The Secret Service who’ve pledged to give their lives to protect Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have for years been instructed not to use any of the seven bathrooms in the Trump/Kushner home. Instead, the Secret Service has spent $100,000 in taxpayer money to rent a $3,000-per-month basement studio apartment …
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When the only music you can stand is the drumbeat of rage coursing through your aching head, the Sleaford Mods are always good for a spin. They’re Nottingham, England’s answer to the Fall, with singer Jason Williamson rant-rapping about everything from austerity-era Britain to consumerism to the foibles of the …
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W hen David Fincher sat down with Netflix executives in the spring of 2019, he did not expect to be handed the equivalent of a blank check. Sure, the 58-year-old filmmaker — a former music-video wunderkind best known for pushing the envelope with baroque serial-killer thrillers (Seven), toxic-masculinity satires (Fight …
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Amid Trump supporters’ siege on the Capitol building — an invasion that halted the Electoral College vote and forced members of Congress to go into lockdown — world leaders and organizations reacted to the assault on American democracy on social media. “Disgraceful scenes in U.S. Congress,” U.K. Prime Minister Boris …
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On Monday night, Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys, was arrested in Washington, D.C. for allegedly burning a Black Lives Matter banner at a historically black church. He faces misdemeanor destruction of property charges for the alleged offense, which took place at a pro-Trump …
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The junior senator from Missouri announced Wednesday that he’ll contest the certification of Biden’s victory when the House and Senate convene on January 6th. Why do this? If you believe Sen. Josh Hawley’s office, it’s because the Americans who are lying about this fair and settled election being riddled with …
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2020 was a year of painful losses, and the music world was no exception. Our weekly Rolling Stone Music Now podcast spotlighted the lives of some of the many musicians we lost this year, including one of rock & roll’s founders and two of rock’s greatest-ever virtuosos. Press play on …
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed a pair of Letter to You songs live together for the first time as musical guest on the latest Saturday Night Live. Springsteen and company opened their SNL appearance with a rousing, enthusiastic rendition of “Ghosts”; earlier in the week, Springsteen told …
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Ahead of the E Street Band’s return to Saturday Night Live this weekend, Bruce Springsteen visited the Tonight Show Thursday to talk about Letter to You, the song that changed his life, his teenaged gigs, and why he’s never made a Christmas album. “I always liked music where the singer …
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Ariana Grande has released the trailer for her concert film, Excuse Me, I Love You, set to arrive on Netflix December 21st. Although clocking in at just a minute, the clip offers a solid overview of what to expect from the film — a mix of exuberant live performance footage …
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