For the past two nights, David Crosby has joined Steely Dan at the Beacon Theatre in New York City for special renditions of the Crosby, Stills and Nash tune “Wooden Ships” and the Steely Dan classic “Reelin’ In the Years.” One attendee, Joshua Goodman, posted a video on Facebook featuring …
Read More »Ozzy Osbourne on His Road Back From Hell: 'I Was Absolutely in Agony'
When Ozzy Osbourne took a fall in January, he thought he broke his neck. “I came down really, really hard,” he tells Rolling Stonefrom his Los Angeles home. “I went slam — on my face.” He had gotten up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom …
Read More »Watch the Rolling Stones Play 'Harlem Shuffle' for First Time in 29 Years
The Rolling Stones were four songs into their show at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium on Monday night when Mick Jagger addressed the crowd. “Has anyone crossed two rivers to get here tonight?” he asked. “Anybody here from Queens? Anyone from Manhattan? Westchester? Staten Island? The Bronx? Hartford? Anyone here from …
Read More »50 Years After the Moon Landing: Why Conspiracy Theories Won't Die
Controversy over “fake news” burst into view again this past weekend, on the anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission . Saturday, July 20th marked 50 years since astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin beat the Soviets’ ill-fated unmanned Luna 15 to the lunar surface. The coming of this date was …
Read More »The Best Ways London Is Trolling Trump
Update: Trump has called the protests “fake news.” Original post below. *** The British aren’t too fond of President Trump. Last October, a Pew Research Center study found that only 28% of residents of the United Kingdom have confidence he will do the right thing regarding world affairs. The results …
Read More »Rolling Stones Finally Give Back 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' Songwriting Credits
The Verve‘s 1997 hit “Bitter Sweet Symphony” is one of the finest songs of the Britpop era, a classically Nineties expression of world-weary cool with just the right amount of English self-regard. It’s a song that only Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft could have written — except that he didn’t, according …
Read More »Black on the Outside, Trump on the Inside
One of the most jarring behaviors of this presidency is the way in which people who were previously thought to take pride in their intelligence and expertise — William Barr, for example — have revealed their inner Donald Trumps. They don’t so much imitate their president as seek to emulate …
Read More »Best Movies to See in May: 'Aladdin,' 'Rocketman,' 'John Wick 3'
Because man can not live on Marvel superheroes alone, May is gifting us some strange blockbuster creatures: a wisecracking genie, a lightning-shooting rodent gunshoe, a three-headed dragon monarch fighting everybody’s favorite giant green lizard. Plus: Elton John gets the biopic treatment, John Wick gets even more revenge, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels …
Read More »Joycelyn Savage Contacts Family After Bizarre R. Kelly Interview
Joycelyn Savage, one of R. Kelly‘s girlfriends who has been estranged from her family for several years, contacted her parents Wednesday, soon after the singer’s bizarre interview with CBS This Morning. Gerald Griggs, an attorney for the Savage family – whose attempts to reconnect with their daughter were featured in …
Read More »Awaiting the Lead-Poisoning Tipping Point
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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