One-time child stars — some who made the jump to acting as adults, and others who didn’t — share their personal stories in the trailer for Showbiz Kids, an upcoming HBO documentary that promises a “raw look” at the child actors. The documentary premieres on HBO on July 14th. Among …
Read More »Indie Publishing Is Heating Up. What Does That Mean for the Music Business?
Last week, the ASCAP Pop Awards — a major songwriting awards show, closely watched by the entire music business — awarded Publisher of the Year to independently owned music company Kobalt. Considering that Kobalt’s songwriters helped write smash hits of 2019 like Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy” and Lil Nas X …
Read More »Zosia Mamet, Marcia Gay Harden Set for 24-Hour Play Charity Livestream
Kenneth Lonergan, Marcia Gay Harden and Zosia Mamet will partake in the next round of the ongoing livestream series The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues, with this installment raising money for the Release Aging People in Prison campaign. This marks the 13th round in the series and it will stream …
Read More »Teyana Taylor's 'The Album' Soars and Sags
Mention Teyana Taylor’s name, and it evokes kinetic experiences: aerobicized thrusts in Kanye West’s “FADE” clip, melting alongside Kehlani in a “Morning” homage to the 1998 camp-classic Wild Things, casually flexing in Jay-Z’s video for “Blue Magic.” As a dancer and model – she launched her career in her teens …
Read More »It's 2020, So, Naturally, Poop Plumes Are a Problem, Too
It’s the fourth month of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, and boy have we seen some shit. In addition to at least 118,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus, nearly 2.2 million people testing positive for it, and the countless others who probably-maybe had it, we’re also dealing with …
Read More »The White Stripes Share 2000 Performance of 'Death Letter'
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the White Stripes‘ De Stijl on Saturday, Third Man Records shared a 2000 performance of the duo playing “Death Letter.” The show took place on June 15th at Jay’s Upstairs in Missoula, Montana. The band is seen in their signature white and red outfits …
Read More »Phoebe Bridgers' 'Punisher' is a Visionary Emo-Folk Album
The biting emo-folk of Phoebe Bridgers’ 2017 Stranger in the Alps established the singer-songwriter as a woeful wisecracker. Bridgers was a millennial Warren Zevon who, even if she sang about sexting instead of heroin withdrawal, shared the shrewd Seventies songwriter’s penchant for fictionalizing their own death and chronicling perpetual L.A. …
Read More »Spike Lee-Directed David Byrne Concert Film, 'American Utopia,' Headed to HBO
A Spike Lee-directed concert film documenting David Byrne‘s unique American Utopia Broadway show will get its premiere on HBO later this year. “It is my honor and privilege that my art brother, Mr. David Byrne, asked me to join him in concert, to invite me into his magnificent world of …
Read More »Anthrax's Charlie Benante, Run-DMC Share Collaboration for Charity
Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante has teamed up with DMC of Run-DMC for his latest quarantine performance, sharing a medley with one-half of the rap-rock duo. It was later released on Bandcamp for charity with all proceeds going to MusicUnites.org. Along with DMC, the medley features Suicidal Tendencies bassist Ra Diaz …
Read More »Hear Ice Cube on the Origins of 'Fuck tha Police,' N.W.A's Founding and More
The latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast revisits a wide-ranging 2015 cover-story interview with Ice Cube, where he looked back at the origins of “Fuck Tha Police” (which is currently seeing surging streaming numbers in the wake of worldwide Black Lives Matter protests), went deep on his childhood …
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