Robert Mueller the following year, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo during the 2020 pandemic. Sometimes, this sentiment results in …
Read More »Flashback: Pearl Jam Wrap Up 2016 Arena Tour With an Epic 'Yellow Ledbetter'
Pearl Jam fans are a fiercely loyal bunch, but a quick glance at Twitter, Facebook, and their fan forums shows that many of them are getting a little impatient when it comes to the band’s North American tour plans. The group was originally supposed to hit U.S. arenas in March …
Read More »'Life & Beth': Amy Schumer Goes Home Again
For a few years in the mid-2010s, Amy Schumer was as prominent and acclaimed a comic voice as there was to be found anywhere in American pop culture. Her Comedy Central show Inside Amy Schumer wickedly parodied the television of the day. (Josh Charles came in for note-perfect spoofs of …
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