Back in March, Rolling Stone published an extensive report on the direction and production of The Idol — HBO’s upcoming troubled pop star saga starring Lily-Rose Depp and the Weeknd, helmed by Euphoria creator Sam Levinson. Interviews with 13 members of the show’s cast and crew revealed troubling claims that the show had taken an overwhelmingly dark turn: One source described some potential scenes as “sexual torture porn,” while another said the show went from “a dark satire of fame and the fame model” to “the thing it was satirizing.
- 5/16/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Stream Free: Here’s How to Get Paramount+ With Your Walmart+ Membership to Watch Your Favorite Shows
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Here’s the cold, hard truth: While you’ve been spending extra cash on your annual Amazon Prime membership, you could’ve been saving yourself money on everything from groceries to gas with Walmart’s very own $98 annual membership plan, dubbed Walmart+. Even better, the store’s membership includes a free subscription to Paramount+ to boot — no strings attached.
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Here’s the cold, hard truth: While you’ve been spending extra cash on your annual Amazon Prime membership, you could’ve been saving yourself money on everything from groceries to gas with Walmart’s very own $98 annual membership plan, dubbed Walmart+. Even better, the store’s membership includes a free subscription to Paramount+ to boot — no strings attached.
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- 5/12/2023
- by John Lonsdale
- Rollingstone.com
The Joe Bob Briggs episode of the Wtf Happened to This Horror Celebrity? video series (formerly known as Where in the Horror Are They Now) was Written and Narrated by Jessica Dwyer and Edited by Victoria Verduzco. It was Produced by John Fallon and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.
There’s a gold standard that horror hosts are held to. The icons become as popular as the movies that they show. Zacherley, Elvira, and Vampira are some of the names that come to mind, all of them inherently macabre in their own way. Most horror hosts have something ooky and spooky about them. And then there’s the one and only Joe Bob Briggs. Joe Bob is his own sort of creature, a Drive In Cowboy who loves blood, breasts, and beasts… and going on long, amazing rants about all the things he has a problem with in the world.
There’s a gold standard that horror hosts are held to. The icons become as popular as the movies that they show. Zacherley, Elvira, and Vampira are some of the names that come to mind, all of them inherently macabre in their own way. Most horror hosts have something ooky and spooky about them. And then there’s the one and only Joe Bob Briggs. Joe Bob is his own sort of creature, a Drive In Cowboy who loves blood, breasts, and beasts… and going on long, amazing rants about all the things he has a problem with in the world.
- 5/12/2023
- by Jessica Dwyer
- JoBlo.com
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In auto racing, just as in life, getting to the finish line isn’t always a one-way street. No one knows that better than Angelo Baque, the New York-based designer who parlayed decades of experience in the retail industry and a 10-year stint at Supreme into his own alternative streetwear brand, Awake NY.
Born in Queens and raised in the New York menswear scene, Baque has always had...
In auto racing, just as in life, getting to the finish line isn’t always a one-way street. No one knows that better than Angelo Baque, the New York-based designer who parlayed decades of experience in the retail industry and a 10-year stint at Supreme into his own alternative streetwear brand, Awake NY.
Born in Queens and raised in the New York menswear scene, Baque has always had...
- 5/11/2023
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
Live music fans hoping to see everyone from the Foo Fighters and Kendrick Lamar to Shania Twain and The 1975 will head south for the Austin City Limits music festival this fall. With tickets now on sale, the annual Acl fest will run once again over two weekends at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas, from October 6-8 and the 13-15.
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If you want to score tickets to see your favorite artists and bands perform in Austin, general admission and VIP passes for Acl officially went...
Buy Acl Tickets at Vivid Seats
If you want to score tickets to see your favorite artists and bands perform in Austin, general admission and VIP passes for Acl officially went...
- 5/9/2023
- by John Lonsdale
- Rollingstone.com
Alicia Keys is taking “If I Ain’t Got You” to the 1700s. On Monday, the singer celebrated the 20th anniversary of the classic — and the premiere of Queen Charlotte on Netflix — by performing the track alongside an orchestra made up of 74 women of color.
Donning a Victorian dress, Keys is seen walking up to a piano before she begins to sing the lyrics to her The Diary of Alicia Keys classic while performing it on the keys, as she’s joined by the regal orchestra.
“‘If I Ain’t...
