The news of Dusty Hill’s death, announced Wednesday by his bandmates in ZZ Top, deeply impacted everyone from fans to fellow musicians. Not surprisingly, that list includes Dan Auerbach. It’s easy to draw a straight line from ZZ Top to the Black Keys, especially from the rawness of the group’s …
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Elton John condemned DaBaby following “homophobic statements” the rapper made during his Sunday set at Miami’s Rolling Loud festival. “We’ve been shocked to read about the HIV misinformation and homophobic statements made at a recent DaBaby show,” John tweeted Wednesday. “This fuels stigma and discrimination and is the opposite of …
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Back in 2002, when I was reporting on Jeffrey Epstein’s finances for Vanity Fair magazine, he was not a household name. During that time, I paid a visit to the Federal Medical Center, Devens in Devens, Massachusetts, to meet with an inmate, one Steven Hoffenberg. We sat in a little …
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One of Ahmet Zappa’s favorite memories of Captain Beefheart is the time he called the Zappa household to relate a particularly memorable dream. “The fucking greatest [call] that ever happened to me was when he called and said, ‘Hell-ooooo, is your mo-other there?’” Zappa tells Rolling Stone, imitating Don Van …
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On June 21st, Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib chose to invite the world in to the interior parts of his mind via Instagram, and told everyone he was gay. As I listened to Carl’s Instagram message, I smiled and thought, “This one feels different.” Carl talked about the …
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When Mia Berrin first began performing as Pom Pom Squad around 2017, audience members would approach her after shows and admit that they’d been surprised by how much they’d enjoyed themselves. “More than once, someone came up to me and was like, ‘I expected to hate you,’” she says, laughing …
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Boy meets Girl. Boy and Girl fall in love. Well, OK, hold up, let’s rewind: Girl just wants to be friends — not attracted to Boy, if she’s being 100-percent honest — but, to Boy’s credit, he offers moral support when it comes to her auditions, and gets along with …
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It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when news of the joint Lil Baby and Lil Durk album The Voice of the Heroes materialized in the popular consciousness, but producer Touch of Trent remembers exactly where he was when he found out. “It was the end of March, it might’ve been March …
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Broadway star Cynthia Erivo has announced her debut album Ch. 1 Vs. 1, with the Grammy-, Tony-, and Emmy-winning singer also sharing the first single “The Good” ahead of the LP’s September 17th release. “In storytelling, chapter one and verse one is the way you always begin, and because I …
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Ed Sheeran belatedly joined the Friends reunion by recreating Ross and Monica’s infamous dance number with Courteney Cox. “Had a reunion of our own this weekend,” Sheeran wrote on Instagram when sharing a video of the pair doing the entire routine together in a field. He added, “#obviouslybetterthanross.” Cox also …
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