When Ginger Baker was a teenager, his life was transformed in two lasting ways. While at a party around age 15, he was encouraged to sit down at a drum kit and play; classmates had noticed he would drum on his desktop and thought he’d be good at it. Before …
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Grace VanderWaal stopped byRolling Stone to detail how she wrote her song “Ur So Beautiful” for our series The Breakdown. The 15-year-old recently wrapped a short tour named after the song. VanderWaal revealed that the song is based on her own experiences. “That’s always what I do with my writing,” …
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Halfway through our tour of the Museum of Weed, an interactive cannabis education hub that opened in Los Angeles this month, things started to get a little, well, heady. As Weedmaps‘ Madeline Donegan, the executive director of the museum, passed us through an exhibit detailing California’s Compassionate Use Act and …
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Twin-sister indie-pop duo Tegan and Sara tell their “origin story” in the upcoming memoir High School. The siblings wrote the book together, alternating chapters, and across more than 350 pages, they recount their formative years, and the beginnings of their musical collaboration. “High School provides a purview of the queer …
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With a majority of House Democrats now supporting an impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump, the House Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on Wednesday on a resolution that would establish parameters and procedures for future hearings. According to Politico, the coming resolution was discussed by committee Democrats during a …
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Halsey, Lizzo, Shawn Mendes and Tegan and Sara are among the artists taking part in “I’m Listening,” a radio program that aims to raise mental health awareness. The two-hour, commercial-free broadcast special will air on 235 Entercom stations on September 8th – the beginning of National Suicide Prevention Week – …
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Rolling Stone is pleased to announce a launch this week of Useful Idiots, a news and politics podcast co-hosted by Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper. Useful Idiots is an iconoclastic take on the political podcast. Imagine a standard cable-news commentary show, and we’ll be shooting for its opposite. We’ll be …
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The guitar Duane Allman played on Derek and the Dominoes’ classic “Layla” recently sold at auction for $1 million. Allman, Number Nine on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists list, also played the 1957 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop – which had been on display at the Allman Brothers’ Big House museum …
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When Brandi Carlile and Amanda Shires formed the Highwomen as the female answer to the male country supergroup the Highwaymen, their first order of business may have been considered blasphemy by some: rewriting “Highwayman,” the 1985 theme song of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson’s all-star band. …
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A “director’s cut” edition of Solange‘s visual album When I Get Home will screen at art museums and theaters across the U.S. beginning next week. The extended version of the short film, released in March to coincide with the release of the singer’s new album, will feature “new scenes and …
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