"Rock On" is as much about what's missing as what you can hear. The David Essex song eventually became a soap star's No. 1.

If your ears need a rest, we hear you. Chicago hosted an astonishing number of concerts in 2025. There was no shortage of events that lured fans from the city, the Midwest and places further afield.

The phrase “time is a flat circle” often refers to how the manic postpandemic news cycle makes comprehension of the recent past impossible. A similarly dazed bafflement is explored in W. David Marx’s ...

Wyclef Jean once explained to me the thinking behind blending pop and hip-hop. He called it “Beauty and the Beast.” It’s similar to the quiet verses and loud choruses that defined alternative rock in ...

What does Christmas 2025 really need? Why, the determinedly analog stylings of a cassette-only release of Duran Duran's 2000 album Pop Trash along with its own bling special-edition cassette player.

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Netflix is offering the legions of fans of its breakout hit KPop Demon Hunters a deep dive into the film’s creative DNA, and has given Cartoon Brew early access to the digital version of the film’s ...

The current State of Things perhaps suggests that it’s time for Dr. Seuss’ all-time classic story The Sneetches to be adapted for the screen again. Cue Netflix, which just released a 45-minute ...

Nothing about Biz Markie’s unapologetically wacky, is-this-guy-for-real? 1989 hip-hop love song “Just A Friend” screamed POP HIT! The “vocalist,” a Long Island, New York MC, deejay and beat boxing ...

Andrew Fox’s controversial Hip-Hop reimagining of Anne Frank’s story extends again Off-Broadway. Andrew Fox continues to stir conversations in New York’s theater scene as his polarizing Hip-Hop ...

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