If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. With more and more people across the country getting vaccinated, life as we knew it before-Covid (BC) is slowly returning to normal. One of the biggest trends expected …
Read More »The Wildly Dishonest Coronavirus Montage Was Everything That Was Wrong With Day 1 of the RNC
Covid-19 has claimed the lives of over 175,000 Americans, but you wouldn’t know it from watching the first night of the Republican National Convention. Instead of shying away from addressing the Trump administration’s woeful mismanagement of the pandemic, the RNC painted the response as a success story, trotting out speaker …
Read More »Better Concert Livestreams Are Coming. But You'll Have to Pay for Them
Adam Weiner has just finished doing pushups in his underwear while singing Canadian punk band SNFU’s “Time to Buy a Futon” for 165 paying fans. “Whoo! I’m really schvitzing now,” Weiner, the frontman and songwriter for Philadelphia rock revivalist band Low Cut Connie, tells the camera, as he puts on …
Read More »Could a New Swine Flu Strain Mean a Second Pandemic?
Six months into the global COVID-19 outbreak, a study has come out documenting a relatively new strain of the H1N1 swine flu virus. The authors say this strain — G4 EA H1N1 — must be dealt with “urgently” in order to prevent a potential pandemic. At this point, the virus …
Read More »How Longtime Political Illustrator Victor Juhasz Started Sketching Essential Workers
Since finding himself in COVID-19 lockdown, Rolling Stone illustrator Victor Juhasz has been drawing the people who keep the gears of modern life turning. “We’re realizing that the people that we oftentimes disregard have actually become the essential workers,” Juhasz says. “The CEOs are not necessarily the important people. They’re …
Read More »Trevor Noah Slams Elon Musk for His Quarantine Tantrum
Elon Musk made headlines this week when he launched into a rant directed at California’s shelter-in-place mandate during a Tesla Q1 earnings call — and Trevor Noah was quick to poke fun at the tech entrepreneur on The Daily Show. On the earnings call, Musk criticized the state’s requirement that …
Read More »Megan Thee Stallion Talks New Album, 'Savage Challenge' on 'Fallon'
Megan Thee Stallion (and her adorable French bulldog Thor) called into Jimmy Fallon’s at-home Tonight Show on Monday night and announced that she’s working on a new album. “I’ve been recording [here in L.A.],” she said. “But you know, that’s the best thing about quarantine. I would have been working …
Read More »King Princess' Manager on Postponing the Singer's Harry Styles Dates (and Everything Else)
This is the second installment of Rolling Stone‘s Music in Crisisseries, which looks at how people all across the music industry are coping with thecoronaviruspandemic. ___ Early this year, King Princess — rising singer/songwriter Mikaela Straus, backed by a band of close friends — was preparing for a big European …
Read More »Marijuana Has Been Deemed 'Essential' — But Essential for Whom?
As the coronavirus spread across the country in March, and stay-at-home orders began to go into effect, every state with a regulated cannabis system allowed weed sales to continue in some form, deeming medical-marijuana businesses essential during the pandemic, along with groceries and pharmacies. This, The New York Times declared, …
Read More »The Best Streamed Performances of the Stay-at-Home Era
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues and millions remain quarantined around the globe, more and more musicians have joined the streaming trend — performing live from their couches, kitchens, and even bathrooms — while consoling fans. Even classic bands like the Grateful Dead are streaming archival concerts, reminding listeners of a …
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