Brendan Benson gets soaked in the animated video for “Richest Man.” The song is off his upcoming album Dear Life, out April 24th on Third Man Records. Directed by New York cartoonist Wartella, the clip features Benson in a dilapidated home as picture frames fall off the wall and a …
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Polly Samson — wife of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and his long-time co-lyricist — originally planned on promoting her new novel Theater for Dreamers with a large public event at Central Hall Westminster in London this week. When coronavirus shut-in orders made that impossible, she set up a livestream …
Read More »Tracy Morgan Says He's Roleplaying as the Scientist Who's Cured Coronavirus
“Me and my wife been quarantining here for like three weeks,” Tracy Morgan said Tuesday morning to Today Show anchor Hoda Kotb while filming a remote appearance. “So she’s pregnant three times. Every week, she got pregnant.” The comedian and actor has a long history of derailing live TV segments …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. With nationwide self-quarantine orders now in full effect due to COVID-19, most of us are stuck at home, as local officials mandate shelter-in-place orders in an effort to …
Read More »Bad Bunny Drops New Quarantine Song 'En Casita'
With COVID-19 sweeping the globe, Puerto Rico residents are under an especially strict lockdown — and Bad Bunny is no exception: The Latin Grammy-winning singer announced Saturday that he would reschedule his YHLQMDLG arena shows in Puerto Rico’s Estadio Hiram Bithorn for October 30th and 31st. In spite of the …
Read More »Hear Old Crow Medicine Show Make 'Nashville Rising' a Universal Rallying Cry
Old Crow Medicine Show provide a rallying cry for the city of Nashville and a message of positivity for the world at large in the new song “Nashville Rising.” The string band’s Ketch Secor wrote the song in the days following a deadly tornado that touched down in the city, …
Read More »With COVID-19, Life Got Even More Dangerous for People Addicted to Opioids
Louise Vincent of Greensboro, North Carolina, says methadone, a medication that curbs opioid cravings, lets her lead a normal life. “Methadone works best for me. It allows me to go to grad school,” she says. Vincent directs the North Carolina chapter of the Urban Survivors Unions, an organization of former …
Read More »Get Low: Finding the Best Bass Guitar Strings For the Way You Play
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. When it comes time to replace your strings, there are two extreme types of bassists: Those who re-string after every show (or as much as time and budget …
Read More »How Taylor Swift Is Helping a Small Nashville Record Store Survive
Like most small businesses that have had to shut down or alter their operations during the coronavirus pandemic, record stores have been forced to completely change the way they operate. Over the past two weeks, Nashville retailer Grimey’s New & Preloved Music, for example, has had to send its employees …
Read More »Spotify Gives Left-of-Center Country Artists a Home With New 'Indigo' Playlist
“There’s alternative, Triple-A and pop. So why can’t there be pop-country and country-country?” Nikki Lane once wondered to Rolling Stone Country. “We just need two genres.” With a new playlist, Spotify is hoping to answer that call. Indigo, launching Tuesday, will be the streaming giant’s conduit for “country-country” — where …
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