Kendrick Lamar's Damn. topped the Billboard 200 for the second consecutive week as the rapper added another 238,000 copies to its
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While fans watched Pearl Jam's induction into the Rock Hall on HBO, Eddie Vedder performed a
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It may not have been as momentous as the heads of the five families meeting for a Mob-war peace treaty. But the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival's Godfather event – which reunited director Francis Ford Coppola, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, James Caan, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall and Talia Shire – gave festivalgoers the opportunity to see the key players of the Oscar-winning Mafia dramas talk
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The Weeknd brought out Kendrick Lamar during the singer's Saturday night concert at the Forum, a gig that coincided with
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Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj had some good jokes Saturday evening, but the most darkly comic aspect of the 2017 White House Correspondents' Dinner was a video tribute to the historical "tension" that's long existed between the president and the news media.
Archival footage of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Richard Nixon discussing their at times testy relationships with
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White House Correspondents' Dinner host and Daily Show star Hasan Minhaj delivered a blistering criticism of Donald Trump Saturday night at the Washington D.C. gala, attacking the president for not showing up to the annual event that
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New York senator Chuck Schumer marked Donald Trump's 100th day as president with a scathing, tongue-in-cheek Spotify playlist.
"Music has meant so much these
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The smoke and billowing flames from South-Central Los Angeles crept as far north as Hollywood during the Rodney King riots, dubbed by street-corner pundits the "L.A. slave rebellion of 1992." An all-white jury in Simi Valley, California, had exonerated four white cops for the brutal beat-down of Rodney King, an unarmed African-American motorist. It had been filmed and seen around the world
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Even in what could more reasonably be called "normal" years, the White House Correspondents' Dinner is an odd affair – the D.C. press corps yucking it up and sipping cocktails with the very president they're tasked with covering. But this year, with Trump skipping the event in favor of throwing a rally, and journalists grappling with reporting on a man who considers them an "enemy of the
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Following the Fyre Festival fiasco, Seth Rogen revealed that he and the comedy troupe the Lonely
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"God, this is ridiculous!" exclaimed a harried-looking woman outside the Beacon Theater on Friday, frustrated with the brouhaha on Manhattan's typically staid Upper West Side. Long lines stretched in both directions from the theater's entrance, wrapping around either side of the building. Unlucky but still hopeful fans took advantage of the slow-moving procession to politely request extra
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DMX entered a rehab facility Thursday night, just days after he postponed a string of concerts due to a "medical emergency."
The rapper checked himself into a treatment center in southern California, TMZ reports.
"It is
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Ozzy Osbourne will reunite with longtime guitarist Zakk Wylde for a summer tour that marks the 30th anniversary of when the two first collaborated together.
The Black Sabbath singer and Wylde first teamed up in 1987 when the guitarist replaced Osbourne's then-guitarist Jake E. Lee. Wylde contributed to
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Jack White and Third Man Records have detailed their soundtracks for American Epic, a documentary co-produced by the rocker that focuses on music of the 1920s,
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Fyre Festival, the music fest that was supposed to take place over two weekends on a private island in the Bahamas with headliners such as Blink-182, Migos and Major Lazer, collapsed Thursday night in a quagmire of broken sewer pipes and delayed
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In retrospect, Gunnar Wilmot, who works in New York commercial real estate, should have known something was wrong with the Fyre Festival when organizers in the Bahamas immediately served tequila and rosé. "I think they wanted us to be drunk enough to not complain," says Wilmot, 28, who arrived at rapper Ja Rule and entrepreneur Billy McFarland's festival on a private island in the Bahamas
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The use of public office for private gain is the textbook definition of corruption. In very recent memory, it was generally accepted in America that corruption — even the mere appearance of corruption — was a very bad thing. That's why the U.S. has constitutional prohibitions, laws and norms aimed at eliminating the possibility of government officials using their positions to line
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Sean Paul takes rap group Migos to a Carnival celebration in Miami for the beach-set video for "Body." The track is the lead single off Paul's forthcoming,
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There is way too much good stuff floating around there as we close out the fourth month on the calendar. The eagerly awaited TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic, The Handmaid's Tale, finally debuted on Hulu, Trevor Noah is finally hitting his stride on The Daily Show and the story of how one of the biggest newspapers in the world writes about the dead is well
