Erik and Lyle Menéndez phone in from Donovan Correctional Facility in the official trailer for Netflix‘s The Menéndez Brothers. Streaming Oct. 7, the documentary features new interviews with the brothers as they reflect on the murder of their parents nearly three decades ago and the sensationalized trial that followed. “Everyone …
Read More »Midland Were Once Maligned As Posers. They've Proven to Be Pioneers
Just about a decade ago, Midland, then a newly formed country band, landed in Nashville. Making their way to Broadway and greater Music Row, the Dripping Springs, Texas, trio of Mark Wystrach, Jess Carson, and Cameron Duddy noticed something peculiar. “We all remember vividly just how different we felt walking …
Read More »'Weird Al' Yankovic Announces Massive 'Bigger & Weirder' 2025 Tour
“Weird Al” Yankovic is returning to the road in 2025 on the Bigger & Weirder tour. It will feature an expanded version of his backing band, multiple costume changes, video screens, and the return of his famous parody songs following 2022’s stripped-down The Unfortunate Return of The Ridiculously Self-Indulgent Ill-Advised …
Read More »See Reunited Slayer Play Jeffrey Dahmer-Themed '213' for First Time Since 1998 at Riot Fest
Close to five years since the final date of Slayer’s “Final Campaign” farewell tour, the band reunited for an appearance at Chicago’s Riot Fest on Sunday. As any headbanger would expect, they stacked the set list with fan favorites — “South of Heaven,” “War Ensemble,” “Angel of Death” — but …
Read More »Sting Plays Early Career Gem 'I Burn for You' for First Time in 34 Years
Sting dug out one of his deepest cuts, “I Burn for You,” for the first time in 34 years during his concert in Toronto over the weekend. Sting casually slotted the song — which he first recorded with his pre-Police band, Last Exit — into the middle of his set …
Read More »Marvel Antiheroes Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Sebastian Stan Team Up in 'Thunderbolts*' Trailer
Marvel has released a trailer for their own version of DC’s Suicide Squad. In the Thunderbolts* teaser, skilled assassin Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) pays her father Red Guardian or Alexei (David Harbour) a visit, after a spell of depression. She confides in her bearded, robe-wearing father, asking if he feels …
Read More »Future Delivers a Splash of Reality in the Middle of a Blockbuster Year on 'Pluto Mixtape'
The first solo Future mixtape in eight years, the gritty, immediateMixtape Pluto, lurches in like a relapse, resurfacing the familiar demons that haunted his moody, nocturnal, tortured projects likeMonsterand56 Nightsa decade ago. It’s a quick splash of reality in the middle of a blockbuster 12 months of comparatively lusher and …
Read More »Snoop Dogg, Michael Bublé Make Their 'Voice' Debuts as the Coaches Belt 'Heartache Tonight'
Snoop Dogg and Michael Bublé will make their grand debuts on The Voice when Season 26 premieres tonight, Sept. 23, on NBC (streaming the next day on Peacock). But if you can’t wait until then, you can now watch Snoop, Bublé, Reba McEntire, and Gwen Stefani belting the Eagles’ “Heartache …
Read More »The Power of Local: How Regional Stories Are Shaping Global Entertainment
There’s a significant shift occurring in the entertainment industry. Global content production is becoming homogenized by international distributors. Local, regional and national producers are threatened as huge international conglomerates target global streaming audiences, trying to serve everyone with generic content. I view this trend as a detriment to the industry …
Read More »Manu Chao's Joyful Revolution Gets a New Chapter With 'Viva Tu'
Manu Chao first made a splash in the late Nineties with his fantastic debut solo album, Clandestino, the work of a multilingual, post-modern leftist busker whose music seemed to infuse the everything-at-once sonics of Beck’s Odelay with the spirit of Woody Guthrie, Bob Marley, and Joe Strummer. The title appropriated …
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