Of all the acute kinds of heartbreak Adele channels in her sprawling catalog of ballads — from the nostalgia and regret of “Hello” to the burn-it-all-down fury of “Set Fire to the Rain” — “Love in the Dark” is among the most unrelentingly somber. Released on Adele’s third studio album, …
Read More »Drake Holds Artists 500 Crown as Lil Nas X Cracks Top Five
Drake cruised to a record-extending 34th week at the top of the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart, picking up 31.9 million song streams for the week of September 17th through the 23rd. Drake’s total was down from the 396.1 million song streams he accumulated last week, though three weeks after …
Read More »Kyrie Irving Declines to Say Whether He Will Play Nets Home Games as Vaccine Questions Swirl
Kyrie Irving declined to answer a question on Monday about whether he will play in Brooklyn Nets home games this year given New York City’s requirement for professional athletes to be vaccinated to play indoors. “I would like to keep all that private,” he said. “Please just respect my privacy.” …
Read More »'Controlling Britney Spears': 10 Things We Learned From New Doc
In the depths of her court-ordered conservatorship, while Britney Spears was performing hundreds of shows for her Vegas residency and raking in millions, the pop star was under a strict budget and intense, 24-hour surveillance that monitored her every move — including a wiretap in her bedroom. Those are some …
Read More »Guns N' Roses Give 'Hard Skool' Lessons in New Song
Guns N’ Roses have dropped another new song from their Chinese Democracy-era sessions called “Hard Skool.” It follows their performance and subsequent official release of “Absurd,” a reworking of their previously unreleased “Silkworms.” In the driving song, frontman Axl Rose doles out tough relationship lessons, where being stubborn and ungiving …
Read More »Bruce Springsteen on Why He's Finally Releasing His Full 1979 'No Nukes' Shows
During the early days of the E Street Band, Bruce Springsteen resisted nearly every opportunity to capture the magic of their live show on film. “I had some voodoo thing about that,” he tells Rolling Stone a few hours before taking the stage for one of his final Broadway shows. …
Read More »First Paul Holes Helped the Catch Notorious Golden State Killer, Now He's Writing a Memoir
Paul Holes, the detective known for aiding cold case investigations — including the one that led to the arrest of the Golden State Killer — will publish a memoir, Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases, on April 26th, 2022 via Celadon Books. The book will find Holes offering an …
Read More »Sarah Dash — Labelle Founding Member and Keith Richards Collaborator — Dead at 76
Sarah Dash — one-third of the powerhouse R&B trio Labelle and also a contributor to Keith Richards’ solo work — died on September 20th at age 76. According to her cousin and business manager John Dash III, Dash was found dead at her home in Trenton, New Jersey. No cause …
Read More »Enrique Iglesias Is on His 'Final' Album, But He's Not Done With Music
One of the things that sticks out most about Enrique Iglesias‘ career is its longevity: The Spanish artist, who kicked off his career in the mid-Nineties, has been cranking out hits for more than 25 years, gliding through the decades and keeping pace in the industry through different sounds: the …
Read More »'Cry Macho': A Clint Eastwood Movie That Shoots Right to the Heart
The strangeness of Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho cannot be boiled down to any one thing — there’s a lot going on — but its origins as a movie, one starring and directed by this particular Hollywood figure, no less, are surprisingly scattered. In so many ways, the movie plays like …
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