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There's no sugar coating the first 100 days of the Trump administration. A merciless deportation regime, respecting no difference between hard-working strivers and "bad hombres," has struck fear into the hearts of millions of immigrants and broken up families, exiling
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InfoWars host Alex Jones lost primary custody of his children just before midnight Thursday after a nine-day trial in Texas. For the past two weeks, the 43-year-old, Austin-based talk-radio host was battling his ex-wife, Kelly Jones, for parental rights of their three kids, ages nine, 12 and 14. But this was no ordinary custody case. Instead, it was an on-the-record view into the mind
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On April 29th, 1992, four police officers – Stacey Koon, Theodore J. Briseno, Timothy Wind and Lawrence Powell – were found not guilty for using excessive force in the March 3, 1991 arrest of Rodney King, a beating that had been surreptitiously videotaped and then broadcasted around the world. Hours after the conclusion of the trial, rioting began in South Central Los Angeles, and then spread
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On April 29th, 1992, four police officers – Stacey Koon, Theodore J. Briseno, Timothy Wind and Lawrence Powell – were found not guilty for using excessive force in the March 3, 1991 arrest of Rodney King, a beating that had been surreptitiously videotaped and then broadcasted around the world. Hours after the conclusion of the trial, rioting began in South Central Los Angeles, and then spread
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: 20 Songs That Predicted the L.A. Riots
Ja Rule is "heartbroken" following the disastrous first day of the Fyre Festival, a Bahamas-based luxury music festival that he co-created. The rapper promised to issue refunds to festival-goers. He reiterated that Fyre "was not a scam."
In a statement to
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Even though a number of states across America have legalized or are in the process of legalizing marijuana for medical or recreational use, it doesn't appear as though the NFL will change its stance on the drug anytime soon. While speaking on ESPN’s "Mike and Mike" on Friday morning, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said marijuana has an "addictive nature" and may not "be healthy for the players
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A week after Pixies kicked off a U.S. tour in support of their 2016 LP Head Carrier, the
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In early 2007, a group of Morgan Stanley bankers bundled a group of subprime mortgage instruments into a package they hoped to sell to investors. The only problem was, they couldn't come up with a name for the package of mortgage-backed derivatives, which they all knew were doomed.
The bankers decided to play around with potential names. In a series of emails back and forth, they
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The War on Drugs announced an extensive fall tour with shows in North America and Europe. The 34-date trek launches September 21st in the band's hometown of Philadelphia and concludes November 27th in Stockholm, Sweden.
General public tickets go on sale Friday, May 5th at 10 a.m. local time via the
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Puff Daddy enlisted Bad Boy artists Lil Kim, Faith Evans, Ma$e and R&B singer Carl Thomas to celebrate the world premiere of Can't Stop Won't Stop: The Bad Boy Story at New York's Beacon Theatre Thursday night.
Following the screening, the label roster performed a medley of some of their biggest hits, kicking off with a glamorous Lil Kim delivering her verse
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Earlier this month, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted its 32nd class: Joan Baez, Tupac Shakur, Electric Light Orchestra, Pearl Jam, Journey and Yes. The ceremony at Brooklyn's Barclays Center – which
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On April 16th, Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan assumed near-dictatorial control in a narrowly won national referendum. Just over a week later, Erdogan ordered a wave of airstrikes on American-backed Kurdish militia in Iraq and Syria, killing as many as seventy people.
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Until now, many leaders of the climate movement have seen themselves as heroic knights in a fairy tale war against the Forces of Darkness. Armed with moral clarity and scientific data, they believed that if they spoke loudly enough and clearly enough, their message would spread throughout the kingdom. Ignorant villagers, long enthralled by the oil- and coal-fired lords of the underworld,
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PJ Harvey conjures the horrors of war on "I'll Be Waiting," one half of her new double-A-side single. Over a raw acoustic guitar, she channels the perspective of a child whose hometown is obliterated in battle. "They swept across the land/ They did not leave a thing/ They did not leave a person, stone or a tree," she sings.
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The 1992 Los Angeles riots, one of the most devastating events in American history, occurred 25 years ago. While the city was physically restored, the threads of systematic racism that led to the violence are still embedded in many of our current social and economic systems. No music group portrayed the anguish of this struggle more fervently than
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The inaugural Fyre Festival, a luxury music festival in the Bahamas, was postponed Friday after a disastrous opening day where headliners bailed, promised amenities went undelivered and festivalgoers were stranded at the airport.
