Nine years after Hank Williams, Jr. compared Barack Obama to Hitler, prompting ESPN to yank his Monday Night Football theme for a few years, the network is once again retiring the polarizing country star’s “Are you ready for some football?” theme song. When football season returns next week, Little Richard‘s …

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie shrugged off some of President Trump’s past disparaging comments made about US prisoners of war as “just politics.” On Sunday, Wilkie was first asked by CNN’s Dana Bash if he had ever personally heard the president, as The Atlantic reported this week, call Americans …

Bob Marley‘s musical influence on surfing and skateboarding is documented in Ride Natty Ride, the sixth addition to Legacy, the 12-part documentary series honoring the late reggae legend. Clocking in at 30 minutes, the video features Jamaicans discussing how they started surfing and Marley’s musical ties to the pastime. Billy …

The Hives have shared a live version of their international breakout hit “Hate to Say I Told You So,” from their upcoming release, Live at Third Man Records, out September 25th via TMR. The Hives recorded Live at Third Man at the 250-capacity Blue Room venue at the Nashville headquarters …

Los Angeles County prosecutors charged Carlton Callaway and Davion Williams with robbery and assault on Tuesday in connection with a violent attack on three transgender women in Hollywood last month. The assault was filmed on video by bystanders and contained hate speech. Authorities have labeled the attack a hate crime. …

Chris Stapleton is headed somewhere in his new song “Starting Over.” Over a brushed snare rhythm by drummer Derek Mixon that evokes Willie Nelson’s version of “City of New Orleans” and lyrics about a road rolled out “like a welcome mat,” the country singer is in perpetual motion, his sight …

For his entire life Trump has been a confidence man. A master of illusion. A young “athlete” too bone-spurred for the army. A “Wharton” grad who cheated his way into regular old Penn. A pitchman for phony diet vitamins that let you “have the silhouette you choose.” (This is an …

In this week’s quarantine episode of our Useful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by attorney, author and former New York gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout, who spoke about the role of monopolies in the American economy. For Democrats suck, Matt and Katie weigh into the supposedly toxic, Bernie …

Greg Dulli has reunited with his Gutter Twins collaborator Mark Lanegan for a cover of Bob Dylan’s “The Girl From the North Country,” a duet that will appear on the B-side of Dulli’s upcoming Record Store Day exclusive single. On the cover, premiering here at Rolling Stone, Dulli and Lanegan …

Luke Laird, the Nashville songwriting ace behind songs like the Grammy-winning “Space Cowboy” for Kacey Musgraves, Eric Church‘s “Talladega,” and Miranda Lambert’s “Baggage Claim,” will release his debut album as a solo artist on September 18th. Appropriately titled Music Row, the LP features 10 songs, including the title track, premiering …