Jonathan Bernstein

Brooklyn

Senior Research Editor at Rolling Stone

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Articles

Grimes Cancels D.C. Pride Show, Citing 'Family Issues'

1 week ago | rollingstone.com | Jonathan Bernstein

May 26, 2025 Grimes onstage at Coachella 2024.
Man Detained After Car Hits Pedestrians During Soccer Parade in U.K.

1 week ago | rollingstone.com | Jonathan Bernstein

May 26, 2025 Police and emergency personnel on Water Street in Liverpool after a car collided with pedestrians during the Premier League winners' parade on May 26.
Charles Rangel, Former New York Congressman, Dead at 94

1 week ago | rollingstone.com | Jonathan Bernstein

May 26, 2025 Rangel at the 48th Annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in Washington, D.C., in 2018.
Medium Built: Country mit Frank-Ocean-Feel

1 month ago | rollingstone.de | Jonathan Bernstein

Als Nick Carpenter letztes Jahr „Country“, sein Major-Label-Debüt als Medium Build, veröffentlichte, schienen all seine Träume wahr zu werden. Fast ein Jahrzehnt lang hatte er unter diesem Namen seltsame, düstere kleine Songs auf Bandcamp selbst veröffentlicht, bevor er auf Festivals und in großen Theatern auf der ganzen Welt spielte. Es gibt nur ein Problem: Ein Teil von Carpenter, 33, möchte sich so weit wie möglich von der Nische entfernen, die er sich erfolgreich geschaffen hat.
Willi Carlisle Announces New Album 'Winged Victory'

1 month ago | rollingstone.com | Jonathan Bernstein

April 8, 2025 Willi Carlisle previews his new album 'Winged Victory' with the song "Work Is Work." White Stone* Willi Carlisle is back with a new album.
Michael Hurley, Influential Outsider Folk Singer, Dead at 83

2 months ago | rollingstone.com | Jonathan Bernstein

April 3, 2025 Michael Hurley Ebet Roberts/Getty Images Michael Hurley, the beloved eccentric folk singer whose music became a touchstone for a generation of singer-songwriters, has died at 83. The singer’s death was announced in a statement from his family, and his publicist confirmed that Hurley died in his home state of Oregon after returning home from a series of weekend performances at the Big Ears festival in Knoxville. A cause of death was not provided. “It is with a resounding sadness...
Great Grandpa's Off-Kilter Epiphanies Hit Home

2 months ago | rollingstone.com | Jonathan Bernstein

March 26, 2025 Rachel Bennett* Most bands don’t make it.
Mumford & Sons and the Lumineers Are Done Stompin’

2 months ago | rollingstoneindia.com | Jonathan Bernstein

Take a peek around the current pop landscape, and you’ll notice the persistent, surprising influence of two 2012 albums. No, it’s not some combination of Taylor Swift’s career-defining Red, nor Kendrick Lamar’s opus good kid, m.A.A.d city, nor Frank Ocean’s breakthrough Channel Orange, all of which came out that year. Instead, these days it can feel like the two most influential albums of 2012 are, for better or worse, Mumford & Sons’ Babel and the Lumineers self-titled debut.
Mumford & Sons and the Lumineers Are Done Stompin'

2 months ago | rollingstone.com | Jonathan Bernstein

March 24, 2025 Tim Mosenfelder/WireImage; Kevin Kane/Getty Images/Robin Hood Take a peek around the current pop landscape, and you’ll notice the persistent, surprising influence of two 2012 albums.
Rhiannon Giddens Has Complicated Feelings About Playing on 'Cowboy Carter'

2 months ago | rollingstone.com | Jonathan Bernstein

March 24, 2025 CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP/Getty Images; Brooke Sutton/Getty Images When Beyoncé teased her country-tinged album Cowboy Carter last February, the first sound anyone heard was Rhiannon Giddens’ banjo.