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Amazon MGM Studios has picked up Man on the Run, the feature documentary directed by Morgan Neville that explores Paul McCartney’s creative rebirth after The Beatles’ breakup.

The move comes ahead of the movie’s premiere this weekend at the Telluride Film Festival.

Man on the Run, which is produced by Neville’s Tremolo banner, in association with Mpl and Polygram Entertainment, will be released in select theaters and then hit Prime Video Feb. 25 in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

The documentary is meant to be the centerpiece in a partnership between McCartney, Universal Music Group, and Amazon that will unfold over the next year. It includes the release of exclusive music and merchandise drops, and commentary from McCartney himself. And it will coincide with the release of his book, Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, which will be available on Amazon and Audible Nov.

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Five decades have gone by since Patti Smith released her 1975 debut album Horses. The landmark 1975 studio project featured some of rock’s most classic cuts, including the opener “Gloria: In Excelsis Deo,” “Redondo Beach,” and “Break It Up.” This fall, Smith is set to embark on a 50th anniversary tour across the globe to celebrate her Seventies masterpiece. Shortly after kicking off the worldwide trek, Smith will drop...

Ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand? Today the world salutes the love story of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, who announced their engagement on social media Tuesday, with the wittiest wedding announcement in pop history: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.” In the photos, Travis goes Full Romeo, kneeling to the ground and pulling out a ring, in a lush garden full of pink and white roses. It’s a decidedly non-paper ring — but now it’s on her finger, the one people put wedding rings on.

Director Rob Reiner has never made a sequel in his long career, and he hadn’t ever contemplated a follow-up to the most beloved rock comedy ever made, 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap. But then Harry Shearer, who plays Tap bassist Derek Smalls, fought a yearlong battle to reclaim ownership of the film — and won. ”We sat and we said, ‘Well, what do we do?'” Reiner says in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. “We got the rights back. What do we do with this? And so at first we said,...

Orlando Bloom isn't mincing his words when it comes to the future of Pirates of the Caribbean. For the franchise to survive another voyage, the actor believes the only option Disney has is to bring everyone back.

At Fan Expo Chicago 2025, Bloom, who played Will Turner in four of the swashbuckling adventure films, told fans that good writing is the foundation of a great story, but a successful Pirates revival would also require the return of the franchise's original crew, which includes Keira Knightley's Elizabeth Swann and Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow. "I would personally love to see everybody back," the actor said via Entertainment Weekly.

"I think the...

Slash is best known for his day job as the legendary guitarist of Guns N’ Roses, but is also a major horror movie fan. While he’s had some small acting roles through the years, he dove deeper into the industry in 2023 with the launch of his own horror film banner, BerserkerGang. The label’s latest project, a reboot of the 1983 sword and sorcery epic “Deathstalker,” written and directed by Steven Kostanski, had its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival on Aug. 15. Slash has an executive producer credit on the film, and unlike some vanity titles, he was deeply engaged with the nitty gritty details of filmmaking.

Slash spoke with Variety about why he loves the original “Deathstalker,” how making movies is like recording albums and the valuable advice about creativity he got from Keith Richards.

What was your first experience with “Deathstalker”?

I was working at Tower Video...

Family, friends, and collaborators of the late Terence Stamp continue to mourn the actor’s death, and the outpouring of love from Hollywood online has been overwhelming. Among those remembering Stamp on social media is none other than his fellow Superman: The Movie and Superman II costar, Valerie Perrine. Perrine portrayed Miss Teschmacher in the two films, while Stamp played the Kryptonian General Zod, but, sadly, the two performers never shared the screen together in either project. Perrine honored Stamp on X (@TheValPerrine) by writing the following:

"Rip Terence Stamp! A phenomenal actor and beautiful man. I never had the honor to have a scene with him in Superman. I admired his body of work.

Nova 78’ is less a documentary and more an unearthed artifact, a grainy portal to a New York that exists only in memory. The film reconstructs the 1978 Nova Convention, a three-day gathering of the American counterculture to honor the writer William S. Burroughs.

Held in a Manhattan where punk’s energy still crackled in the air, the event was a convergence of artistic and intellectual ferment. Assembled from reels of lost footage shot by director Howard Brookner, the film has a raw, immediate quality.

It drops the viewer directly into the proceedings without explanation, capturing a moment when the lines between music, literature, and performance art dissolved completely. We are not watching a historical summary; we are attending the event itself, witnessing a culture defining itself in real time.

