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'Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over,' Beth B.'s doc on her fellow No Wave/NYC punk O.G., is a lot like a Lunch song: raw, loud, abrasive, unflinching, scary, exhilarating. Tap the link in bio to read our Rolling Stone critic's-pick review. Photo: K Fox
It certainly must feel good to say “I told you so.” Back in 2011, a then 20-year-old Tyler, the Creator routinely took to social media to profess a slate of ambitious goals. A Grammy Award. A collaboration with Lil Wayne. A music festival and amusement park. They seemed outlandish for the ascendant star, fresh from jumping on an unsuspecting Jimmy Fallon’s back during Odd Future’s live TV debut. But, as the story goes, Tyler has achieved those peaks and more. His career is a blueprint for internet-bred fame, making the now 30-year-old musician something of an elder statesman in the game. All of which isn’t to say there weren’t growing pains. Tyler’s latest, 'Call Me If You Get Lost,' contends with the dual-edged sword of growing up in the public eye. On “Manifesto” he raps, “I was canceled before canceled was with Twitter fingers,” possibly referencing the protests outside of early Odd Future performances, the open letter penned by Sara Quinn of Tegan and Sara, or his banishment from the United Kingdom. But it’s hard to stay mad when, as Tyler reminds us on “Corso,” you have “other-other-other-other” homes (“That’s my AKA / Hurricane-proof all the views, shit like ‘A Bay Bay,’” he continues). The rapper’s signature self-awareness has matured into some of the more compelling rap music being made today, and as such 'Call Me If You Get Lost' proves to be Tyler’s best effort to date. Tap the link in bio to read our review. Photo: Luis 'Panch' Perez
Americans will soon be able to self-select which gender appears on their passports, and among the options will be a “gender marker for nonbinary, intersex, and gender non-conforming persons,” Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced on Wednesday. “We will be updating our procedures to allow applicants to self-select their gender as ‘M’ or ‘F’ and will no longer require medical certification if an applicant’s self-selected gender does not match the gender on their other citizenship or identity documents,” Blinken wrote, adding that the State Department is “currently evaluating” the best way to allow Americans who do not identify as male or female to identify themselves on passports and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad (CRBAs). Blinken noted that adding a new non-conforming gender market “is technologically complex and will take time for extensive systems updates.” According to 'The 19th,' nonbinary Americans will be able to obtain an interim “X” on their passports by the end of the year. Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photo: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images
Most writers are intimately familiar with the near-impossible task of writing a compelling lede — the first few lines of a story designed to hook the reader and draw them in. Yet in 2015, a former Hooters waitress from Detroit logged onto her Twitter account and did it in seconds. “Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out????????,” A’ziah King, a.k.a. Zola, posted, accompanied by a selfie of her with a young white woman named Jessica. “It’s kinda long but full of suspense.” That opening sentence, as well as the 148 viral tweets that followed, form the basis of the feature film 'Zola,' out today. Directed by Janicza Bravo and written by Bravo and 'Slave Play' author Jeremy O. Harris, the film tells the story of how King (Taylour Paige) became fast friends with stripper Jessica (renamed Stefani in the film, and played by Riley Keough), who invited her for a two-day road trip to Florida to make money dancing at clubs. What follows is a chaotic, dizzying narrative involving sex trafficking, motel-room shootouts, violent scuffles with pimps, and a suicide attempt, with a couple trips to the pool thrown in for good measure (after all, as Zola puts it in the thread, it is Florida). When the Twitter thread first went viral back in 2015, people all over the internet praised King’s storytelling chops, and turned many of her most quotable lines into memes. Others chided King for glamorizing her trauma, making the all-too-common experience of sex workers facing violence and coercion palatable for a mainstream audience. To this day, King insists that while she wasn’t trying to undermine the real issues sex workers face, her thread was a way of owning her story and coping with the intensity of what had happened to her. “I can’t be afraid of the humor in life. That’s just what the fuck happens,” she says. “I mean, slavery is not funny, but if you tell me you watched Jamie Foxx in 'Django' and you didn’t fucking laugh, I would tell you you’re a liar.” Tap the link in our bio to read more from the real-Life Zola on storytelling, sex work, and turning trauma into art. Photo: Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP Images
Allison Mack, the former star of the CW’s 'Smallville,' was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison, as well as a $20,000 fine. In April 2019, she pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and racketeering conspiracy related to her role in NXIVM, the Albany-based self-improvement group and multi-level marketing organization commonly referred to in the media as a “sex cult.” As the second-in-command of Keith Raniere, the enigmatic leader of NXIVM, Mack is alleged to have recruited young women to serve as her “slaves” as a “master” in the secret society DOS, a subset of NXIVM. Mack and other DOS “masters” told recruits the group was a self-improvement and “empowerment” organization, as former DOS members testified in court in 2019. Mack was arrested in Brooklyn in 2018 on charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and forced labor conspiracy related to her time in NXIVM. Earlier this spring, Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in prison for sex trafficking and other crimes. Raniere was also ordered by the judge to pay a $1.75 million fine. This story is developing. Tap the link in our bio to read more.
