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Bill Maher says that Donald Trump is right to try to abolish the Department of Education, but Marc Maron is ready to step up and give the smarmy centrist some schooling.

Despite describing himself as a “practical” liberal, the Real Time host has been comparatively warmer toward the second and significantly more reactionary Trump administration than he was toward the first Trump term. Shortly before Trump’s most recent inauguration, Maher claimed to have a “wait and see” approach to the president’s agenda, but the wait is over. According to Maher’s recent comments, Trump is a mixed bag, and the immediate crashing of the economy, the aggression toward our country’s closest allies, the annihilation of the federal workforce and the deliberate weakening of national security are all balanced out by Trump’s move to shutter numerous federal agencies whose responsibilities Maher doesn’t understand.

But the most...

The Super Bowl halftime show has changed a lot since the late 1960s, when college marching bands took to the field for mid-game entertainment. But in recent years, one element of the show has been remarkably consistent: right-wing chuds protesting that the Black superstars performing are dull, untalented, or somehow not reflective of the American values befitting an NFL championship showdown.

At Sunday night’s Super Bowl Lix in New Orleans, where the Philadelphia Eagles thrashed the Kansas City Chiefs, it was Kendrick Lamar — coming off five Grammy wins — who...

Venamoris, the duo of ex-Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo and his wife Paula, have announced their sophomore album, To Cross or To Burn, out February 28th via Ipecac Recordings.

The group also offered up a new single, a cover rendition of Scorpions’ “Animal Magnetism” that re-invents the song as a brooding industrial/darkwave piece. The lyrics and vocals (handled by Paula) are the only immediately recognizable elements from the original, as the Lombardos morph the arrangement with synth stabs and droning guitars. Dave’s West Coast thrash cohort Gary Holt also makes an appearance near the halfway point, ripping through a solo.

“The first rock concert I ever attended was on May 25, 1980, with Scorpions opening for Ted Nugent’s ‘Scream Dream’ tour,” recalled Dave in a press release. “We (Slayer) had covered a couple Scorpions songs in the early years but I never would have thought of re-imagining one of their songs at that time.

Pearl Jam covered Temple of the Dog’s “Hunger Strike” for the first time in a decade during a concert in Sydney, Australia on Saturday.

The band had last covered the song live in October 2014 at Neil Young’s Bridge School Benefit, teaming up with Temple of the Dog’s late frontman Chris Cornell. Cornell passed away in 2017, and the band hand’t played the song live since then.

Saturday’s show in Sydney marked the final date on Pearl Jam’s 2024 tour. Elsewhere in the set, frontman Eddie Vedder covered Bruce Springsteen’s “No Surrender” for the first time since 2006.

It was an eventful tour for Pearl Jam, who hit the road in support of their 2024 album, Dark Matter. They shared the stage with Bradley Cooper, covered Nine Inch Nails, trolled Ted Nugent, and were bribed by a fan into letting him join them on stage for “Yellow Ledbetter.

In 1990 the sports world’s biggest star, Michael Jordan, was asked to endorse Harvey Gantt, a Black candidate challenging the incumbent North Carolina senator, noted racist Jesse Helms. As he confirmed in the 2020 docuseries “The Last Dance,” Jordan chose not to engage, famously telling teammates, “Republicans buy sneakers, too.”

Jordan might have gotten away with such neutrality then, but in the current political climate, it’s increasingly difficult for celebrities to stay on the sidelines.

Part of that has to do with social media, which wasn’t a concern when Jordan was winning championships for the Chicago Bulls. Even more, though, remaining silent today can easily be spun into tacitly backing one side or the other of a political divide that has become so toxic and polarized many perceived allies – and fans – won’t readily accept silence as an option.

Chappell Roan learned that lesson the hard way as she tried,...

Pearl Jam transformed Ted Nugent’s “Stranglehold” into an anti-gun anthem while briefly covering the 1975 single during their concert in Baltimore on Thursday (September 12th).

Halfway through the latest show on Pearl Jam’s North American tour (get tickets here), guitarist Mike McCready launched into the instantly recognizable opening riff of “Stranglehold.” Eddie Vedder joined in shortly afterward to repeatedly sing, “I don’t own a gun, I don’t ever want to own a gun/ I don’t own a gun, never want to own a gun.”

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Once they were done, Vedder didn’t comment any further on the song, and the band launched into their own classic “Even Flow.” Watch fan-shot footage below.

