Although Carlos Santana has been playing concerts in Paris since the early Seventies, he never set foot inside the Louvre until 2016. In fact, when his family asked if he wanted to go there, he asked, “What’s there?” “They said, ‘Oh, my God, man. You can spend a whole year …
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Charleston, South Carolina-based rockers Susto have a name that loosely translates to “ongoing spiritual panic attack” in Spanish, but two new tracks premiering on Rolling Stone Country show founder and frontman Justin Osborne to be supremely chill — in a worldly, self-questioning sort of way. Both “If I Was” and …
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President Donald Trump has taken drastic measures to conceal his private conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a report in theWashington Poston Saturday. The bombshell story comes just one day after theNew York Timesrevealed that the FBI opened a joint counterintelligence and criminal investigation into whether the president …
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The Jennifer Hudson-starring Aretha Franklin biopic has recruited a director and writer to bring the Queen of Soul’s life story to the big screen. MGM announced Friday that Liesl Tommy, an award-winning stage director who has also helmed episodes of The Walking Dead and Insecure, will serve as director on …
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While the mainstream media continues to pretendthat President Trump’s white supremacy is debatable, the same can’t be said for Rep. Steve King (R-IA), the most racist man in Congress for almost 20 years. On Thursday, the New York Times published a story fleshing out King’s anti-immigrant history, which includes a …
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Since last year,Rolling Stonehas been tracking the bizarre story of NXIVM, a secretive alleged sex cult founded bymulti-level marketing guru Keith Ranierein Albany, New York. This investigative podcast from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation looks at the case from the inside perspective of actorSarah Edmondson, a high-ranking NXIVM memberwho alleged to …
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In 1974, just months after Steve Earle hitchhiked from San Antonio to Nashville, he wound up taking over bass-playing duties from Rodney Crowell in Guy Clark’s band. Forty-five years later, Earle, aided by his longtime band the Dukes, will pay homage to the profound influence the late songwriter and mentor …
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Ahead of her forthcoming solo album, singer-songwriter Joy Williams has announced a series of headlining tour dates set to get underway in February. The ex-Civil Wars member will launch the trek February 25th with a show at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, with dates scheduled through early May. …
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The governor of Tennessee announced Monday that he has granted clemency to Cyntoia Brown, who was sentenced to life in prison for the 2004 murder of a 43-year-old man who had solicited her for sex when she was 16 years old. In December, after the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that …
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Following weeks of speculation, Axl Rose has officially released “Rock the Rock,” his first new song in over a decade. The song, and Rose himself in cartoon form, appear in an episode of New Looney Tunes. The episode, titled “Armageddon Outta Here, Part Two,” previously broadcasted in late-December, but Boomerang, …
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