The future of major label A&R may be rooted in intense parental instincts. “I’m obsessed with my artists,” Caroline “Baroline” Diaz, Interscope’s senior director of A&R says. “They’re like my kids.” While most A&Rs tend to take a cool-headed, hands-off approach to their artists, Diaz, a 24-year-old New York native, …
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Democratic presidential hopefuls appeared at presidential forum on LGBTQ issues that took place in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Friday night. Candidates including Kamala Harris, Corey Booker, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg were lauded for their comfortability and familiarity with the issues—Warren, notably, read a list of 18 transgender women of …
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This story originally appeared in The Nation. It is republished here as part of Rolling Stone‘s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. A year ago, inspired by Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg, young people around the …
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Musicianship was the theme of the evening for the second of Marty Stuart‘s three Artist-in-Residence performances at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Wednesday. Titled “Psychedelic Jam-Bo-Ree” and featuring a multi-generational cast of guests, the emphasis felt tilted slightly more “jam” than “psych,” with Stuart and his …
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Freestyle Love Supreme co-creator Anthony Veneziale has a very specific goal in mind as he steps out on stage each night to perform the improv-driven show. “I’m looking for those ‘oxygen deprivation’ moments — where the audience has a gasp of air,” he says. “The more the audience has those, …
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Alex Trebek is undergoing another round of chemotherapy to treat his pancreatic cancer, the Jeopardy! host said during an interview with ABC News’ T.J. Holmeson Good Morning America Tuesday. Trebek revealed his stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis in March, and in May he reported that he was “near remission.” At …
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Post Malone solidified his chart dominance by topping the Rolling Stone Artists 500 with a whopping 381.8 million song streams for the week of September 6th through September 12th. The rapper’s huge week was prompted by the release of his new album, Hollywood’s Bleeding, which debuted at Number One on …
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In the opening minutes of the engrossing Ken Burns film Country Music, premiering Sunday on PBS, CMA Award-winning singer Kathy Mattea recalls her days as a tour guide at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and the hours she spent in close study of one of the museum’s …
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When 24-year-old William Hurley called his girlfriend the night of October 8th, 2009, all he wanted was to go home. The Navy veteran, who’d been attending a Boston Bruins home game, asked Claire Mahoney to pick him up early, explaining that he was tired from a long day of work …
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As migrants and asylum-seekers at the United States’ southern border continue to have their entry into the country stymied by the Trump administration, a group of acclaimed musicians, including Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne, Steve Earle, and Patty Griffin, are preparing a nationwide tour in support of those affected at the …
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