“Discussing a malfunctioning marriage is depressing and time-consuming,” Rosamund Pike’s Louise tells her husband, Tom (Chris O’Dowd), late in Sundance’s excellent and experimental new series State of the Union. The show, reuniting the High Fidelity team of writer Nick Hornby and director Stephen Frears, aims to prove her wrong on …
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Game of Thrones Creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week to talk about the filming of “The Long Night,” the episode that aired this past Sunday, in which the humans defeated the Night King and his army of the dead. During the interview, the …
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Funk legend Bootsy Collins has teamed with Chew Fu for a thumping new remix of his 2011 James Brown tribute, “JB — Still the Man” on what would’ve been the Godfather of Soul’s 86th birthday. Years before he linked up with Parliament and Funkadelic, Collins famously served as the bassist …
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Joan Baez played the final New York City concert of her 60-year career last night to a capacity audience at New York’s Beacon Theater. It was an emotional evening that touched on many of the key songs in her history, including “The House of the Rising Sun,” “No More Auction …
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President Trump has spent close to 250 days of his time in office at his own properties. He loves none of them more than Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach, Florida, resort he’s affectionately dubbed the “Winter White House.” Earlier this year, the Government Accountability Office estimated that every time Trump absconds …
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The latest episode of our weekly podcast Rolling Stone Music Now tackles the two Gen-Z artists dominating music in 2019 so far: Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish. Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” complete with a video drawn from the video game Red Dead Redemption 2, is arguably the meme-iest …
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Diplo is the latest musician to share his take on Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus‘ “Old Town Road.” Diplo’s heart-racing rendition of the track comes in celebration of his Stagecoach afterparty Sunday night, which featured the first Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus performance of “Old Town …
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It was a fairly light week for trailers (maybe Avengers: Endgame is scaring the competition so badly that other studios are afraid to even put out their previews of coming attractions?) but we’ve still got a few, from the much anticipated Deadwood movie to a gritty cop thriller starring Black …
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Def Leppard‘s Joe Elliott was sick of drawing fruit, flowers and vases in art class when he asked his teacher if he could draw posters for rock shows instead. He got the ok and began creating posters for his favorite groups — the Beatles, the Stones and Thin Lizzy — …
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On the morning of September 5th, Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach walked into Auerbach’s Nashville studio, picked up their instruments and became the Black Keys again. By season’s end, they had finished their ninth album, the self-produced “Let’s Rock” (yes, that’s really the title). As usual, they created the entire …
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