A new, super-deluxe box set will chronicle the making of Metallica’s influential Master of Puppets LP, showing how the songs developed from riff fragments into the thrash epics that make up one of Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Metal Albums. The collection’s “Riffs, Demos and Outtakes” disc contains three riffs, two …
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John Oliver updated his viewers on the latest in the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandalon Last Week Tonight, where the host discussed how Hollywood’s blind eye toward the mega-producer’s behavior finally ended this week. In the week since the Weinstein exposés were published in the New York Times and New …
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X-Men meet the horror genre in the first trailer for The New Mutants, an upcoming Marvel movie about mutant teenagers trapped and tested on in a secret facility. New Mutants, an Eighties spinoff of X-Men, features lesser-known characters like Magick (played by Anya Taylor-Joy), Wolfsbane (Game of Thrones‘ Maisie Williams), …
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Sam Smith returned to Saturday Night Live to perform a pair of tracks from the singer’s upcoming new album The Thrill of It All, “Too Good at Goodbyes” and his just-released album closer “Pray.” The Thrill of It All, the follow-up to Smith’s 2014 breakthrough debut LP In the Lonely …
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The Rolling Stones will collect 18 recordings the band performed on the BBC from 1963 to 1965 for the upcoming compilation On Air. The collection, due out December 1st, culls the Rolling Stones‘ performances from BBC shows like Saturday Club, The Joe Loss Pop Show, Blues in Rhythm, Top Gear …
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Say “Vince Vaughn,” and what’s the first image that comes up? His “you’re so money” suit-wearing Swingers alpha male? His heroic environmentalist-slash-shutterbug in the first Jurassic Park sequel? Maybe your go-to Vaughn is The Break-Up–era bloated version that graced tabloid covers and Jennifer Aniston’s beach pics, or the smarmy comic …
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Black clothes. White skull. Smoking guns. These are the gloriously simple ingredients behind the Punisher, the no-holds-barred antihero who’ll soon be starring in one of the fall’s most anticipated series. As played by The Walking Dead‘s Jon Bernthal during the second season of Netflix‘s Daredevil, the gun-toting vigilante stole every …
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Former R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck joined Coldplay onstage in Portland, Oregon on Monday night to pay homage to Tom Petty with a cover of “Free Fallin.’” Petty died on Monday at age 66. Coldplay played a faithful version of Petty’s hit after asking the crowd for a minute of silence. …
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In 1996, Bob Dylan met Daniel Lanois in a hotel room in New York. He wanted Lanois to listen to some lyrics that he’d put together and tell him if there was enough there for his first collection of original songs in more than half a decade. Dylan and Lanois …
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Lauren Alaina‘s current single “Doin’ Fine” opens with the killer couplet, “Daddy got sober, mama got his best friend / I’ve cut down crying to every other weekend,” pulling the first part directly from her own life to set up a look inward at a complicated set of emotions. Alaina …
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