Thom Yorke debuted the new song “Plasticine Figures” as the musical guest during The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: At Home Edition on Wednesday. The late-night host has been filming the 10-minute segments from his home each night featuring guests who are also social-distancing at home. Yorke’s “Plasticine Figures” performance …
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Lars Ulrich faced a conundrum when Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff invited him to be a guest for one of his company’s fireside chats this week. Usually Benioff’s musical guests have been playing a song at the end of the interviews, which are broadcast on Salesforce’s social media channels, and the …
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In rough times, sometimes what the world needs is an insanely fun dance-pop album — and that’s just what Dua Lipa gave us last month with Future Nostalgia. On the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, the pop star joins host Brian Hiatt to discuss making the …
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Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker will get an early release on Disney+, fittingly arriving May 4th, which has unofficially become “Star Wars Day” because of the “May the Fourth”/”May the force” pun. Rise of Skywalker was previously scheduled to hit Disney+ in July. Its arrival will make the entire Star …
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Last night, Trump sent all reasonable individuals’ heads spinning when he appeared to suggest during his daily COVID-19 press briefings that injecting disinfectant could help eliminate the virus from people’s bodies. “I see the disinfectant where it knocks [the virus] out [from a surface] in a minute, one minute, and …
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Taylor Swift turned to social media Thursday to warn fans about the impending arrival of a 2008 live album, a release that she did not authorize but is the byproduct of her former label Big Machine’s deal with music manager Scooter Braun. Earlier Thursday, fans noticed that a release called …
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Dua Lipa, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Rita Ora, Ellie Goulding and many more have teamed for an all-star cover of Foo Fighters’ “Times Like These.” The band’s Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins also take part in the self-isolation rendition orchestrated by BBC Radio 1 Stay Home Live Lounge. The cover also …
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Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden excoriated President Donald Trump for not taking responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic during an interview with James Corden on The Late Late Show Tuesday. Biden spoke about his early concerns about the coronavirus and recalled how, back in 2016, the …
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Major Lazer and Mumford & Sons’ Marcus Mumford recruited more than 200 artists from 28 countries for the Earth Day-inspired video for their collaborative single “Lay Your Head on Me.” Over the past month, with musicians and dancers around the world self-isolating due to the coronavirus outbreak, the video’s director …
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On March 11th, as global measures to stop the spread of Covid-19 began to escalate, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a ban on travel from mainland Europe to the United States. In a different era, this would have spelled troubling news for the entire Swedish music industry — which has …
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