When Jaden Hossler, the TikTok heartthrob now recording moody rock songs as Jxdn, was born, the future founder of his record label was busy making 'Take Off Your Pants and Jacket.' Despite the generational gulf that separates them, the fresh-faced, freshly tatted-up, puffy-haired Hossler chose Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker’s DTA Records as his label over multiple other bidders, and enlisted Barker as his producer. He sees his elder as a musical kindred spirit, “a real-ass dude,” and “one of my best friends.” Barker turns 46 in November, and has three teenage kids, one of whom led him to Hossler. “I tell my friends who don’t have kids, ‘Have kids, they keep you young,’” says Barker. “I skateboard with my kids, I box with my kids…. My kids like the same music I do.” For the past year or so, he’s been thriving as one of music’s leading Gen Z whisperers, helping to midwife a youthful rock revival that owes as much to Juice WRLD as it does to Blink and mid-’00s emo. (He’s also in a relationship with Kourtney Kardashian, which he’s shy about in interviews but less so on social media.) “Obviously, there’s a huge pop-punk revival right now,” Barker says on a late-May day, when his studio work in L.A. ranges from the upcoming debut album from 23-year-old singer-rapper KennyHoopla to a collaboration with SoCal rockers Dirty Heads to an acoustic version of a Machine Gun Kelly track. “And rock music is on its way back. I couldn’t be more proud.” He’s hopeful — not for the first time in his career — that he can help serve as a bridge to a wider world of rock. Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photos by @itstrotter for Rolling Stone
Picture this: two babies born on the same day, maybe even within the same hour, at the Harlem Hospital Center in New York City. One baby, born to a Black mother, goes home to her family down the street in East Harlem. The second is taken home just a few blocks south to the Upper East Side by her white mother. Fast forward to these babies’ adulthoods, and they’ve stayed close to the people and places they’ve grown to love — but their ability to access things like fresh food, quality pharmacies, well-resourced schools, clean water, and even something as simple as the trees that shade their blocks are drastically different. The way their communities are policed and incarcerated is substantially different, too. As a result, the two people are expected to die roughly 19 years apart, despite living just a few blocks from one another. A new study and interactive map from researchers at the University of California Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute, or OBI, demonstrate a comprehensive attempt to better understand residential racial segregation, the common phenomenon at root of these disparate inequalities, across the U.S. The study finds that, while residential segregation declined modestly from 1970 to 1990, it began increasing in 1990 and has been getting starker ever since. As a result, more than 150 large metropolitan regions in the U.S. — a whopping 81 percent of the total — are more segregated now than they were 30 years ago, according to the study. Tap the link in our bio to read more. This story was originally published by @Grist and is republished on RollingStone.com as part of an ongoing collaboration. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
A young Tony Soprano enters the family business in the new trailer for the upcoming Sopranos prequel movie, 'The Many Saints of Newark,' which is set to open October 1st and stream same-day on HBO Max. Tap the link in bio to watch the trailer and to read more. Photo: Barry Wetcher/Warner Bros
On “Free Ride,” the first single from Mykki Blanco’s new mini-LP 'Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep,' the musician constructs a tabernacle from which to worship the sensation of love. The accompanying video features Blanco refiguring tropes of family, community, and celebration to more inclusive ends. What might read as dysfunctional — multiple generations dwelling in a rickety RV — is recast with gentle reverence. Blanco’s gift has always been the queering of perspective, refusing to stay fixed in any particular mode. 'Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep' brings that framework to notions of love and loss. The result is a profoundly moving meditation on what it means to care and be cared for. Over Zoom, Blanco says the timing of the project’s release, just as the world re-emerges from over a year in lockdown, feels divine. While it wasn’t their goal in recording the album, 'Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep' contends with the contrasting impulses tied to the return to normalcy. Its songs are about making space for longing and making space to heal one’s trauma; about intimately knowing the contours of your heartache and dedicating yourself to the hope of finding true love. The trailblazing musician discusses their new mini-LP ‘Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep’ at the link in our bio. Photos by @jessierocks for Rolling Stone Styling by @ruthgruca
![In 1990, Prince, who was as competitive as he was virtuosic, made a rare admission of vulnerability: “To this day, [the Time] are the only band I’ve ever been afraid of.”
