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Illustration by Matthew Cooley. Images in Illustration Warner Bros; Everett collection/ Lucasfilm LTD. Disney/PIXAR, Everett Collection, 2 Somewhere, in a galaxy far, far away, Georges Méliès never sends a bunch of folks on a trip to the moon. The adventures of space explorers and time travelers, androids and alien races don’t thrill a generation of kids chomping popcorn at Saturday matinees. The

Appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 9/7 on his nomination to be secretary of state, Henry Kissinger pledged to cooperate closely with Congress in conducting foreign policy for a "durable peace." Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at his home in Connecticut, his consulting firm said in a statement. The notorious war criminal was 100. Measuring purely

Ryuichi Sakamoto, keyboardist for the pioneering Japanese electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra and Oscar-winning composer of films like The Last Emperor and The Revenant, has died at the age of 71. Sakamoto’s Twitter announced his death Sunday, noting that the influential artist died on Tuesday, March 28; while no cause of death was provided, Sakamoto battled two forms of cancer over the p

ILLUSTRATION BY SELMAN HOŞGÖR FOR ROLLING STONE. PHOTOGRAPHS IN ILLUSTRATION BY KEYSTONE/HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES; ART STREIBER/NBC/NBCU PHOTO BANK/GETTY IMAGES; KEVIN MAZUR/GETTY IMAGES; CBS/GETTY IMAGES; LARRY BUSACCA/GETTY IMAGES; FRANS SCHELLEKENS/REDFERNS/GETTY IMAGES; PAUL NATKIN/WIREIMAGE; DAVID CORIO/REDFERNS/GETTY IMAGES Illustration by Selman Hoşgör for Rolling Stone. Photographs in i

Last week was the D23 Expo, a time when nerds and Disney adults from all corners of the nation unite to preview the Disney company’s upcoming park and film release offerings. One of the most talked-about previews at the Expo was the teaser trailer release for The Little Mermaid, Disney’s much-anticipated live-action reboot of the classic cartoon starring Halle Bailey — of the celebrated sister duo

From Chic to Skrillex, from Chicago house classics to festival rave anthems, from songs that filled the floor at the Loft and the Warehouse to ones that blew up on TikTok. What do we mean by “dance songs”? Good question. In a sense, any song that ever got any one person moving in any perceptible direction is a dance song. The Beatles made great dance songs — as did Slayer. Nearly all the hip-hop a

Photo illustration by Sarah Rogers for Rolling Stone. Images in illustration by Michael Stewart/WireImage; Paras Griffin/Getty Images; Rich Fury/Getty Images; Rick Kern/Getty Images; Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images; John Shearer/Getty Images; Paras Griffin/WireImage Two hundred seems like an almost luxuriantly expansive number when you’re making an albums list, and in any other genre

Ukrainian marines examine the remains of an armored vehicle after thwarting a Russian attack in Donetsk. Russian forces continue trying to move forward and seize territory in eastern Ukraine despite fierce resistance. MINISTRY OF DEFENCE OF UKRAINE “The Russians are just over there.” The Ukrainian marine driving the truck peers intently into the swirling snow, pointing to the line of trees about a

Civilians, mostly women and children, rush to board any train car that still has any room on it as fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces draws closer to the city of Irpin, Ukraine, on Friday, March 4, 2022. Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images The day after Russia started dropping missiles on Ukraine, pastor Greg Laurie took to Facebook with a message for his flock. To much of the wor

Charlie Watts, drummer with The Rolling Stones, Great Britain, circa 1970. Archive Photos/Getty Images Charles Robert “Charlie” Watts, the Rolling Stones‘ drummer and the band’s irreplaceable heartbeat, has died at age 80. No cause of death was given. Watts’ publicist confirmed his death in a statement. “It is with immense sadness that we announce the death of our beloved Charlie Watts,” it read.

Photo illustration by Griffin Lotz. Images using in illustration via Scanrail/Adobe Stock; Youtube In the wee hours of August 1st, 1981, someone flipping through their channels might have come across the image of a rocket blasting into space. The familiar sight of Neil Armstrong exiting his lunar module and walking on the moon would fill the TV screen. And then they’d hear a voiceover, with all th

We count down the 50 greatest bassists of all time, from string-popping virtuosos to steady session heroes. Photographs used in illustration by AP/Shutterstock; Joseph Okpako/WireImage; Elaine Thompson/AP/Shutterstock “The bass is the foundation,” session legend Carol Kaye once said, “and with the drummer you create the beat. Whatever you play puts a framework around the rest of the music.” A grea

