Get Ready for a Music-Making ‘Arms Race’ in 2021

Beatport’s acquisition of Loopmasters may have just fired the starter pistol on an acquisition frenzy in sector of “sample packs,” plugins, and other modern technologies that have… | Continue reading


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‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ At 20: How the Soundtrack Reinforced a Music Myth

It sold more than eight million copies and won the Grammy for Album of the Year, but the collection of old-timey music mistakenly equated primitive sounds with authenticity | Continue reading


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Rentahitman.com

You’d think no one would be stupid enough to book a murderer-for-hire on a website called RentAHitman.com. Bob Innes is here to tell you people are a lot dumber than you realize | Continue reading


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Vice President Biden’s platform offers progressive solutions to every major problem facing the country, and he has the experience to put those principles into practice | Continue reading


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OnlyFans Popularity Spreads as Performers Take to TikTok

But content creators on the largely NSFW site warn making a living on OnlyFans is harder than it looks | Continue reading


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The 39th president said the ‘Citizens United’ ruling ‘violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system’ | Continue reading


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Allie Brosh is back with a new book

In 2014, Brosh had a wildly popular blog, a published book, and a devoted fanbase for her writing and cartoons, often layering humor over topics of mental health. Now, she’s filling her reade… | Continue reading


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Pay-for-Play Was Banned from Radio – But Texts Reveal It May Still Be Thriving

Among the 2,500 text messages obtained by Rolling Stone, several suggest a link between airplay and record label payments | Continue reading


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A liberal communications guru explains why playing into Trump’s demagoguery on the election or mass protests only helps his cause — and hurts Joe Biden’s chances of winning | Continue reading


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No.19: Utopia, 40 Best Science Fiction TV Shows of All Time

From superhero shows and space operas to creepy anthology series, the greatest small-screen sci-fi of all time | Continue reading


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Rolling Stone – The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

The classics are still the classics, but the canon keeps getting bigger and better | Continue reading


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Touting “the racehorse theory” and the superiority of the genes of white Minnesotans, Trump explicitly embraced eugenics | Continue reading


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9/20, the Holiday for Psychedelic Mushrooms

LSD has 4/19, and cannabis has 4/20. Now, there’s an autumnal celebration for psilocybin | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 4 years ago

The Oceans Are Warming Fast, and Our Lives Are About to Change

Vanishing coral reefs, intensifying hurricanes, rising seas — new studies confirm the toll of climate change | Continue reading


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How 'Cuties' Is Fueling the Far Right's Obsession with Pedophilia

The fight against sex trafficking has become politicized, and the misplaced outrage could be protecting actual child predators | Continue reading


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Steve Jobs in 1994: The Rolling Stone Interview

Even at one of the low points in his career, Jobs still had confidence in the limitless potential of personal computing | Continue reading


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Data Shows 90% of Streams Go to the Top% of Artists

Streaming hasn’t just upheld the gap between music’s haves and have-nots; it’s widened it. | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 4 years ago

Loving the Alien – How UFO Culture Took over America

How UFO culture took over America | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 4 years ago

Singer behind reggae standards “54-46 Was My Number,” “Pressure Drop,” “Funky Kingston” and “Monkey Man” succumbs to coronavirus complications | Continue reading


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‘Lean in’ Feminism Created Elizabeth Holmes and the Toxic Ladyboss

The Theranos founder’s specific brand of corporate feminism sets an example for us all | Continue reading


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“It was an old calypso that was a favorite of mine and I thought was appropriate for now,” New York Dolls singer says of reimagined Gypsy song | Continue reading


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Blocking ballots, intimidating voters, spreading misinformation — undermining democracy is at the heart of Trump’s 2020 campaign | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 4 years ago

Chadwick Boseman Dead at 43

Get On Up, Marshall actor succumbs to colon cancer after four-year battle | Continue reading


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Justin Townes Earle, Americana Singer-Songwriter, Dead at 38

Nashville native, known for his mix of old-timey roots music and modern folk-rock, was the son of Steve Earle | Continue reading


