If you talk to Tony Parilla, he’ll be the first to tell you that his New York City junkie credentials are impressive. He started shooting dope as a teenager, back when the North Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up was more Serpico than Girls, and the Lower East Side was …
Read More »Songwriter Lera Lynn on Duets Album 'Plays Well With Others,' Stylistic Evolution
Lera Lynn has a classic quandary on her hands at the moment: she can’t actually perform her latest album while she’s on tour. Plays Well With Others, released in June, paired Lynn with a wide assortment of duet partners, including John Paul White (who produced the album at his studio …
Read More »Ryan Gosling's Neil Armstrong Preps for NASA Mission in New 'First Man' Trailer
Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) weighs the personal risks and societal rewards of NASA’s moon mission in the latest trailer for First Man, director Damien Chazelle’s biopic about the pioneering astronaut. The clip opens with Armstrong singing an appropriate lullaby, “I See the Moon,” to his sleeping daughter, juxtaposed with an …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Ryan Culwell, “Can You Hear Me”
The lead single off Texas songwriter Ryan Culwell’s new album The Last Americandeftly sums up where we are as a society in 2018: a nation of detached, tech-addicted Tweeters desperate to find some kind of flesh-and-blood connection. For Culwell, that connection can even be alien contact; he opens the lyrics …
Read More »Pearl Jam, Mike Shinoda, Alessia Cara Join Suicide Prevention Campaign
Pearl Jam‘s Mike McCready and Stone Gossard, Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda, Stone Temple Pilots, Alessia Cara and 30 Seconds to Mars’ Jared Leto will participate in the second-annual suicide prevention and mental health awareness campaign “I’m Listening.” Radio network Entercom organized the multi-platform initiative, which will feature a two-hour broadcast …
Read More »Casting 'Michael Cohen,' the Movie
Two years ago, there was a fierce online debate over the cast of a future movie about the 2016 Republican presidential race, which would probably be called Clown Car! (although Every Which Way But Left and A Kochwork Orange were also strong suggestions). Twitter users attacked difficult questions like, “Could …
Read More »Nina Nesbitt Has Sound Advice for the Ladies in Acoustic Version of 'Loyal to Me'
Scottish singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt imparts some wisdom — and light gymnastics — in the video for her latest single, “Loyal to Me.” Nesbitt stopped by Rolling Stone headquarters to share an acoustic version of her cutting new song, as well as some background: inspired by Nineties R&B ballads, she wrote …
Read More »The DNC Says the Reported Hacking Attempt Was a False Alarm
Update 8/23/18:The supposed cyberattack targeting the DNC was a false alarm, according to the committee. The phony login page — initially thought to be a sophisticated phishing attempt to gain access to the party’s voter database — was in fact a test organized by the Michigan Democratic Party and run …
Read More »Hear Disclosure's Hypnotic New Song 'Moonlight'
UPDATE 2: Disclosure have shared another song titled “Love Can Be So Hard,” the Lawrence brothers’ third new track of the week. After “Moonlight” draw from a cappella acts from the 1940s and “Where Angels Fear to Tread” explored the Sixties, the latest track is “inspired by our love of …
Read More »Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty, Admits Trump Directed Election Influence
Michael Cohen has been under federal investigation for most of 2018. On Tuesday, he agreed to plead guilty to eight counts of bank fraud, tax fraud and campaign finance violations. The deal prosecutors reached with President Trump’s former personal attorney includes jail time and a fine. According to the New …
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