Smooch Music has dropped a new video for Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise,” released in celebration of Black History Month. The video features Angelou’s voice reading the iconic poem across hip-hop beats — “You may shoot me with your words/You may cut me with your eyes/You may kill me with …
Read More »Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi Find the Comfort in Old-Time Sad Songs
When Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi began considering what songs to perform at the many home livestreams they played during the early days of 2020 lockdown, they started coming up with songs they hadn’t sung or even thought about in years. For Giddens, that meant old-time fiddle tunes, like “Black …
Read More »Frank Serpico: Police See Themselves as 'Judge, Jury, and Executioner'
On February 3rd, 1971, detective Frank Serpico — immortalized by Al Pacino in the gritty 1973 cop drama Serpico — was shot in the face. The bullet pierced him under the eye and lodged in his jaw. Just a year earlier, he had gone public with evidence of shocking corruption …
Read More »Super Bowl 2021: Poet Amanda Gorman Honors NFL's Three 'Honorary Captains'
Youth National Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman — who spoke at President Joe Biden’s inauguration last month — presented a new piece titled “Chorus of the Captains” dedicated to the three “honorary captains” the NFL selected to laud before the big game: educator Trimaine Davis, nurse manager Suzie Dorner, and Marine …
Read More »Nipsey Hussle's 'The Marathon' Gets 10th-Anniversary Interactive Production
The 10th anniversary of Nipsey Hussle‘s The Marathon will be celebrated with an interactive production premiering on YouTube at 9 p.m. ET on Friday. The Marathon Live Visual Album Experience contains previously unseen content and audio interviews, featuring a recreation of Hussle’s vehicle — a Mercedes SL550 — that travels …
Read More »Kim Gordon Releases Music Video for 'Hungry Baby'
Kim Gordon has released a video for “Hungry Baby,” a cut off her solo debut albumNo Home Record. Directed by Clara Balzary, the video stars Gordon’s daughter, Coco Gordon-Moore, as a home improvement store employee at the end of a long shift. After a man in a car litters in …
Read More »Julien Baker Enlists Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus for 'Favor'
Julien Baker has tapped her Boygenius bandmates Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus for “Favor,” the latest single from her upcoming album Little Oblivions. “I used to think about myself like I was a talented liar,” Baker sings across an animated lyric video, as Bridgers and Dacus provide backing vocals. “Turns …
Read More »Amy Poehler Revives Riot Grrrl With 'Moxie': Watch the Trailer
Netflix has released the first official trailer forMoxie, a coming-of-age film directed by Amy Poehler and based on the novel by Jennifer Mathieu that evokes the spirit of riot grrrl in the 2020s. Moxie stars Hadley Robinson as Vivian, a shy 16-year-old who prefers to keep her head down and …
Read More »The 'World Wide Robin Hood Society' Had a Very Weird Week
Bob White was just starting to settle in to a quiet night with his family at his Nottingham, England home last Friday when his cell phone dinged. And dinged again. And again. The affable, 77-year-old retiree was enjoying a cup of coffee and was barely used to two alerts in …
Read More »Cicely Tyson Released Her Memoir, Two Days Before Her Death
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Cicely Tyson’s new memoir has sold out on Amazon, a day after the Oscar-winning actress’ passing. Tyson’s memoir, Just As I Am, was released this past Tuesday and …
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