The 1975, Florence + The Machine, Jorja Smith and Dua Lipa each received multiple nominations for the 2019 Brit Awards, which honors music both released in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Ariana Grande, Drake, Eminem, Cardi B and Travis Scott were among the North American acts to receive nods ahead …
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For the past two decades, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason was forced to watch from the sidelines while Roger Waters and David Gilmour launched their own wildly-successful solo tours with sets packed full of Floyd classics.Last year, he decided to finally put together his own touring unit called Nick Mason’s …
Read More »Tekashi 6ix9ine Faces 32 Years to Life in Prison on Racketeering, Firearm Charges
Update (11/26/2018): On Monday, rapperDaniel “Tekashi 6ix9ine” Hernandez pleaded not guilty in a New York court for racketeering and firearm charges, his attorney Lance Lazzaro confirmed to Rolling Stone. Hernandez will remain in custody until his trial, now set for September 4, 2019. Lazzaro did not make a new request …
Read More »'Searching for Ingmar Bergman' Review: One Filmmaker Pays Tribute to Another
Margarethe von Trotta remembers the first time she saw it. It was the early Sixties, and this young German woman — still several years from establishing herself as an actor, and a little over a decade away before The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) would induct her into the …
Read More »Rapper Young Greatness Killed in New Orleans
New Orleans rapper and Cash Money signee Young Greatness, real name Theodore Jones, was fatally shot early Monday morning outside of a Waffle House, according to local reports. He was 34. Young Greatness was best known for his 2015 hit “Moolah,” which was released by Atlanta’s Quality Control Records, current …
Read More »15 Albums to Stream Now: Robyn, Thom Yorke and More Rolling Stone Editors' Picks
EDITORS’ PICK: Robyn, Honey Following a rough patch in her personal life with her first album in eight years, Robyn relaxes the tempos and relentless hook-slinging to let healing, rapturous dancefloor grooves take over. Her beats are more seductive and experimental, the reverence for classic disco and house more explicit, …
Read More »'Deutschland 86' Review: German Thriller Is Locked and Re-loaded
Deutschland 83 debuted on Sundance in 2015, right in the middle of the run of The Americans, a couple of months after the end of that show’s third season. The story of an East German soldier recruited to go undercover in the West German military, it functioned as a tense …
Read More »Spilling the Tea: For Dames Maggie, Judi, Eileen and Joan, No Subject Is Off Limits
Here in the States, the populace worships the Kardashians. In the U.K., there’s nothing like a Dame. In a sane world, there’s no contest. So do have tea with the Dames: Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins and Joan Plowright. Director Roger Michell (Notting Hill) has had the good sense …
Read More »The Ghosts of 'Memogate' Are Haunting Brett Kavanaugh
WASHINGTON — On the third day of Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings, perhaps the most intriguing plot line that emerged had nothing to do with Kavanaugh’s views on abortion, gun rights or presidential power. His answers on those subjects have been frustratingly vague, keeping with the tradition of past …
Read More »David Crosby Announces New Collaborative LP 'Here If You Listen'
The surviving members of the Byrds may betouring without him and Crosby, Stills and Nash may be irrevocably split, but David Crosby hasn’t let either situation dull his creative output. On October 26th, he’ll release his new album Here If You Listen,his fourth solo album in five years. (By comparison, …
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