Rolling Stones guitaristRonnie Wood revealed in a new interview that heis now cancer-free after being diagnosed with “a touch of lung cancer” in 2017. “I had three months of check-ups and it was all clear and they said go and enjoy life,” Wood told Metro. Wood had a part of …
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Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda will make his first solo appearance since the death of bandmate Chester Benningtonat the Identity LA festival this spring. The free event, which celebratesAsian Pacific American Heritage Month, will take place at Grand Park in Downtown Los Angeles on May 12th. Korean-American hip-hop artist Jay …
Read More »Watch Post Malone's Post-Apocalyptic 'Psycho' Video With Ty Dolla $ign
Post Malone cruises in a tank through a post-apocalyptic desert in his bizarre “Psycho” video with Ty Dolla $ign. The clip opens with the rappers lounging in their military vehicle as it barrels through a barren wasteland. Elsewhere, Post Malone brandishes a flamethrower against a rabid, wolf-like creature and chases …
Read More »The Beatles' Marathon 'Please Please Me' Session, Hour by Hour
The last notes of “Please Please Me” still hung in the stale air of EMI’s Studio Two on November 26th, 1962, when George Martin’s disembodied voice crackled over the talkback from the control room above. “Gentlemen,” he addressed his young moptopped charges, “I think you’ve made your first Number One.” …
Read More »Charles Manson Funeral Held in California
Nearly four months after the death of cult leader Charles Manson, his remains were cremated on Saturday following a small, private funeral that featured songs by the Beach Boys and Guns ‘N Roses. Mark Pitcher, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene who presided over the service, told the Associated …
Read More »SXSW 2018: 30 Best Artists We Saw at the Austin Throwdown
Courtney Marie AndrewsMarch 17th, Cheer Up CharliesCourtney Marie Andrews tends to lean into the melancholy undercurrents that run through her music, but the ethereal air that characterized both 2016’s Honest Life and the new May Your Kindness Remain lifts when she performs onstage. Her late-afternoon set at Cheer Up Charlies’ …
Read More »Fanny Lives: Inside the Return of the Pioneering All-Female Rock Band
When Deep Purple didn’t show up for a gig once in Ohio in the early Seventies, opening act Fanny went on in their place. “And slammed,” recalls guitarist June Millington. “No one left, which impressed everyone. It was a big deal ’cause, well, you know: girls!” Four girls, in fact. …
Read More »Meek Mill's Legal Troubles: A History
The ballad of Meek Mill is long, repetitive and unpleasant. Over the past decade-plus, the rapper has spent an estimated $30 million on legal defense, as he’s gone in and out of Philadelphia courtrooms, jails and now prison for a variety of charges and petty parole violations that he has …
Read More »'Love, Simon': Gay Teen Romance Is 'John Hughes for Woke Audiences'
A seemingly ordinary coming-of-age tale that looms large because of its inclusive romantic embrace, Love, Simon wins you over by capturing your heart without pushing too hard for the prize. Given the recent high points of gay cinema on the indie circuit – the Oscar-garlanded Moonlight and Call Me By …
Read More »'The Walking Dead' Recap: Blind Faith
It’s been a while since The Walking Dead delivered an episode as fundamentally entertaining as this week’s installment, titled “Dead or Alive Or.” Yes, the show’s still committed to a bleak and tedious war story for probably the rest of this season; no, it doesn’t seem like these characters are …
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