Donning a Victorian dress, Keys is seen walking up to a piano before she begins to sing the lyrics to her The Diary of Alicia Keys classic while performing it on the keys, as she’s joined by the regal orchestra.
“‘If I Ain’t...
- 5/8/2023
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
When TV shows aren’t popular, they get canceled — at least that’s the precedent set by years of broadcast and cable programming. But in the current era of streaming services, a surplus of shows, and an evaporating pile of cash, has created an overwhelming wave of cancellations completely at odds with shows’ viewership, popularity, or quality. For the average viewer, this might just mean pressing play on something new. But online, small but tight-knit fandoms have taken it upon themselves to face down streaming giants over their beloved shows.
- 5/1/2023
- by CT Jones
- Rollingstone.com
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Succession, “Living+.”
“Living+” opens with a startling image: Logan Roy, seemingly alive and relatively well — albeit in his usual foul mood — recording a pitch for the titular product, Waystar’s attempt to recreate a cruise ship experience on dry land. It’s enough to make one think of a cinematic disaster from one of Waystar Studio’s rivals:
Logan is, of course, still dead. This is merely archival, extremely raw footage, which is being edited into something that will be...
“Living+” opens with a startling image: Logan Roy, seemingly alive and relatively well — albeit in his usual foul mood — recording a pitch for the titular product, Waystar’s attempt to recreate a cruise ship experience on dry land. It’s enough to make one think of a cinematic disaster from one of Waystar Studio’s rivals:
Logan is, of course, still dead. This is merely archival, extremely raw footage, which is being edited into something that will be...
- 5/1/2023
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
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Coachella is always full of buzz-worthy performances (and equally as buzzy celeb sightings — Shawn and Camilla, we’re looking at you). But amidst the hustle and bustle of the fest, you’ll find Grammy-nominated artist Amber Mark away from the chaos, taking a break at the official Aperol Piazza to sip on a cool, bubbly spritz.
But this is just the calm before the touring storm — Mark is...
Coachella is always full of buzz-worthy performances (and equally as buzzy celeb sightings — Shawn and Camilla, we’re looking at you). But amidst the hustle and bustle of the fest, you’ll find Grammy-nominated artist Amber Mark away from the chaos, taking a break at the official Aperol Piazza to sip on a cool, bubbly spritz.
But this is just the calm before the touring storm — Mark is...
- 4/25/2023
- by Sage Anderson
- Rollingstone.com
Twitter’s verification process under the ownership of Elon Musk faces fresh backlash after accidentally verifying an explicit account that claimed to be linked to Disney.
The account, which used the handle @DisneyJuniorUK, possessed a gold verification badge – which is used to confirm the legitimacy of official organizations on the social media site.
But it appears that the site – which has undergone huge and controversial overhauls since being purchased by Musk for $44 billion last year – mistook it as belonging to the House Of Mouse.
It comes days after the site...
The account, which used the handle @DisneyJuniorUK, possessed a gold verification badge – which is used to confirm the legitimacy of official organizations on the social media site.
But it appears that the site – which has undergone huge and controversial overhauls since being purchased by Musk for $44 billion last year – mistook it as belonging to the House Of Mouse.
It comes days after the site...
- 4/24/2023
- by Rolling Stone UK
- Rollingstone.com
Jessica Burstein, the veteran photographer who helped capture the Law & Order franchise, has died following a battle with lung cancer. She was 76.
She died April 11 at her home in Manhattan, her sister Patricia Burstein told The New York Times.
Born on April 7, 1947, in Mineola, New York, Burstein grew up in nearby Lawrence. After she graduated from NYU in 1968, she worked for commercial photographer Bert Stern for several years. Then, in 1974, she was believed to be the first woman to work as a staff photographer at NBC.
It wasn’t until the early ’90s that Burstein met Dick Wolf, the creator of Law & Order. He ended up hiring her to photograph the weekly crime scenes for the original series and eventually became its photographer from 1994-2010, when the show was canceled. (It was revived in 2022.) She also photographed the spinoffs, including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit until 2007 and...
She died April 11 at her home in Manhattan, her sister Patricia Burstein told The New York Times.
Born on April 7, 1947, in Mineola, New York, Burstein grew up in nearby Lawrence. After she graduated from NYU in 1968, she worked for commercial photographer Bert Stern for several years. Then, in 1974, she was believed to be the first woman to work as a staff photographer at NBC.
