In theory, Slow Horses should not work as an ongoing series, whether in the books by Mick Herron or the Apple TV+ show that returns for its third season today. The stories involve a group of disgraced British spies, consigned to a dingy office where they’re not meant to do …
Read More »The 1975's Matty Healy Apologizes for Offending Ice Spice, But Not for Those Same Offensive Jokes
In late January, Ice Spice told Elle that while many people wouldn’t expect her to love alternative music, a genre distinctly differernt from her pop-informed drill sound, she’s “obsessed” with the 1975. This revelation only made frontman Matty Healy’s appearance on The Adam Freidland Show a week later even more …
Read More »Trump Is Already Running in the 2024 'Fox News Primary' — and He's Scared He's Losing
As Donald Trump weighs his White House chances for 2024, there’s one race where, at least in his own mind, he’s already running: the “Fox News primary.” In recent months, according to two people familiar with the matter, the twice-impeached ex-president has routinely obsessed over Fox’s coverage of him versus …
Read More »Farm Aid to Feature Willie Nelson, Margo Price, Sheryl Crow — But Not Neil Young
Farm Aid is returning to Raleigh, North Carolina’s Coastal Credit Union Mark Park at Walnut Creek on September 24 with a line-up that includes Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Dave Mathews with Tim Reynolds, Margo Price, Chris Stapleton, Sheryl Crow, Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats, and Lukas Nelson & Promise …
Read More »Watch Paul Simon Surprise Newport Folk Festival During Tribute Set
Paul Simon made a rare public performance Saturday at the Newport Folk Festival, showing up unannounced at the end of a tribute set to his music led by Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats. Simon announced his retirement from touring in 2018, and since then has only sporadically performed in …
Read More »She Sang 'Gimme Shelter' With the Rolling Stones. Then 'Tina' Producers Fired Her for It
When Chanel Haynes showed up at Milan’s San Siro Stadium to sing “Gimme Shelter” with the Rolling Stones on June 21, she had a lot on her mind: She had spent the past few months in London portraying Tina Turner in the West End production of Tina, and there was …
Read More »Guns, Bullets, and Weed: Ezra Miller Housing Three Young Children and Their Mother at Vermont Farm
Ezra Miller has been hosting a 25-year-old mother and her three young children at their Vermont farm, a living arrangement that worries the children’s father, as well as two others with knowledge of the situation, Rolling Stone has learned. Two sources with knowledge of the situation expressed concern to Rolling …
Read More »Bassist Doug Wimbish on Nearly Joining the Stones and Madonna's Insane 'Erotica' Party
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 »A State Official Killed a Man With His Car. The Story Somehow Got Darker From There
Jason Ravnsborg just won’t quit. In the 647 days since he fatally struck a man with his car, Ravnsborg, South Dakota’s attorney general, has faced near-endless calls to go away –– from county sheriffs and police groups, Republicans and Democrats, in letters to the editor and on billboards. A poll …
Read More »'Pistol': Never Mind the Boyle Tricks, Here's the Tame Version of a Sex Pistols' Biopic
Early in Pistol, the FX-produced six-part miniseries about the thrilling rise and ugly fall of seminal English punk act the Sex Pistols, the band and their friends gather in their makeshift rehearsal space for a raucous party. Grandiose manager Malcolm McLaren (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) proclaims to guitar player Steve Jones (Toby …
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