A Collision of the Avant-Garde

The convention unfolds as a chaotic spectacle of creative expression, a living document of an American avant-garde in transition.

A host of Hollywood luminaries took to social media to pay tribute to British acting icon Terence Stamp, who died Sunday at 87.

Stamp was an enduring cultural icon of the Swinging ’60s who first made his name with films like Billy Budd, Far From the Madding Crowd, Poor Cow and Teorema before finding later mainstream success with roles in Superman II, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Big Eyes and Last Night in Soho.

Filmmaker Edgar Wright, who worked with Stamp on his 2021 feature Last Night in Soho, wrote on X, “Terence was kind, funny, and endlessly fascinating. I loved discussing music with him (his brother managed The Who, and he’s name-checked in The Kinks’ Waterloo Sunset) or reminiscing about his films, going back to his debut in Billy Budd. He spoke of his last shot in that film, describing a transcendental moment with the camera — a...

Sixty years ago today, on Aug. 15, 1965, the Beatles played Shea Stadium in New York, and the world has never recovered. It was the biggest pop explosion the world had ever seen, with 56,000 kids screaming for John, Paul, George, and Ringo. It’s the most famous show they ever played — the most famous pop concert ever — even though nobody could hear a note of it. Other gigs have drawn far bigger crowds, made far more money. But Shea is still the ultimate image of fan hysteria — a massive swarm of Beatlemaniacs...

Johnny Depp could return for a new Pirates of the Caribbean movie.Franchise producer Jerry Bruckheimer revealed work is currently being done on a new screenplay and he has spoken to Depp about reprising his role as Captain Jack Sparrow. He told Entertainment Weekly: “If he likes the way the part’s written, I think he would do it. It’s all about what’s on the page, as we all know… We are still working on a screenplay. We want to make it. We just got to get the right screenplay. We haven’t quite gotten there yet, but we’re close.”The fifth movie in the franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, saw Johnny return along with Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley. While a sixth movie would be a reboot of the franchise, Bruckheimer would still like to see Jack Sparrow make an appearance.

Johnny Depp reportedly is considering a return to one of his most popular roles: Captain Jack Sparrow.

Pirates of the Caribbean Producer Jerry Bruckheimer tells EW that he’s had talks with Depp about reprising the swashbuckling character in a sixth Pirates film.

“If he likes the way the part’s written, I think he would do it,” Bruckheimer says. “It’s all about what’s on the page, as we all know.” (Depp had previously claimed that Disney had sent him overboard after ex-wife Amber Heard published a 2018 op-ed about domestic abuse.)

Discussions of a sixth film have been ongoing since 2019, and EW reports that the next installment would be a reboot.

“It’s a reboot, but if it was up to me, he would be in it,” Bruckheimer has said. “I love him. He’s a good friend. He’s an amazing artist, and he’s a unique look.

Looks like Captain Jack Sparrow might sail again! During a recent interview with EW, producer Jerry Bruckheimer dropped a positive update about the possibility of Johnny Depp’s return in the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean movie. He raised people’s hopes by announcing that he had spoken to Depp about playing Jack in the sixth movie.

If he likes the way the part’s written, I think he would do it. It’s all about what’s on the page, as we all know.

It seems that Johnny Depp hasn’t said “yes” yet, but he’s interested if the script is good enough. So far, this is big news because Disney had earlier moved away from working with Depp after his public legal battle with Amber Heard. However, now, it seems the winds might be changing, and Jack Sparrow might return.

Johnny Depp Previously Refused Pirates Return in...

Johnny Depp could once again set sail as Captain Jack Sparrow — but only if the story is right. In a new interview, longtime Pirates of the Caribbean producer Jerry Bruckheimer revealed that he’s spoken to Depp about returning for a sixth film in Disney’s blockbuster franchise, and he’s feeling optimistic. “If he likes the way the part’s written, I think he would do it,” Bruckheimer said. “It’s all about what’s on the page, as we all know… We are still working on a screenplay. We want to make it. We just got to get the right screenplay. We haven’t quite gotten there yet, but we’re close.”

Depp fronted all five Pirates movies from 2003 to 2017, each grossing more than $650 million worldwide, with Dead Man’s Chest (2006) and On Stranger Tides (2011) crossing the $1 billion mark. In total, the series has earned $4.5 billion globally, with...