It wasn’t until the early ’90s that Burstein met Dick Wolf, the creator of Law & Order. He ended up hiring her to photograph the weekly crime scenes for the original series and eventually became its photographer from 1994-2010, when the show was canceled. (It was revived in 2022.) She also photographed the spinoffs, including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit until 2007 and...
- 4/22/2023
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Hot off a new collection inspired by Rick & Morty, cooler and outdoor accessories brand Igloo has their Grateful Dead collaboration back in stock, just in time for summer.
Related: This $11 Grateful Dead Ice Cube Tray Turns Any Drink Into a Bear-verage
The Grateful Dead x Igloo collection includes the Grateful Dead Dancing Bears Tie-Dye Cooler, which is a Dead-inspired take on the iconic Playmate portable cooler. The...
Hot off a new collection inspired by Rick & Morty, cooler and outdoor accessories brand Igloo has their Grateful Dead collaboration back in stock, just in time for summer.
Related: This $11 Grateful Dead Ice Cube Tray Turns Any Drink Into a Bear-verage
The Grateful Dead x Igloo collection includes the Grateful Dead Dancing Bears Tie-Dye Cooler, which is a Dead-inspired take on the iconic Playmate portable cooler. The...
- 4/20/2023
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
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Questlove has a new book in stores this week, and the drummer and producer says he wanted it to be something his younger self would be proud of.
That’s the inspiration behind The Rhythm of Time, the drummer and producer’s new young adult book, which tells the story of a music-obsessed kid from Philly who travels back in the time to the Nineties.
Released on April...
Questlove has a new book in stores this week, and the drummer and producer says he wanted it to be something his younger self would be proud of.
That’s the inspiration behind The Rhythm of Time, the drummer and producer’s new young adult book, which tells the story of a music-obsessed kid from Philly who travels back in the time to the Nineties.
Released on April...
- 4/20/2023
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
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Few people in Hollywood can match the iconic personal style of Diane Keaton, and now, the Oscar-winning actress is teaming up with J.Crew to celebrate her imitable looks as part of the brand’s new spring campaign.
Keaton stars in J.Crew’s “Style for Decades” campaign, which helps to usher in the brand’s 40th anniversary, while celebrating enduring clothing pieces and accessories that never go out of style.
Few people in Hollywood can match the iconic personal style of Diane Keaton, and now, the Oscar-winning actress is teaming up with J.Crew to celebrate her imitable looks as part of the brand’s new spring campaign.
Keaton stars in J.Crew’s “Style for Decades” campaign, which helps to usher in the brand’s 40th anniversary, while celebrating enduring clothing pieces and accessories that never go out of style.
- 4/20/2023
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
The Weeknd is speaking out about the criticism “The Idol” has experienced.
The musician stars in the series as nightclub owner Tedros, opposite Lily-Rose Depp, but the controversial series has had a bumpy road to release.
After HBO refuted a Rolling Stone article which reported the production had gone “wildly, disgustingly off the rails,” The Weeknd, whose legal name is Abel Tesfaye, seems to be giving his own opinion on the rumours.
“I’m used to it more than someone like [director Sam Levinson], who’s probably a little bit used to it now,” he told Interview Magazine when asked about narratives created around a production. “And I’m sure Lily, definitely—Lily’s stronger than both of us. But I’ve been judged since the beginning.”
Tesfaye detailed his career since the early days, when he says he always seemed to court controversy.
Read More: The Weeknd’s New Series...
The musician stars in the series as nightclub owner Tedros, opposite Lily-Rose Depp, but the controversial series has had a bumpy road to release.
After HBO refuted a Rolling Stone article which reported the production had gone “wildly, disgustingly off the rails,” The Weeknd, whose legal name is Abel Tesfaye, seems to be giving his own opinion on the rumours.
“I’m used to it more than someone like [director Sam Levinson], who’s probably a little bit used to it now,” he told Interview Magazine when asked about narratives created around a production. “And I’m sure Lily, definitely—Lily’s stronger than both of us. But I’ve been judged since the beginning.”
Tesfaye detailed his career since the early days, when he says he always seemed to court controversy.
Read More: The Weeknd’s New Series...
