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 …
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Thirty Seconds to Mars are celebrating the post-Covid-19 return to live music with a new video for “Hail to the Victor,” taken from their 2018 album America. The clip is a montage of footage from the band’s 2018-2019 world tour, showing off the massive stadium crowds that have been absent …
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Facing nearly eight months of no live music now, ticketing and promotion giant Live Nation Entertainment reported a 95% drop in revenue in its third quarter compared to the same time last year, the company said in its earnings report on Thursday. The stark figure, though somewhat expected, signals yet …
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In this week’s quarantine episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Juan Passarelli, a documentary filmmaker who recently released The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange. For this week’s Democrats Suck, Matt offers a clip of Democratic Vice Presidential nominee …
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Ian Anderson and his band Jethro Tull have signed an open letter to the U.K. government outlining the realities of the Covid-19 crisis for musicians and suggesting possible solutions for how to bring back live music. In the preface to his letter, Anderson notes that he had privately sent it …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright discussed the qualities of leadership needed during a time of crisis in an interview with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show Monday. The interview began with Albright recalling her childhood in England during World War II and discussing the trust the people had in …
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A group of Texas country acts, including Eli Young Band and Pat Green, are set to launch a new series of drive-in concerts at the Globe Life Field stadium — home of the Texas Rangers — outside Dallas in early June. The shows, dubbed Concert in Your Car, aim to …
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