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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. To really bring the beat in a sound system, you’re going to want to invest in a subwoofer. But to bring the beat if you’re playing in a …
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Megan Thee Stallion appeared on The Tonight Show Thursday night to perform her two biggest hits, “Hot Girl Summer” and “Cash Shit.” Ty Dolla $ign joined the rapper at the beginning of her performance, singing the hook based around the viral catchphrase that Megan Thee Stallion coined last year and which …
Read More »Underworld Preview 'DRIFT Series 1' With New Single 'S T A R'
Underworld have released a new single, “S T A R,” ahead of their upcoming album DRIFT Series 1. The rhythmic track takes its inspiration from childhood nursery rhymes as it invokes pop culture notables like Michael Caine, Iggy Pop and Danny Boyle alongside fictional characters like Tom Thumb and Robin …
Read More »Trump's Bizarre History With 9/11
September 11th is the most solemn day on the U.S. calendar. The terrorist attacks that left nearly 3,000 people dead 18 years ago are still fresh in the minds of many, and no occasion calls for a greater show of reverence and respect, especially from the nation’s commander-in-chief. President Trump …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Noah Gundersen, 'Crystal Creek'
While conversations about genre constraints often play out in the upper echelons of pop, it turns out that small independent artists have to fight many of the same battles. Take Noah Gundersen. In 2015, he released an album titled Carry the Ghost on the label Dualtone, which has had some …
Read More »We're Only Beginning to See the Consequences of the Bush-Era Assault on Civil Liberties
A judge last week ruled the federal government’s Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB), which secretly categorized more than 1 million people as “known or suspected terrorists,” is unconstitutional. Like a number of “War on Terror” reforms instituted in the Bush years, the TSDB’s unconstitutionality was obvious from its inception. Indeed, the …
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Thurston Moore moved to New York in late 1976, a time when groups like the Ramones, Talking Heads, and Blondie were still regulars at CBGB and the music scene was crackling with creativity and innovation. The future Sonic Youth guitarist was just 18, but music was already at the center …
Read More »All Hail the VSCO Girl, the Latest Gen-Z Meme to Make You Feel Impossibly Old
Approximately once in a generation (and by generation, we mean news cycle), there emerges a trope that takes the experience of young womanhood — in all its beautiful, maddening, tumultuous, tear-stained glory — and flattens it to the point that it means virtually nothing. In the 1980s, it was the …
Read More »Mac Miller: Feds Charge Man in Connection With Rapper's Death
Federal prosecutors have charged a man in the death of rapper Mac Miller. A criminal complaint filed in the Central District of California alleges that Cameron James Pettit, whose age varies from 23 to 28 depending on reports, of Hollywood Hills provided Miller with counterfeit pills that contained fentanyl. The …
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