Aretha Franklin, who died on August 16th at age 76, recorded more than 40 full-length albums in her six-decade career. It’s a deep catalog, crowded with indisputable classics and hidden gems. Rolling Stone’s music staff is paying its R.E.S.P.E.C.T.s to the Queen with tributes to our favorite Aretha LPs. Next …
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Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora joins Steven Van Zandt for a rollicking rendition of Marvin Gaye’s “Can I Get a Witness” in the first clip from the new Blu-ray version of Van Zandt’sSoulfire Live!The concert video is expected to arrive later this year with a seven-LP vinyl box set. Van …
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Reggae’s justice-driven Rastafari icons like Bob Marley would have us Americans thinking Jamaica’s cannabis policy would reflect their cannabis-friendly culture. In fact, it’s taken decades for the Caribbean island’s government to finally legalize even just medical marijuana, to honor Rastafarians’ sacramental use of ganja, to support a nascent cannabis industry …
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Michael Jackson had to give up a little bit of space on his throne this week, when Post Malone broke a record that The King of Pop held for 34 years. The 23-year-old rapper whose name has crept slowly and then very rapidly into the mainstream in recent years just …
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Radio’s reluctance to take a chance on unknown, independent acts is almost cliche at this point: The airwaves are dominated by a few major-label records that are played into the ground. But along comes Esnavi, whose independently-released “The Way” is getting played by two brave R&B stations, WBLS in New …
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Eurythmics singer-songwriter Annie Lennox released a statement Thursday honoring the life of Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday at age 76 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Both lifelong champions of women’s rights, Lennox sang beside Franklin on their 1985 duet, “Sisters Are Doin’ it for Themselves.” The song featured on …
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Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Cynthia Erivo and Elizabeth Debicki unite to tackle their late criminal husbands’ unfinished job in the new trailer for director Steve McQueen‘s upcoming thriller Widows. The unsettling clip opens with Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta)’s antagonist threatening Davis’ character, Veronica. “You have no idea, do you? Or …
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On Monday afternoon in Amalia, New Mexico, up a rocky stretch of dirt road, the land is quiet, the only noise coming from cicadas and news crews walking on clay to the entrance of an abandoned compound. The property is littered with debris from the people who once lived here …
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Last Monday, Aubry “Big Juice” Delaine went into the studio for a marathon recording session with Nicki Minaj. He didn’t leave again until Thursday night, when they had finally completed the rapper’s new Queen album, which hit streaming services Friday around noon. Delaine has served as Minaj’s go-to recording engineer …
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Thursday night marked the first full slate of NFL preseason games, as well as the litmus test for what could be one of the most contentious seasons in the league’s history. The offseason was dominated by talk of how the league and its teams might discipline players who choose to …
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