Everyone has been waiting for Weird Al Yankovic to give his musical take on the coronavirus and the singer recently appeared on The Tonight Show to perform “One More Minute” as an anthem about social distancing. Appearing via video chat with host Jimmy Fallon, Yankovic revisited his 1985 song, which …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. There comes a point in every trip — whether you’re lugging your bag through an airport terminal or facing the last stretch of a wooded trail — when …
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Roger Waters has postponed the North American leg of his upcoming This Is Not a Drill Tour due to the coronavirus pandemic. The trek, which was scheduled to embark July 8th and timed to conclude a month before Election Day, will instead launch in 2021. “The bad news is: I’ve …
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The bar where I work shuttered mid-shift on Friday the 13th, abruptly furloughing all of its staff around 6 p.m. I got the news from a friend working the shift, and then got the email clarifying that we were furloughed immediately so that we could apply for unemployment. I realized …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The history of drumheads stretches far and wide – much like a drumhead itself. Drumheads date back to at least 6000 B.C., when stretched animal hide was used …
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When PJ Vogt was first diagnosed with OCD late last year, he never would have guessed that what seemed like disorder would help him create the most popular podcast episode of his career. He also couldn’t have predicted that said podcast would drop at a time of intense anxiety, thereby …
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Soccer Mommy was originally scheduled to perform a Tiny Desk concert for NPR this month with video of the performance to be released on March 30th. But with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, social distancing is a must, and NPR has decided to take a break from filming Tiny Desk shows …
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Bluegrass musician Eric Weissberg, whose cover of the Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith instrumental “Dueling Banjos” became an unlikely pop hit when it appeared on the soundtrack to the 1972 film Deliverance, died Sunday at the age of 80 after a five-year struggle with dementia. His son, Will Weissberg, confirmed the …
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Hours after the Killers unveiled the video for their new single “Caution,” the band’s Brandon Flowers and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. performed the song in a bathroom as part of Jimmy Kimmel’s daily Quarantine Minilogue Friday. Prior to the performance from the “sterile location,” Kimmel, a fellow Las Vegas native, asked …
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There are three immediate standouts on J Balvin’s new album Colores: “Azul,” with its relentlessly hummable hook written in part by the formidable Justin Quiles, “Gris,” which weaves pinprick guitar lines around a gnawing beat, and “Arcoíris,” which transforms Buena Vista Social Club’s classic “Chan Chan” into a modern dancefloor …
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