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A Hollywood actor, producer and director is in Ukraine filming a documentary of the conflict between the country and Russia. What Happened: Sean Penn is in Ukraine filming a documentary for Vice Studios. The film is being produced by Vice Studios, Vice World News and Endeavor Content, a...

Ahead of an upcoming tour for The Who, legendary guitarist Pete Townshend shared his thoughts on several topics in a Rolling Stone interview — including his thoughts on non-fungible tokens and Spotify (NYSE: SPOT). Townshend On NFTs: Pete Townshend hates non-fungible tokens and...

Photographer Annie Leibovitz’s fashion portraiture in Vogue may look a world apart from her photojournalism in the heady, rock ‘n’ roll 1970s at Rolling Stone magazine, yet in many ways her approach to an image is unchanged. “I’m not a studio photographer,”...

Rolling Stone magazine entered the non-fungible token market by auctioning two digital copies of magazine covers created in partnership with the Bored Ape Yacht Club. What Happened: Following an announcement made last week, Rolling Stone released the aforementioned NFTs as part of the collaboration...

The last photoshoot of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s will be auctioned as an NFT on March 3. What Happened: According to Rolling Stone, photographer Jesse Frohman launched a website for the upcoming NFT sale, which he calls “The Last Session.” The NFT will consist...

Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) and Square Inc. (NYSE: SQ) Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey on Thursday said he was committing $5 million to Andrew Yang's non-profit organization Humanity Forward. The funding is part of the $1 billion in Square shares Dorsey committed to novel coronavirus (COVID-...

Little Richard, who helped shape rock ‘n’ roll as we know it when he burst into popular music in the late 1950s with songs like “Tutti Frutti,” “Good Golly Miss Molly,” “Long Tall Sally” and his flamboyant showmanship, died at 87 on Saturday of bone...

The show must not go on. The live music business faces a period of cancellations in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic that could seriously damage the $26-billion industry.  Among the companies that stand to suffer most acutely from a big drop in live concerts is Live Nation...

In an interview with Rolling Stone, a pregnant Grimes officially confirmed that Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk is the father of her child. In January, the 31-year-old Canadian singer, whose real name is Claire Boucher, posted a photoshopped image of a fetus onto a nude photo of...

The pressure of being answerable to multiple stakeholders and shareholders is apparently weighing on Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk. Tesla might be better off as a private company, Musk said in a recent interview with Rolling Stone's Neil Strauss. "I wish we could be...

A half-century after the Summer of Love, Rolling Stone is being put up for sale by Jann Wenner, who started the publication in a San Francisco loft with $7,500 and a vision of capturing the essence of the rock ‘n’ roll generation in print. Wenner, 71, already sold a 49 percent stake to...

It was once tragically hip to abhor The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” It’s even hipper today to still hate it. It was 50 years ago on June 1 (to join the rest of the world in paraphrasing the record’s signature lyric) that the lads from...

As Americans attempt to digest WikiLeaks' latest revelations that the CIA developed an extensive domestic spying apparatus, it may be relevant to explore the life of a fallen journalist who was pulling a similar thread. WikiLeaks revealed Tuesday the CIA has developed cyber espionage...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE: GS) suffered in the 2008 financial crisis, and its image took a major hit. Wall Street was criticized for the opacity in its everyday dealings. Goldman has been on the path to changing its public image after Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi called the company a...

The "sordid history" of Federal National Mortgage Assct Fnni Me (OTC: FNMA) "Fannie Mae," Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp (OTC: FMCC) "Freddie Mac" and the U.S. government may not read like the juiciest celebrity gossip, but the story may be reopened, exposing, as...