Innehållsförteckning för April 2022 från Rolling Stone

WHEN THE PUERTO Rican rapper Residente hears people from the United States refer to themselves as “Americans,” the word grates him, snagging his ear like fabric caught on a nail. In much of the country, it’s a word that bounces around freely, rolling off tongues without a second thought — simple, straightforward shorthand, some believe, for the people or culture of the U.S. But pan out to the rest of the continent and it seems more like a symptom of a narcissistic, narrow-minded vision of the world. “You have to be really dumb, really hollow/It’s like saying Africa is only Morocco,” Residente raps in “This Is Not America,” the lead track from his latest album. He’s quick to point out that “America” is the name of an entire hemisphere,…

“Who are these fucking bozos on our turf?” Jack Harlow is in the back of a big black SUV next to his childhood best friend, Urban Wyatt, mock-glaring through his Prada sunglasses at a couple of little kids on a swing set in a Louisville, Kentucky, park. Everyone in the car cracks up, but to be fair, this whole low-to-the-ground city pretty much is Harlow’s turf these days. In December, it was Jack Harlow Day in Louisville, by mayoral proclamation, during a run of hometown concerts. One of those shows raised money to restore the gazebo-like structure right here in Cherokee Park, the site of some fond memories. “Smoked a lot of weed in that thing right there,” says Harlow, stepping out of the car on an early-February afternoon,…

The Rıse and Fall of Jeff Zucker ON THE RAINY MORNING of March 28, 2020, President Trump addressed a phalanx of journalists outside the White House following a call with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “There’s a possibility that sometime today, we’ll do a quarantine — short-term, two weeks — of New York, probably New Jersey, and certain parts of Connecticut,” he said while clutching his umbrella. “This would be an enforceable quarantine. You know, I’d rather not do it, but we may need it.” Hours later, Cuomo was asked during his daily press conference about Trump’s comments. “From a medical point of view, I don’t know what you’d be accomplishing,” he offered with a shrug. But as sunset approached, the governor appeared on CNN with a much more…

THREE YEARS AGO, Giveon landed a 15-minute tour slot opening for Baby Rose and Snoh Aalegra. There was only one problem: At the time, he had released just two original songs. Needing new tunes in a hurry, the R&B singer decided to write something quickly based on each city the tour landed in. One of these, the spare, chilling “Chicago Freestyle,” proved particularly popular when he posted a snippet to Instagram — until Giveon got a message from his manager, Simon Gebrelul, telling him to delete the clip. “That was his most engaged post on Insta,” says Gebrelul, who also manages A-list producers like Boi-1da, Jahaan Sweet, and Sevn Thomas, and considers Drake a “good friend.” “I felt bad telling him to delete it,” Gebrelul continues, “but I’m like,…

THE MUSICAL Willy Wonka has mellowed out — 2022 Jack White giggles; 2022 Jack White hasn’t had sugar in two years; 2022 Jack White was transformed by the past two years. “There’s been a complete rebirth on all levels of my life throughout the pandemic,” he says. “I made a goal to myself that no matter how long it lasted I was going to come out of it with a totally different scenario of looking at life.” The evidence is in a new double album, of sorts, that spans the gamut of old-school White Stripes, Beatlesque experimentation, and American-jazz flare: Fear of the Dawn, out April 8, and Entering Heaven Alive, out July 22. The consummate frontman took a break from tweaking his upcoming albums even as they’ve been…

THE CLIMATE CRIsis is here, and heartbreak is all around us. The early promise of dramatic action from President Biden is sinking in the old mud bog of fossil-fuel politics. Meanwhile, despite 40 years of warnings from scientists and the decline in the cost of clean energy, carbon pollution is still increasing and the world is heating up as fast as ever. The final sentence in the U.N.’s latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on the impacts of that warming is stark and unequivocal: “Climate change is a threat to human well-being and the health of the planet. Any further delay in concerted global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a livable future.” “The climate emergency is not an issue,” futurist Alex…

