Hours after his former confidantsMichael Cohen and Paul Manafort were cut down by the strong arm of the law, President Trump took the stage in front of a group of supporters in Charleston, West Virginia. Trump spoke for well over an hour, although he didn’t spend as much time addressing …
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MTV may have mostly given up on music years ago, but it did not skimp on this year’s Video Music Awards. This year, the channel went all out with a rainstorm over Shawn Mendes, fire for Aerosmith and a movable 6 train for Jennifer Lopez to ride in on. There’s …
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Aretha Franklin, who died on August 16th at age 76, recorded more than 40 full-length albums in her six-decade career. It’s a deep catalog, crowded with indisputable classics and hidden gems. Rolling Stone’s music staff is paying its R.E.S.P.E.C.T.s to the Queen with tributes to our favorite Aretha LPs. Next …
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The Video Vanguard Award has existed for as long as the MTV Video Music Awards have been around. At the first VMAs ceremony in 1984, David Bowie, Richard Lester and the Beatles were honored for their early, pioneering work in the pre-MTV days of the art form. The rest of …
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Long before Robin Green was an Emmy-winning writer and producer for The Sopranos, she was a young post-grad living in Berkeley, California. In 1971, she got a job interview with Jann Wenner, co-founder of an upstart magazine called Rolling Stone. She thought she was interviewing for a clerical position; instead, …
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On the cover of 2016’s Puberty 2, Mitski Miyawaki stands in a meadow wearing an oversized white tee, her face painted the same color. She’s half-turned toward the camera, staring down the viewer in what feels like an image of rebirth. In many ways, it was. Puberty 2 capped off …
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Part wilderness survival tale, part prehistoric boy-meets-wolf love story and part American Museum of Natural History exhibit come to life, Albert Hughes’ rugged, rich epic feels just as out-of-time as its narrative of primitive hunters and their Canis lupus pals. It’s a movie devoted to overwhelming viewers with vast, lush …
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Breakout country band Lanco have announced the details for their first-ever headlining tour, a 14-city fall run dubbed the Hallelujah Nights Tour. Named for the five-piece band’s chart topping album debut, the tour gets underway October 24th at the Blue Note in Columbia, Missouri, and will feature a mix of …
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Migos and Drake teamed to perform “Versace” and “Walk It Talk It” during the long-awaited Aubrey and Three Amigos Tour kickoff Sunday night in Kansas City, Missouri. The Atlanta rap trio and Drake walked onstage at the Sprint Center to loud cheers for their performance of “Walk It Talk It,” …
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The disco-friendliness of New York’s gloriously over-the-top Scissor Sisters and the increasingly electronic nature of their output obscured a simple fact: Beneath their righteous camp, lead singer Jake Shears has always been a traditional and sometimes even serious pop-rock craftsman, as Elton-y sing-alongs like “I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’” — …
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