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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. If you have not read the original Divergent series, or watched the popular YA films, consider this your spoiler warning. Veronica Roth has returned to dystopian Chicago with The Sixth Faction, the first book in a new alternate-universe duology. The novel, which has been available for preorder since April, arrived on Oct. 6 and asks what might have happened if Beatrice “Tris” Prior had chosen a different faction — Abnegation. And yes, Four is still part of her story.…
The actress was set to play the singer-songwriter in a since-shelved biopic Amanda Seyfried was recently paid a visit by Hollywood’s favorite franchise psycho-killer. On Tuesday, Seyfried shared an Instagram video of herself performing Joni Mitchell’s “A Case of You” from what appears to be the comfort of her home. As Seyfried sings the verse, “I met a woman/She had a mouth like yours/She knew your life/She knew your devils and your deeds,” a blonde Ghostface creeps up from behind. Naturally, when the actress gets to the line, “And she said, ‘Go to him, stay with him if you can/Oh,…
Until they returned to the stage in late September, Pearl Jam were off for a year and a half, and bassist Jeff Ament used that time productively: His new book, Since Forever, out now, collects the photographs he’s been taking of his bandmates since their earliest days together. He worked on the project with his brother, designer Barry Ament, who first talked him into digitizing the photos, which bring to life dozens of unseen moments from the band’s history. In an interview with our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, Jeff looked back at some of the book’s highlights, and reminisced…
We’ve rounded up the best speakers to buy, from portable speakers to hi-fi options If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Table of Contents View More Forget spooky season, it’s speaker season. Whether you’re relaxing with some vinyl records at home or toting a party speaker to your next tailgate, Bluetooth and home audio speakers are on sale during Amazon’s clunkily named Big Deal Days (aka, October Prime Day). Non-Prime members can sign up to get a 30-day free trial, although many of the best…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. On Saturday evening at Downtown Los Angeles’ Vibiana, a converted 19th-century cathedral, the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE) celebrated 35 years of advancing Asian and Pacific Islander representation across film, television, and media. Founded in 1991 by publicist Fritz Friedman, television producer Wenda Fong, and film producer Chris Lee, the organization, per its website, was born during a private meeting at the Mandarin in Beverly Hills. The trio had gathered a handful of friends and Hollywood…
The Beach Boys were supposed to return to the stage Octo. 9 at the Grossinger Motors Arena in Bloomington, Illinois, after gradually canceling all of their dates over the past three months as Mike Love takes time to “recharge” following an unspecified health ailment. But they’ve just pulled that show as well. A Facebook post by the Grossinger Motors Arena says the show has been “canceled due to unforeseen circumstances,” mirroring the exact language of venues that yanked shows in September. The group last played a public show on July 18 in Valdosta, Georgia, following an uneven few months where…
Mike Smith, the first person to face federal charges tied to music streaming fraud, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year. Smith, a musician and business owner from North Carolina, appeared at federal court in Manhattan Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 6. He nodded heavily as John G. Koeltl handed down the year-and-a-half prison sentence, which will be followed by two years of supervised release. Smith also previously agreed to forfeit $8 million as part of his plea deal. When asked if he would like to say anything following his sentence, Smith told the judge, “Thank…
The president garnered fierce backlash from California leaders following his comments at a rally in Nebraska Following U.S. President Donald Trump‘s suggestion that Iran could “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego during a rally speech Monday night in Nebraska, musician Jack White posted a message for Trump supporters living in the regions. “Hey republicans and conservatives that live in L.A. and San Diego; how do you feel about your Fuhrer recommending that the cities you live in get attacked?” White wrote in a social media post Tuesday. “Let me take a wild guess: it was a joke, owning the…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. In case you somehow missed it, Amazon is in the middle of yet another Prime event. This time, it’s calling it Big Deal Days (try saying that five times fast). Our editors have been scouring the site all afternoon and found some genuinely worthwhile discounts (you can check out our full list here), but plenty of others left us thinking, That’s it? So we started looking elsewhere and found Cozy Earth running its own sale from Oct. 6…
Eva Marie Saint, a revered actress whose two preeminent performances — On the Waterfront and North by Northwest — encapsulated the glories of the 1950s’ Hollywood studio system, died on Tuesday. She was 102. Saint died of natural causes, a family spokesperson confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. Born in New Jersey on the Fourth of July in 1924, Saint studied acting in college, initially working in television and on the stage before landing her first film role in the 1954 classic On the Waterfront opposite Marlon Brando. As Edie, the sister of one of Brando’s fellow dock workers who is…
