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Bethan Gwyndaf isn’t the most popular girl in her high school. She’s not the most athletic, nor the most glamorous. And though she seems quite clever, she’s not making much of an academic impact, either. But there is one thing Bethan is better at than anyone else, even if none …

Robbie Shakespeare — reggae artist extraordinaire, prolific bassist, and in-demand producer alongside his longtime collaborator Sly Dunbar — admits he was “humbled” upon learning he made Rolling Stone’s recent list of the 50 Greatest Bassists of All Time. “Number 17, that’s good,” Shakespeare says of his ranking, “compared to all …

Bon Jovi reflects on the death of George Floyd, the protests that followed and this moment in U.S. history on the band’s new song “American Reckoning.” “I was moved to write ‘American Reckoning’ as a witness to history,” Jon Bon Jovi said in a statement. “I believe the greatest gift …

Roger Taylor‘s original plans for 2020 called for him to spend the evening of June 29th drumming with Queen and Adam Lambert at the 15,000-seat Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany, as part of their ongoing Rhapsody world tour. Instead, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he spent that night watching the Netflix …

No, it’s not really a “movie” in the sense of an all-out, bells-and-whistles Hollywood extravaganza. The Hamilton that debuts on Disney+ starting July 3rd is a live-performance film of Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s ground-breaking, history-making Broadway musical that told the story of Alexander Hamilton (“the ten-dollar Founding Father”) in an electrifying, hip-hop …

Eric Church makes a case for more serious material in country songwriting with the furious new single “Stick That in Your Country Song.” Opening with an ominous acoustic guitar riff, Church outlines social issues plaguing people in cities like Detroit and Baltimore, along with veterans returning from combat and underpaid …

Joel Schumacher, the director, screenwriter and costume designer with a wide-ranging filmography that includes St. Elmo’s Fire, The Lost Boys, several John Grisham movies and two Nineties Batman films, died Monday after a year-long battle with cancer, Variety reports. He was 80. Schumacher’s publicist confirmed the filmmaker’s death, though did …

President Trump pushed governors to use more aggressive tactics against protesters, according to leaked audio of Monday video teleconference call. Several reports quoted the president telling the governors that they are “weak” and “not doing enough” to quell demonstrations. Trump also said that the governors “were a laughingstock all over …

This piece originally ran as part of 2020 Sundance Film Festival coverage. Even if you didn’t know Drew Dixon’s name, you definitely knew the fruits of her labor. The daughter of Washington, D.C., mayor Sharon Pratt and a Stanford alumna, she was an unabashed music fan. Dixon especially loved hip-hop, …

Now that it’s one of the most beloved comedies on streaming, across multiple generations, it can be hard to remember that The Officewas not well-received when it debuted on NBC in the spring of 2005. It’s not just that the mockumentary format was relatively new to American TV, but that …