Official RONNIE JAMES DIO Documentary ‘Dio: Dreamers Never Die’: Trailer Available

Official RONNIE JAMES DIO Documentary 'Dio: Dreamers Never Die': Trailer Available

The official trailer for the first-ever career-spanning documentary on the life and times of legendary metal icon Ronnie James Dio is available below. Executive-produced by Dio‘s widow and longtime manager Wendy Dio and fully authorized […]

Marvin and Jolens? Rico and Claudine? A Gen-Z’s guide to ‘90s loveteams

Marvin and Jolens? Rico and Claudine? A Gen-Z’s guide to ‘90s loveteams

MANILA, Philippines – We all know that love teams are a Pinoy showbiz staple, and while recent history has seen the rise of love teams like KathNiel, LizQuen, JaDine, AlDub, and, more recently, DonBelle, one […]

In the streaming era, Substack helps indie rockers pay the bills. Can it last? | Music

Brandon Boyd of Incubus sings into a microphone while on stage.

“I jumped from my chair and knelt over my father, cradling his head. As if in a movie, I held his head in one hand and snapped the other in front of his face, yelling […]

Official Ronnie James Dio Documentary to Premiere in Theaters

dio documentary poster

An official Ronnie James Dio documentary, titled Dio: Dreamers Never Die, is hitting theaters on September 28th and October 2nd for a two-day only event. The career-spanning documentary follows the legendary metal singer’s rise “from […]

‘It’s so alien, I’ve never heard anything like it’: folk collective Heilung on recording the world’s oldest song | Folk music

Heilung performing in Berlin in 2019

About 300,000 years ago (give or take a few millennia), the human larynx dropped downwards, an evolutionary advance as vital in separating us from the apes as the development of opposable thumbs and a large […]

Ricky Nelson Net Worth | Celebrity Net Worth

Ricky Nelson

What was Ricky Nelson’s Net Worth? Ricky Nelson was an American actor, musician, and singer-songwriter who had a net worth of $500 thousand at the time of his death in 1985. Ricky Nelson rose to […]

The devil went down to Gambia! The surprising history of African country music | Music

Bulawayo Blue Yodel – a compilation of country-influenced African music.

In early July, a Twitter account called The Zimbabwean posted a thread highlighting the popularity of country music across Africa. The posts included videos – mostly phone footage from bars and weddings – that persuasively […]

Olivia Newton-John was that rare thing: a wonderfully unselfconscious star | Olivia Newton-John

Surreal and spectacular … with Michael Beck in Xanadu.

Olivia Newton-John was an Australian recording star who achieved serious Hollywood fame with her starring role in the 1978 musical Grease, playing opposite the white-hot leading man of the moment, John Travolta. Just a few […]

Dame Olivia Newton-John obituary | Musicals

Olivia Newton-John representing Britain at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest.

The singer and actor Olivia Newton-John, who has died aged 73 after suffering from cancer, had a ready riposte for anyone who called her “Miss Goody Two-Shoes from Australia”. Despite her Melbourne accent, she had […]

Mo Ostin obituary | Pop and rock

Mo Ostin in his office in the 1970s.

It is usually the artists who are the household names in the music business, but there have been a handful of executives who became well known in their own right, such as Clive Davis at […]

Nichelle Nichols dead: Played Uhura in ‘Star Trek’ series

Four photos of Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura in "Star Trek" scenes.

Nichelle Nichols, who played the communications officer on the Starship Enterprise on “Star Trek” and famously participated in what was thought to be the first interracial kiss on television, has died. Nichols died of heart […]