Weed, obviously. But also a ton of innovation, some surprising ingredients, a dose of hucksterism—and a tradition on the ...

Rolling Loud, the "World's largest hip-hop music festival," is returning to the Hollywood Park grounds in Inglewood. Some of music's biggest names including Peso Pluma, ASAP Rocky, BLXST and ...

Japanese aid has helped the country win trust globally, the government said in an annual white paper on official development assistance. The paper said that the risk of a divided world is growing ...

After guitarist Brent Hinds’ exit from the heavy metal band, Mastodon, they were joined by Ben Eller. On March 9, 2025, Eller performed with the band at Tool’s Tool in The Sand Festival. He seems to ...

Late last week, founding guitarist Brent Hinds and Mastodon that they were amicably parting ways after 25 years together. The band wrote at the time: “We’re deeply proud of and beyond grateful ...

Now it has reached the paper-shredder stage ... (McClanahan has represented Rolling Stone in an unrelated matter.) A USAID employee who is on administrative leave, like the majority of the ...

Mastodon tapped YouTuber and session guitarist Ben Eller to take over for founding member Brent Hinds during the band’s set on Sunday (March 9th) at Tool’s destination festival Tool in the Sand in ...

Last night (March 9th), Mastodon played their first show since the shock departure of founding guitarist Brent Hinds, and they indeed had another axeman on-stage with them at the TOOL Live in the Sand ...

Mastodon's Brent Hinds in November 2023 (photo: Medios y Media / Getty Images). Two days after Mastodon shocked fans with the announcement that they’d parted ways with co-founding vocalist ...

So who exactly in Ben Eller? The YouTube favorite stepped into the role of guitarist for Mastodon after the recently announced exit of longtime favorite Brent Hinds and admirably helped the group ...