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How common was it for Robert De Niro to yell at this one-time assistant? “He yelled at me two days ago,” Graham Chase Robinson told a courtroom on Thursday, according to The Associated Press, referring to De Niro’s outburst on the stand earlier this week. When her attorney asked the actor about whether he made her scratch his back, he insisted he was “never weird or creepy” and then turned to his accuser. “Shame on you, Chase Robinson!” he chided. Robinson worked as De Niro’s chief personal assistant for more than a decade. After she resigned from De Niro’s Canal…

In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, Jason Aldean was an open book about why he has “nothing but good things to say” about Donald Trump and why he decided against receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. But he was also a decidedly closed book — one with missing pages and smudged ink — about his stance on the election fraud narrative around Joe Biden’s presidency. Asked whether he believes Biden was legitimately elected president, Aldean first says that it depends on who you ask, then offers: “I feel like that’s just old news at this point. And regardless of…

Queen’s Freddie Mercury thought ‘Somebody To Love’ was “better” than ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, according to a roadie who once worked with the band. READ MORE: Adam Lambert: “I’m not known for being subtle. I always put a certain amount of theatricality into what I do” Speaking to Greatest Hits Radio after ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ was named ‘greatest song of all time’ by over 6500 listeners, former roadie and author of Queen Uncovered Peter Hince remembers the band coming up with ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and Mercury’s thoughts on the track. Speaking to Greatest Hits Radio he explained: “The band were recording [album] ‘Night At The Opera’…

Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 10, Rolling Stone is breaking down 16 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night.  This category can feel like a grab bag of indie and alternative experiments that don’t fit elsewhere (Rosalía’s Motomami at the last Grammy show). This year, though, it seems straightforward Latin rockers have the best chances: Juanes’ Vida Cotidiana is an industry favorite from one of the most beloved stars in the Spanish-speaking world, and Fito Páez showed he has tons of tricks up his…

Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium may be the crown jewel of Tennessee music venues, but no live-music space goes as deep as the Caverns in Pelham, just southeast of town. Literally an underground performance venue, the natural cave will host the 13th season of The Caverns Sessions, a live-music PBS series, next year. The 2024 lineup includes subterranean sets by rootsy soul singer Yola, hardscrabble country band 49 Winchester, and the multilayered Elizabeth Cook. Bluegrass ace Dan Tyminski and his band are also on the bill, along with fellow bluegrasser Lindsay Lou, and the Red Dirt outfit Shane Smith & the Saints.…

When Jimmy Buffett died on September 1, he left a finished album in the can ready for release. Equal Strain on All Parts, his 32nd LP, is every bit the laidback, eclectic, inviting set of tunes you’d expect from the beloved singer-songwriter, bridging pop, country, and rock & roll, mixing island sounds and down-home vibes, and balancing five-o’clock-somewhere good times with gentle life wisdom.  The casually rocking “My Gummie Just Kicked In,” was inspired by something Paul McCartney’s wife Nancy Shevell said to Buffett at a dinner party, and features McCartney on bass. “Feeling no pain, she ejected from her…

When Kendrick Lamar takes the stage at Kigali, Rwanda’s BK Arena on Dec. 6 for an event called Move Afrika: Rwanda, it will mark the first step in building a global touring circuit on the African continent. Lamar’s entertainment company pgLang is teaming up with Global Citizen, the advocacy organization known for staging charity concerts around the world, to launch an initiative called Move Afrika: A Global Citizen Experience. The organizers hope to expand the program to include tour stops in five African countries by 2025. The concert will also feature performances by talent from the areas where each concert…

There were names mentioned in Britney Spears‘ bombshell memoir The Woman in Me that likely would have preferred to be left out of the narrative altogether. But Mariah Carey wasn’t too worried when she first heard that she had come up within its pages. She hadn’t read it herself, but Jimmy Kimmel did the honors of revealing the passage to her during her recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “At one award show, I knocked on Mariah Carey’s dressing room door, she opened it and out poured the most beautiful otherworldly light,” he read directly from the book. “You know…

More than 9,000 Palestinians have been killed since Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7, triggering a still-ongoing Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip. The death toll, provided by Palestinian health authorities, does not include the countless injured in the attacks, and almost half of the dead and wounded are children. The horrors on the ground have been shrouded in a haze of misinformation and propaganda that has choked access to verifiable information about the conflict. Palestine’s opponents are making it worse by reviving an old myth to discredit the suffering, grief, and pleas for help coming from Gaza. They’re…

Sofia Reyes is in bloom on the cover of her new album Milamores. After last year’s heartbreak LP Mal De Amores, the Mexican superstar is now filled with resilience and self-love. On her most kaleidoscopic project yet, she blends Latin pop with elements of bolero, cumbia, reggae, hyperpop, reggaeton, and more.  “With Milamores, I wanted to do this as if Mal De Amores was side A and this is side B,” she tells Rolling Stone over Zoom from a recording studio in L.A. “They’re like siblings. It’s the continuation of Mal De Amores, but now from a place that’s more…