Comedian John Mulaney paid a visit to The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night, and he brought two of his favorite topics with him: fatherhood and Steely Dan. “So I love Steely Dan,” the comedian proclaimed. “Some people don’t like Steely Dan. It’s a very divisive band. When I had a son I go, […]
Friday the 13th fans who thought the series hit rock bottom with 1989’s Jason Takes Manhattan were dragged to even lower depths four years later with Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday. In a move that was as foolish as it was bold, first-time director Adam Marcus essentially attempted to make a Friday the […]
The title of the new Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, is not just a reference to a famous line from Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone.” It is the entire thesis of James Mangold’s film in three words. In A Complete Unknown, Mangold’s Dylan arrives in New York City in early 1961 with the clothes on his back, an acoustic guitar, […]
Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band will hit the road next year, performing in various U.S. cities. The first of those dates is scheduled for June 12 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, followed by stops in places like New York City, Philadelphia and multiple locations in Florida. Starr will be joined by the same musicians he last […]
Rob Hedden had big plans for Jason Voorhees’ first trip to New York City. “There was going to be a tremendous scene on the Brooklyn Bridge. A boxing match in Madison Square Garden,” the director said of his grand initial visions for 1989’s Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan in the book Crystal […]
Jake E. Lee said he was lucky that the second of three bullets that hit him during a late-night attack in October missed his spine. The former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist has been revealing details of the assault near his Las Vegas home over recent weeks, reporting that he’d interrupted two young men as they were […]
Jake E. Lee said he was lucky that the second of three bullets that hit him during a late-night attack in October missed his spine. The former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist has been revealing details of the assault near his Las Vegas home over recent weeks, reporting that he’d interrupted two young men as they were […]
Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder admits it was a “fun challenge” playing alongside Joe Walsh. During a recent conversation with UCR’s Matt Wardlaw, Felder discussed his penchant for guitar solos, specifically those in which he and another rocker trade riffs. “Somebody would be playing, and you step back and give them that period. And then they […]
Pearl Jam released their third album, Vitalogy, in late 1994 at a time when the Seattle band’s popularity was continuing to build at an explosive pace. Of the many unexpected things that developed in that time period, the biggest surprise was the group’s summit in the recording studio with Neil Young for 1995’s Mirror Ball. […]
In 1984, John Shepherd was a young actor looking for his first big break. It seemed to arrive in the form of a leading role in a film called Repetition. “I read the character breakdown and I thought it was so cool,” he later recalled in the book Crystal Lake Memories. Eager to land the […]