- 4/19/2023
- by Anita Tai
- ET Canada
When Bob Dylan broke out the Grateful Dead’s ‘Truckin’ earlier this week at the Tokyo Garden Theater in Japan, it seemed like a one-off fluke. But then he followed it up at the next show by attempting their song “Brokedown Palace,” though he gave up midway through when he seemingly forgot the words. And then on Saturday, he trotted out another Dead staple, “Not Fade Away.”
“Not Fade Away” was written by Buddy Holly, but the Grateful Dead played it 566 times between 1969 and 1995. Dylan first covered the song in...
“Not Fade Away” was written by Buddy Holly, but the Grateful Dead played it 566 times between 1969 and 1995. Dylan first covered the song in...
- 4/16/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
In a Rolling Stone interview for "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness," Brian Hiatt asked director Sam Raimi about the expectations to build a fantastic spectacle for each new Marvel release. There's something special that makes each Sam Raimi movie a Sam Raimi movie, but his visual idiosyncrasy does not fit the cookie-cutter style of the Marvel machine. Before its release, audiences wondered how much Raimi would actually be felt in the new "Doctor Strange."
"No one moves the camera like you," Hiatt told Raimi in the interview. The filmmaker recalled how his tiny budget on "The Evil Dead" — the complete opposite of the gargantuan CGI Marvel property — pushed him to create imaginative scares.
"It came from limitations and trying to solve them. With 'Evil Dead,' we couldn't build the monster — so we had to just use its point of view. And we tried to add as...
"No one moves the camera like you," Hiatt told Raimi in the interview. The filmmaker recalled how his tiny budget on "The Evil Dead" — the complete opposite of the gargantuan CGI Marvel property — pushed him to create imaginative scares.
"It came from limitations and trying to solve them. With 'Evil Dead,' we couldn't build the monster — so we had to just use its point of view. And we tried to add as...
- 4/14/2023
- by Caroline Madden
- Slash Film
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Lando Norris is known for making moves on the track, but the Formula 1 star is turning heads off the track as well as part of a new collection with travel accessories brand, Tumi.
Norris is the face of the Tumi | McLaren 60th Anniversary collection, which celebrates six decades since the founding of the elite motorsports team and supercar maker McLaren. Part of Tumi’s spring campaign, Norris...
Lando Norris is known for making moves on the track, but the Formula 1 star is turning heads off the track as well as part of a new collection with travel accessories brand, Tumi.
Norris is the face of the Tumi | McLaren 60th Anniversary collection, which celebrates six decades since the founding of the elite motorsports team and supercar maker McLaren. Part of Tumi’s spring campaign, Norris...
- 4/14/2023
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
The Beatles didn’t have nearly as bad a reputation as bands like The Rolling Stones, but even they dealt with scandals in their time as a band. Many of these seem tame by today’s standards, but they still placed the band in hot water with the general public. Here are four of the scandals that The Beatles faced throughout the 1960s.
The Beatles | Roger Viollet Collection/Getty Images John Lennon caused a major scandal when he said The Beatles were more popular than Jesus
In 1966, John Lennon entangled The Beatles in what was likely their biggest controversy. In an interview, he spoke about the enduring quality of rock music versus religion.
“Christianity will go,” he said, per Rolling Stone. “It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I know I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now.
The Beatles | Roger Viollet Collection/Getty Images John Lennon caused a major scandal when he said The Beatles were more popular than Jesus
In 1966, John Lennon entangled The Beatles in what was likely their biggest controversy. In an interview, he spoke about the enduring quality of rock music versus religion.
“Christianity will go,” he said, per Rolling Stone. “It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I know I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now.
- 4/13/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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Blackpink are frequently booked and busy, and along with serving as brand ambassadors and and promoting solo work, this year they’re headlining Coachella with some of the biggest names in music. This is also a history-making performance, as along with Bad Bunny and Frank Ocean — they’re the first group of 100% non-white Coachella headliners.
But even when they’re not on tour (or in your area), there...
Blackpink are frequently booked and busy, and along with serving as brand ambassadors and and promoting solo work, this year they’re headlining Coachella with some of the biggest names in music. This is also a history-making performance, as along with Bad Bunny and Frank Ocean — they’re the first group of 100% non-white Coachella headliners.
But even when they’re not on tour (or in your area), there...
- 4/11/2023
- by Sage Anderson
- Rollingstone.com
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