UPDATE (10/5): The Supreme Court will not hear the copyright dispute over Led Zeppelin‘s “Stairway to Heaven,” upholding a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that “Stairway” did not infringe on the band Spirit’s 1968 instrumental track, “Taurus.” ** Led Zeppelin have won the appeal in the copyright case over …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. There’s a reason why so many people like to dress in uniform. Whether your job mandates a dress code or you just prefer a utilitarian look, there’s something …
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Twitch unveiled a new feature on Wednesday to give streamers easy access to rights-cleared music, after months of being criticized for not licensing music. Named “Soundtrack,” the feature is essentially an in-house streaming platform: It arrives with a sizable library from artists like Porter Robinson, Above and Beyond and Mxmtoon, …
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Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon took on the unenviable task of responding live to the chaotic first debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden on their respective late-night shows Tuesday, September 29th. Colbert opened his monologue with a melodramatic distillation of the night’s mania, …
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Dr. Jane Goodall was Trevor Noah’s guest onThe Daily Show Tuesday night, discussing her continued work with the Gombe chimpanzees as well as her global efforts to bring awareness to climate change and poverty through the Jane Goodall Institute. When asked if our primate relatives have enacted the same devastating …
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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time in his lengthy wrestling and acting career, with Johnson announcing Sunday his support for Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris on Election Day. “As a political independent & centrist, I’ve voted for both parties in …
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Chris Stapleton evokes the chilly atmosphere of late-Nineties Radiohead with “Cold,” the latest release from his new album Starting Over. The follow-up to Stapleton’s two-part From A Room series, Starting Over will be released November 13th. Framed by an angular minor-key piano part played by the Heartbreakers’ Benmont Tench, “Cold” …
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Scotty McCreery didn’t have any idea he was playing the Ryman Auditorium’s last pre-pandemic show. For the most part, his March 11th performance at the historic Nashville venue was business as usual, with the country singer turning in a full set of hits for a lively, enthusiastic audience out front. …
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First-round Grammy voting gets underway on September 30th and runs through October 12th. For our2021 Grammy preview issue, we asked a series of likely contenders for next year’s awards to reflect on their past experiences at the ceremony, look ahead to the future, and discuss the albums and singles that …
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George Clooney, Dan Tyminski, Tim Blake Nelson, Chris Thomas King, and John Turturro are just a few of the names featured in the Coen Brothers’ 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?who will be reuniting for the film’s 20th anniversary next month. The digital event is part of the Nashville …
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