In an interview with Telemundo’s José Díaz-Balart, President Trump said that he is planning to sign an executive order on immigration that will include “a road to citizenship” to “Dreamers” covered by the Obama Administration’s DACA protections. But that is a lie. The president does not have the power to …
Read More »Read and Watch Our New Ringo Starr Interview on His 80th Birthday
Ringo Starr was hoping to have a big party for his 80th birthday on July 7th, but the pandemic is keeping him away from his friends and loved ones. Instead, he’s throwingRingo’s Big Birthday Show, a virtual charity concert that will hit YouTube at 8 p.m. EST July 7th, and …
Read More »Mississippi's Youngest Black Lawmaker on the Fight to Remove the Confederate Flag
Rep. Jeramey Anderson represents Mississippi‘s 110th House District in the Mississippi Legislature. When he was sworn in at age 22 in 2013, Anderson became the youngest black candidate ever elected to a legislature in the United States. In the years since, he’s seen multiple efforts to remove the Confederate emblem …
Read More »Listen to Elliott Smith's 'Some Song,' From Previously Unreleased Live Album
Kill Rock Stars have released Elliott Smith‘s “Some Song,” a track from the late songwriters’ previously unreleased live album,Live at Umbra Penumbra, out August 28th. “Some Song” first appeared on the “Needle in the Hay” seven-inch single in 1995. “Got a rock song I’d like to play,” Smith tells the …
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 »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 »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 »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 …
Read More »How Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's Big Bet on COVID-19 Testing Helped Curb the Outbreak in New Mexico
Michelle Lujan Grisham was ready for the coronavirus — or at least as ready as a governor can be for a once-in-several-generations pandemic to ravage every aspect of life in their state. The former health secretary and U.S. representative from New Mexico who took over the state’s highest office in …
Read More »President Obama on the George Floyd Protests: 'There is a Change in Mindset That's Taking Place'
President Barack Obama shared his perspective on the protests that have gripped the nation for the last six days on Wednesday afternoon, issued a call to action for voters and mayors around the county, and talked about why he remains optimistic about America’s future. The former president appeared via Zoom …
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