The Wrap on Spotify Wrapped 2024 — Viral Tracks Are Down

Spotify Wrapped 2024

Photo Credit: Spotify With Spotify Wrapped 2024 out now, everyone is exploring their year with music. Perhaps more interesting than individual stats however is how music consumption trends changed over the course of the year. […]

Jay Blakesberg Offers New Look at Dead & Company with ‘Rainbow Full of Sound’ Coffee Table Book

Jay Blakesberg Offers New Look at Dead & Company with 'Rainbow Full of Sound' Coffee Table Book

Celebrated rock photographer Jay Blakesberg has outlined the contents of a new book that provides an in-depth look at Dead & Company’s touring years, 2015-2023. The 352-page hardcover coffee table book continues Blakesberg’s storied tenure […]

Jerry Garcia’s AI Voice Can Now Read to You—But What Would He Think?

Grateful Dead In Concert - Sacramento CA 1991

Getty Image “Jerry would have loved it.” You hear it a lot if you’re even remotely Grateful Dead-adjacent online. It’s the classic Deadhead refrain, uttered with a wry smirk and a dash of irony: Jerry […]

The eternal evolution of Terry Riley’s minimalist masterpiece : NPR

American composer Terry Riley performs in London in 2018.

American composer Terry Riley performs in London in 2018. His groundbreaking work In C helped launch the musical movement called minimalism 60 years ago. Robin Little/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Robin Little/Getty Images Inspiration […]

The Grateful Dead Bassist Phil Lesh Dies at 84

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Phil Lesh, a founding member and bassist of the Grateful Dead, passed away on Friday morning at the age of 84. According to a post on his Instagram, Lesh “passed peacefully” while surrounded by his […]

‘Rock Springs’ Kelly Marie Tran, Benedict Wong To Star In Movie From Vera Miao

'Rock Springs' Kelly Marie Tran, Benedict Wong To Star In Movie From Vera Miao

Kelly Marie Tran, Benedict Wong and Jimmy O. Yang have been set to star in Rock Springs, a new film written and to be directed by Two Sentence Horror Stories creator and Expats scribe Vera […]

Ranking ‘Saturday Night’s Not Ready for Primetime Players By How Well They Evoke the Original Cast

Ranking ‘Saturday Night’s Not Ready for Primetime Players By How Well They Evoke the Original Cast

Saturday Night Live has long been known for its stars’ impressions of everyone from current politicians like Kamala Harris to historical figures like Vincent Price. Saturday Night, the movie set in the moments before its series premiere, isn’t […]

The Tale of Two Tim Burtons

The Tale of Two Tim Burtons

Getty Images/Ringer illustration Over the course of a 40-year career, Hollywood’s resident weirdo director has gone from pushing the envelope to resorting to retreads, all while watching his counterculture oddness become mainstream. If we say […]

How Dead & Company found new life at the Las Vegas Sphere

John Mayer calls Dead & Company's Sphere residency "a trip through the metaphysical anthropology of the Grateful Dead."

LAS VEGAS —  Four hours or so before they’re due beneath the massive wraparound video screen at Sphere, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and John Mayer amble into a backstage production office like three guys showing up […]

Comedian, actor and painter Martin Mull was always right for the job

Martin Mull with Steve Martin

For anyone lucky enough to have experienced the long arc of his career, the death of droll, dry, deadpan Martin Mull, Thursday at 80, feels like the end of an era. A writer, songwriter, musician, […]

NYC nightlife legend Susanne Bartsch pumps up Pride with a big bash, new book

NYC nightlife legend Susanne Bartsch pumps up Pride with a big bash, new book

For years, decades even, the biggest VIP in the gay scene of New York nightlife has been a straight, Swiss-born woman. That would be Susanne Bartsch, the legendary club queen who has presided over generations […]

Harold Ramis Was Furious When He Didn’t Get A Part in ‘Animal House’

Harold Ramis Was Furious When He Didn’t Get A Part in ‘Animal House’

Second City and National Lampoon stage veteran Harold Ramis was an obvious choice to help script the first Lampoon movie. While co-writers Doug Kenney and Chris Miller had writing chops from their years working for the counterculture humor magazine, […]

The week in audio: Courtney Love’s Women; Kicking Back With the Cardiffians; The Belgrano Diary; Word in Your Ear – review | Radio

Courtney Love’s Women

Courtney Love’s Women (6 Music) | BBC SoundsKicking Back With the Cardiffians | BBC SoundsThe Belgrano Diary | London Review of BooksWord in Your Ear | Acast Sometimes it feels like we will never reach […]

Chubby Checker Net Worth | Celebrity Net Worth

Chubby Checker Net Worth | Celebrity Net Worth

What is Chubby Checker’s Net Worth? Chubby Checker is an American singer and dancer who has a net worth of $4 million. Chubby Checker is widely known for popularizing many dance styles, including the Twist […]

Ernie Kovacs was TV’s madcap genius. A book shows his legacy

Edie Adams holds the string of a tiny guillotine as Ernie Kovacs inserts a cigar to cut.

As we bumble toward the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, it is safe to assume that a dwindling, if not already severely dwindled, number of Americans know the name Ernie Kovacs, […]