Having already appeared on the Elton hosted Fox Presents The iHeart Living Room Concert for America last month, Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes sat down tonight for a moving rendition of “What A Wonderful World.” Songs continued throughout the mainly hip hop free show from Burna Boy, Keith Urban, Jennifer Lopez, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, EGOTer John Legend in his awards room, Sam Smith, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, a piano playing Taylor Swift and a joint song by Celine Dion, Gaga, Legend, Lang Lang and Andrea Bocelli. Even with all those luminaries, another show stopper was Lizzo, another Living Room Concert alum, put out a stunning and intimate performance of Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come.” … [Read more...] about ‘One World’ Concert Review: Rolling Stones & Beyoncé Hit High Notes At Multi-Network Show For COVID-19 Frontline Workers
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Inside the Fury and the Power of the Clash with ‘Rolling Stone’ Writer Mikal Gilmore
From the beginning, the stakes of credibility and reputation in that punk movement, especially the question of authenticity, couldn’t help but trap everybody who came up to it. Strummer was particularly vulnerable given his family background. If I remember right, when I first met them, the Clash had gone through the first wave of reaction against them in the British Press…that was part of Strummer’s wariness. Questions like authenticity would matter much less to an American audience, but I think he was just worrying about everything. … [Read more...] about Inside the Fury and the Power of the Clash with ‘Rolling Stone’ Writer Mikal Gilmore
‘Film and TV Industry Essentials’: Rolling Stone, IndieWire, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Program
Program contributors represent an array of specialties across the industry. Directors include Apatow (The King of Staten Island), Oscar-winner Lee (Life of Pi), Oscar and Emmy nominee Sam Pollard (Sinatra: All or Nothing at All), and Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl). TV writer/producers include Yahlin Chen (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Kevin Bray (Insecure). They’ll be joined by Tisch faculty David Irving, Caran Hartsfield, Alrick Brown, Harry Winer, Janet Grillo, Thomas Mangan, and many others. … [Read more...] about ‘Film and TV Industry Essentials’: Rolling Stone, IndieWire, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Program
Best Music 2020: Join Waxahatchee in Conversation With Rolling Stone
Katie Crutchfield made a major creative breakthrough last year with Saint Cloud, her fifth album as Waxahatchee. The Alabama-raised singer-songwriter was met with rave reviews across the board when the LP was released in March 2020, and enthusiasm for her clear-eyed country-rock songs about personal growth and domestic bliss held strong through the months that have followed. At year’s end, Saint Cloud made it into the Top 10 in Rolling Stone‘s list of the Best Albums of 2020, as well as ranking highly on many RS staffers’ personal favorites. … [Read more...] about Best Music 2020: Join Waxahatchee in Conversation With Rolling Stone
Martin Luther King III: The Rolling Stone Interview
Marty was born in Montgomery, Alabama, the second of four children and the first son of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. He grew up in Atlanta, near the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where his father and grandfather preached. He was graduated from Atlanta’s Morehouse College – his father’s alma mater – majoring in political science and history. For several years he worked on voter-registration campaigns, lobbied for legislation to make his father’s birthday a national holiday and served on diplomatic missions to African and other third-world countries. A bachelor, he lives with his mother in the King family home, just down the street from the Ebenezer Church. … [Read more...] about Martin Luther King III: The Rolling Stone Interview