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Supposedly all the best movies of any given year come out from September to December; the better to campaign for the end-of-year awards that are voted on around that time. In practice, that is simply not true. Tons of great movies come out every year from January to June, even if those films do tend to get overlooked by some critics and awards voters. Hopefully lists like this one will counteract some of that end-of-year bias; it contains 15 really good 2024 movies from the first half of 2024. A few of these movies will probably get some attention come November and December. (I have a feeling ...
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Kiss started the ’80s in free fall and spent the first two years of the decade alienating a staggeringly large portion of the impressive rock music fan base they had built in the ’70s by unabashedly chasing even greater mainstream fame. After weathering the departure of their two fellow founding bandmates, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons demonstrated impressive levels of determination and adaptability while re-building the band into a record and ticket-selling powerhouse. To do so they had to remove their famous greasepaint, endure several more lineup changes and change up their musical approach...
Ultimate Classic Rock
About ten years ago, you started to hear it: Longtime Pixar fans complaining that the company had sold out, bowed to corporate pressure, and abandoned their long-standing commitment to originality in favor of a string of sequels. Yes, Pixar has made a fair number of sequels now. But as of this writing, they only account for nine out of the company’s 28 features — and that includes Inside Out 2. Thatworks out to just under one in every three movies being a sequel. That’s not nothing. But it should also be noted: A lot of those sequels are pretty good. One or two might be among the best films Pi...
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Weezer‘s very well-known for their earworm rock songs, but did you know they get heavy? Rivers Cuomo‘s not-so-secret secret is that he loves a good riff. While many musicians who grew up on a steady diet of KISS and Metallica end up starting their own metal bands, Cuomo decided he would channel that energy into Weezer. In Weezer’s 30+ year career, the band has played everything from pop music to emo. Cuomo’s insatiable workrate at writing songs has spawned hundreds, if not thousands of songs. Of those many, Cuomo has certainly gotten heavy, adding an edge to Weezer one might not expect if thei...
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If the first six months of 2024 have proven anything, it’s that rock ‘n’ roll isn’t just alive and well — it’s taken on plenty of different forms. The first half of the year has seen triumphant releases from stalwart headbangers like Judas Priest, Bruce Dickinson and Sebastian Bach, along with confident new albums from ’90s rock giants such as Pearl Jam, Green Day and the Black Crowes. Billy Joel returned to popular music after three decades away, and glam rock icon Ian Hunter showed he’s still got gas left in the tank. Meanwhile, Slash paid long-overdue tribute to the blues with a star-studde...
Ultimate Classic Rock
The Rolling Stones are not gathering moss. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards (both 80 years old) and Ronnie Wood (a spry 77) are currently traveling North America on their Hackney Diamonds tour, which began in April and is scheduled to last until July. Not only are they promoting the Hackney Diamonds album, playing several songs from the recently released LP, but they’re also pulling out tracks they haven’t played live in years. Below, we’ve compiled a roundup of all the songs the Stones have debuted on tour — some brand new, others from decades gone by – organized by date and the city they were pla...
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You know what they say about first impressions: You only get one chance to make them. That’s why Hollywood studios spent so much time, effort, and money crafting movie posters; testing different images, different title treatments, and especially different taglines. Taglines are, at their core, a facet of marketing. But this facet of commerce does (or at least can) involve art as well. A good tagline can help you remember a movie, or inspire you to tell your friends about it. A great tagline will implant itself in your brain forever — in some cases, far longer than the film it is meant to adver...
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Olivia Newton-John‘s husband has listed the stunning ranch where she spent her final days for sale, and pictures show a one-of-a-kind property that offers maximum peace and tranquility. Newton-John died at her California ranch on Aug. 8, 2022, after battling cancer on and off for decades. She was 73. The country and pop legend’s husband, John Easterling, has listed the 4-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom, 4,452-square-foot estate in Santa Ynez, Calif., for sale for $8,965,000, more than a year-and-a-half after his wife’s death. That asking price breaks down to $2,014 per square foot and a monthly payment ...
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The Van Halen that Sammy Hagar left in 1996 wasn’t the same as the one he returned to in 2004. On June 11, 2004 Hagar and his former bandmates reunited onstage for the first time in nearly nine years. Since the singer fired or was quit – depending on who you believe – on Father’s Day 1996, Van Halen had endured some difficult times. First they attempted a studio reunion with their original frontman David Lee Roth, which flamed out spectacularly and in full view of the public at the MTV Music Awards. Then they recruited Extreme‘s Gary Cherone as their third lead singer, which resulted in 1998’s...
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There’s a number of reasons why an artist might choose to work under a pseudonym. For one thing, it’s a relatively simple way to avoid contractual or legal conflicts, as well as drama between competing record labels. Elton John, for example, used the pseudonym Rockaday Johnnie for his contributions to one of Jackson Browne‘s songs, “Redneck Friend,” because at that point, he didn’t yet have a permit to work in America. Or sometimes, it’s about proving that a good song is a good song, no matter how famous of a person wrote it. That’s what Paul McCartney was aiming for in 1965 when he gave the E...
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