With tickets priced between $5,000 and $250,000, the Fyre Festival, created by Ja Rule and entrepreneur Billy McFarland, promised a "premium" experience that
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"We were there as the road crew ran in the gear and you know what? They haven't done anything to the place in years," Midnight Oil singer Peter Garrett says with cheerful astonishment over the phone from Sydney, Australia. It is a mid-April morning there. In a few hours, his band formally opens its first world tour in 15 years on familiar ground: Selina's, a landmark rock pub in Sydney's
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The question was't whether or not Leonard Fournette would hear his name called in the first round of the 2017 NFL Draft. It was a matter of when. The LSU running back, who has been compared to Adrian Peterson for most of his career, is considered one of the surest picks in his class. Players at his position don't usually hear their names called early in the process – before Ezekiel Elliott,
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Rufus Wainwright reinterpreted Stevie Wonder's Motown soul classic "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" as an elegant piano ballad for L.A. charity The Art
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Saturday marks Donald Trump's 100th day in office, a milestone the president considers "ridiculous." While he doesn't have many achievements to tout – fewer even than William Henry Harrison, who died one month into his term, per
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Harry Styles announced he will go on a world tour at the end of the year. The trek begins with a 13-date North American theater leg, which kicks off September 19th in San Francisco and wraps October 14th in Phoenix, Arizona. A European leg begins October 25th in
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Katy Perry's bouncy new song "Bon Appetit" features Atlanta rap trio Migos. The track is the second single off Perry's upcoming follow-up to her 2013 album Prism.
Perry doles out double entendres: "Eat with your hands," "I'm on the menu," "Hope you got some room for the world's best cherry
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The 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will air on HBO this Sunday, April 29th. The ceremony took place in Brooklyn's Barclays Center on April 7th.
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Ariana Grande joins Norwegian producer/DJ Cashmere Cat for an effervescent new ballad, "Quit." The track will appear on Cashmere Cat's debut album, 9, which arrives
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In preparation of their seventh studio album, Fall Out Boy have released a cinematic clip for lead single "Young and Menace," the first single from their seventh studio album Mania set for release on September 15th.
A young girl raised by beast-like creatures is seen discovering her own
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Swedish synth-pop outfit Little Dragon unveiled a bizarre and engrossing new video for "Celebrate," off their new album, Season High.
The Ossian Melin-directed clip comprises a mess of bizarre images washed in psychedelic effects. Singer Yukimi Nagano dances to the infectious track on a
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Metal band Stone Sour tear through their new song "Fabuless" for a raging crowd of inflatable fans in the first video from the group's upcoming album, Hydrograd, out June 30th via Roadrunner.
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Haim plan to release their first album in four years, Something to Tell You, on July 7th. The trio announced the new record on Thursday and debuted the video for "Right Now," directed by acclaimed filmmaker Paul Thomas
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Bruce Springsteen has penned a touching tribute to filmmaker Jonathan Demme, who died on Wednesday of complications from esophageal cancer.
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Jonathan Demme, the Oscar-winning director of Philadelphia and The Silence of the Lambs and the filmmaker who revolutionized concert movies with his 1984 Talking Heads movie Stop Making Sense, died Wednesday morning from complications due to heart disease and esophageal cancer. He was 73.
Demme's family
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Jonathan Demme, 'Silence of the Lambs' and 'Philadelphia' Director, Dead at 73
Father John Misty's "Total Entertainment Forever" video is a maniacal LSD adventure starring Macaulay Culkin as a Christ-like
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This November, Wall of Sound Editions will publish Bruce Springsteen: Further up the Road, a collection of four decades of Springsteen photographs shot by Frank Stefanko. Many of the images are previously unreleased.
Stefanko has a longstanding working relationship with
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Bruce Springsteen Photographer Preps Book of Unreleased Images
For Prince fans who’ve been desperately waiting to hear unreleased music from his storied vault, that moment suddenly seemed to arrive last week. Out of nowhere, Rogue Music Alliance (RMA), a Vancouver-based independent label that has specialized in Christian music, announced it would
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Prince's 'Deliverance' Label Heads Talk EP Creation, Messy Aftermath
Remember how Serena Williams announced she was 20 weeks pregnant on Snapchat last week? If it wasn't clear by her quickly removing the photo – not quick enough for it to make the rounds on social media, of course – it turns out she posted it by
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When Metallica staged a three-night residency in Mexico City last month, they invited along a formidable opening artist: Iggy Pop. The singer did sets of Stooges songs and his solo material at each of the gigs, and joined the metal
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James Arthur belted his hit ballad "Say You Won't Let Go" on Tuesday's Tonight Show. The British singer-songwriter slowed down the tempo from the studio version and stripped back the arrangement to a somber acoustic guitar and piano.
