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“Whole world is smokin’…can’t stop choking…it’s how you do me. My future’s burned to ashes, love’s gone out of fashion…it’s how you do me.” Being in a rock band has its perks, sure. The bright lights, the adulation, the writhing throngs ...

“If there’s a new way, I’ll be the first in line. But it better work this time.” If thrash metal has a definitive year, it’s 1986. In the United States, Slayer and Metallica unleashed Reign in Blood and Master of ...

“I’ve come to tell you what I see. There are great darknesses. Farther than time itself. And beyond the darkness… a light that glows, changes…and in the center of the universe… the eye that sees us all.” -X: The Man ...

“That’s it? No warning? No second chance?” And just like that, Dave Mustaine was unceremoniously dismissed as Metallica’s lead guitarist. In less than two hours, he would be on a bus heading to California from New York. On his mind ...

“In a day we’ll know, oh we’ll know, yes we’ll know‘Bout a heart that’s strong and a mind that is wrongTake my hand and see all the things you can be.”“Brighter Day” 1976 was a fascinating year in America. It ...

There’s a lot that can change in a decade. This is nowhere more apparent than in the world of entertainment. Both music and film touch upon trends and events that shape their respective time periods. When it came to the ...

Fabian is still probably best known for his (relatively) brief heyday as a pop star - specifically the year 1959 when he had three top ten hits - "Turn Me Loose", "Tiger", and "Hound Dog Man". Yet he also had a career as a motion picture leading man that spanned over a decade. It's one that is worth revisiting.

Cabaret Voltaire Don’t Argue Girl with Gun The art of storytelling is one that is not necessarily defined by harsh, dyed-in-the-wool lines but by watercolor smears, oil-black-swoops, wet-inky-lines, blood, sweat, and most definitely tears. (When This Mortal Coil titled one ...

Since the early 2000s, there has been a small but steady flow of Bollywood film music compilations packed with fantastic funk, go-go, disco, and even the occasional traditional number. Many of these have been assembled by UK-based DJs, Indian or ...

“Tell me how you want it. And that’s how we’ll play it” “Up From the Deep”-The Tubes In the wilds of the United States, in the middle-of-the-back-road small cities, the big towns, and even the little burgs, there’s always a ...