• The Real Reason You Recognize Rose The Hat From Doctor Sleep

    Doctor Sleep had a lot going against it. It was the sequel to The Shining, a masterpiece of a movie and one of the most legendary horror films in existence. What's more, the villain of the piece was Rose the Hat, an inhumanly beautiful woman wearing a silly-looking top hat.

    By Pauli Poisuo July 2nd, 2020 Read More
  • Here's How Much Bob Dylan Is Really Worth

    As attested to by a litany of press conferences, public service announcements, and toilet paper commercials, these are uncertain times. That's why it's so important to give positive revelations a moment to soak in. It is time, therefore, to take comfort in knowing that Bob Dylan is doing just fine.

    By Tom Meisfjord July 2nd, 2020 Read More
  • The Hidden Meaning Of The Rolling Stones' Brown Sugar

    It's a great rabbit hole to fall down, trying to figure out the hidden meanings behind your favorite songs. For one, was John Lennon's "Imagine" secretly a love letter to the Communist Manifesto? And then there's "Brown Sugar," the Rolling Stones' 1971 classic.

    By Tom Meisfjord July 2nd, 2020 Read More
  • The Truth About The Feud Between Michael Jackson And Prince

    Prince and Michael Jackson: two slender heavenly bodies, trapped irrevocably in one another's gravitational pull, each seemingly doing his best to out-weird the other by an order of magnitude. Their rivalry was the stuff of Greek mythology, akin to the events of The Prestige, but with tighter pants.

    By Tom Meisfjord July 1st, 2020 Read More
  • What The Ending Of Snowpiercer Really Means

    Director Bong Joon-Ho's 2013 movie Snowpiercer told the story of the last remaining humans on Earth. It talked about rebellion, class issues and hope -- but the movie's ending might need a little bit of explanation.

    By Emilia David July 1st, 2020 Read More
  • The James Bond Stunt That Cost The Most Money

    In 2009, Deadline reported that Sean Connery had an "explosion clause" written into his contracts. Any film in which the Scotsman appeared was required to include a bigger and more Earth-shattering kaboom than the last. Even Connery wasn't in the most expensive Bond movie, though.

    By Tom Meisfjord July 1st, 2020 Read More
  • Here's How The Beatles Ripped Off Chuck Berry

    "Come Together," by the Beatles, is a true jam, so much so that the Arctic Monkeys's cover was played in the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics ... oh, and it also pulled heavily from Chuck Berry's "You Can't Catch Me," to the point where one could claim plagiarism.

    By Felix Behr July 1st, 2020 Read More
  • Robert Plant Almost Wasn't A Part Of Led Zeppelin. Here's Why

    It's hard to imagine a time before Led Zeppelin existed, let alone a time when songs like "Stairway to Heaven", "Kashmir", and "When the Levee Breaks" didn't grace our radio speakers. It's even harder to imagine what Led Zeppelin would have been like without the band's frontman, Robert Plant.

    By Allison Matyus July 1st, 2020 Read More
  • Everything We Know About The American Pickers' Store

    The boys of the History Channel show American Pickers go all around the country (and sometimes even to London) looking for long-lost pieces of Americana. And of course, they gotta have somewhere to put it all in, and you see that place a couple of times in the show.

    By Emilia David July 1st, 2020 Read More
  • Here's How Kurt Cobain Really Felt About Dave Grohl

    However, in 2005, Grohl revealed that he felt a kind of awkwardness as part of Nirvana: "I don't think I've ever told anyone this, but there were times when Kurt was really unhappy with the way I played drums. I could hear him talking about how much he thought I sucked. But he'd never say it to me."

    By Felix Behr June 30th, 2020 Read More
  • The Tom Petty Song That Was Inspired By Prince

    Many people may not know that Petty was greatly influenced by Prince and the musical risks he took throughout his career. In fact, Prince inspired one of the more popular songs Petty wrote.

    By Allison Matyus June 30th, 2020 Read More
  • Here's How ZZ Top's Dusty Hill Shot Himself In The Stomach

    "I don't believe in regrets at all," said ZZ Top bassist and singer Dusty Hill. It's a heck of an attitude, and likely something that served him well when -- speaking of agonizing -- he accidentally shot himself in the ZZ Middle with a derringer.

    By Tom Meisfjord June 30th, 2020 Read More
  • Tony Iommi Almost Wasn't A Part Of Black Sabbath. Here's Why

    Though Ozzy Osbourne commands the face of Black Sabbath, it's Tony Iommi who has always been there, with band members circulating around him like planets around the sun. Just as many can't imagine "Iron Man" or "Paranoid" without Osbourne's croon, imagine it without Iommi's guitar. You can't.

    By Felix Behr June 30th, 2020 Read More
  • This Is Keith Richards' Favorite Drug

    If you have the money to spend and you want a fine wine, you go to a respected sommelier. Looking for the apex of vehicular reliability? You might ask a renowned engineer, mechanic, or one of those Top Gear guys.

    By Tom Meisfjord June 30th, 2020 Read More
  • The Real Reason K-Pop Stars Earn So Little Money

    The starving artist stands as a trope, embodying any hope for earning anything with a creative or entertaining pursuit. The world expects these vocations not to make money. However, calling them "slave contracts," the term for a type of contract that's rife in the K-pop industry, is troublingly on the nose.

    By Felix Behr June 30th, 2020 Read More