Pirates of the Caribbeanproducer Jerry Bruckheimer teases the possible return of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow.

Speaking toEntertainment Weekly, Bruckheimer said, "If he likes the way the part's written, I think he would do it. It's all about what's on the page, as we all know." This came after Disney cut ties with Depp following a 2018 op-ed in which the star's ex-wife, fellow actor Amber Heard, made accusations of abuse that all pointed toward Depp, which was followed up by a court case,John C. Depp, II v. Amber Laura Heard, in 2022.

Bruckheimer went on to say of a potential sixth film in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, "It's a reboot, but if it was up to me, [Depp] would be in it. I love him. He's a good friend. He's an amazing artist, and he's a unique look. He created Captain Jack. That was not on the page...

Johnny Depp is possibly eyeing a return as Jack Sparrow in a sixth “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie, at least according to franchise producer Jerry Bruckheimer. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Bruckheimer confirmed he has spoken to Depp about a new “Pirates” movie. The producer feels optimistic that Jack Sparrow could be back.

“If he likes the way the part’s written, I think he would do it,” Bruckheimer told EW. “It’s all about what’s on the page, as we all know… We are still working on a screenplay. We want to make it. We just got to get the right screenplay. We haven’t quite gotten there yet, but we’re close.”

Depp headlined five “Pirates” movies from 2003 to 2017, all of which grossed more than $650 million at the worldwide box office. 2006’s “Dead Man’s Chest” and 2011’s “On Stranger Tides” both topped the $1 billion mark.

Johnny Depp could be heading back to the Pirates of the Caribbean series, years after Disney cut ties with him. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer told Entertainment Weekly that he’s had talks with Depp about playing Captain Jack Sparrow again in a planned sixth movie.

Depp’s departure from the franchise happened back in 2018, during a time when his personal life was under intense public scrutiny. He was in the middle of a messy and highly publicized legal battle with his ex-wife Amber Heard.

Both accused each other of abuse, and Disney quietly moved away from him. In court in 2020, Depp said he lost the role of Jack Sparrow just days after a newspaper called him a “wife beater,” something he has always denied.

By the time Depp won a defamation case against Heard in 2022, Disney had already started moving forward with plans to reboot the Pirates films with new characters.

Johnny Depp’s departure from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise wasn’t personal it was tied to a mix of legal issues, public controversy, and shifting studio plans.

Around 2018, during his highly publicized legal battles with ex-wife Amber Heard, which included allegations of abuse from both sides, Disney quietly distanced itself from him. Depp testified in court in 2020 that he was let go from the role of Captain Jack Sparrow just days after a damaging newspaper article labeled him a “wife beater,” something he has always denied. He later won a defamation case against Heard in 2022, but by then Disney had already moved forward with reboot plans for the series without him.

Disney has never publicly confirmed exactly why Depp was dropped, but the studio had already been considering changes to Pirates to refresh the brand. This included talk of a reboot or spin-off with new characters, which made...

“I knew I had done something remarkable,” John Fogerty says of his years with Creedence Clearwater Revival in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. “In a sense, I did what the Beatles did, but I did it all by myself. I didn’t have two other guys to write songs with me.”

For his new album, Aug. 22’s Legacy: the Creedence Clearwater Revival years, Fogerty rerecorded classics (from “Born on the Bayou” to “Have You Ever Seen the Rain”) with his sons Shane and Tyler filing in for the long-since-split band.

Bobby Whitlock, keyboardist in Eric Clapton’s short-lived but acclaimed band Derek and the Dominos, has died at the age of 77.

Whitlock’s death early this morning was confirmed by his manager Carol Kaye, who said in a statement to ABC Audio, “With profound sadness, the family of Bobby Whitlock announces his passing at 1:20 a.m. on Aug. 10 after a brief illness. He passed in his home in Texas, surrounded by family.”

The Memphis-born Whitlock began his career in the mid-Sixties at his hometown Stax Records, becoming the first...

Imagine going to a gig where The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards couldn’t make it, so Patti Smith stepped up to break the news, read you a poem, offered you your money back from her own pocket, and Frank Zappa filled in for him instead. Let’s go even further. Imagine it wasn’t really a gig at all, but a multimedia celebration of an author — William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) — a superstar counterculture writer whose shadow loomed large over the ’60s in ways that could never be replicated today. Compiled from original footage of the three-day event that took place in 1978 at Manhattan’s Entermedia Theater, Nova ’78 is an immersive time capsule that captures the arty essence of New York in the aftermath of punk and offers yet more proof that Burroughs was way ahead of anyone else in terms of political futurology.