IN FEBRUARY 2021, a black wolf wandered across the border of Yellowstone National Park in Montana. Called 1155, he wore a radio collar that park biologists fit him with three years before. When he left the safety of the park, 1155 was what biologists call a “dispersed male,” leaving his pack to travel alone in search of a mate. As a descendant of wolves reintroduced in 1995 to Yellowstone and Idaho’s Frank Church-River of No Return wilderness, he was playing out a role in a success story three decades in the making: to ultimately restore wolves to their former range from which they’d been exterminated. The year before, scientific findings emerged from Yellowstone on the impact of wolves’ return to the landscape. In their long absence, coyotes had run…

MIRANDA LAMBERT is not used to sitting still, so a few months into pandemic quarantine she and her husband, former NYPD officer Brendan McLoughlin, bought a shiny silver Airstream and headed up the East Coast from Nashville. They made “campfire casserole,” a specialty of Lambert’s dad, drank wine on the pop-up table, and named the gleaming beast “The Sheriff.” “My stepson lives in New York, so we were trying to figure out creative ways to get to him,” Lambert says, sitting in a conference room down the hall from where her band is loudly warming up for rehearsal. While the country superstar usually gravitates toward vintage campers, McLoughlin had urged his wife to swap for a new model — Lambert was hesitant until she realized the modern versions come…

KNOWN COLLECTIVELY as “the Daniels,” filmmakers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert have made a name for themselves as go-to absurdists — you have them to thank for that insanely viral “Turn Down for What” music video and the Daniel Radcliffe–as-farting-corpse epic Swiss Army Man. As they release their new multiverse comedy, Everything Everywhere All at Once, the two gave us a crash course in Danielogy 101. ▸ “Don’t Stop (Color on the Walls),” Foster the People 2011 A driving exam turns into a post-robbery high-speed pursuit. DANIEL KWAN: Every project we try to do something we hadn’t done before — like stunt driving. It turns out we don’t like shooting car stunts. At all. DANIEL SCHEINERT: Our production designer, who we’ve worked with for years, loves The Blues Brothers,…

FOR DECADES, world leaders and Big Oil CEOs were happy to turn a blind eye to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s autocratic impulses and fantasies of empire building. They were all fossil-fuel junkies, hooked on the easy money of oil and gas, and Putin had plenty of it. They helped finance pipelines and drilling rigs, and then bought as much oil and gas as he would sell them. For Putin, the cash from fossil fuels fired up his darkest ambitions. It not only helped him build the military force that he sent into Ukraine, it also gave him the means to stash billions in offshore banks that he believed would allow him to weather any economic fallout from the war. “Those who are arguing that we should invest in more…

FOR JENNIFER LOPEZ, a November 2014 performance in Macau wasn’t entirely out of the ordinary. She’d have to sing (here, to a backing track) for 40 minutes, accompanied by six to eight dancers; the contract stipulated she’d be furnished with “first-class” sound and lights. No recording or taping of the performance would be allowed. ⋆ But no tickets were sold, either. And the payday stood out, too: $1.25 million. To celebrate the birthday of a relative, a wealthy Chinese family flew Lopez to Asia to perform for them, tossing in $500,000 for airfare and hotel. The opulence didn’t stop there; for the show, the family built a restaurant and a nightclub inside a Grand Hyatt ballroom, with a walkway connecting the two. And all for about 20 people in…

What’s the best advice anyone has ever given you? I would have to go to the prophetic sources: “Leave that which makes you doubt for that which does not make you doubt.” That means you have a calmness about you, and you can relax a little bit. When you put it that way, it sounds almost easy. You’re right. It’s not necessarily that easy. Sometimes you have to fight yourself, because your soul or your desire are pulling you one way. You were writing about profound subjects at an early age. What led to a song like “The Wind”? I’m talking to somebody; I think it’s the divine, but I’m not quite sure, and because I’m not sure, it’s universal. My goal was to be able to detach myself…