On the Cover: Bruce Springsteen
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How Bruce Springsteen confronted death, saw Clarence in his dreams, and knocked out a raw and rocking new album with the world’s greatest bar band
Album Reviews
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Katy Perry
Smile
The singer has a good time for the first time in a while on her fifth album
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The Rolling Stones
Goats Head Soup
Disparaged at the time, the follow-up to 'Exile on Main St' now feels historic
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Maluma
Papi Juancho
After dabbling in arena-pop, the Colombian reggaetonero returns to his self-consciously smutty safety zone.
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Angel Olsen
Whole New Mess
The singer-songwriter expertly channels Springsteen's Nebraska in her most vulnerable album yet
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Columnists
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Why Policing Is Broken
Years of research on brutality cases shows that bad incentives in politics and city bureaucracies are major drivers of police violence
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Trump Is Happy to Inform Suburban Voters That He Is Still a Racist
The president is saying the quiet part even louder
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America Failed John Lewis and C.T. Vivian
After the two civil rights giants both died last Friday, we should lament that this nation continues to require their kind of heroism
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Cameron Crowe Digs Into the ‘Almost Famous’ Archive for the 20th Anniversary
Music"When Rolling Stone magazine — my old high school, essentially — calls and asks for something, I answer," director says
TV Reviews
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We Are Who We Are
Families on a U.S. Army base in Italy struggle with love, duty, and identity in a place where conformity rules
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Fargo
The FX series' long-awaited fourth installment pits warring mobs, corrupt cops, bootstrapping immigrants, and more in a battle for 1950 Kansas City
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Away
In Netflix's new series about the first manned mission to Mars, the Oscar-winner plays a stoic commander — but she's upstaged by a lively international crew
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Woke
Hulu's half-hour comedy about a black man's sudden struggle with systemic racism in America lags behind the moment
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Movie Reviews
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Mulan
Disney's live-action take on the iconic story doesn't dig deep enough to do its heroine justice
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Buoyancy
A 14-year-old Cambodian tries to stay alive and afloat in terse, intense tale of contemporary bondage
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Tenet
The filmmaker's big-gamble brainteaser finally arrives in U.S. theaters (and only theaters) — and it's a dizzying, delirious ride
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things
The writer-director returns with an adaptation of Iain Reid's novel that doubles as an emotional sucker punch — and reminds you how much his voice has been missed
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![<p>I had shot a bunch of shows of theirs, and I knew what part of the song David Lee Roth would do this jump. So I would watch him, and when I saw him get up on the back of the drum riser, I tried to get the shot. You only get one chance to get that perfect shot. With this one, I had to use a flash to stop the motion, and I had to prejudge the focus because I never used automatic focus, and it’s hard when they’re moving. I wanted to get more Eddie [Van Halen] in there, but you gotta go with what you can. I think it’s kind of cool to get a little bit of Eddie screaming. But with Dave, I don’t even know how he got up there that high. He just jumped off. It was almost like he had a trampoline, but he didn’t have one. It was amazing.</p>
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<p>It was always just a party touring with them. They used to give me passes to give to the girls. I remember, Dave would put your initials on the pass, and if the girl he ended up with had your initials on it, you’d get a bonus. I don’t even know how much that was. I definitely gave out some passes, but I never collected.</p>](https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/van_halen_1980_rt_DS_weiss.jpg?crop=3:2,smart&w=90)
![<p>John Lennon sitting at a café in Yonkers, New York. March 28th, 1975. “That was one of my favorite afternoons with [John],” Gruen writes of a day he shot with the ex-Beatle at Untermyer Park. “The park has many beautiful, differently landscaped areas and we took a lot of pictures. It was a chilly day and, on the way home, we stopped at a diner nearby for tea and a roll. I’ve always loved the picture of John with his cup of tea, and the dollar bill lying on the check. He’s got a nice jacket on, but he’s also got an army coat over it. The image shows a ‘working class hero,’ which is indeed what John was to so many people.”</p>](https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/C-03_JohnLennon_WorkingClassHero1975_Gruen.jpg?crop=3:2,smart&w=90)
![<p>John Eastman with Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney in disguise during a George Harrison concert at Madison Square Garden. December 19th or 20th, 1974. “I met [Linda’s brother] John Eastman, on Elton John’s flight to Boston,” writes Gruen. “A year later, I was photographing George Harrison at Madison Square Garden and, as I was looking around the auditorium, I spotted John Eastman. It was strange. He was smartly dressed as always, but he was sitting with what looked like a couple of hippies. Looking closer, I realized that they were actually John’s sister Linda and her husband, Paul McCartney, minus the wigs and Paul’s fake mustache. I couldn’t believe it. … I fired off some pictures. I was the only photographer in the place who recognized them. It was all thanks to meeting John Eastman on the Starship. That’s how things happened. One thing led to another. I had to wait another 45 years before I discovered the postscript to that part of the story. In 2019, I bumped into John Eastman again at a benefit. I mentioned that picture, and he was astonished: ‘You took that one? We love it!'”</p>](https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/JL7_1974_8_Gruen.jpg?crop=3:2,smart&w=90)
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