Overexaggeration is what makes professional wrestling the big-stage, fist-fight fantasy that it is, but for Andre the Giant – one of the niche business’ greatest legends – the allure was in reality. Jason Hehir’s HBO documentary Andre the Giant, which premiered on HBO on Tuesday night, explores the real-life mystique, …
Read More »Stormy Daniels' Lawyer Says Michael Cohen 'Has Been Set Up to Take the Fall'
The Stormy Daniels affair just turned into a Category 5 hurricane. The FBI has raided the office of President Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, according to the New York Times.Vanity Fairreports that a team of feds also searched the Park Avenue hotel where Cohen has been staying. The agents reportedly …
Read More »Megadeth Plot Extras-Packed 'Killing Is My Business' Reissue
Megadeth are marking their 35th anniversary with an extras-packed, deluxe reissue of their 1985 debut, newly dubbed Killing Is My Business … and Business Is Good: The Final Kill. The remastered album, due June 8th, features a new mix that includes some alternate takes, as well as live recordings and …
Read More »Travers on 'Lean On Pete': This Boy-Meets-Horse Drama's a Heartbreaker
It’s a movie about a boy, a horse and the setbacks that befall them – so you can be forgiven for walking into Lean On Pete and immediately thinking you’ve just landed right smack dab in the middle of Tearjerker Central. Don’t worry: British writer-director Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years) …
Read More »Travers on 'Blockers': Femcentric Raunch-Com Flips the Script and Scores
It’s a sex farce about three high school girls who make a pact to lose their virginity on prom night – until their parents decide to cock-block them, that is. On paper, Blockers sounds bloody awful, like the spawn of Mean Girls and Superbad that nobody wanted. “Well, bite me!” …
Read More »Meek Mill: Judge Denies Request to Reconsider Prison Sentence
UPDATE:Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner filed a motion to the state Supreme Court backing Meek Mill‘s request to be released from prison on bail, Billboard reports. This reiterates a motion the prosecutors filed last month, which stated they were “unopposed” to Meek Mill’s bail request. According to Billboard, the new …
Read More »'Broad City' Star Plans 'A League of Their Own' Series for Amazon
An A League of Their Own series is in the works at Amazon, with Broad City‘s Abbi Jacobson on board to co-write the television reboot. The comedy series will be a complete overhaul of the beloved 1992 baseball movie, meaning that the film’s central characters – played by Tom Hanks, …
Read More »ODESZA on Their 'Cinematic,' Percussive Live Show
Chill-bass duo ODESZA are bringing their massive A Moment Apart tour back on the road starting with three sold-out shows in their home base of Seattle Thursday through Saturday. While their show is a spaceship-circus of geometrically pleasing lights, smoke, video and a six-member drumline, the group’s members – Harrison …
Read More »Led Zeppelin's 'Houses of the Holy': 10 Things You Didn't Know
“The key to Led Zeppelin‘s longevity has always been change,” Jimmy Page proclaimed in 1975. This restless sprit enthralled some fans and infuriated others, specifically the type who preferred that the band remain on one sonic plane. Moving past the high-octane thunder of the gods found on their early albums, …
Read More »Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks Preview New Album With Fuzz Bomb 'Shiggy'
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks unveiled a blown-out new song, “Shiggy,” set to appear on their forthcoming album, Sparkle Hard, out May 18th via Matador. “Shiggy” boasts a heavy groove of thumping drums, bristling bass and scorching guitars riffs, which peel off into a delirious closing solo. Over this speaker-rattling …
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