The morning after Donald Trump’s shock victory in the 2016 presidential election, Elisabeth Moss woke up and headed to Toronto’s Cinespace Film Studios. She was shooting the first season of The Handmaid’s Tale, Hulu’s adaptation of the dystopian Margaret Atwood novel about a group of Christian fundamentalists who, amid an …
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J. Cole has released a new documentary, Applying Pressure, which offers some insight into his upcoming album, The Off-Season. The clip opens with Cole chatting with 21 Savage, explaining that his new album was borne out of the same impulses that spurred his early mixtapes like 2009’s The Warm Up …
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers are selling their publishing rights to Merck Mercuriadis’s Hipgnosis Songs Fund for around $140 million, a source close to the situation tellsRolling Stone. The transaction marksthe latest catalog sale from a major legacy artist and one of the highest profile acquisitions to date for Mercuriadis. …
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Maroon 5 have announced that they’ll be releasing their latest studio album, Jordi, on June 11th via 222/Interscope. The album is named after the band’s late manager Jordan Feldstein, who died in 2017 from a heart attack. Maroon 5 has made several tributes to Feldstein in subsequent years, including the …
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It took twelve years of grueling touring and four album releases for me and my band, Young the Giant, to headline the legendary Forum in Los Angeles in 2019. The storied venue that had once housed every act under the sun — from Marvin Gaye to Bob Dylan — was …
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Lord, that was ugly. The most flamboyantly unplanned and half-assed Oscar Night in recent history was a grind from beginning to end, with the premise, “Just wait till the finale — you’ll see people clap and weep for Chadwick Boseman.” But that was simply one of the many plans that …
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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 …
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Morrissey’s manager called The Simpsons’ mockery of the former Smiths frontman “insulting” in an interview with Rolling Stone. On Sunday, The Simpsons aired an episode called “Panic On the Streets of Springfield,” in which Lisa becomes enamored with a brooding, militant vegan British musician named Quilloughby (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch), …
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A 15-minute interview with Pete Townshend is a near-impossibility. Not only is he one of the most eloquent and thoughtful figures in rock history, but he’s also one of the most loquacious. And even though we said that we’d limit this conversation — tied to the new deluxe edition of …
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Fifty years after Jimmy Buffett took the stage for Nashville club Exit/In’s debut performance, the celebrated live music venue is in danger of closing for good. Last week, the building that houses Exit/In — the centerpiece of Nashville’s “Rock Block” and a proving ground for artists from Buffett and Waylon …
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