First-round Grammy voting gets underway on September 30th and runs through October 12th. For our 2021 Grammy preview issue, we asked a series of likely contenders for next year’s awards to reflect on their past experiences at the ceremony, look ahead to the future, and discuss the albums and singles …
Read More »'The Nest' Review: Screams From a Marriage
There’s a scene near the end of The Nest, Sean Durkin’s follow-up (finally) to 2011’s Marcy Martha May Marlene, in which Carrie Coon dances. She has been suffering through a business dinner in which her husband, a British commodities trader named Rory (Jude Law), is preening on about London’s theater …
Read More »Spotify Hops In on Music's Livestreaming Craze
“We’re making it easy for your fans to tune in wherever you are and wherever they are,” Spotify told artists in a blog post on Tuesday morning. The streaming service announced that artists can now list virtual events on their Spotify profiles, in an attempt to help mitigate the effects …
Read More »Trump Is on a 'Lying About Lying' Spree
Trump, as most know by now, is a Hall of Fame liar. A simple Google search of the president’s name and the word lie leads to a seemingly infinite scroll of articles that might just reach back to the creation of the Internet itself. But when Trump is cornered, as …
Read More »Flashback: Genesis Play 'Invisible Touch' Instrumental 'The Brazilian' at Wembley Stadium
The 1986 Genesis album Invisible Touch is the closest thing the band ever had to a Thriller. Not only did it sell by the millions to a wide demographic of fans, but it produced five huge singles (“Invisible Touch,” “Tonight Tonight Tonight,” “Land of Confusion,” “In Too Deep” and “Throwing …
Read More »The Future of Katy Perry – and the Future of Pop
Katy Perry— who just gave birth to her first child, and also released her sixth studio album, Smile —is at a career and personal crossroads, which we discuss in detail in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. The episode features Perry’s recent interview with Brittany Spanos (also captured …
Read More »Angela Bassett Remembers Chadwick Boseman: 'A Beautiful Spirit'
Angela Bassett, who played the mother of Chadwick Boseman’s character T’Challa in the film Black Panther, remembered the late actor following his death at the age of 43. “It was meant to be for Chadwick and me to be connected, for us to be family. But what many don’t know …
Read More »Best Movies/TV to See in Sep.: 'Ratched,' 'Antebellum,' New 'Fargo'
The only aspect of this year that’s felt like business as usual when it comes to entertainment? August was pretty dead. September, however, is another story. Moviegoers willing to risk the trip will finally get to see Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, at least in the parts of the country where theaters …
Read More »Juvenile's 400 Degrees of Fine Furniture
I’m about to hang up my Zoom call with Juvenile when shock spreads across the rapper’s face. He needs to show me one last thing. “You know I gotta let you see these pieces,” he exclaims. Situated in his suburban St. Louis backyard, Juvenile grins with pride as he pans …
Read More »How HBO's 'The Vow' Tells the Non-Sex-Cult Side of NXIVM
During the muggy last weeks of June 2019, Keith Raniere, the leader of the self-help organization NXIVM, sat in a downtown Brooklyn courthouse, owlish face peeking out from beneath a halo of pewter hair, looking like an overgrown prep-school boy in a jewel-toned crewneck, as prosecutors recounted a litany of …
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