Terry Reid, the influential British singer-guitarist who famously turned down singing gigs for Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, has died at age 75.

Reid had recently been forced to cancel tour dates “due to medical issues arising from recent treatment for cancer,” per an official statement at the time.

In a post on Instagram, contemporary blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa paid tribute to Reid, calling him, “One of the greatest to ever do it and a beautiful person and soul.”

Nicknamed “Superlungs” for his incredible falsetto voice, Reid was considered a pioneer of the British blues sound of the 1960s and the hard rock that would arise later in the decade and into the 1970s. However, Reid was perhaps most famous for the musical endeavors he didn’t undertake, such as when he turned down a chance to be the singer of Led Zeppelin.

Having already been in groups since his early teenage years,...

When Ozzy Osbourne brought Metallica on tour in 1986, he noticed his young opening act blasting Black Sabbath in their dressing room and covering his old band’s songs in soundchecks. Osbourne’s first assumption, he said later, was that Metallica were mocking him. He was stunned to learn they were actually displaying their hero worship, and trying to coax him onstage with them.

As discussed in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Osbourne — who died July 22 at the age of 76 — could be touchingly insecure for a beloved and wildly influential metal legend.

With strong albums from veterans Alex G, Japanese Breakfast, and Car Seat Headrest, and killer debuts from newcomers like Lifeguard, 2025 has been packed with great indie rock. In the latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we look back at the year in indie so far, with Simon Vozick-Levinson joining host Brian Hiatt for the discussion. (To hear the whole episode, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or just press play below.)

Alex G technically just departed the world...

In between standing on business in paparazzi clashes and dodging endless rumors about his personal life, it turns out Justin Bieber was busy in the studio, making a genuinely interesting album. Swag is full of well-chosen collaborators — Gunna, Sexyy Red, Cash Cobain, Lil B, Dijon — confessional lyrics, and even surprisingly self-aware skits recorded with Druski.

In the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we break down the last few years of Bieber’s life and career, with Jeff Ihaza (who wrote a smart piece on Bieber’s...

A Les Paul guitar that was famously stolen from The Rolling Stones in the early ’70s was recently discovered in a collection of guitars obtained by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The 1959 sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard belonged to former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor, who purchased it from Keith Richards in 1967. The axe was notably played by Richards during the Stones’ historic Ed Sullivan Show appearance in 1964, as well as by Taylor during the band’s infamous Altamont gig in 1969. Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton were also known to have borrowed and played it at one point.

Until now, the guitar was considered long gone, having been stolen from The Stones during the sessions for 1972’s Exile on Main St. at the Villa Nellcôte mansion in Côte d’Azur. The burglary, purportedly the work of local drug dealers that Richards owned money, resulted in the theft of nine guitars,...

On July 13, 1985, the world’s biggest music stars gathered for Live Aid, a massive benefit concert to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. In a new original series, CNN and BBC go behind the scenes on how Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof and singer-songwriter Midge Ure organized the legendary effort that brought in more than $127 million and drew in about 1.5 billion viewers around the world.

Premiering on Sunday, July 13, at 9 p.m. Et/Pt, Live Aid: When Rock ‘n’ Roll Took Over the World celebrates the 40th anniversary of the multi-venue event that featured special performances by Tina Turner with Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan with the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood and Sting with Phil Collins and Branford Marsalis. The docuseries will feature interviews with Geldof, Bono, Lionel Richie, Patti Labelle, Sting, Phil Collins and others, and will include archival footage of the event that took place...

Sabrina Carpenter is as good as any current pop star at cultivating controversy and attention — the latest evidence was the now-subsided furor over her absurd Man’s Best Friend album cover, which seems to take cues from Spinal Tap’s Smell the Glove. “She’s leaning into it and laughing about it at the same time,” says Angie Martoccio, who profiled Carpenter for her recent Rolling Stone cover story — which revealed that image aside, the singer’s true obsession is music.

“I wasn’t aware that she was a full-on music nerd,...

