Remembering When Helen Hunt Threw Herself Out A Two-Story Window On Angel Dust

Remembering When Helen Hunt Threw Herself Out A Two-Story Window On Angel Dust

It’s unfortunate for unintentional comedy fans that the anti-drug P.S.A. has fallen so far out of fashion – deadly serious commercials showing talking dogs, teens melting into couches, and Pee Wee Herman teaching kids about […]

40+ Musicians Ask Congress to Pass American Music Fairness Act

American Music Fairness Act

Photo Credit: musicFIRST The Roots, Common, Dionne Warwick, Jack White, Elvis Costello, and 40+ artists ask Congress to pass the American Music Fairness Act. musicFIRST, the voice for fairness and equity for music creators, has […]

Perú Selvático: Sonic Expedition Into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986 review – cumbia’s psych explosion | Music

Album art for Perú Selvático.

Anchored in hip-swaying, syncopated clave rhythm and topped with bright flute melodies, cumbia music has a centuries-old history. Originating from Colombia, its mid-tempo sound is now a staple in Latin America, and a new compilation […]

The Hobbs and Shaw Sequel Sounds Like a No-Go

It's Official: A Hobbs & Shaw 2 Is In The Works - GQ Australia

credit: Hobbs and Shaw Well, maybe it’s not exactly a no-go, but it doesn’t sound as though it’s moving ahead as those involved might like. At the moment, it would appear that the sequel that […]

Harry Styles Honors Christine McVie with “Songbird” Cover

Harry Styles Honors Christine McVie with "Songbird" Cover

It’s no secret that the music and culture of the ’70s are big inspirations for Harry Styles. Naturally, the pop star paid tribute to Christine McVie, who died earlier this week at 79, with a […]

The best music books of 2022 | Best books of the year

In Perfect Harmony: Singalong Pop in 70s Britain by Will Hodgkinson

Rock and pop music has been obsessed with its own past almost from the start: by 1959, a New York record store called Times Square was doing a roaring trade in what it called “oldies”, […]

Review: ‘Leonor Will Never Die’s’ wonderfully weird homage to Filipinexploitation flicks

Review: 'Leonor Will Never Die's' wonderfully weird homage to Filipinexploitation flicks

Equal parts midnight movie, psychodrama and reality-tripping goof, “Leonor Will Never Die” counts as one of the year’s most wonderfully offbeat debuts. Filipino writer-director Martika Ramirez Escobar’s melancholically weird salute to the escapist pull of […]

Review: ‘Leonor Will Never Die’s’ wonderfully weird homage to Filipinexploitation flicks

Review: 'Leonor Will Never Die's' wonderfully weird homage to Filipinexploitation flicks

Equal parts midnight movie, psychodrama and reality-tripping goof, “Leonor Will Never Die” counts as one of the year’s most wonderfully offbeat debuts. Filipino writer-director Martika Ramirez Escobar’s melancholically weird salute to the escapist pull of […]

BRIAN JOHNSON’s Pre-AC/DC Band GEORDIE Is Back With New Singer, 50th-Anniversary Single

BRIAN JOHNSON's Pre-AC/DC Band GEORDIE Is Back With New Singer, 50th-Anniversary Single

Brian Johnson‘s pre-AC/DC band GEORDIE has returned with a revamped lineup, now featuring singer Terry Slesser, and a new single, “Red, White & Blue”. The track, which marks GEORDIE‘s 50th anniversary, was written by original […]

GEORGE LYNCH And JEFF PILSON Release Original Holiday Single ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’

GEORGE LYNCH And JEFF PILSON Release Original Holiday Single 'It's A Wonderful Life'

Their musical partnership extends all the way back to 1984 and the release of the now classic sophomore album from DOKKEN, “Tooth And Nail”. No wonder then that when guitarist George Lynch and bassist Jeff […]

Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Charlie Brown Christmas (Super Deluxe Edition) review – a festive classic | Music

The artwork for A Charlie Brown Christmas (Super Deluxe Edition).

Vince Guaraldi’s career, or rather the legacy of his career, is a curious thing. His name is absent from the index of Ted Gioia’s authoritative The History of Jazz. Nor was it mentioned, even in […]

Girls Aloud’s 20 best songs – ranked! | Girls Aloud

Kimberley Walsh, Nicola Roberts, Nadine Coyle, Cheryl Cole and Sarah Harding perform on their ‘Ten – The Hits Tour’ at The O2 Arena in 2013.

20. No Regrets (2005) Ballads were seldom Girls Aloud’s forte – they were better at songs with bolshie attitudes, which seemed to suit their personalities – but No Regrets is the exception that proves the […]

SAXON’s BIFF BYFORD On ‘Wheels Of Steel’: ‘We Had No Sense Of Destiny. But We Did Know We’d Written Some Classics’

SAXON's BIFF BYFORD On 'Wheels Of Steel': 'We Had No Sense Of Destiny. But We Did Know We'd Written Some Classics'

The latest issue of Rock Candy magazine celebrates the making of SAXON‘s game-changing New Wave Of British Heavy Metal album “Wheels Of Steel” with a 10-page mega feature including new interviews with every band member […]

Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood React to Christine McVie’s Death

Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood React to Christine McVie's Death

Musicians and fans are mourning Christine McVie, the legendary vocalist and “songbird” of Fleetwood Mac, who died November 30th at the age of 79. McVie, who joined Fleetwood Mac in 1971, “passed away peacefully at […]

‘See you on the other side’: musicians pay tribute to Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie | Fleetwood Mac

Famous names across the music industry have paid tribute to Christine McVie on Thursday, after news broke that the Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter had died aged 79. Her bandmates led the celebrations of McVie’s life. “There […]

Ang Lee to direct, filmmaker’s son to play martial arts icon

Bruce Lee's Biopic To Be Directed By Ang Lee

Ang Lee All Set To Direct Bruce Lee’s Biopic ( Photo Credit – Wikipedia ; IMDb ) Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, known for helming ‘Life of Pi’ and ‘Brokeback Mountain’, is set to direct a […]

Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie: Calm in the storm

Christine McVie, a member of Fleetwood Mac, at a rehearsal.

Christine McVie, the singer, songwriter and keyboardist whose dreamily optimistic tunes for Fleetwood Mac — including such FM-radio staples as “Don’t Stop,” “Little Lies,” “Songbird,” “Everywhere” and “You Make Loving Fun” — helped make the […]