Arthur showcased the full spectrum of his vocal talents, opening in a subdued croon and building to a climactic, soulful roar.
"Say You Won't
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch James Arthur Perform Somber 'Say You Won't Let Go' on 'Fallon'
Chicago rocker Ike Reilly sings the travel-ban blues in a scathing new anti-Trump song, "Bolt Cutter," that will see release via Tom Morello's Firebrand Records on April 28th.
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For 33 months, Studio 54 was the American bacchanal, an unprecedented mix of glamorous sophistication and primal hedonism. The brainchild of Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, the club opened in a onetime CBS soundstage on April 26th, 1977, and immediately became the epicenter of nightlife in New York City – and the world. The sex, drugs and disco on offer at Studio 54 served as the perfect
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Studio 54: 10 Wild Stories From Club's Debauched Heyday
Stax Records will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a string of releases designed to highlight the label's history and legendary soul sound and reunite its long-divided catalog. The year-long campaign is a collaboration between Rhino Entertainment and Concord Music Group
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Stax Records Plots Massive 60th Anniversary Campaign
Adam Levine led a moving tribute to late singer Christina Grimmie with a performance of the
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Blondie unveiled a sprawling and exhilarating rendition of "Fragments," the closing track from their upcoming LP, Pollinator, out May 5th.
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Hear Blondie's Roaring New Song 'Fragments'
Disney and Lucasfilm will release Star Wars: Episode IX May 24th, 2019, Variety reports. Disney announced the premiere date
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Disney Schedules Release Dates for 'Star Wars' Films, 'Frozen 2'
British indie duo Aquilo stopped by the Rolling Stone offices to deliver a powerful performance of "Sorry" from their debut studio album, Silhouettes.
The tender torch song finds singer/guitarist Tom Higham delivering an impressive
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The attorneys for deceased convicted murder and former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez filed a motion on Tuesday to have his 2015 murder conviction dismissed.
According to the Associated Press, Massachusetts Commonwealth law states that a conviction can be
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Aaron Hernandez's Lawyers Seek to Have Murder Conviction Dismissed
Adam Sandler has tapped Chris Rock for an upcoming Netflix film, The Week Of. Sandler recently expanded his Netflix streaming deal with four more new movies.
Frequent Happy
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Chris Rock, Adam Sandler to Star in Netflix Wedding Comedy 'The Week Of'
Detroit's Tee Grizzley is 2017's brightest rap upstart, thanks to his breakout hit "First Day Out." His hard-bitten, snapping rap style reflects years of pain as well as eventual redemption: Between 2015 and 2016, the man born Terry Wallace – who apparently earned his nickname for having a ferocious, brawling "grizzly" attitude while locked up – served an 18-month sentence for home invasion,
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Tee Grizzley: Detroit MC Finds Success Through Redemptive Jailhouse Rap
T-Pain has unleashed a furious new song, "See Me Comin." Dre Moon and X-Plosive co-produced the blistering track, which clocks in at under three minutes but bursts rumbling bass, hard-hitting drums and an uncompromising litany of bars from T-Pain.
T-Pain opens the track with an Auto-Tune-soaked growl,
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Hear T-Pain's Bruising New Song 'See Me Comin'
Baltimore synth-pop outfit Future Islands added another 20 North American tour dates to an already packed 2017 itinerary in support of their new album, The Far Field. The new dates
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If Doree Shafrir's entertaining debut novel Startup sounds like a familiar story – there's a reason for that.
This past February, former Uber engineer Susan J. Fowler wrote a blog post that instantly made headlines. Detailing her year at
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Sex, Lies and Tech: How New Novel Skewers Startup Culture
Iggy Pop watches over a troupe of troubled circus performers in the stark new trailer for the French film, Starlight. The Sophie Blondy-directed film first made the festival rounds in 2013 and will arrive on Blu-Ray and video-on-demand May 9th.
Pop plays an angel-type figure who appears throughout
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Iggy Pop's Angelic Turn in 'Starlight' Movie Trailer
