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Yasiin Bey has stepped back from his role portraying Thelonious Monk in an upcoming biopic after the jazz legend’s estate issued a statement to “condemn” the unauthorized film. On Wednesday, production company Jupiter Rising Film revealed to Rolling Stone that the rapper-actor formerly known as Mos Def would play the …

Our prettier Jesus has risen again, this time with a tender gem about getting older and contemplating your decisions. 2021 is the year of songwriters dropping heart-wrenching ballads as singles — Lucy Dacus’ “Thumbs,” Clairo’s “Blouse,” and now, Lorde’s “Stoned at the Nail Salon.” We knew when Lorde revealed the …

The #FreeBritney movement continues to make waves in Congress. U.S. Representatives Nancy Mace (a Republican from South Carolina) and Charlie Crist (a Democrat from Florida) have introduced the bipartisan Freedom and Right to Emancipate from Exploitation (FREE) Act, which aims to establish federal safeguards for conservatees. The FREE Act has …

Florida resident Paul Hodgkins, who carried a Trump flag into the Senate chamber on January 6th and took a selfie, received an eight-month prison sentence for his involvement in the Capitol attack. He is the first participant to earn a felony sentence for the events of January 6th and may …

Beastie Boys and Biz Markie were both New York hip-hop pioneers, so it’s natural they spent a lot of time together. The two artists often shared a stage, including a 1988 Madison Square Garden show where Biz performed an inimitable version of Elton John’s “Bennie and The Jets.” (That version …

Melissa Etheridge has shared her new video for “For the Last Time,” the second single from the singer’s upcoming album One Way Out. The video shows Etheridge and her band recording the unearthed track in the studio; on One Way Out, Etheridge revisited nine tracks she wrote and demoed in …

In 1997, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera was on the defensive. Locked up for the past five years, cornered by enemies, isolated from his family by the enemy gunmen he worried could be lurking outside the prison walls, and living in perpetual fear of being extradited to the United States, …

Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …

Pink Floyd did an incredibly poor job documenting their Seventies stadium tours, leaving it up to their fans to preserve them in video and audio form for future generations. Unfortunately, amateur recording equipment of the era was difficult to sneak past security, let alone operate properly, and your average Floyd …

WASHINGTON — Democracy dies live on C-SPAN. That’s how it felt on Tuesday as the public watched Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and 49 other Senate Republicans use the filibuster to block any debate on the For the People Act, an 800-page mega-bill intended to combat dark money, voter suppression, …