In the latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we break down Rolling Stone’s recent ranking of the greatest music videos of all time (topped by Beyoncé‘s “Formation”). Our panel also looks back at how the arrival of MTV reshaped the music industry, as well as the look …
Read More »Hear Our Podcast on the Bombastic Genius of 'Bat Out of Hell' Creator Jim Steinman
The late songwriter Jim Steinman was a genre in his own right, with his over-the-top creations ranging from Meat Loaf‘s Bat Out of Hell to Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” to a tragically never-produced Batman musical. In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Rob Sheffield (who …
Read More »Useful Idiots: Thomas Chatterton Williams on the Open Letter on Cancel Culture
In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by journalist Thomas Chatterton Williams, who was instrumental in the recentHarper’s open letter. Our hosts break down the discrepancies in CNN analyses of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo — from Jake Tapper on one side, …
Read More »Official Grateful Dead Podcast Examines Creation of 'Workingman's Dead'
The Grateful Dead have launched an official podcast that will first examine the creation of the band’s 1970 LP Workingman’s Dead. The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast, available on all podcast platforms, is hosted by musician Rich Mahan and rock journalist Jesse Jarnow. Each episode of the first season will focus …
Read More »'Monster: D.C. Sniper' Podcast to Go Inside the 2002 Month of Terror
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, and the subsequent Anthrax attacks, America was on edge. Terrorists had breached the boarder — were they going to do it again? In October 2002, when a man in Washington, D.C., was shot in a grocery store parking lot, and five more seemingly …
Read More »'Wine and Crime' Finds Devoted Audience of Mostly Women
Hosted by childhood friends Lucy Fitzgerald, Kenyon Laing and Amanda Jacobson, the Wine and Crime podcast, which launched in February 2017, is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a discussion of various true crimes, ranging from the bizarre (think Russian necrophiliacs) to the more serious (an episode devoted to …
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