As an outspoken gun rights advocate, Nugent was unsurprisingly displeased with Pearl Jam’s take on the song. In a tweet responding to the cover, he invited Vedder to “join...

Oprah Winfrey’s surprise appearance at the Democratic National Convention, in which she made the case for Kamala Harris and against Donald Trump, certainly electrified the United Center, but one moment from the third evening stood out in particular.

That was when Tim Walz spoke about he and his wife’s long challenges with infertility, and then about his family, and his son Gus stood up and said, “That’s my Dad!” It quickly became one of the night’s viral moments.

For the third night in a row, the convention went into overtime in the Et, potentially losing the TV audience, but the campaign is suggesting that it may not matter all that much.

The convention has so far drawn a larger audience than the same time periods of the Republican National Convention.

“We’ve outpaced them every night so far this convention,” Harris campaign spokesman Michael Tyler said this morning.

On Sept. 16, 1984, the Anthony Yerkovich-created series Miami Vice premiered on NBC and went on to revolutionize television with its ultra-stylized visuals, cutting-edge MTV-era music and unconventional fashion highlighting the riveting weekly adventures of hard-bitten undercover detectives. “The ambition of the show was to break the form of everything that had come before,” the series’ executive producer Michael Mann tells THR.

In the Casablanca of ’80s Miami, boat-dwelling Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and suave New Yorker Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) drove luxury cars, averted explosions and busted drug lords in bold and unexpected designer outfits. Crockett’s jacket-over-t-shirt signature triggered a paradigm shift in the traditional concept of menswear, which endures 40 years later. “It changed the way men dressed in the world,” says Emmy-nominated season one costume designer Jodie Tillen. “It gave men permission to wear pastels.”

Today, its slouchy silhouettes and soft colors are heavily influencing men on the red carpet.

Veteran rocker and staunch right-winger Ted Nugent has teamed up with his son Rocco on a new song “Who Shot Trump,” offering a lyrical examination of the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

The tune features vocals from Rocco, who records under the name “rocco, moon.” While the world already knows the answer to the question “Who shot Trump?,” Rocco sings mostly about how the attempted assassin “fucked up.”

The song opens with the line, “Who shot Trump/ ‘Cause they fucked up/ When they shot Trump/ They fucked up,” and follows with the verse, “There I was, watching Fox/ He turned his head and it barely missed/ It pierced his ear, this man right here/ Clearly touched by the hand of God/ Oh my God/ Heard a couple shots.”

Another verse finds Rocco singing, “I don’t know what you thought it was/ But now you got problems when you...

At A Down-home Eatery near his waterfront home on Florida’s west coast in 2017, Dickey Betts, stout and white-haired but still evoking his youthful intensity, was asked about his imposing reputation. “People are a little bit standoffish because they think if they say something wrong, I’ll be aggressive or something with them,” he told Rolling Stone, adding with his drawl, “But I’m not like that at all. Unless you start saying shit that’s really demeaning, and then I won’t hesitate to …” Betts didn’t finish the sentence,...

Officials from the Kansas Republican Party have faced widespread criticism and calls for resignations after a fundraising event titled “Grand Ol’ Party,” took place in Overland Park, Kansas, and featured an effigy of President Joe Biden that attendees were encouraged to physically assault.

Video footage from the event shows individuals punch, kick and swing a bat at a Biden mannequin dressed in a “Let’s Go Brandon” shirt. The incident sparked a significant response on social media and ignited a broader conversation about the boundaries of political discourse and the importance of respectful engagement, regardless of ideological differences.

Although the video, originally uploaded to the video platform Rumble, was later deleted, Democratic commentator and attorney Kaivan Shroff uploaded a video of the event to X. Kansas GOP officials swiftly condemned the attacks on the effigy.

In response to the backlash, Maria Holiday, chair of the Johnson County Republican Party, jumped...

Looking to jam with some legends? The Spring 2024 edition of Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp has been announced, with Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, The Offspring guitarist Noodles, and 311 frontman Nick Hexum leading the lineup.

The four-day camp runs April 18th to 21st in Los Angeles. Aspiring singers and instrumentalists will be placed into bands with other campers and receive mentoring from one of Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy Camp’s rockstar counselors, including Derek St. Holmes (Ted Nugent), Bruce Kulick (Kiss), Todd Morse (The Offspring), Vinny Appice, Gary Hoey, Tommy Black (Scott Weiland), and camp musical director Britt Lightning (Vixen), among others.

The camp will culminate with a pair of gigs at Whisky a Go Go and The Viper Room, where campers will get to perform alongside Smith, Noodles, and Hexum.

