Hulk Hogan reveals he came close to taking his life during divorce in newly released final interview The wrestling icon died last year at the age of 71 The Independent UK · Apr 22
Why Jin Chose BTS Over His Dream Career What if you had everything to become a star but chose something else instead? That’s the story of Jin. With visuals that could easily fit the film industry, many believed acting was his natural path. And yet he walked away from it. Not because he couldn’t do it. But because… MyLifeXP · Apr 22
“When I was growing up, there was peer pressure on you to conform to be a certain way. And as an English boy at the time, you’re encouraged not to show your emotion”: How the young Robert Smith created one of The Cure’s definitive songs The band’s first song to pass one billion streams on Spotify MusicRadar · Apr 18
I was one of Lena Dunham’s haters. I want to say I’m sorry The truth is, we were all just jealous The Guardian - US · Apr 16
"Some of the band didn't even want to finish Love Shack. They said, Let's just forget it." How a band who were "just too weird for the powers that be" became national treasures The story behind The B-52's timeless anthem Love Shack Louder · Apr 15
BTS members open up about reunion fears, ‘egos’ and missing out on writing songs Members worried if solo success would cause issues when K-pop group needed to work together for new studio album The Independent UK · Apr 14
"Trust me, the music that he's into, it’ll make your songs be like Mary Had a Little Lamb." How Sopranos legend Stevie Van Zandt persuaded Bruce Springsteen to take a chance on future Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg How Jay Weinberg went from playing New York bars to playing stadiums with Bruce Springsteen as a teenager Metal Hammer · Apr 13
Woman arrested for allegedly stalking Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham Michelle Dick accused of dousing Buckingham with an unknown substance in March and damaging his car before fleeing The Guardian - US · Apr 13
"I was embarrassed turning that song in because it was an obvious hit." How Smash Mouth wrote an anthem for bullied fans and accidentally became a pop culture phenomenon thanks to Shrek This is the story behind All Star, the song that soundtracked a thousand memes Louder · Apr 13
Woman accused of stalking and attacking Fleetwood Mac star Lindsey Buckingham arrested in Indiana Buckingham had secured a restraining order against the woman accused of attacking him for years of stalking and harassment The Independent UK · Apr 12
"I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned I was dead." How one final, heartbreaking TV performance marked the end of an era for Alice In Chains - and a swan song for their brilliant but troubled frontman, Layne Staley 30 years ago this week, Alice In Chains played a legendary MTV Unplugged set that has only grown more poignant with time Metal Hammer · Apr 11
"Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker" / Convicted Murderer Caleb McGillvary Loses Defamation Case Against Rolling Stone From yesterday's opinion in McGillvary v. Rolling Stone, LLC, by Judges Richard Wesley, Richard Sullivan, and Steven Menashi: McGillvary alleges… The post "Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker" / Convicted Murderer Caleb McGillvary Loses Defamation Case Against Rolling Stone appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Apr 8
"English people don't really want to feel that much." The curious tale of Robert Smith's least favourite Cure album, despite him telling the world "anyone who doesn't like this just doesn't like the Cure" "More passion went into the making of this record than all the others combined" Louder · Apr 8
‘Coke and booze didn’t help my creativity’: Joe Eszterhas on his wild times – and his supernatural, anti-woke Basic Instinct reboot He was the screenwriting colossus behind Flashdance, Jagged Edge, Showgirls and more. Now clean, ‘Hollywood’s Shakespeare’ talks about today’s scared studios, his refugee trauma – and taking acid with Hunter S Thompson The Guardian - UK · Apr 7
Louder · Apr 6 "We were invited to a séance by some girls in Italy. It all got a bit out of hand, a bit freaky. That was the first and last time we tried to summon spirits of the dead." How Uriah Heep's Demons And Wizards album turned them into global superstars The stories behind the making of Uriah Heep's 1972 breakthrough album
MusicRadar · Apr 5 “I knew my folk music would take off, if I put hip-hop beats behind it”: How one song turned the self-confessed “worst rapper in the world” into an alt-rock icon “Slacker my ass! I never had any slack. I was working a $4-an-hour job trying to stay alive”
Cinemablend · Apr 4 The Story Behind How 'The Two Yutes' Ended Up In My Cousin Vinny Is Just As Funny As The Scene Itself The two…what?
MusicRadar · Apr 3 “Anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic. But because it is sugarcoated, it is accepted”: The song John Lennon called “the best I've ever written” – and Yoko Ono’s uncredited contribution “A lot of it – the lyric and the concept – came from Yoko”
International Business Times UK · Apr 2 Taylor Swift's Ex-Manager Rejects Claims Money And Her Father Made Her Famous Ex-manager disputes claims money made Taylor Swift famous, highlighting her early hustle, radio visits and years of hard work
Louder · Apr 1 "I kind of did that on purpose, because there's just so much fake AI stuff going on." Journey's Jonathan Cain admits to deliberately misleading fans over Steve Perry return Life continues to be interesting in the Journey camp
Louder · Mar 19 "I'm not quite sure what the song is about, but there's a lot of anger, a lot of despair and a lot of frustration." The story behind the global Phil Collins hit that Genesis wish they'd recorded "There’s always a dispute about this"
The Independent UK · Mar 19 Pluribus star Rhea Seehorn hits back at Quentin Tarantino’s ‘forgettable’ TV diss ‘Better Call Saul’ alum argued that it is ‘the storytelling’ that sticks with you, not the format
MusicRadar · Mar 18 “Slacker my ass! I never had any slack. I was working a $4-an-hour job trying to stay alive”: How one song turned the self-confessed “worst rapper in the world” into an alt-rock icon “I knew my folk music would take off if I put hip-hop beats behind it”
MusicRadar · Mar 17 “It’s not for the faint of heart. You need to know what you’re doing to play that guitar”: Derek Trucks reveals what it’s like to play Jerry Garcia’s record-breaking $11.56mn Tiger guitar Trucks got the chance to put the ultimate Grateful Dead guitar through its paces during The Tedeschi Trucks Band's residency at the Beacon Theatre in New York City – and he says it's a “beast”
MusicRadar · Mar 16 “We didn’t want to be the kind of band that came out with a big song and then went away. But when that song came out, it changed everything”: How Stone Temple Pilots created one of the great alternative rock anthems Singer Scott Weiland called the track “a metaphor for a lost, obsessive relationship”