John Mulaney has learned a few things about life from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. This sounds like the setup for a joke. But the comedian, late-night host, and low-key music obsessive has long been fascinated with the Cleveland institution, the artists it deems worthy for inclusion (or …
Read More »Why Aren't New Order in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Yet?
The Hall, the Hall will tear us apart. Again. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has announced its new crop of inductees, revealing that New Order got rejected this year. The Hall nominated Joy Division and New Order as one band, which meant that Hall voters had a chance …
Read More »Why 'The Crow' — and Brandon Lee — Still Haunts Us
“When someone’s dead, they can’t come back, can they?” It’s a pretty straightforward line of dialogue. But when it was spoken near the end of The Crow, audiences silently shivered. All of us who saw the anticipated comic-book action movie when it opened on the weekend of May 13th, 1994, …
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