In the mid-90s, teenagers didn’t have modern high-speed internet, cell phones, streaming services, snap chat, or TikTok. If you wanted music, you had to turn on the radio or go down to the record shop and get CDs. Needless to say, kids were drawn to music shops, and there was none cooler than the fictional…
After a couple of false starts and a few lineup changes, the Bay City Rollers hit the big time in 1974 with their UK top ten single, Remember. Within a year, they were one of the biggest acts in the UK; within two, they were one of the biggest acts in the world. Their time…
When Natural Born Killers hit theatres, it came with a windstorm of controversy. Oliver Stone directed it, and David Veloz wrote the script heavily pulled from one that Quentin Tarantino initially wrote. Throughout the movie, the media turns two serial killers into folk heroes. Perhaps the film would have been more difficult to watch if…
After launching their career in the early ’60s as backing singers, Sonny and Cher reached worldwide attention in 1965 with the release of their mega-selling single, I Got You Babe. Over the next decade, they released numerous other hit singles, broke into light entertainment with The Sonny & Cher Show, and won armies of fans…
If you’ve not seen it, Never Back Down is a 2008 martial arts film starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, and Djimon Hounsou. It was a major flop at the box office, drawing $41.6 million against a budget of $20 million. It didn’t fare any better critically, and currently holds a dismal 23 percent…
Madison Elle Beer began her music career by posting cover videos on her YouTube channel. In 2012, singer Justin Beiber shared a link on Twitter to one of Madison Beer’s covers, and subsequently, she gained substantial mainstream attention. Instantly, Madison Beer secured herself a contract with Island Def Jam Records, where she released her first…
The Donnie Darko Soundtrack is at times thoughtful, haunting, weird, and alarming, but that is as it should be, and it suits the film. The first Donnie Darko Soundtrack didn’t initially include all the music from the movie. Instead, it featured a lot of the background compositions and was missing many of the well-known songs…
Gavin Shane DeGraw is a singer-songwriter from South Fallsburg, New York. He began his career back in 1998 and released several independent E.P.s under Gavin Degraw before being signed to J Records in 2003. In late 2005, he would release his debut album, Chariot, which would eventually sell over a million copies and be certified…
The sun is the most important energy source on Earth, powering almost all life. It’s also a star that shows no mercy, burning at thousands of degrees and blasting ultraviolet radiation into space. The relationship between this fiery ball in the sky and humans plays out metaphorically throughout literature and pop culture. Writers use it…