David Fichner’s adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk book Fight Club hit theaters in 1999. It captured audiences because at the time there was a lot of uncertainty about what was going to happen with computers and people started to see how the digital era was slowly pulling them further in. One of the things that…
Silence of the Lambs was released on February 14th, 1991, and is considered one of the scariest movies of all time. Even though it was the second book in the Hannibal Lector trilogy written by Thomas Harris, it was the first of the series released. Thirty years after Silence of the Lambs became the third…
Silk is a musical group consisting of Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak. Anderson is a drummer, singer, and rapper, who is also a member of the production team N.E.R.D. Bruno Mars is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. The two artists met in 2013 and immediately hit it off. They began working on music together,…
Prison songs often relate to the history and culture of prison life. Many different types of songs have been written about prison, including ballads, blues, country, folk, rap, and rock. These songs often reflect the realities of prison life, including experiences such as violence and abuse, overcrowding, and racial inequality. Many artists have written prison…
The Beatles may have been the biggest headliners of the British Invasion in the ’60s, but they opened up the doors for a flood of British beat groups that came to dominate the US charts in the mid-1960s. One of those groups was the Dave Clark Five, a short-lived but hugely successful band that specialized…
For every artist that manages to make a lasting career in music, there are a couple of hundred more that don’t. But even if they fail to maintain their fame, one-hit wonders have still managed to leave us with some irresistible pop moments over the years. If you’ve forgotten more about Blu Cantrell, Fountains of…
Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jay Baruchel, and Brandon T. Jackson as a group of high maintenance movie stars making a film about the Vietnam War, Tropic Thunder was a major hit back in the mid-2000s, topping the US box office for three weeks and grossing over $195 million worldwide. Just as…
Authority is a rather complicated concept. Strictly speaking, it refers to legitimate power. However, there is a lot of music that use authority as a synonym for power. This is a very cynical way of looking at things. Still, chances are good that even the most idealistic of individuals would agree that there is a…
Among Christians who also happen to be fans of the rock n’ roll genre, whenever they hear “Hallelujah” in the lyrics, they sit up and take notice. This Hebrew word is shared among Christians and Jewish who praise God as an exclamation of joy whenever they feel blessed about something. In the Hebrew Bible, “Hallelujah”…