As much of America continues to self-quarantine, the propensity to go stir crazy increases with each passing day. Celebrities are no different: bored out of their minds while sitting at home indefinitely. Maybe they are ceaselessly launching Instagram Lives just for some human connection. Maybe they’re teasing us with some …
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Allen Garfield, the filmmaker-favorite character actor who played small but significant roles in Seventies classics like The Conversation and Nashville, has died at the age of 80. The New Jersey Star-Ledger, where Garfield worked as a sportswriter in the Fifties, first reported the Newark-born actor’s death following complications from COVID-19. …
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The backstory to the reboot of Steven Spielberg’s quirky, cult Eighties hitAmazing Stories could be a series itself. NBC announced the project in 2015 before the show headed over to Apple TV+ two years later. Showrunner Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, American Gods) and executive producer Hart Hanson left the project …
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced this year’s inductees: Nine Inch Nails, the Notorious B.I.G., Whitney Houston, Depeche Mode, the Doobie Brothers, and T. Rex will all join the class of 2020. Additionally, Jon Landau and Irving Azoff, two of the most successful managers in rock …
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In the midst of impeachment buildup and “Hot Girl Summer” and Greta Thunberg’s voyage to the U.S. and Lizzo-mania, perhaps you missed 2019’s true song of the summer. You know, the one about the Ice Cream of the Future. “Got myself one cup / Now I’m feeling like I’m on …
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On a late Monday afternoon, Dave Mustaine is feeling good at his Tennessee home. His neighbors’ cows are mooing at each other — loudly — and when he gets on the phone with Rolling Stone, he reports, “I’m just dealing with life.” In May, the Megadeth frontman was diagnosed with …
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It’s been 13 years since System of a Down released their last record – for a variety of reasons, though the alt-metal band’s members claim to get along – so this album from guitarist Daron Malakian’s other project represents a welcome return to the SOaD sound. Although Scars on Broadway’s previous …
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Talk to Scotty Bowers, and he’ll tell you that he banged and/or blew every major star of Hollywood‘s Golden Age. (The 95-year-old is likely to use a more salty, colorful phrase that rhymes.) Bette Davis? Yup, he slept with her. Walter Pidgeon? That character actor used the old “come take …
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Earlier this year, 29-year-old Mayra and her two young children fled a life of domestic violence and gang threats in Mexico. The trio crossed the U.S. border at Nogales, Arizona, where they told Border Patrol Agents that they were seeking asylum. The agents asked for their birth certificates and identification, …
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EDITORS’ PICK: Meek Mill, Legends of the Summer Meek Mill’s legal battles and advocacy for criminal justice reform have made him a folk hero. This four-track EP seems designed to sustain heightened public interest in him – at least until he can record a proper follow-up to last year’s Wins …
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