Some terrible movies are near-misses, which actually could have been pretty good had one or two things about them turned out differently. Others earn the
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Like its namesake magazine, the Heavy Metal movie was a strangely alluring mix of comic science fiction and dark erotica, underground fantasy and Arthurian campiness.
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Like its slow-building title song, Isaac Hayes’ Shaft soundtrack took a while to achieve its reputation as a symphonic-funk masterpiece. He had broad access to
When former Warrant singer Jani Lane died on Aug. 11, 2011, at the age of 47, he left behind a complicated musical legacy that he himself repeatedly
How do you follow up a landmark rock opera like Tommy? If you’re the Who’s Pete Townshend, with another ambitious conceptual project. And what do
The Day Nirvana Filmed the ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ Video
The longest gap between Metallica albums – eight years – came to an end in November 2016 with the release of Hardwired … to Self-Destruct. The band’s
Time was not on the Rolling Stones’ side in late 1980. The band had already agreed to a sweeping U.S. tour set for 1981 and then
Even though Queen started the ’80s – an era notoriously unkind to ’70s rock bands – in a pretty good place, not even they could leave the decade