Alfred Jackson, one of Prince‘s six surviving siblings, has died, Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Jackson was 66. “Hi…this morning my older beloved brother Alfred passed on,” Prince’s sister Tyka Nelson posted on Facebook via Star Tribune. “Thank u for respecting our privacy at this time & 4 being so nice …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Whether you know it or not, chances are, you’ve heard a ukulele on one of your favorite tracks. From Jack Johnson‘s “Brushfire Fairytales” to the late Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, …
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The title character of Steven Universe is an adolescent boy who, over the course of the Cartoon Network series’ first five seasons, developed the ability to fly, to conjure an impenetrable pink shield out of thin air, to use his saliva to heal injuries short of death (and sometimes beyond), …
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The 2019 VMAs featured a lot of established artists, from Taylor Swift to Missy Elliott, but the awards show also offered up-and-coming singer H.E.R. a chance to unveil a new track. In the performance, H.E.R. debuted a new song called “Anti,” which saw her standing in front of a magazine …
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Jeff Buckley‘s rare demo “Sky Blue Skin” has finally been released. Recorded at the late singer’s final studio session on September 13th, 1996, the track has been sought after by fans and collectors for two decades. The stripped-down song clocks in at nearly six minutes, with Buckley’s vocals swimming through …
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The long-awaited first trailer for The Mandalorian, the Star Wars franchise’s upcoming Disney+ series, was unveiled during Disney’s D23 conference Friday. The series arrives on the streaming service on November 12th. “After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in theStar Warsuniverse.The Mandalorian is set after the …
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Mumford & Sons apparently have a new career goal: become the house band for David Spade’s Comedy Central talk show Lights Out with David Spade. In a new clip, the musicians interview with Spade and it doesn’t quite go as well as expected. “You know I’m looking for a house …
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Young Thug wants to talk about faith. More specifically, he wants to talk about the faith that we should have in him, the kind he’s always had in himself. At numerous points during our phone conversation, he dances around the low points of the last few years and the arrests, …
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It was late November 2017, and Matthew Bowen, a veteran Border Patrol agent, was seething. A fellow Border Patrol agent in Texas had just been found dead in the field, and Bowen was certain someone who’d been crossing the border illegally was responsible for murdering him. “Snuffed out by some …
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Rolling Stone is pleased to announce a launch this week of Useful Idiots, a news and politics podcast I’ll be co-hosting with my friend and colleague, Katie Halper. Useful Idiots is an iconoclastic take on the political podcast. Imagine a standard cable-news commentary show, and we’ll be shooting for its …
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