Johnny Depp’s Pirate Return Remains Unclear, But His Career Is Sailing Ahead (Photo Credit – Prime Video)

For those still holding onto hope that Johnny Depp might slip back into Jack Sparrow’s boots and swing from the sails again, there may be a glimmer of something on the horizon. But while Pirates of the Caribbean 6 brews in the backdrop, Depp is not exactly sitting idle.

The actor-director-artist-musician has been racking up headlines in Europe, brushing shoulders with art critics in London, and plunging into a fresh movie role. Depp is filming a thriller, promoting his passion project ‘Modi,’ and selling out art shows. Keep reading to know how he’s plotting a comeback without saying a word!

The Future of Johnny Depp’s Pirates Role is Skeptical However, His Career is Still Flourishing

While Disney hasn’t officially announced Johnny Depp’s return as Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean 6...

There are many, many ways that pop-culture fans have discovered shapeshifting rocker/actor Michael Des Barres over the decades. Some may know him from his big-screen debut at age 17 in the 1967 Sidney Poitier film To Sir, With Love; or as the frontman of the Deep Purple- and Led Zeppelin-associated bands Silverhead and Detective; or as the cowriter of Animotion’s 1983 hit “Obsession”; or as the longtime host of the Little Steven’s Underground Garage morning show on SiriusXM; or as iconic MacGyver villain Murdoc; or for his many other television appearances on shows like Roseanne, Seinfeld, Melrose Place, Northern Exposure, Frasier, and Nip/Tuck.

But if you’re one of the Gen X kids among the estimated 1.9 billion people (nearly 40 percent of the world population at the time) who watched the global Live Aid concert broadcast 40 years ago, on July 13, 1985, then you might best know Des Barres as the...

Marc Maron is verklempt over life, progressive politics and the Los Angeles wildfires.

At least he’s wide-eyed about Germany’s Nazi-era leader. “Jury’s in on Hitler. Hitler’s a fucking dick,” Maron declares at one point in the official trailer for his new comedy special set to stream on HBO Max starting Aug. 1.

Marc Maron: Panicked was shot in New York City in May and the first look comes on the heels of the comedian and hit podcaster announcing the end of a storied run with Wtf with Marc Maron, which he announced will end this fall after 16 years.

Maron cited a feeling of being burnt out as to why he and his producing partner Brendan McDonald were ending Wtf, and in the trailer for his HBO special (below), Maron displays his trademark anxiety and dread as he dishes on his personal life, pet peeves and grudges. “If...

What if Bruce Springsteen had followed up his synth-and-drum-machine-driven 1994 hit “Streets of Philadelphia” with a whole album largely in that vein? What if he’d dropped an album of Great American Songbook-style ballads instead of 2017’s Western Stars? Springsteen’s just-released boxed set Tracks II: The Lost Albums is packed with seven albums’ worth of alternate realities and musical surprises, offering a reminder of just how much he’s capable of outside of his stadium-shaking work with the E Street Band.

In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now,...

Jerry Bruckheimer, the film producer behind franchises like Top Gun, Bad Boys, and Pirates of the Caribbean, talks about the first time Disney execs saw Johnny Deppplaying the iconic pirate character Jack Sparrow. The captain seeking to recover his ship was inspired by a combination of rock artist Keith Richards and variations of Looney Tunes animated characters, but it was a rendition that Disney's bosses did not quite get at the beginning. Can you really imagine Jack Sparrow not being the Jack Sparrow we have all come to love?

Bruckheimer sat down with Deadline to talk about his latest movie endeavor, the sports drama starring Brad Pitt, F1. The producer navigated through his most important franchises, and recalled his time making the 2003 adventure film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He was one of the few who understood Depp's performance as the over-the-top and confident pirate.

There was an odd symmetry to the near-simultaneous deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson at age 82 last week. “Both of them poets of summer,” Rob Sheffield says in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. “Both chroniclers of the American dream in California. Both from pretty much the same era. Both of them also started out very young as musical prodigies, who figured out early that they needed to be in charge of their music.”

As a Bay Area DJ, Sly Stone slipped Bob Dylan and the Beatles into R&b playlists,...

Mega film producer Jerry Bruckheimer has been trying to crack a sixth entry in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise for years. A follow-up has been in the works ever since the last installment — Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Bruckheimer has been talking about parallel installments with both new and old continuity, including a version with Margot Robbie, with conflicting reports on whether it is still a go. Bruckheimer is still giving updates about the developing sequel in his latest talk with ScreenRant.