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Wall Street Is Looting the American Retirement System

The Trump administration is opening up retirement funds to private equity — at workers’ expense | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 4 years ago

The Great American Bubble Machine (2010)

From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression — and they’re about to do it again | Continue reading


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The Beatles' Breakup and Why Their Music Matters 50 Years Later

Fifty years ago, the Beatles went through rock’s most famous breakup. Inside the heartbreak, the brotherhood, and why the music still matters | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 4 years ago

The Unraveling of America

Anthropologist Wade Davis on how COVID-19 signals the end of the American era | Continue reading


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Who loses big in the great streaming wars? The user.

In an ever-expanding world of TV services, it’s only getting harder to find what you want | Continue reading


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Who's Allowed to Use Airbnb?

Airbnb owns an algorithm that can scrub their platform of those who are deemed “untrustworthy” — and sex workers, for one, say this is just the latest instance of discrimination against… | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 4 years ago

Plot Against America: GOP’s Plan to Suppress the Vote and Sabotage the Election

Blocking ballots, intimidating voters, spreading misinformation — undermining democracy is at the heart of Trump’s 2020 campaign | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 4 years ago

Man Out of Time: The Music and Mystery of David Blue

Bob Dylan befriended him, Joni Mitchell helped support him, and the Eagles covered one of his songs. So why did success elude the late singer-songwriter? | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 4 years ago

“It would be nice if a reunion could happen,” says Frantz as he reflects on his time in the legendary band, “because unlike many of our contemporaries, we’re all still alive… | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 4 years ago

Another appreciative Apple TV+ “Little Voice” review

The new series from AppleTV+ is a charming take on the struggles of a young singer — featuring music written by a very well established one | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 4 years ago

Why Policing Is Broken

Years of research on brutality cases shows that bad incentives in politics and city bureaucracies are major drivers of police violence | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 4 years ago

TikTok Hit Threatens the Major Label System

Waters is remaining happily independent as “Stunnin'” racks up streams | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 4 years ago

MeWe, Where Anti-Vaxxers and Conspiracy Theorists Thrive

What would social media look like without all the oversight? | Continue reading


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Isolation May Hurt America's Ability to Fight Coronavirus

America faces a hidden epidemic of loneliness that may make us more vulnerable to the pandemic | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 4 years ago

Todd’s Honest Truth will debut on June 22nd and run every two weeks | Continue reading


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Are We on the Verge of a Nuclear Breakdown? (2015)

Air Force officers at America’s nuke sites work 24-hour-shifts in antique underground capsules launching fake attacks straight out of ‘Strangelove’ — and they’re ready to bl… | Continue reading


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The Washington state governor compares Trump’s coronavirus denialism to FDR “saying that Pearl Harbor was a hoax and that the Japanese were going to surrender miraculously the next Mond… | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 4 years ago

Half of Fox News Viewers Believe Bill Gates Wants to Use Vaccine to Track You

Misinformation is taking a dangerous hold on Fox News viewers | Continue reading


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Twitter's Jack Dorsey Is Giving Andrew Yang $5M to Boost UBI

Dorsey, who backed Yang’s presidential run, says he wants his donation to drive more experimentation about UBI in the U.S. | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 4 years ago

Nice state you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if something were to happen to it … | Continue reading


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Authorized Buddy Holly Biopic 'Clear Lake' in the Works

Driving Miss Daisy director to helm film about 1958 Biggest Show of Stars tour | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 4 years ago

How the Covid-19 Bailout Gave Wall Street a No-Lose Casino

While ordinary Americans face record unemployment and loss, the COVID-19 bailout has saved the very rich | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 4 years ago

The White House’s inability to track the disease as it spread across the nation crippled the government’s response and led to the worst disaster this country has faced in nearly a century | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 4 years ago

Pianist-singer behind “Tutti Frutti,” “Good Golly Miss Molly” and “Long Tall Sally” set the template that a generation of musicians would follow | Continue reading


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