When assistant editor Suzy Exposito left New York on March 11th to begin reporting this issue’s cover story about Bad Bunny, it was hard to know how fast the world was changing. The Puerto Rican reggaeton star, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, had just filmed the outrageous …
Read More »Future Taps Drake, Travis Scott, Meek Mill for 'High Off Life' Album
Future will release his eighth studio album on Friday. Executive produced by DJ Esco, who unveiled the album’s track list and release date on Tuesday via Instagram, High Off Life is the follow-up to the rapper’s Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD and his Save Me EP, both of which were …
Read More »Peter Travers: The Year the Summer-Movie Season Died
In any other year, this space would be reserved for a preview of potential summer hits: Black Widow, A Quiet Place Part II, Top Gun: Maverick, Wes Anderson’s A-list comedy The French Dispatch. Now the pandemic has chased these films deep into the fall and next winter, when audiences might …
Read More »Jack Dorsey Donates $10 Million to Meek Mill and Jay-Z's Reform Alliance
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has donated $10 million to Reform Alliance, the prison reform non-profit co-founded by Meek Mill, Michael Rubin and Jay-Z. The funds, donated as part of Dorsey’s #startsmall initiative, will go toward boosting COVID-19 relief efforts in U.S. prisons and delivering personal protective equipment (PPE) …
Read More »Little Richard Reflects on the Dawn of Rock & Roll, Influencing the Beatles and Stones
This story was originally published on April 15th, 2004, in the ‘Immortals’ issue of Rolling Stone, which featured tributes to the 100 greatest artists of all time. Little Richard reflected on his own legacy. A LOT OF PEOPLE CALL ME THE ARCHITECT OF ROCK & ROLL. I don’t call myself …
Read More »Watch Bill Wyman Break Down His Upcoming Rolling Stones Artifact Auction
Bill Wyman began collecting Rolling Stones artifacts almost immediately after he joined the band in September 1962. “I wanted to keep a few things so [my newborn son] would know I was once in a band,” the bassist says, “and we made a record and were on TV once or …
Read More »Andy Serkis Announces Marathon Reading of 'The Hobbit' for COVID-19 Relief
Actor and filmmaker Andy Serkis will read all of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit during a livestream Friday, May 8th, to raise money for COVID-19 relief efforts. The marathon event — which Serkis has fittingly dubbed “a Hobbitathon” — will kick off at 10 a.m. in the U.K. (5 a.m. EST …
Read More »New York City Is Shut Down, But Its Black-Market Weed Is Booming
For the second year in a row, New York has abandoned legalizing marijuana— but that’s not stopping New Yorkers from smoking a lot of weed. A 2019 study found that 1.3 million New Yorkers reported using cannabis in the previous year, and consumption has spiked during the coronavirus pandemic. For …
Read More »To Get a Record Deal Right Now, You'd Better Ooze Presence Over Zoom
Signing an artistto a record deal is a lot like dating, says Pete Ganbarg, president of A&R over at Atlantic Records. But Ganbarg — who has brought in Twenty One Pilotsand Christina Perri, as well as the blockbuster cast albums/soundtracks to Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, and The Greatest Showman —says …
Read More »New 'Star Wars' Coming From Taika Waititi
The overall direction of the Star Wars franchise after the nine-part Skywalker saga — which concluded last year with Rise of Skywalker — is still uncertain, but Lucasfilm has announced a new film in the works: Taika Waititi, fresh from the Oscar-winning Jojo Rabbit, has signed on to direct a …
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