The Long Way Back, a new Sublime documentary, details how drug addiction ravaged the California ska-punk band after frontman Bradley Nowell’s 1996 death from a heroin overdose. The film premieres October 17th via VOD platforms, including iTunes and Amazon. The doc’s gripping trailer, premiering at Rolling Stone, highlights how Nowell’s …

Jack Johnson unearthed a song from his high school-era Minor Threat cover band during a visit to Mike D’s Beats 1 radio show The Echo Chamber. As Johnson told the Beastie Boys rapper, he and his band Limber Chicken initially planned on starting a Fugazi cover band before realizing that …

There are film snobs who like to feel superior to meat-and-potatoes action thrillers, favoring only art films meant to be deconstructed over high tea. They can screw off. My feeling is when gung-ho escapism is dished out with the enthusiasm and expertise of American Assassin, why resist? Directed by Michael …

Grant Hart, drummer and singer of the seminal alternative rock band Hüsker Dü, has died at 56 after being diagnosed with liver cancer. The news wasconfirmed by his bandmate Bob Mould on Facebook. “The tragic news of Grant’s passing was not unexpected to me,” Mould wrote. “My deepest condolences and …

Stevie Wonder delivered a rousing rendition of Bill Withers’ “Lean on Me” to open the Hand in Hand telethon to benefit victims of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma. Prior to his performance, Wonder delivered a poignant message about equality and unity, as well as a sharp remark about climate change: …

Netflixacquired Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton. The documentary film chroniclesJim Carrey‘s immersive role as experimental comedian/performance artist Andy Kaufman in 1999 biopic,Man on the Moon. Oscar-winning filmmaker Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Where the Wild Things Are, Her) …

Beyoncé delivered an emotional speech to Hurricane Harvey evacuees Friday at Houston’s St. John’s Church. “This today is a celebration of survival,” Beyoncé told her hometown crowd. “Y’all are my family. Houston is my home. I thank God that y’all are safe, that your children are safe. The things that …

At their peak, Big Black were some of the nastiest noisemakers in rock. Their sound was an industrial-strength miasma of piercing, static-like guitar (played with metal picks), drum-machine battery and frontman Steve Albini‘s unapologetically hateful and acrimonious lyrics about the worst aspects of humanity. So when they decided to break …

Girls actress Jemima Kirke and Zayn Malik are a modern day Bonnie and Clyde in the new clip for his throbbing ballad “Dusk Till Dawn.” “Dusk Till Dawn” is a duet with Sia and leans close to her trademark style: the verses are spare and unadorned, while the hook comes …

“This is my first day off in weeks,” Dave Grohl says, barefoot in his kitchen in jeans and a biker T-shirt, big goofy Dave Grohl grin on his face. The 48-year-old Foo Fighters frontman doesn’t get much downtime these days, between making records, touring, directing documentaries and gigging with pretty …