In more than a decade of fronting his band, Ben Miller has cultivated a particularly swampy brand of mid-American roots rock. So the work of a legendary Japanese filmmaker may not be the first touchstone one might think of as fodder for a Ben Miller Band song. Nonetheless, the Missouri …

Since the Nineties, Vans Warped Tour has been a constant, integral part of Pierre Bouvier’s life. He played the tour a few times with Reset, and later, with bandmate Chuck Comeau, formed Simple Plan. Warped Tour helped Simple Plan not only find their footing in the early Aughts but has …

The comedian Patton Oswalt returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday to perform Mike Huckabee’s Twitter jokes as if they were written for a stand-up routine. Oswalt stitched together Huckabee’s topical tweets – “zingers,” as Kimmel kindly put it – with cheerfully unimaginative segues. “You guys watch the news?” he …

It’s mid-afternoon on a Friday at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and three of Elon Musk‘s children are gathered around him – one of his triplets, both of his twins. Musk is wearing a gray T-shirt and sitting in a swivel chair at his desk, which is not in a …

When the news that Alabama Senate candidate and longtime conservative raconteur Roy Moore wasaccused of molesting a 14-year-old girl when he was 32, we braced for the inevitable pushback from those on the right who would defend him. Partisanship is a hell of a drug, one powerful enough to cause …

“It’s easy for us all to say, ‘Support the troops,’ and then not talk about the real impact that going to war might have had on them, physically or mentally,” says singer-songwriter Jamie Kent, who addresses the post-traumatic stress disorder that afflicts many returning veterans in his excellent song “Home …

When Metallica began gathering together everything they had in their vaults to include in a super-deluxe, box-set reissue of their touchstone 1986 LP Master of Puppets, they realized they had a lot more material to work with than on the reissues of their first two albums. “The hardest part of …

It’s been quite a ride for the Houston Astros and their third baseman Alex Bregman. Barely a week ago, Houston won its first World Series, concluding a tough seven-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. During the series, Bregman played a critical role at the plate, contributing seven hits, five …

This year’s CMA Awards stand to be among the most emotional in the show’s history. The 51st annual gala will mark the first time that the entire country-music community has gathered together since the October 1st Route 91 Harvest festival tragedy in Las Vegas, and the evening could well serve …

Alec Baldwin‘s Donald Trump made a secret visit to former campaign manager Paul Manafort in the Saturday Night Live cold open that focused on the first of Robert Mueller’s Team Trump arrests. After sending a life-size dummy on the president’s 13-day Asia trip, Trump popped into Manafort’s apartment to talk …