Prince had initially helped nurture the Time, a group of crack musicians from his hometown of Minneapolis that he formed into a band and wrote songs for. When they emerged in 1981 with an eponymous album full of knee-buckling funk and an impeccably choreographed live show, they immediately scored a pair of Top Ten R&B hits: “Get It Up,” a thoroughly convincing argument for “freaking all night long,” and the chest-puffing, highly danceable “Cool,” which ticks off the resume of an impossibly wealthy, indefatigable playboy embodied by lead singer Morris Day.
The Time released two more albums — and appeared in the blockbuster Prince film 'Purple Rain' — before splitting up, though they later reunited for another record in 1990. To honor the 40th anniversary of 'The Time,' the band is releasing a new edition of their debut and a HD version of the “Cool” music video. Day spoke with Rolling Stone about the origins of the Time, working with Prince, and the time their on-stage rivalry turned into a food fight.
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In 1990, Prince, who was as competitive as he was virtuosic, made a rare admission of vulnerability: “To this day, [the Time] are the only band I’ve ever been afraid of.” Prince had initially helped nurture the Time, a group of crack musicians from his hometown of Minneapolis that he formed into a band and wrote songs for. When they emerged in 1981 with an eponymous album full of knee-buckling funk and an impeccably choreographed live show, they immediately scored a pair of Top Ten R&B hits: “Get It Up,” a thoroughly convincing argument for “freaking all night long,” and the chest-puffing, highly danceable “Cool,” which ticks off the resume of an impossibly wealthy, indefatigable playboy embodied by lead singer Morris Day. The Time released two more albums — and appeared in the blockbuster Prince film 'Purple Rain' — before splitting up, though they later reunited for another record in 1990. To honor the 40th anniversary of 'The Time,' the band is releasing a new edition of their debut and a HD version of the “Cool” music video. Day spoke with Rolling Stone about the origins of the Time, working with Prince, and the time their on-stage rivalry turned into a food fight. Tap the link in our bio to read. Photo courtesy of Rhino Records
Pom Pom Squad's Mia Berrin uses high-femme cheerleader style and grungy punk rock to subvert all expectations. Tap the link in our bio to see why she's our latest Artist You Need to Know. Photo by @jkhoroshilov for Rolling Stone
Doja Cat is a weirdo, but that’s why and how we fell in love with her. Her first big taste of viral fame was, after all, a song about cows. In the years since “Mooo!” the world can’t quite shake one of pop’s preeminent internet trolls (only Lil Nas X can compete). She’s weathered the types of controversies that would force a duller star to dim completely: offensive tweets, “showing feet in racial chat rooms,” bad Covid takes. But if the last year of Doja Cat’s internet, radio, award show and chart dominance have taught us anything, it’s that our Edgelord-in-Chief is going to be sticking around for a long time, no matter what. On 'Planet Her,' Doja Cat invites us into the exquisitely strange and spectacularly camp world she’s been teasing and toying with over her last few releases. There’s a bit of cheeky, sci-fi B movie references in the presentation but the content itself is pristine pop fun. Frequent collaborator Yeti Beats along with rising star Y2K keep the show moving, matching the rapper-singer’s chaotic energy with a mix of trap, funk and bubblegum. Tap the link in our bio to read our review of Doja Cat's third album, 'Planet Her.' Photo: David LaChapelle
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