The annals of rock & roll folklore are full of tough mothers, evil mothers, motorcycle mamas, mothers of invention. Although stars love to get sentimental over their mamas, there’s something special about the fearsome, badass maternal figures of rock & roll — whether it’s LL Cool J’s mama telling him …
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Stephen Colbert had another Stephen, acclaimed author Stephen King, on The Late Show Tuesday night, where he asked King how he was able to so accurately predict the coronavirus crisis. “People have been telling me for years that I sort of foresaw Donald Trump,” King said. “I wrote a book called The …
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“This is not the way TV is be supposed to be made.” This was Michael Schur, co-creator of Parks and Recreation, on a call with reporters earlier this week to discuss the improbable creation and production of A Parks and Recreation Special. The half-hour bonus episode of the beloved NBC …
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Earlier this week, Sting appeared with Shaggy on an installment ofRolling Stone’s In My Room IGTV series, and now, the artist and former Police frontman is back with his own video, where he called in from his home in Wiltshire, England. “I’m lucky enough to have a recording studio here, …
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One of the most troubling problems with the true-crime genre, if you ask the hosts of the megahit Last Podcast on the Left, can be summed up with the 2019 Netflix docuseries Conversations With a Killer, or, as co-host Marcus Parks calls it, “that fucking Ted Bundy series.” Parks and …
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To mark the fourth anniversary of Prince‘s death this week, the producers of the Grammys put together an all-star tribute to the Purple One with performances of his songs by John Legend, the Foo Fighters, St. Vincent, Morris Day and the Time, and many others. Strangely absent from the festivities, …
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On Saturday night, a multigenerational who’s who of hitmakers, including the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Lady Gaga, and Taylor Swift, performed for an audience of more than 270 million across all platforms as part of Global Citizen‘s One World: Together at Home. The last two hours of the …
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In the course of his 50-year career, John Prine influenced everyone from Bob Dylan to Bon Iver, Kacey Musgraves, Swamp Dogg, and others. The influence of Prine, who died last week from complications related to COVID-19, is clear in the latest installment of our In My Room series. We asked …
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The most satisfying beat drop of 2020 may come in a basketball documentary. Near the top of the first episode of The Last Dance, the 10-part ESPN docuseries about Michael Jordan and his G.O.A.T.-making run with the Chicago Bulls, Jordan is skipping into the Lakers’ visitors locker room after winning …
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Paul McCartney called on China to better regulate its so-called “wet markets” — one of which could have been the source of the COVID-19 outbreak — during an interview with Howard Stern Tuesday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. One of the earliest cases of the coronavirus was found in a …
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