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Ronnie Van Zant’s bandmates were anxious as they prepared to board their leased plane at Greenville, South Carolina’s Downtown Airport on the afternoon of October 20th, 1977. And they had good reason to be: Lynyrd Skynyrd‘s rickety Convair 240, pushing 30 years old, was obviously past its prime. “We were …

Howard Stern offered his incredulous take on the Harvey Weinstein scandal during an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday. “First of all, when did this guy have time to make movies,” Stern cracked. “I thought movie making was hard.” Calling Weinstein and all men who commit sexual harassment “freaks,” Stern …

A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators reached an agreement Tuesday that could help stabilize the nation’s health insurance marketplaces in the short term. But the legislation still faces an uphill battle in the upper chamber of Congress and may never see the light of day in the House. The deal, …

On June 21st, 1964 three young civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi were brutally murdered by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan while they participated in the Freedom Summer voter registration initiative. Racially-motivated killings were nothing new in that part of the country during the Jim Crow …

Donald Trump has created a rare hat trick of bad public policy. His latest move to kneecap Obamacare will raise premiums, throw at least a million people off the insurance rolls and cost the federal government nearly $200 billion. It is an act of spite and malice, perpetrated by a …

Australian loop pedal maestro Tash Sultana patiently assembles psychedelic symphonies in this exclusive Rolling Stone video. The emerging Melbourne singer-songwriter performs two shapeshifting singles from her 2016 EP, Notion – both of which showcase her dynamic guitar and vocal skills. Sultana opens with “Jungle,” layering a four-chord chug with an …

If you haven’t seen it yet, you must. Deadspin did the first great story on Daniel Richards, a longtime pro wrestler from the mid-Atlantic and Appalachia who has made a name selling liberal politics as a heel act. Richards is pitch-perfect. He enters wrestling halls in small towns in states …

Two years after releasing the surprisingly mature goth-metal offering The Pale Emperor, Marilyn Manson has returned to straight-ahead shock. “I write songs to fight and to fuck to,” he sings on “Je$u$ Cri$i$,” from his 10th LP, over spiky, electro-hard-rock riffs that occasionally recall his glammy Mechanical Animals period. That …

For the past decade, the National Rifle Association has had a close, codependent relationship with the country music industry, from partnering with artists such as Florida Georgia Line and Lee Brice for cross-promotional campaigns to throwing annual celebrity skeet shoots hosted by Blake Shelton. “It’s no secret,” the Director of …

Prior to their preseason game against the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday, players and coaches on the New York Knicks locked arms during the national anthem. They did so as a “sign of unity” and as a means to bring attention to the issues of “gun violence, poverty, equal justice, access …