Gospel trailblazers the Staples Jr Singers: ‘We were singing about all the hardship and hurt’ | Music

‘Gospel was something we sang because we love to praise the Lord. Not some kind of show business’ … Edward Brown with an original copy of When Do We Get Paid.

In 1975, a group of teenage siblings in Aberdeen, Mississippi, recorded an album of gospel songs focused on toil, conflict, succour and redemption. They named themselves the Staples Jr Singers in tribute to Mavis and […]

Watch METALLICA’s LARS ULRICH And JAMES HETFIELD Introduce RAVEN At Concert Honoring JONNY And MARSHA ZAZULA

Watch METALLICA's LARS ULRICH And JAMES HETFIELD Introduce RAVEN At Concert Honoring JONNY And MARSHA ZAZULA

Video of METALLICA‘s James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich introducing RAVEN as their support act at last night’s (Sunday, November 6) concert celebrating the life, legacy, and achievements of Megaforce Records founder Jon “Jonny Z” Zazula […]

‘There is no cure’: Duran Duran’s Andy Taylor reveals he has stage 4 cancer | Duran Duran

(L-R) Roger Taylor, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, and Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran attend the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California.

Duran Duran’s original guitarist Andy Taylor has been diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer, the band has revealed while being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which Taylor had to miss […]

ANTHRAX’s FRANK BELLO Releases Music Video For Title Track Of Debut Solo EP, ‘Then I’m Gone’

ANTHRAX's FRANK BELLO Releases Music Video For Title Track Of Debut Solo EP, 'Then I'm Gone'

ANTHRAX bassist Frank Bello has released the official music video for the title track of his debut solo EP, “Then I’m Gone”. Issued as a deluxe gatefold split 12-inch via Rare Bird, the EP contains […]

Chinese animation is booming — but don’t confuse it with anime

A young person wearing a white robe puts their hand on a dragon’s head while standing over it in a drawn image from Nezha Conquers the Dragon King.

In 2021, Funimation viewers got what might have been their first introduction to donghua when the anime streaming service added the series Heaven Official’s Blessing to its roster. But the service mistakenly listed the language […]

Chinese animation is booming — but don’t confuse it with anime

A young person wearing a white robe puts their hand on a dragon’s head while standing over it in a drawn image from Nezha Conquers the Dragon King.

In 2021, Funimation viewers got what might have been their first introduction to donghua when the anime streaming service added the series Heaven Official’s Blessing to its roster. But the service mistakenly listed the language […]

Danny Elfman Says Leave Kids at Home for His Halloween Show

Danny Elfman Says Leave Kids at Home for His Halloween Show

Sure, Danny Elfman has soundtracked a lot of family-friendly movies in his day, but that doesn’t necessarily means he wants your kids to come to his performances. For his Halloween gigs at Los Angeles’ Hollywood […]

Chino Moreno’s ††† (Crosses) Announce New EP, Unveil “Vivien”: Stream

Crosses PERMANENT RADIANT EP

††† (Crosses), the duo comprised of singer Chino Moreno (Deftones) and producer/multi-instrumentalist Shaun Lopez, have announced a new EP titled PERMANENT.RADIANT. In advance of its December 9th release, the band has unveiled the single and […]

‘Black Adam’ Bodhi Sabongui Talks Working With Dwayne Johnson

‘Black Adam’ Bodhi Sabongui Talks Working With Dwayne Johnson

Meet Bodhi Sabongui. After roles in The Baby-Sitters Club, A Million Little Things, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, the 14-year-old actor is currently starring in the No. 1 movie in the country, Black Adam, alongside Dwayne “The Rock” […]

Tom G Warrior of Celtic Frost: ‘Metal was so limited. We were anarchists’ | Music

Celtic Frost photographed for Morbid Tales in July 1984.

Back in the 80s, the 4AD record label was synonymous with a certain ineffable otherness. Its albums had beautiful covers, designed by Vaughan Oliver, and inside those covers was music routinely described as “ethereal”. 4AD […]

Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner on his band’s new LP, ‘The Car’

Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner on his band's new LP, 'The Car'

Arctic Monkeys blasted out of the U.K. in 2006 with “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not,” a scrappy modern-classic debut that framed the young quartet as a kind of transatlantic counterpart to […]