When Yes were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017, the surviving members of the band lined up behind a podium at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn and delivered the sorts of speeches you’d expect from veteran musicians who had waited decades for this moment of …
Read More »There's a Trump/Ukraine Quid Pro Quo Hiding in Plain Sight
Donald Trump has insisted, repeatedly, that there was no quid pro quo in his administration’s negotiations with the Ukranians and his pressing Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky for the “favor.” But there’s a quid pro quo hiding in plain sight in the cache of text messages released Thursday night by the …
Read More »Mark Ronson Courageously Comes Out of the Closet as … Sapiosexual
Some men are adept at intellectualizing their sexual desires; put another way, they spend an awful lot of time thinking and talking about what makes the blood flow to their peeners. John Mayer, who gave an infamous Playboyinterview referring to his “Benetton heart and David Duke cock,” is one such …
Read More »Ric Ocasek
This interview originally appeared in the April 17, 1997 issue of Rolling Stone You knew he was tall, but when Ric Ocasek walks out of the Blue Room at the Chung King House of Metal, in New York, you realize he’s impossibly tall — and reedlike to the point of …
Read More »The Bird and the Bee on the Poetry of Van Halen
Decades before Greg Kurstin was producing hits for Adele, Paul McCartney and the Foo Fighters, he was a preteen Van Halen diehard. “I saw them on their Diver Down tour,” he remembers. “I got to see them play ‘Unchained,’ and that was amazing. I was a massive Van Halen fan …
Read More »Scarlett Johansson on Woody Allen: 'He Maintains His Innocence, and I Believe Him'
Breaking with much of Hollywood, Scarlett Johansson has come forward to defend Woody Allen.Johansson, who starred in Allen’s Match Point, Scoop and Vicky Christina Barcelona, told the Hollywood Reporter that she would gladly work with the director again. “I love Woody,” Johansson said. “I believe him, and I would work …
Read More »How a Right-Wing Troll Managed to Manipulate the Mainstream Media
There’s a folksy saying that grandparents of all stripes like to dispense: If it looks like a duck and acts like a duck, then you shouldn’t be surprised when it starts quacking. Another, perhaps less folksy version of this idiom is Occam’s Razor, the theory that the simplest explanation for …
Read More »Law and Order President Said He Will Pardon Underlings Who Break the Law for Him
Despite a government shutdown, a national emergency declaration, and over four years of bluster from President Trump, construction has yet to begin on a wall along the southern border. The president is not happy, especially with the 2020 election is looming. According to a new report from the Washington Post, …
Read More »'Boz Scaggs' at 50: Inside the Making of a White-Soul Classic
Fifty years ago, a handful of milestone albums set the tone for rock of the following decade. Crosby, Stills & Nashinitiated a fresh approach to harmonies and looser group names; the eponymous debut by the Allman Brothers Band laid the foundation for the Southern rock of the Seventies. And setting …
Read More »'Star Wars' Confirms Ewan McGregor-Starring Obi-Wan Kenobi Series for Disney+
In addition to the new trailer for The Mandalorian, Disney+ confirmed that a new Star Wars series featuring Ewan McGregor reprising the role of a young Obi-Wan Kenobi is in the works. The franchise made the announcement Friday at the D23 expo, where Star Wars producer Kathleen Kennedy told the …
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