It’s been a long six years since we last heard new music from the Jonas Brothers, and toward the end of their run, it seemed like they had already lost the muse that made them one of the catchiest, funniest and most-charming acts to come out of their class of …
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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena was buzzing with people as the countdown clock approached noon on November 26th. Eyes around the world were on engineers Julie Wertz Chen and Christine Szalai, who were working the main console in mission control, giving the play-by-play as the Mars InSight spacecraft began …
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Drake will perform five more shows in 2019 at the XS Nightclub as part of a multifaceted new partnership with Wynn Las Vegas, Rolling Stone has confirmed. “In the fourth quarter of last year, we pursued a relationship with Drake and his management team to do something different in Las …
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Pink Floyd will reissue the mono mix of their second album A Saucerful of Secrets as a vinyl release for Record Store Day, April 13th. Unlike the Beatles or Rolling Stones, the band transitioned to stereo fairly quickly, making this one of the rare albums in their catalog that originally …
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Throughout author Greg Prato’s new oral history of the band King’s X, one theme comes up again and again. Pearl Jam‘s Jeff Ament, a longtime friend and fan — and onetime tourmate — of the long-running, impossible-to-classify trio sums up the idea succinctly: “It’s so incredibly unfair that they weren’t …
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Actress and writer Paula Pell suffers through a never-ending succession of takes at the behest of her nit-picky producers in a clip from the upcoming Documentary Now! episode “Original Cast Album: Co-op,” which airs February 27th on IFC. “Co-op” is a parody of D.A. Pennebaker’s 1970 documentary, Original Cast Album: …
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After nearly two years of renovations, New York’s Webster Hall will reopen in the spring. They have yet to announce the first show, but Patti Smith is booked for May 1st and otheracts slated to play include MGMT, Sharon Van Etten, Chris Robinson Brotherhood and Built to Spill. According to …
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Two days ago, Billie Eilish celebrated her 17th birthday at a roller rink here in L.A., and yesterday she got right back to work, which meant hunkering down at “a random-ass hotel” to shoot a video for her new single, “Bury a Friend.” “It smelled like pee and horses,” she …
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Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone appeared in court Thursday after posting an Instagram photo of Judge Amy Berman Jackson with what appeared to be a crosshairs near her head and text accusing her of conducting a “show trial” on behalf of the “Deep State.” The judge, unmoved by an apology …
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Cleveland is the butt of jokes for any number of reasons, from its storied sports misfortune to its terrible weather. As a native still in love with the place, mentions of my hometown being the “Mistake on the Lake” usually get me clenching my jaw, if not my fist. Much …
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