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It’s close to showtime, and Afroman is sitting alone on a purple velour couch in the green room of the MegaCorp Pavilion in Newport, Kentucky. In 30 minutes, he’ll be onstage performing the songs that made him famous — “Palmdale,” “Crazy...
RANDOM NOTES Slayyyter tells us about her breakthrough to pop stardom (p.11), and we rank Ridley Scott’s best movies (p.13). We get the behind-the-scenes scoops on the horror flick Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (p.15) and true-crime...
GUS VAN SANT Director and Photographer For her first Rolling Stone cover, Charli xcx had one request: that a film director photograph it. The pop superstar found a perfect match in Gus Van Sant, the 73-year-old auteur responsible for...
Charli xcx photographed by Gus Van Sant on May 11, 2026, in Los Angeles. Styling by Chris Horan for the Wall Group. Hair by Matt Benns for Total Management using Wavytalk. Makeup by Lilly Keys at A-Frame Agency using YSL Beauty. Production by...
UFC [Freedom 250] is going to be held at the White House. Yup, nothing transactional [Dana White]. I suppose we should expect all the revenue to be donated to the public since they’re using public land [“Dana White: The Rolling Stone...
Rolling Stone won two New York Press Club Awards: for Mary Jane Gibson’s “My Best Friend’s Murder,” in the Crime Reporting category, and David Amsden’s profile of the bookie at the center of the Ohtani betting scandal, which shined in the...
[Obama is] the only president who could make me feel both deeply patriotic and wish I’d paid more attention in history class [“Honoring the Music That Made Us,” June 2026]. If democracy has a soundtrack, you clearly had a hand in curating...
As an unknown Vermont singersongwriter, I can safely say Noah Kahan has inspired me to keep going [“Noah Kahan: Everyman Superstar,” June 2026]. He’s done such amazing work I can only dream of achieving a fraction of what he’s done. Musician...
