Nickelodeon childstar looks totally unrecognisable 17 years after stint on show as he ditches acting for music career

Rob Pinkston played Coconut Head on Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide

NICKELODEON childstar Rob Pinkston looks unrecognisable 17 years after his stint on Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide. The TV star – who was best known for playing Coconut Head from 2004 to 2007 – has now […]

Mary Weiss dead: Singer in girl group the Shangri-Las was 75

Mary Weiss dead: Singer in girl group the Shangri-Las was 75

Mary Weiss, the singer who channeled the melodrama of adolescence as the lead vocalist of the quintessential girl group the Shangri-Las, has died at the age of 75. Her death was announced Friday in a […]

Green Day saving rock ‘n’ roll with ‘Saviors’— 30 years after ‘Dookie’

Green Day saving rock 'n' roll with 'Saviors'— 30 years after 'Dookie'

Sometimes, dookie happens. And when you name an album “Dookie,” clearly you’re not taking yourselves too seriously. But here we are — 30 years after Green Day released its blockbuster breakthrough on Feb. 1, 1994 […]

Neck Deep on Pure Pop Punk and Political Songs: Podcast

Neck Deep on Pure Pop Punk and Political Songs: Podcast

[redcricle url=”https://api.podcache.net/embedded-player/sh/3bdcc124-2757-4d54-911f-b1b3a5666758/ep/104cb709-9914-4351-ae02-95581186fba1″%5D Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS  Neck Deep’s Ben Barlow joins Kyle Meredith to speak about the band’s new self-titled album. The frontman discusses taking their sound “back to their roots” […]

Ben Whishaw as Nick Cave? Score some leftfield music biopic ideas here | Biopics

No average entertainer … Earth Kitt in the 1970s.

Unlike the wave of milquetoast biopics released over the years on Elvis, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash and others, Maestro is a welcome passion project by an actor/director willing to experiment with form and structure. Showing […]

Sleater-Kinney, in Conversation With Blondshell

Sleater-Kinney

Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney, photographed by Chris Hornbecker. With ten albums under their belts, the women of Sleater-Kinney have come a long way from Olympia’s riot grrl punk scene. Indie-rock duo Carrie […]

Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner Announces His Debut Solo Album, Shares “Lose”

Dan Boeckner is stepping away from the Wolf Parade pack with his debut solo album, Boeckner!, out March 15th via Sub Pop. He’s previewing it today with the lead single “Lose.” “I think in a lot of […]