On a warm June evening, Lily Marotta and Steven Phillips-Horst, comedian hosts of the podcast Celebrity Book Club with Steven and Lily, are talking over each other at Cafe Mogador in Manhattan. “That’s why we love the East Village, because we feel like — ” Marotta says. “We’re total Patti …
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Early on a February morning in 1922, silent film director William Desmond Taylor was found dead from a gunshot wound in his apartment in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles. The murder, which remains unsolved, became a national scandal in an already depraved era of the movie industry. At least …
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This piece originally appeared as part ofRolling Stone’s annual Hot List, in the July/August issue of the magazine. Catherine Townsend’s career — dating columnist, private investigator, true-crime podcast host — is straight out of a hard-boiled detective novel. But, as she notes, the jobs do intersect. “I think there’s no …
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Welcome to Too Long; Didn’t Watch, the new TV podcast produced by Rolling Stone and OBB Sound, presented by Google Assistant, and hosted by yours truly. In each episode, we attempt a new method of scaling Peak TV, by pairing a celebrity guest with a series they’ve never seen and …
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In 1967, Marvin Gaye was the reigning prince of Motown, belting out chart-storming love anthems alongside duet partner Tammi Terrell. Three years later, he was locked in a tense stand-off with label president Berry Gordy over the direction of his art, one that would change the course of popular music …
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iHeartMedia and Blumhouse Television have announced the release ofAaron Mahnke’s 13 Days of Halloween, a fiction podcast starring Keegan-Michael Key. Premiering on October 19th and airing during the 13 days leading up to this year’s Halloween, the iHeartMedia podcast will release a new episode each day. Set in the purgatorial …
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A new podcast will delve into the story of a group of preppy investors known as the “Billionaire Boys Club” who went from pulling get-rich-quick schemes to committing murder during the 1980s. The six-episode series will premiere August 18th with new episodes dropping every Tuesday (the whole series is currently …
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This 12-part podcast from How Stuff Worksfollows Melissa Moore, who was raised as Melissa Jesperson, a writer from Washington State who also happens to be the daughter of Canadian-born serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, a.k.a. the Happy Face Killer. Jesperson, a six-foot-six truck driver who spent much of his life …
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