Tony Dow, the former child star who starred in the famous sitcom, “Leave It to Beaver,” has been diagnosed with cancer. Tony and his wife, Lauren, shared the health news Thursday … announcing his diagnosis and saying they are heartbroken. The couple did not specify the type of cancer Tony is battling, but they are
Mike Hagerty, a character actor famous for his work on “Friends” and “Somebody Somewhere,” is dead. Mike died Thursday in Los Angeles, according to his ‘Somebody’ co-star Bridget Everett. The cause of death is unclear. Everett’s remembering Mike as a beloved character actor and devoted husband, saying she “loved Mike the instant I met him.
You’ve heard Slayer‘s “Raining Blood” likely hundreds of thousands of times, but never quite like this. Jeris Johnson, who has emerged from the TikTok world, has partnered with City Morgue member ZillaKami to give the Slayer classic a fresh makeover for 2022. You likely remember Johnson from last year’s classic reimagining of “Last Resort” with
It’s hard to picture the car scene from 1992’s Wayne’s World without Queen‘s “Bohemian Rhapsody” playing. But if Saturday Night Live head and Wayne’s World producer Lorne Michaels had his way, Wayne and Garth probably would’ve been headbanging to a Guns N’ Roses song in the movie instead. That’s what Wayne himself, actor-comedian Mike Myers,
With so many new metal and hard rock albums being released each week, it can be difficult to keep up. We’re making things a lot easier for you by keeping track of all the 2022 releases in one convenient location. Check back often or bookmark this page, because this list is updated on a regular
A Day to Remember will be hitting the road this summer and fall with some pretty stellar support, as The Used, The Ghost Inside, Beartooth, Bad Omens, Movements and Magnolia Park will all spend time taking parts in portions of their 2022 touring. The trek, billed as “Just Some Shows” and “Just Some More Shows,”
Times are tough but Saint Asonia have just released a new anthem aimed to uplift as we all face these challenging times. “Above It All” arrives just as the band has announced plans to release a new seven-track EP titled Introvert this summer. “Above It All” is an anthemic track bolstered by gritty guitars and
Finding videos from a band’s performances while they were still in their infancy is like finding gold. Footage from death metallers The Black Dahlia Murder‘s first three shows ever has surfaced online, and the band actually shared it on their socials so their fans can check it out. The band put a laughing-with-tears emoji at the
Is Rob Zombie trying to fit every plot point from TV’s The Munsters into his upcoming film remake of the classic 1960s sitcom? Because, according to original Munsters cast member Butch Patrick, the Zombie Munsters movie is nearly three hours long. Patrick played the child werewolf Eddie Munster on the original CBS series. And he apparently has recently seen an early
Prom season is here in all its hormone-raging, stretch-limo majesty. Loudwire Weekends is helping millions of teens celebrate their last chaperoned hurrah (and the rest of us to remember our glory days) by playing back the greatest Prom Rock Songs ever. From Type O Negative to Seether, we’ve got a little bit of something for everyone,
Slayer bring heavy metal to bagged salad in a funny faux commercial from Stephen Colbert‘s Late Show for “Slayer Spring Mix.” It’s an imaginary salad blend based on the “Big Four” thrash metal band who called it a day in 2019 after 12 albums and nearly 40 years together. Do you think Slayer would endorse a salad if
A lot of the time, a lineup change can be a really good thing for a band. Sometimes there are members that just aren’t working out together, sometimes people decide to pursue other endeavors, and, unfortunately, sometimes members die. Regardless of the reason, bands choosing to carry on with different people is often a big
“Then almost at the edge of town, on our way to the Trade Mart where we were going to have the luncheon, we were rounding a curve, going down a hill, and suddenly there was a sharp loud report—a shot. It seemed to me to come from a building right above my shoulder. Then a
Open Source is the world’s longest-running podcast. Christopher Lydon circles the big ideas in culture, the arts and politics with the smartest people in the world. It’s the kind of curious, critical, high-energy conversation we’re all missing nowadays. Try this to get a fresh grip on the war in Ukraine and its effects still to
Is the notion of “authenticity” a fiction? Back in 2010, the Canadian writer Andrew Potter published a book entitled The Authenticity Hoax suggesting that the more we search for what he calls “real things,” the more lost we become. Authenticity is a hoax, Potter argued, because, for all its promise of reality, it is anything
In 1986, after nine years as director of an abortion clinic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jeanne Clark was ready for a change. She loved running the clinic—managing the staff, supporting the patients, serving the community. She also experienced the darker side of working in the abortion rights movement. Thankfully, no one was home when her house
“Bad” mothers—mothers with complex inner lives and competing priorities who do not always do right by their children—are having a moment in fiction and film. A full sixty years after Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook was first published to the shock-horror of many, a reaction provoked in part by its depiction of “free” (as in,
Perhaps no celebrity, on or off the screen, reflects the knife’s edge that ambitious women must navigate more powerfully than the Academy Award-winning actor Reese Witherspoon. Reflected in the characters Witherspoon has played over the course of her career, her turn to producing films, and her frank public comments are not only the maddening stereotypes