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The Juggalos were finally able to gather once more as Insane Clown Posse’s flagship festival, Gathering of the Juggalos, returned in 2021 after taking last year off due to the coronavirus pandemic. Dedicated fans descended on Thornville, Ohio’s Legend Valley this past week, August 19th through 21st, for three days of madness and a lineup that boasted everyone from ICP, Danny Brown, 9 Dead, and Big Hoodoo, to Steve-O, Vanilla Ice, and 'To Catch a Predator' host Chris Hansen. Rolling Stone was on hand to document the Faygo-soaked scenes as ICP and the Juggalos reunited for a long-overdue celebration. Tap the link in our bio to see more. Photos by @drivenbyboredom
In 1995, the body of 12-year-old Josette Wright was found in the woods near Carmel, New York. Two teenage boys were convicted of her rape and murder, and languished in prison for 25 years. Then, in 2016, one had his conviction overturned — and the other is getting a new trial this fall. Their defense? They allege a convicted rapist named Howard Gombert was preying on the girls and women of their town, and that he could have been responsible for the crime — but police didn't even questioned him. Criminal-justice reporter Paul Solotaroff spent five months digging into what he describes as the "most richly documented case I’ve encountered in 30 years." Tap the link in our bio to read more. Illustration by @simon_prades
D minor is the saddest musical key — so why do even “sad” artists like Radiohead and Nirvana avoid it? “Melancholy womanliness” was Schubert’s preferred term in describing the D minor key, a key of particular fascination because it lent itself to music in which “the spleen and humors brood.” And its sibling key, D# minor, somehow evoked “feelings of the anxiety of the soul’s deepest distress, of brooding despair, of blackest depression, of the gloomiest condition of the soul,” Schubart observed: “Every fear, every hesitation of the shuddering heart, breathes out of D# minor. If ghosts could speak, their speech would approximate this key.” Of course, D and D# minor don’t hold the musical monopoly on sadness. People often connect negative emotions to other minor keys such as A minor, E minor and B minor. Even the most used keys of C, G, and A major, when paired with the right lyrics, can convey melancholy emotions, as in Prince’s “Purple Rain” and The Beatles’ “Yesterday.” But D minor is a different animal. D minor is so uniquely sad, so melancholy, so brood-inducing to the spleen, that many artists tend to avoid it at all costs. We analyzed the key’s sound of inescapable heartbreak. Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photo Illustration by @photoeditorjoe. Image in illustration: Adobe Stock
Like the crowds at their shows, @surfgang1 belongs to the currently ascendant generation, accustomed to an unimaginable breadth of information online, and innately resistant to categorization. Musically, they’ve managed to synthesize every influence under the sun. ‘Surf Gang Vol. 1,’ the compilation for which this clandestine affair was meant to celebrate, contains flourishes of trap, emo, house, and everything in between. It has a more ground-level sensibility than the music often touted as being representative of today’s youth, which might be why the crowd seemed so genuinely excited to be there. We talked to the members of the New York-based crew about making "post-apocalyptic rap." Tap the link in our bio to read more.
Richard Glossip has been on death row for 25 years for a murder he says he didn't commit. Now, he's not only trying to save himself, but all Oklahoma Death Row inmates from what they deem inhumane executions. Glossip has found himself on Death Watch three times over the last 25 years. He’s had three last meals, the same four items every time: fish and chips, a Wendy’s Baconator, a strawberry shake, and pizza — Pizza Hut once, Dominos twice. He’s listened as two men have been put to death, botched lethal injections both. And, as soon as early next year, he could be there again, in that endless daylight cell, waiting for death — if his lawyer can’t secure him another hearing, the last Hail Mary. Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photo illustration based on photograph by Janelle Stecklein/Community Newspaper Holdings Inc./AP
Sturgill Simpson has spent the last year shooting Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and took inspiration from the director for his new album. “Working with Marty, I saw his process in terms of story and removing anything self-serving and cutting the fat.” Simpson’s new album ‘The Ballad of Dood & Juanita’ is an homage of sorts to his grandfather, nicknamed “Dood.” “I’ll never be the man he was,” Simpson says, “but I am trying to be.” Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photo by @rogelio.ec
"I am flying high over Tupelo, Mississippi, with America’s hottest band … and we are all about to die." Tap the link in our bio to read William Miller's 1973 Stillwater cover story in full. Photo by @nealprestonphoto
Biopics ain’t Wikipedia entries. Lives never conform to a tidy narrative arc — even one as dramatic as Aretha Franklin’s. With ‘Respect,’ screenwriter Tracey Scott Wilson and director Liesl Tommy did an admirable job condensing 20 years of the Queen of Soul’s tumultuous life into a mere two-and-a-half hours. Was Jerry Wexler the one who first dubbed Aretha Franklin "the Queen of Soul"? Which Beatles song did she actually cover? We fact-check the new Aretha biopic #RespectMovie Tap the link in bio to read more as we separate fact from fiction. Photo by Quantrell D. Colbert/MGM Pictures
Happy birthday, Mr. Redford! 🎈 The acting legend talked to us recently about founding Sundance, the moment he became an environmentalist, and what ‘All the President’s Men’ was really about. Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photo by Annie Leibovitz
Happy birthday, Young Thug! 🎈 Tap the link in our bio to revisit our digital cover on the genre-defining artist. Photo by @jackie_nickerson
Happy birthday, Madonna! 🎈 In 1984, we got our first glimpse of a new superstar. Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images
Thanks to Instagram and a pandemic, Hollywood’s paparazzi industry is flourishing off pre-planned “candids” — often organized by stars themselves. Hollywood’s paparazzi business used to look quite different. In the early 2000s, you’d hear frequently about clashes between paps and celebs, from stunts gone wrong to outright violence, and the often-embarrassing photos that landed in “Stars, They’re Just Like Us!” tabloid pages were the result of professional stalking. But social media has turned the pap-celeb relationship from one of contention to collaboration. Now, celebrities control their own narratives — they readily offer bikini bodies and makeup-free selfies from their own cameras, which are devoured by fans despite the digital nip-tucks — and call photographers like Diggs to stop by at their own whims Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photo by George Rose/Getty Images
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