Todd Haynes remembers walking into a record store in L.A. — it would have been some time around 1974, when he was about 13 years old — and seeing the cover for David Bowie’s “Diamond Dogs.” The image of the future Thin White Duke staring out at him “completely scared …
Read More »Robby Krieger Debunks Mythology Behind the Doors' Notorious 'Sullivan' Performance
Fifty years after Jim Morrison’s mysterious death in Paris, enough books on the Doors have been published to fill several shelves at your local bookstore. John Densmore and the late Ray Manzarek wrote their memoirs, numerous biographies are on the market, and a few months ago, a coffee-table volume of …
Read More »'Ted Lasso' Recap: Cheating Hearts
A review of this week’s Ted Lasso, “Midnight Train to Royston,” coming up just as soon as you make my eyebrows less crazy… Midway through “Midnight Train to Royston,” Rebecca enters Ted’s office to tell him about her affair with Sam. After Ted makes the obligatory Cheers joke(*), he advises …
Read More »David Lee Roth Announces Retirement: 'I'm Throwing in the Shoes'
Former Van Halen singer David Lee Roth will play the last concert of his career on January 8th, 2022, at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, a spokesperson for Roth confirmed to Rolling Stone. “I’m throwing in the shoes,” Roth told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on …
Read More »'This Is My Pantheon': Spike Lee Weighs In on His Academy Museum Exhibit
It’s a week before the long-delayed, much-anticipated opening of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures — the film industry’s lavish salute to its history and artistry, located in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood in Los Angeles — and workers and officials are buzzing around the 300,000-square-foot campus, putting together the last-minute touches …
Read More »Unreleased John Lennon, Yoko Ono Song Sells at Auction for Almost $60,000
A cassette containing what’s believed to be a previously unreleased John Lennon and Yoko Ono song, “Radio Peace,” has sold for $58,300 at an auction in Copenhagen, Denmark. The cassette was made in 1970 by four Danish teenagers, who got the chance to interview Lennon at the New Experimental College …
Read More »John Oliver Tells Joe Biden to 'Stop F-king Around and Fix' Voter Suppression
On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver broke down the attacks on voters’ rights through new, restrictive laws passed in over a dozen states. “I know that those pushing these bills claim that critics of them are completely distorting what is inside them and that any objections can simply be …
Read More »Bob Dylan Announces Fall Tour Following Longest Break From Road Since 1984
Bob Dylan will finally resume his Never Ending Tour this fall, following his longest break from the road since 1981 to 1984. Billed the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour, the trek kicks off at Milwaukee’s Riverside Theatre on November 2nd — Dylan’s first public performance since 2019. He’ll travel through …
Read More »Eminem's Famous Lyric About Barfing Has Inspired a New Restaurant
Eminem is turning one of the most famous lines in music history about vomit into a new restaurant, Mom’s Spaghetti, which will open its doors in Detroit next Wednesday, September 29th. The restaurant’s name, of course, comes from the indelible opening lines of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” — “His palms are …
Read More »The Couple That Kills Together (Maybe) Stays Together in 'You' Season Three Trailer
Creepy chaos comes to the Northern California suburbs in the new trailer for Season Three of You, set to premiere October 15th on Netflix. The new season finds new parents Joe (Penn Badgley) and Love (Victoria Pedretti) trying to escape their bloody past in Los Angeles by moving to a …
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