Neil Simon, the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning playwright behind more than 30 plays including The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park and Biloxi Blues, died Sunday at the age of 91. Simon’s family confirmed his death in a statement, adding that Simon died of complications from pneumonia at a Manhattan …
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Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie that’s available to stream or download and worth seeing again through the lens of our current moment. We’re calling the series “Revisiting Hours” — consider this Rolling Stone’s unofficial film club. This week: Keith Phipps on David Cronenberg‘s pre-Putin evil-Russian crime-thriller Eastern Promises. …
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Quavo explores forbidden romance in the new “Workin Me” video. The Migos emcee co-directed the clip with Joseph DeRosiers Jr. and Edgar Esteves. The visual opens with Quavo shooting pool with his employer, who issues some intimidating warnings about “loyalty.” “There are three things you should know about me,” he …
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The twentieth album from this Australian longform jazz institution swerves from their 30-year career of gorgeous ambient washes and fragile improv interplay, instead opting for muscle and hypnosis. This nearly 57-minute piece is held together by drummer Tony Buck’s right arm, which taps out ride-cymbal eighth notes while the band …
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Ariana Grande is determined to be a light on her fourth album. And no one has needed that light more than Grande herself. The last year has marked a tumultuous, even transformative, period for the 25-year-old pop superstar. In May, 2017, her concert in Manchester, England was the site of …
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Relationships, the saying goes, are hard. Many couples find their sex drives are mismatched over time, a problem that sex therapists often suggest fixing by working on communication. The Spinner, launched in April of this year, offers a different route to marital bliss — the online service encourages dissatisfied husbands …
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Over the course of his lifetime, Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) saw Aretha Franklin sing more times than he can count —in stadiums, parks, at a private birthday in Washington, D.C. He can’t recall exactly when the first time was, but he knows where: her father’s church, in downtown Detroit. She …
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Last month, the White House threatened to remove the security clearances of a number of former intelligence officials. The most notable of the bunch was John Brennan, the former CIA director who has been fiercely critical of President Trump. The threat — which Speaker of the House Paul Ryan at …
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Greta Van Fleet‘s new “When the Curtain Falls” video is like a desert LSD trip rendered into visual form. Throughout the trippy clip, the hard rock band perform in a hallucinogenic landscape with digitally burning trees, rocky hillsides, eclipses, and blanket-draped figures with shining eyes. Visual effects artist Benjamin Kutsko …
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A chimpanzee sets a school ablaze in “The Fire,” the sprawling new track by New York rock duothe Lemon Twigs. The song appears on the group’s upcoming albumGo to School, which tells the coming-of-age story of Shane, a chimpanzee raised as a human boy. “The Fire” serves as the centerpiece …
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