A new Taylor Swift era is upon us. The pop star is readying her seventh album with the release of single “ME!” featuring Panic! At the Disco‘s Brendon Urie. Dave Meyers (“Sicko Mode,” “God Is a Woman”) directed while Joel Little (Lorde) co-wrote and produced the track. The song is …
Read More »Joe Biden Officially Enters the 2020 Race
WASHINGTON — After months of hinting and deliberation, after endless will-he-or-won’t-he stories, and after a potential campaign announcement in Charlottesville, Virginia, was leaked to the media and then scrapped, Joe Biden has made it official: He’s running for president. The former vice president and Democratic senator from Delaware announced his …
Read More »Grateful Dead's Early Days Chronicled in New Graphic Novel
The Grateful Dead have teamed with Z2 Comics to create a biographical graphic novel that will hit shelves in early 2020 and come with an exclusive record featuring previously unreleased music. Grateful Dead Origins will focus on the band’s early days and, per a statement, their “transformation from a bar …
Read More »The Great Lost John Malkovich Interview
Nine years ago, Rolling Stone sent me deep into the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur region of France, to interview John Malkovich at the home he kept there.He had two new movies coming out: RED, starring him as an LSD-addled ex-CIA agent, and Secretariat, him as a crusty, goofy-clothes-wearing horse trainer. They displayed …
Read More »Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival Returns With Gary Clark, Jr., Bonnie Raitt
Eric Clapton and his Crossroads Guitar Festival will return for the first time in six years, setting up in Dallas, Texas this September with a lineup that boasts Gary Clark, Jr., Bonnie Raitt, Jeff Beck, Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill and more. The festival will take place September 20th and 21st …
Read More »Jenny Lewis: 10 Great Moments from Her Stellar Career
Jenny Lewis’ stellar songwriting chops were visible back in 2001 on Takeoffs and Landings, the first LP by Rilo Kiley, the band she co-fronted with Blake Sennett. They’ve only grown stronger since — and as her take on the Traveling Wilburys’ “Handle With Care” proved, she’s got a way with …
Read More »Fred Armisen: My 5 Favorite Drum Songs
Fred Armisen is best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and shows like Documentary Now!, Portlandia and Forever, but music is his first love. He’s been drumming since his teenage years and even though he’s usually balancing three or four comedy projects at once, he always makes time …
Read More »How Republicans Tried to Sabotage the Michael Cohen Testimony
Michael Cohen‘s testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday started with a bang. The opening statement delivered by President Trump’s former attorney and fixer was strewn with bombshell revelations, including claims that Trump knew about WikiLeaks plan to release Democratic National Committee emails hacked by Russia; that he was …
Read More »Terrorism, Torture and 3,600 Lives Lost: Revisiting 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland
One evening in late 1972, a young mother of 10 named Jean McConville was taken from her home in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, by four men and four women in masks. McConville’s children would never see or hear from her again. She had been disappeared and likely killed, …
Read More »'Taxing the Rich' Is Not Going Away Anytime Soon
Bernie Sanders, a likely 2020 contender, has unveiled a plan to tax the estates of multi-millionaires and billionaires at a rate as high as 77 percent. And despite decades of GOP efforts to scare the public about the so-called “death tax,” Sanders’ proposal is a hit with voters. Half of …
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