For decades, the New York composer John Zorn has blended elements of jazz and metal in a series of groundbreaking projects. Tim Hall/Redferns/Getty Images One day in the late Nineties, Dave Lombardo, the metal drumming powerhouse best known for bringing a tornado-like fury to Slayer‘s early thrash masterpieces, was driving from San Francisco to his home in Los Angeles. On the way, he threw on a re

While many thought music streaming would increase in the time of social distancing, streams actually dropped last week. Getty Images/EyeEm As the spread of COVID-19 isolates more and more Americans in their homes, many thought that they would be coping by streaming more music — and, in turn, helping to soften the inevitably catastrophic blow that the pandemic will have on the music industry. But t

Neil Peart, the Hall of Fame drummer for Rush, has died at age 67 of brain cancer. Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images Neil Peart, the virtuoso drummer and lyricist for Rush, died Tuesday, January 7th, in Santa Monica, California, at age 67, according to Elliot Mintz, a family spokesperson. The cause was brain cancer, which Peart had been quietly battling for three-and-a-half years. A representativ

Clockwise from upper left: 'Roma,' 'Mad Max Fury Road,' 'Boyhood.' NETFLIX (ROMA); Village Roadshow/Kobal/Shutterstock (MAD MAX); Ifc Productions/Detour Filmps/Kobal/Shutterstock (Boyhood) It was the best of decades, it was the most WTF of decades — looking back on the movies that came to define the 2010s both critically and commercially, it’s nearly impossible to nail the particular arc of the me

Pop felt more ambitious than ever, voices from the margins broke through in every genre and great records kept coming at us from every direction. In the 2010s, the biggest artists were also some of the biggest innovators — from Kanye West creating his monumental over-the-top opus My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy to Beyoncé connecting her life story to a history of African American expression on L

"'[Prog]' is a singularly ugly word, isn't it?" Drummer Bill Bruford says. "It's so ugly. I like the idea of progression because that's what I thought all musicians were supposed to do." © Copyright Bill Bruford and Bill Bruford Productions Ltd. Retirement is a fluid concept in music, but at 10 years and counting, Bill Bruford‘s just might be the real deal. Since he announced he was calling it qui

On Tuesday, Noah Ryan Murphy, an 18-year-old who makes music as deadman死人, experienced severe whiplash. One of his productions, “Omae Wa Mou,” debuted at Number One on Spotify‘s Viral 50. But the same day, Murphy was hit with a copyright infringement claim, which led to the removal of the track just as it was poised to reach a wide audience. “I was in a super bad mood,” Murphy says. “Holy hell. Th

Joey Fatone, Ariana Grande, Lance Bass, and JC Chasez perform at the 2019 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for AG This year’s first Coachella weekend featured a strong showing from some of pop, hip-hop and rock’s biggest names, led off by the very 2019 headlining trio of Ariana Grande, Childish Gambino and Tame Impala. As always, though, many of the greatest momen

Most people know Michael Nesmith as the Monkee in the green wool hat who wrote some of their greatest songs (“Listen to the Band,” “Circle Sky”) and sat out most of their reunion tours. Others know him as a businessman who helped inspire the creation of MTV, or as the son of Bette Nesmith Graham, the multi-millionaire inventor of Liquid Paper. What virtually no one knows about Nesmith is that the

The answer was Strudelsoft, the label that the 36-year-old bills as the first vaporwave imprint dedicated exclusively to releasing music on 3.5″ floppy disk. The misty, Internet-fueled subgenre has long thrived on nostalgic physical formats. Vaporwave’s sound, often produced by slowing down and/or reverb-drenching existing songs to walk the line between the sentimental and the sinister, is a perfe

John Bonham’s drum part in Led Zeppelin‘s “Good Times Bad Times” is one of classic rock’s most legendary grooves. And, thanks to the skipping kick-drum part in the verse, one of the trickiest to pull off. That’s just one reason we’re so impressed with the above video of eight-year-old drummer Yoyoka Soma. The young Japanese prodigy has been at it since age two, and now plays in a family band. She

Taylor Swift clapped back, Kendrick Lamar got personal, Lorde threw a high-concept party and more Music was full of fury, confusion and resistance in our first post-election year. Albums came with titles like American Dream (LCD Soundsystem), American Teen (Khalid) and All American Made (Margo Price). And indeed, artists did get explicitly political, from Randy Newman to Jason Isbell to Jay-Z. But

It’s been more than 30 years since punk rock’s confessional, diaristic, heart-on-sleeve offshoot “emo” came screaming from Washington, D.C., and around a decade since its commercial peak. But emo is having a moment in 2016 thanks to Panic! at the Disco scoring their first Number One album, Dashboard Confessional serving as the basis of a Jeopardy! question, and “fourth wave” emo bands like Title F