The high-flying hip-hop producer Swizz Beatz released “Pistol On My Side,” a boisterous collaboration with Lil Wayne, on Friday. The track will appear on Swizz Beatz’s upcoming solo album, Poison,his first full-length since 2007. “Pistol on My Side” opens with an ostentatious orchestral passage, as if it’s the theme to …
Read More »Norm Macdonald Explains #MeToo Comments During Awkward 'View' Interview
Norm Macdonald once again attempted to explain his controversial remarks about the #MeToo movement during an awkward appearance on The View Thursday. The comediandrew criticism for his comments in a recent Hollywood Reporter interview where he said he was “happy the #MeToo movement has slowed down a bit.” He also …
Read More »Listen to Our Celebration of 20 Years of Britney's '…Baby One More Time'
DA-dun-dun! Twenty years ago this October, a Louisiana-bred, not-quite 17-year-old Mickey Mouse Club vet named Britney Spears released her Swedish fireball of a debut single, “…Baby One More Time” – and the Nineties as we knew them were instantly over. On the latest episode of the Rolling Stone Music Now …
Read More »Dillon Francis Drops Radiant New Video for 'White Boi' Featuring Lao Ra
Los Angeles DJ-producer Dillion Francis released a video for his new single, “White Boi,” featuring vocals by Colombian pop singer Lao Ra. Sung in both English and Spanish, “White Boi” is one of a few bilingual cuts from Francis’ upcoming album, Wut Wut.The album follows Francis’ 2014 debut,Money Sucks, Friends …
Read More »The 1975 Detail New LP 'A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships'
The 1975 have detailed their upcoming third album A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, revealing the LP’s 15-song track list and impending release date. The album, the follow-up to 2016’s I Like it When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It, arrives November 30th and …
Read More »Olivia Newton-John Opens Up About Third Battle With Cancer
Olivia Newton-John opened up about battling cancer for a third time in a new interview. The Grease actress, who faced breast cancer in 1992 and secretly fought a reemergence of the same disease in her shoulder in 2013, discussed her latest cancer fight with Australia’s Sunday Night. In 2017, doctors …
Read More »Revisiting Hours: 'Burn After Reading' and How the Coens Predicted Our Current Mess
Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie that’s available to stream or download and worth seeing again through the lens of our current moment. We’re calling the series “Revisiting Hours” — consider this Rolling Stone’s unofficial film club. This week: Kevin Lincoln on Joel and Ethan Coen‘s 2008 epic of …
Read More »Ruston Kelly on New Album 'Dying Star' and Why Women Are Superior Songwriters
“I wouldn’t have been able to make this record unless I got clean, unless I found what sobriety meant to me. Not what it meant for someone else.” Ruston Kelly is sitting at a corner table at a popular neighborhood pub in East Nashville. He has a natural ease about …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Thom Yorke, 'Suspirium'
If you’re a filmmaker who’s just talked a member of Radiohead into scoring your next movie, go ahead and celebrate. If it’s Jonny Greenwood, you’re in for a major avant-garde monument (There Will Be Blood) and/or a delightful set piece (Phantom Thread). (There’s also a good chance you’re Paul Thomas …
Read More »See Arin Ray Channel Crime Thrillers in 'Communication' Video
Arin Ray, a former X Factor contestant turned R&B songwriter turned frontman, gets caught in a dangerous love triangle in his new video for “Communication.” “Communication” is far and away the best song on Ray’s debut album, Platinum Fire, which came out in March. It’s minimal — little more than …
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