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Jared Leto has revealed that he lost the Oscar he won in 2014, and the whereabouts of the statuette still remain a mystery. The actor and Thirty Seconds To Mars frontman, who won Best Supporting Actor for his role in Dallas Buyers Club, revealed that he misplaced the coveted gong when he moved to a

On Jan. 27, 1976, television welcomed its first female-fronted blue-collar comedy, Laverne & Shirley. The characters had originally shown up on TV in 1975, appearing for the first time in an episode of Happy Days. Garry Marshall, the hugely successful television producer, based the duo on two women he’d met during his dating days in Brooklyn. “We

Like the rest of us, Marlon Williams heard Kacy Lee Anderson sing and thought she was from a different time. While on tour in Europe, the Kiwi singer-songwriter was listening to the radio and hearing lots of new music, but one song stood out: “Springtime Of The Year”, by Anderson and her cousin/musical partner Clayton

Papa Roach have teamed up with TikTok star Jeris Johnson for a reloaded version of their classic 2000 anthem ‘Last Resort’ – listen to it below. Released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the nu-metal band’s global hit, the new remix was first teased back in November when Johnson shared a behind-the-scenes video of him

Ron Campbell, whose lengthy career as an animator led him to work on the Beatles‘ cartoon series and the Yellow Submarine movie, has died at the age of 81. The news was posted on Campbell’s Facebook page by his business partner, Scott Segelbaum. “It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have received

Moments of crisis have often been strangely liberating for Paul McCartney’s music. When The Beatles were running on vapours, he retrenched and wrote his disarming debut album, McCartney. Ten years later, after a pot bust, a cancelled tour and a general weariness with Wings, he broke free to make McCartney II in 1980. These are

Rapper 6 Dogs has reportedly passed away at the age of 21. The Atlanta, Georgia, rapper, whose real name was Chase Amick, was best known for songs including ‘Faygo Dreams’, ‘Guccy Armor’, ‘Someone’ and ‘Flossing’. His death was initially confirmed by local reports from Georgia, prompting an outpouring of tributes for the star. Benny Blanco

Smith/Kotzen, the duo of Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith and Winery Dogs guitarist Richie Kotzen, will release their self-titled debut LP on March 26. The nine-track album will be available in digital form, in addition to a digipack CD; 12″ black vinyl with embossed sleeve; and limited-edition, 12″, red-and-black smoke-colored vinyl. You can see the album’s

As unexpected as it is to find Luluc closing out 2020 sharing a producer with pop behemoth Taylor Swift, it seems like a fitting end to this liminal, otherworldly year. The kinetic Aaron Dessner beat that opens the Australian duo’s fourth album is as much of a departure from the more muted tones of their

FKA Twigs has shared the powerful video for her new collaboration with Headie One and Fred Again, ‘Don’t Judge Me’ – watch below. Twigs (real name Tahliah Barnett) announced the team-up yesterday (January 25), revealing that she co-directed its official visuals herself alongside Emmanuel Adjei, who’s previously worked with the likes of Madonna and Beyoncé.

Former Journey drummer Deen Castronovo has confirmed that he’s quit the Dead Daisies, two days after the band announced a replacement. Tommy Clufetos, who previously toured with the group, had already been announced as the drummer for the tour in support of the Dead Daisies’ latest album Holy Ground — their first with Glenn Hughes at the helm. The news had left Castronovo’s role in

It begins quietly in A&M Studios, Los Angeles, on November 15, 1972, and ends several thousand miles away on March 10, 1976 in a blaze of feedback at Tokyo’s Budokan Hall. The intervening years – those covered, no less, by this ambitious second instalment of the expansive Archives project – remains a critical period for

Megan Thee Stallion has dropped her new dance video for ‘Body’ – you can watch the clip, which was directed by the ‘WAP’ video director Colin Tilley, below. The track is one of the stand-outs on the Houston rapper’s debut studio album ‘Good News’, which was released back in November. The original video for ‘Body’

According to Alex Van Halen, the only people who truly understood the creative mechanics of Van Halen were he and his brother, Eddie. “All these people are writing books about the band and they know nothing about the inner workings of this band,” Alex explained in an interview with Modern Drummer, conducted in August 2020

Billie Eilish has addressed her new album, saying that it’s shaping up to be exactly how she intended. The artist, whose fly-on-the-wall Apple TV+ documentary The World’s A Little Blurry is released next month, suggested that the follow-up to 2019’s ‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?‘ is more honed than her debut.

It is a line AC/DC are obviously pleased with: they’ve wheeled it out more than once. The gag runs that, during some or other promotional campaign, some upstart critic accused them of having made the same album 11 times. AC/DC retort to the effect that this is an outrageous, ignorant and insupportable calumny: they have,

A rare Marvin Gaye instrumental album has been made available as a standalone LP for the very first time – listen to it below. Recorded during the summer of 1971, ‘Funky Nation: The Detroit Instrumentals’ is the result of some downtime Gaye had after refusing to tour in support of his game-changing classic album, ‘What’s

Alex Van Halen celebrated the “strange chemistry” Van Halen had with David Lee Roth and compared the strengths of the original singer with his replacement, Sammy Hagar. In an interview with Modern Drummer, newly published but conducted before the death of Eddie Van Halen, Alex was asked how important it was to have a producer in the

If, after suffering hardship, you’ve become particularly attuned to the everyday miracles of earth and sky, awed by the wonder of existence, then you’re already intimate with the hopeful air of We Will Always Love You. Drenched in mechanised shimmer and kinetic beats, The Avalanches’ third studio effort is at its core a beatific vision