Indice dei contenuti per April 2020 in Rolling Stone

TWO YEARS AGO, Spike Jonze paid a visit to his friend Mike Diamond’s house. The Beastie Boy, whom Jonze has known since the early Nineties, had broken his arm, so when Jonze needed to select some photos for Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz’s Beastie Boys Book, he sent flowers and brought the images over in person. “I have photos of everything I’ve shot the last 30 years,” the filmmaker says. “Adam started going through them and said, ‘There’s a lot of photos. There’s enough for [another] book.’” Later, when Jonze was editing his film Beastie Boys Story, he decided to do just that. “Hanging out, laughing, creating things,” Jonze writes in Beastie Boys, a coffee-table book of candid shots that’s out now via Rizzoli. “It’s all the same to…

THERE WAS, essentially, no Green New Deal before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It was just a slogan rolling around the mouths of newspaper columnists and environmental activists until the 30-year-old political phenom put her star power behind it. Just a month after she was sworn in as the youngest congresswoman in history, Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey debuted a 14-page resolution outlining the principles she hopes will form the foundation for a slew of climate legislation over the next decade. A jobs program to save the planet shouldn’t be all that controversial, but skeptics along the political spectrum found something to hate. The concept was ridiculed by Republicans even as some attempted to co-opt it (Rep. Matt Gaetz’s Green Real Deal), and deemed too audacious by liberal Democrats like House Speaker…

Sing it hard, and sing it well, Send the robber barons straight to hell. The greedy thieves who came around, And ate the flesh of everything they found. Whose crimes have gone unpunished now. Who walk the streets as free men now. They brought death to our hometown, boys. —BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN “Death to My Hometown” WELCOME TO THE NEW decade. Gather your strength and say your prayers. The fight of your life is underway, and we’ve already lost the first rounds. The deadline to global climate disaster is a moving target but, by all scientific consensus, is dead ahead and rapidly closing. We have already done irreparable damage, and there are just these 10 few years that remain before our earthly home is beyond our ability to repair. We…

SINGLE 1. Lady Gaga, “Stupid Love” Remember when Lady Gaga would drop the kind of disco bombs that made you want to party until you passed out in the bathroom of the trashiest club on the Lower East Side? Well, on “Stupid Love,” she remembers too. Welcome back, Glam Gaga! PROTEST 2. Earth Day Climate Strike For the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, activist coalition Strike With Us is calling for workers and students to stage walkouts across the U.S., demanding action before it’s too late. TOUR 3. The Monkees Half the band is no longer living (RIP Davy and Peter), but the surviving Monkees still put on an amazing show. Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz are hitting the road to support their new live album, The Mike and…

BANKERS LIKE NUMBERS. Numbers tell the story. No emotion gets in the way. So let’s look at the numbers: Over the past three years — that is, in the years after the world came together in Paris to try to slow climate change — JPMorgan Chase lent $196 billion to the fossil-fuel industry. Over the past three years, JPMorgan Chase lent more money to the fossil-fuel industry than any bank on Earth — 29 percent more. And over the past three years, JPMorgan Chase lent more money to the most expansionary parts of the fossil-fuel industry (new pipelines, Arctic drilling, deep-sea exploration) than any other bank — 63 percent more. ¶ That’s not to say that other banks don’t do plenty of damage: Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of…

ON A RECENT winter day, Jane Fonda pops out of a side room, looking every bit the Hollywood celebrity-activist that Trumpistas hate. The blond hair someone once described as needing its own agent is perfect, and her white blouse is stylish. She cradles her lapdog Tulea in her arms. We are at the Wing, a women’s workplace in West Hollywood, for a talk on the climate crisis. It doesn’t seem like Tulea has a speaking role. Instead, Fonda hands her to a friend and sits on a stool near a microphone with climate activist Lauren Davis. The 500 or so women and four men give her an ovation. Fonda smiles and then does something contrary to the movie-star stereotype: She drops serious knowledge. “I’m more scared because, on a…

Pearl Jam Gigaton REPUBLIC ONE OF Eddie Vedder’s idols, Roger Daltrey of the Who, once said that the secret to keeping “My Generation” fresh onstage half a century after it was written isn’t nailing the song’s stutter, but believably channeling its anger. It’s a sentiment Vedder would definitely endorse; the Pearl Jam frontman’s rage has always burned bright (this is a guy who once sounded super pissed-off singing about how people should play more vinyl). But as he’s matured, the youthful fury that fueled PJ’s golden-age grunge has grown with him, turning into a finely burnished middle-age indignation. Now, on Gigaton, the first record Pearl Jam has mustered during the Trump administration, the group has blended the miasmic angst of “Jeremy” and “Alive” with a sense of tenderness and…