While Bruckheimer has been vocally interested in involving Johnny Depp again, the Jack Sparrow star has gone through an image overhaul in recent years and there hasn’t been a definitive deal locked down yet. However, the producer says that even though Sparrow might not return, there will still be some familiar faces. Bruckheimer updates, “We’re working on a screenplay. Hopefully we...

A few months ago, Joel Savoy, the Louisiana Cajun musician and label owner, was at a local pressing plant looking over the cover art for a just-finished tribute album to zydeco legend Clifton Chenier. The record already had a high-end roster — from veterans Lucinda Williams and Steve Earle to relative newcomers Charley Crockett and bluegrass picker Molly Tuttle — all singing and playing songs associated with Chenier, his accordion, and his blues-soaked singing. But then Savoy suddenly had to hit pause: The Rolling Stones had finally submitted their contribution, a year after they agreed to participate.

Marc Maron is contemplating what life will be like post-podcast as he approaches the end of the Wtf with Marc Maron Podcast.

Speaking after the Tribeca Festival screening Saturday of Are We Good?, a documentary about Maron grappling with the loss of his partner Lynn Shelton and trying to channel his grief into his work, Maron was asked about giving so much of himself to the public via his long-running podcast, his comedy specials and even on his Instagram. Maron had announced earlier this month that the podcast would be ending this fall after 16 years.

“I do put a lot of it out there. And I can handle it, and I can be gracious about it. And I don’t know what it’s going to be like not to do that twice a week,” Maron said in reference to the podcast. “And I don’t know what part of...

Swedish pop star Zara Larsson’s next album, Midnight Sun, due Sept. 26, will include the confessional track “Ambition,” which she describes as her most honest song — complete with lyrics about comparing herself to other performers as she stares at her phone late at night. “That’s the thing with ambition,” she sings. “Everything’s a competition.”

“ When you’re super-ambitious, I think that’s the blessing and the curse,” she says in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. “You can have so many amazing things happening to you,...

To get her music back, first Taylor Swift had to re-record it. After a consortium led by Scooter Braun bought the rights to the masters for her first six albums in 2019, much to Swift’s displeasure, she hatched a simple, if wildly labor-intensive plan: Make new Taylor’s Versions of her catalog available, and then ask her massive fanbase to stream them instead of the originals.

No one had ever tried anything like it before, but fans complied by the millions. The strategy worked exactly as intended, devaluing the masters...

Marc Maron’s Wtf with Marc Maron Podcast is ending after 16 years.

Maron announced the news on his Monday show, saying, “It’s nice to be able to end things on our own terms. We started the show on our terms. We grew it on our terms, and we’ll end it on our terms.”

Maron and his producing partner Brendan McDonald made the decision together, he said, explaining that the pair behind the two-team groundbreaking podcast are simply burnt out.

“Wtf will turn 16 years old on Sept. 1. Sixteen years, it’s a long time. It’s a long time to do anything,” he said to open his show, which welcomed on guest John Mulaney. “All of a sudden, you’re old and you realize you’ve been doing something for a long time. This started in the old garage. No one knew what a podcast was. I was coming out of a horrendous divorce.

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Move over, Hunter S. Thompson!

There’s a new (alleged) illicit substance enthusiast storming America’s campaign trails, and he’s (allegedly) been loading himself up with more mind-altering chemicals than the lost-and-found box at a Phish concert.

Yes, according to a new report from the New York Times, Elon Musk was “using drugs far more intensely than previously known” during his time with Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.

SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer Award 2020 on December 01, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images) Musk’s was doing drugs ‘daily,’ experienced issues with bladder, insiders claim

“Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use,” the Times reported today,...

“The America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration,” Bruce Springsteen declared from a Manchester, U.K. stage May 14. At the kick-off show of his newly rechristened Land of Hope and Dreams Tour with the E Street Band, Springsteen framed his criticism of Donald Trump in patriotism: “The America that I’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real, and regardless of its faults, is...

Ryan Coogler’s box-office hit “Sinners” is steeped in the blues, its folklore and legends. People can’t get enough of the movie or its songs, but if you want a deeper dive into the bluesmen who shaped the genre, queue up these documentaries and learn more about Buddy Guy (who plays older Sammie Moore), Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Charley Patton and more.

