La Bamba, the critically acclaimed biopic of teen idol Ritchie Valens, is mandatory viewing for anyone with even the vaguest interest in the early days of rock and roll. As befitting of a movie that…
American country music singer Eddy Arnold was born Richard Edward Arnold on May 15, 1918, in Henderson, Tennessee. He is also known as The Tennessee Plowboy. Arnold died on May 8, 2008, at the age…
King Of Staten Island stars Pete Davidson, Marisa Tomei, Bill Burr, Bel Powley, Maude Apatow, and Steve Buscemi in a movingly funny, semi-autobiographical take on Pete Davidson’s real-life story. If you haven’t seen the movie…
Naughty By Nature, an American hip-hop trio from East Orange, New Jersey, has made music for over 25 years. With hits like “O.P.P.,” “Hip Hop Hooray,” and “Cotton Eye Joe,” they are one of the…
Born Joseph Edgar Foreman, Afroman is an American rapper and musician born in Mississippi in 1973. He started his music career in the late 1990s and has since released several albums. His music is known…
Starring Issa Rae as the daughter of a renowned photographer who falls in love with the reporter (Lakeith Stanfield) researching her mother’s life, The Photograph drew rave reviews on its release in 2020, with critics…
Pig Robbins is perhaps the most revered American session musician of the last 100 years. Studio legend Charlie McCoy summed it up like this: “He’s the best session player I’ve ever worked with. When he’s…
The 1997 American epic romance and disaster film Titanic was directed by James Cameron and written by James Cameron. The film was produced by James Cameron and Jon Landau and starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet,…
Lee Aaron never made it as big as some of her ’80s contemporaries, but even if her time in the spotlight fizzled out long before it should have done, the Canadian singer and self-proclaimed Metal…