You’re still working in your eighties. What drives you now? In short, what drives me are my own grandchildren and youth all around the world. There is an old saying that goes, “We don’t inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” But I don’t believe we’re “borrowing” the planet from our children — we’re stealing it from them. And if we don’t stop our reckless behavior, then there won’t be a future for our children to inherit. If you could share one fact about your research, what would it be? That we humans have been terribly arrogant. We are part of and not separated from the rest of the animal kingdom — we are not the only sentient, sapient beings on the planet. After…

“This is a lady of today: appearing how she wants, living and thriving on her terms. Truly in love over this.”—Melissa Cooper, via Twitter Pop’s Ambitious New Class Normani, Megan Thee Stallion, and SZA are three of music’s boldest new voices. But as we learned in our second Women Shaping the Future issue [RS 1337], that’s not all they have in common. All three have fought through personal pain and an unforgiving public life to build revolutionary careers. Normani detailed the loneliness and bigotry she experienced as Fifth Harmony’s only black member; Megan Thee Stallion looked back on her intense rise, which happened while she was grieving for her late mother and working toward a health-care-management degree. Similarly, SZA talked about the insecurities she faces about carving out her…

IN THE SPRING of 2017, Hayley Williams moved into the first home where she’d ever lived alone. Earlier that year, she had finished recording After Laughter, her fifth album with Paramore, and broken up with her longtime partner, New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert. “Half of me was very drawn to the romanticism of this artist who has had success but now is living in this small cottage by herself, and there’s these huge fucking spiders and bats,” Williams says, laughing over tea at the Bowery Hotel in New York. “The other half of it was that I was really lonely. I had a lot of shame, ’cause I realized, ‘Whoa, you are 28, and you have never just taken care of yourself.’” Paramore began when Williams was 15,…

Real-life advice from a guy who’s seen, done, and survived just about everything I have a son who is an opioid addict. Do you let a guy who is 31 and a college graduate go all the way to the bottom and onto the streets because of his continued use? —Dave, WI You can’t live his life for him, but you have to try and get him off. It’s your responsibility as a parent. Get him to a 12-step program. When I first went to one I was like, “What am I doing sitting in a room full of losers?” Then one guy got up and started telling my exact story. And the dumb-looking guy behind me was eight years sober. He knew something I didn’t. Look, if you…

‘IT’S ALL based on a true story,” says Jason Isbell, “and it’s all fiction.” The roots-drenched singer-songwriter’s excellent new album, Reunions, is filled with tales of lost friends and other melancholy memories, but don’t let his gift for novelistic detail fool you: The people he’s mourning didn’t necessarily exist, just as it turns out that the meth-fueled college misadventures he detailed in 2017’s “Last of My Kind” never actually happened. The onetime Drive-By Trucker’s imaginative gifts served him well in 2018, when he wrote the utterly convincing “Maybe It’s Time” for Bradley Cooper’s character in A Star Is Born. “I’m sure that’s the biggest project I’ll ever be part of,” says Isbell. On “It Gets Easier,” you write about the challenges of staying sober after many years — a…

THERE IS PERSONA and there is reality in Greta Thunberg. ¶ It is Valentine’s Day in her hometown of Stockholm, but there’s only wind, no hearts and flowers. A few hundred kids mill about, with a smattering of adults. If there were not signs reading OUR EARTH, WE ONLY HAVE ONE, it could be mistaken for a field trip to the ABBA museum. ¶ But where is Greta? I find a scrum of reporters interviewing a child in a purple puffer jacket, pink mittens, and a homemade-looking knit hat. It takes me a minute to realize that it’s Greta. She is 17, but could pass for 12. I can’t quite square the fiery speaker with the micro teen in front of me. She seems in need of protection. ¶…

Donald J. Trump PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES Trump has been a godsend for the fossil-fuel industry, gutting the budgets of the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of the Interior while stocking each agency with former fossil-fuel-industry executives and lobbyists. He has auctioned off millions of acres of public land to oil-and-gas drilling and rolled back close to 100 environmental regulations, paving the way for 200 million more tons of carbon to be pumped into the atmosphere per year. But Trump insists he’s one of the good guys. “I’m an environmentalist,” he said last fall after bailing on a climate-focused meeting of the G-7. “A lot of people don’t understand that. I think I know more about the environment than most people.” Andrew Wheeler ADMINISTRATOR OF THE EPA Since…