This column is a collaboration with DoubleBlind, a print magazine and media company at the forefront of the psychedelic movement. At this point, there’s no question: researchers, investors, and stakeholders agree that psychedelics will be legal as pharmaceuticals in the next decade. The FDA has already granted both MDMA, the …
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Metallica and My Chemical Romance will headline the 2021 Aftershock festival. Both bands had been scheduled to topline this year’s edition before it was canceled over safety concerns; Metallica will play two unique sets during the four-day event. Rancid, Social Distortion, Suicidal Tendencies, L7, and Limp Bizkit, among others, will …
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Plenty of artists have taken to shooting their music videos at home during Covid-19, but for Miranda Lambert, the unfortunate circumstances of the pandemic have presented a unique opportunity to flex. In her new music video for “Settling Down,” directed by Trey Fanjoy, Lambert shows off her impressive farm outside …
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A TV series based on Tegan and Sara‘s High School — their memoir that traces the Quin sisters’ teenage years and the twins finding their respective voices both musically and through their personal journeys — is in the works, as Deadline reports. Adapted from their memoir and written by Clea …
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Social distancing protocols have made actions such as exposing oneself to horrified observers more difficult, if not impossible. But if nothing else, the pandemic is testament to the indefatigability of the human spirit, and when there is a will, there is a way. Famed legal analyst, The Run of His …
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21 Savage and Metro Boomin‘s Savage Mode II spent a second week at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. The album amassed 81.6 million streams and 1,400 downloads, just enough to beat out Pop Smoke‘s posthumous release Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon, which …
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O n May 27th, the second day of mounting national outrage over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, the president of America’s largest evangelical university decided it was the perfect time to blast out a tweet featuring the crudest of racial imagery. “I was adamantly opposed to the …
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Mary J. Blige has released the powerful “See What You’ve Done,” from the new documentary Belly of the Beast. Co-written by Blige, Nova Wav, and DJ Camper, the track opens with warm piano chords. “What’s goin’ on,” Blige sings. “When I gotta fight for a right that is rightfully mine?/What’s …
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Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …
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Billy Strings hasn’t allowed the pandemic to completely quash his live game. The guitar prodigy has been consistently playing concerts — some virtual, some socially distanced or drive-in — since July. On Wednesday, Strings announced his latest show, a two-hour, crowdless livestream from Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Set for Sunday, October …
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