Nearly 45 years ago, Peter Frampton released his first concert record,Frampton Comes Alive! The album made the struggling solo artist (and former member of Humble Pie) a rockhousehold name and pinup. Its multi-platinum success also reverberated through the industry,inspiring a slew of double-live albums by otheracts who hadn’t quite broke …
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In response to calls to diversify the mainly white live-music industry, concert giant Live Nation launched the Black Tour Directory Tuesday, October 13th, a new online resource for tour organizers that the company hopes will create more work for black live-industry workers. The directory lists hundreds of black-owned companies and …
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Thurston Moore opens up his London rehearsal space in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s In My Room series. The Sonic Youth frontman and his band — which boasts James Sedward on guitar, Deb Googe on baritone bass and Jem Doulton on drums — played three songs from his latest …
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Juice WRLD’s mother Carmela Wallace penned an open letter about her late son’s “struggles with addiction, anxiety and depression” to mark World Mental Health Day 2020. In the letter, Wallace writes of her son Jarad “Juice WRLD” Higgins, “I think he felt comfortable being honest with me because I never …
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I n August, Justin Walker, a federal judge in Louisville, Kentucky, issued an unusual order in favor of Chelsey Nelson, a local wedding photographer and blogger. Nelson, a Southern Baptist, claimed in a lawsuit that her Christian faith dictates “that God ordained marriage to be a covenant between one man …
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Stephen Colbert delivered a live Late Show monologue that recapped Wednesday’s vice presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris, but also focused on the night’s real star: The fly that landed on Pence’s head. “Tonight’s debate above all proved once and for all by comparison proved what a flaming …
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Coachella was supposed to take place in April 2020, but when Covid-19 struck, festival organizers pushed the event to this month— and then again to April 2021 after virus cases in the U.S. climbed all summer. Multiple music-industry insiders now tell Rolling Stone that the 21st edition of the popular …
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The Walking Dead’s Christian Serratos appears as Selena Quintanilla in the new teaser for Selena: The Series, out December 4th on Netflix. Directed by Hiromi Kamata, the series chronicles the late Tejano singer’s rise to fame. The black-and-white teaser features Selena taking the stage to a packed audience, as “Como …
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Halsey and Senator Bernie Sanders have launched a new video series, Bernie and Halsey Discuss America, airing on IGTV, YouTube, and Twitter. The show consists of Halsey and the former 2020 presidential candidate in conversation — over video call, following Covid-19 safety guidelines — about issues pertaining to the 2020 …
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Bad Hair Hulu‘s newest horror-satire film takes the meaning of a bad hair day to a whole new level. It’s 1989, and hair is everything — especially in the entertainment industry, which Elle Lorraine’s character is desperately trying to break into. After a series of false starts and disappointments, Vanessa …
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