Brian Eno will release an expanded, remastered version of Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks, his 1983 ambient collaboration with Daniel Lanois and brother Roger Eno that features a disc’s worth of new music from the trio. The package, due out July 19th, includes 11 newly recorded instrumentals: five from Brian and …
Read More »Inside the Search for a Better High
It was once simply understood that, if you smoked weed, there were good effects and there were bad. A strain for relaxation might also lead you to gorge an entire box of cookies; a variety that helped ease social anxiety for a party might leave you unable to mutter a …
Read More »'State of the Union' Review: A 10-Minute Fix for a Broken Marriage — and TV
“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 …
Read More »Grey Worm Actor Was Yelling 'Mike Pence!' While Filming Battle of Winterfell
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 …
Read More »Hear Bootsy Collins Celebrate James Brown's Birthday With Monster 'JB — Still the Man' Remix
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 …
Read More »Flashback: Bob Dylan and Joan Baez Duet for the Last Time
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 …
Read More »Trump Staffers Got Drunk at Mar-a-Lago. You Paid For It
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 …
Read More »How Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X Are Reshaping Music
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 …
Read More »Hear Diplo's Uptempo Remix of Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus' 'Old Town Road'
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 …
Read More »Trailers of the Week: 'Gemini Man,' '21 Bridges,' 'Deadwood'
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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