You can also buy the incredible score by Ludwig Göransson, who was also an executive producer on the movie and on location for the shoot in New Orleans. Special edition LPs will be out on August 29 from Made by Mutant.

Buddy Guy in “Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase The Blues Away” (Credit: Sony Pictures) Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase The Blues Away

This 2021 documentary follows the nearly 70-year career of the blues master, who plays the older version of Sammie Moore in “Sinners. It’s not streaming for free,...

Anyone familiar with the world of the Grateful Dead knows that one of the band’s most devoted and excitable fans was the late Bill Walton, the illustrious Hall of Fame NBA center who died in May 2024 at 71. During his life, Walton proudly boasted of having attended more than 800 Dead or Dead-related shows and could be seen in the front rows at many of them. But to get a sense of how tight he was with the band, how far back that connection went, and how much memorabilia he stashed away,...

This year, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will induct acts including Soundgarden, Outkast, and the White Stripes — but some huge names from the ballot didn’t make it, most notably Mariah Carey (for the third time!), Oasis, and Phish.

Carey is an undisputed pop legend; Oasis recorded some of the greatest songs of the Nineties and are about to embark on the most-anticipated reunion tour in years; Phish are, well, Phish, a band that’s created a universe of its own, playing arenas decades into their career. So what happened?...

Hardcore Wicked fans have a lot of unshakable opinions, including the widespread belief that the Wizard’s big moment in the first act, the talky “A Sentimental Man,” is the Broadway show’s single worst song. But when Jeff Goldblum stepped in as the Wizard for director Jon M. Chu’s blockbuster film version, he managed to salvage the song in fans’ eyes, playing up the character’s toxic blend of smarm and charisma. “I’ve had a lot of positive anecdotal response like that,” Goldblum says in the new...

How did Jeff Goldblum get one of the world’s biggest pop stars to sing on his new jazz album? As he explains on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Ariana Grande’s lovely take on “I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do)” on Goldblum’s Still Blooming, recorded with his band, the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, came down to sheer proximity and an unexpected musical kinship. (To hear the whole episode, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or press play below.

Saturday Night Live celebrated its 50th anniversary in February with a star-studded concert and an A-list primetime special, a “huge moment” for the NBC late-night show.

Ego Nwodim, who joined the cast in 2018 for Season 44, said during Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary, Unscripted & Variety event that the three-hour special February 16 felt like “building up to a wedding.”

“All throughout the season, I feel like we anticipated what the 50th was going to be. We didn’t know. I called it an SNL wedding, [even though] birthday is obviously more fitting. It felt like we were having a wedding, and it was like we’re building up to this wedding,” she said. “We had these episodes leading up to the actual 50th celebration, but all the while just knowing, ‘Okay, we’re working toward this thing, and that is going to be such a huge moment.’ You could just feel it in the air.

HBO’s The Wire never won an Emmy, was only nominated twice in the writing categories and never received a single nod in any of the major categories including acting.

Seth Meyers wants Emmy voters not to make another mistake like that when it comes to Corrections, the digital shortform spinoff of his NBC talk show Late Night with Seth Meyers.

Corrections has been nominated three times in the Outstanding Short Form Comedy, Drama or Variety Series category, losing out to Carpool Karoake: The Series and Only Murders in the Building: One Killer Question and not even being nominated the year Meyers’ friend Tim Robinson won with I Think You Should Leave.

“It’s a f*cking lock. I know you’re not supposed to say this, but I think there’s a real risk for Emmy voters,” Meyers joked during his panel at Deadline’s Contenders TV Documentary, Unscripted & Variety.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow on the Black Pearl(Photo Credit –Facebook)

Back in 2003, the idea of making a big-budget pirate movie raised more eyebrows than enthusiasm in Hollywood. The genre had a rocky history, expensive flops and forgotten adventures made pirate films feel more like cinematic quicksand than treasure troves. So when Disney announced a film based on a theme park ride, industry whispers labeled it a high-stakes gamble. A supernatural sea tale with undead pirates, cursed gold, and a rum-loving anti-hero?

It sounded like a storm waiting to sink a ship. But what followed was a cinematic twist no one saw coming. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl didn’t just survive the tide, it surfed it to global glory. With charm, chaos, and a whole lot of eyeliner, the film carved out its legacy, proving that sometimes, the riskiest voyages bring back the biggest treasure.