“I am looking forward to jamming with the campers this April,” said Smith in a press release.

Toby Keith, the country music singer and songwriter also known for his larger-than-life personality, died on Monday at the age of 62.

He “passed peacefully last night on February 5th, surrounded by his family,” his official website announced his death. “He fought his fight with grace and courage.”

Keith was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2022.

The Nashville star’s country hits included the likes of “Who’s Your Daddy?,” “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue,” “Beer for My Horses” and “Made in America.” He also performed at President Donald Trump’s inauguration concert at Washington’s Lincoln Memorial in 2017.

More recently, the music star performed at the People’s Choice Country Awards in September where he received the Country Icon Award.

Born Toby Keith Covel on July 8, 1961 in Clinton, Oklahoma, he released his first studio album in 1993 under the title Toby Keith. He was signed to DreamWorks Records Nashville in...

The Kansas City Chiefs may have lost to the Las Vegas Raiders in their Christmas Day game but they had a couple of big-names pulling for them — Taylor Swift and Santa Claus.

Both were spotted in a special suite at Arrowhead Stadium on Monday cheering for the home team, with Swift wearing a Christmas hat emblazoned with boyfriend Travis Kelce’s number 87 on the band.

Swift and her companions – and fans – didn’t have much to cheer about, though, as the visiting Raiders upset the favored Chiefs, 20-14. Kelce had 44 yards on five catches in the loss.

The hit pop star has made multiple appearances at Chiefs games since she and the team’s tight end went public with their relationship in October. Whether fans use the ship name Traylor or Swelce, the pairing has done big things for the NFL like bringing out Swities en masse hoping to catch...

Taylor Swift is riding on a career-high following a smash-breaking year that included having a highly profitable stadium tour and being named Time’s Person of the Year.

While Swift minds her own business, enjoying time with friends and attending the Kansas City Chiefs games, Ted Nugent is giving his opinion on the musician and doesn’t have favorable words to describe her music.

“So I’m afraid to say in this world that’s gone down the toilet in all aspects, I’m afraid the success of Taylor Swift—and again, God bless her work ethic, God bless her musical dreams—but that’s cartoon music,” Nugent said while making an appearance on The Joe Pags Show podcast.

He continued, “I mean, it doesn’t have any piss and vinegar. There’s no fire, there’s no sensuality in that. It’s all poppy nonsense, as far as I’m concerned.

Before being linked to CBS’ new late-night series “After Midnight,” Taylor Tomlinson had little connection to the world of broadcast TV and the ebbs and flow of nocturnal programming. She is best known as an up-and-coming comic who has found success with stand-up specials on Netflix and video clips on TikTok.

So how did a comedian known for her digital presence land a spot in the linear media world?

Executives at CBS have been hunting for months for someone to take over the network’s 12:30 a.m. slot, but with the realization that the business of wee-hours TV is in flux. The new program is said to cost significantly less to produce than James Corden’s tenure at “The Late Late Show,” a program that had been on CBS, with several hosts, since 1995. “All the broadcast networks in that space have to be really thoughtful about what we spend,...

Right-wing rocker Ted Nugent has put Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner on blast for the latter’s “racist and misogynistic” comments that got him ousted from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame board of directors.

In a recent interview with The New York Times regarding his new book The Masters — collecting interviews with many legendary rock stars — Wenner was asked why he didn’t include any interviews with female or Black artists, to which he replied: “Insofar as the women, none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level.”

He continued, “I suppose when you use a word as broad as ‘masters,’ the fault is using that word. Maybe Marvin Gaye, or Curtis Mayfield? I mean, they just didn’t articulate at that level.”

Nugent, who once called Black Lives Matter a “terrorist organization,” has had a bone to pick with Wenner for years. The guitarist believes...

A few days after Toby Keith teased that he might be ready to perform again after undergoing treatment for stomach cancer, including surgery, the country singer surprised fans in his home state. He performed a couple of two-and-a-half–hour pop-up gigs last Friday and Saturday at Norman, Oklahoma’s Hollywood Corners, according to The Associated Press. The artist had revealed his diagnosis in 2022.

Fan-shot video shows Keith in a thin white hoodie, dancing with a ballcap (with sunglasses perched atop the bill) as he led hundreds of excited fans through rounds of “na-na-na-na-na.

From Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, the Oscar-winning filmmakers of “The Times of Harvey Milk” and “Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt,” the documentary “Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music” is something of a CliffsNotes version of the performance artist’s mammoth, Pulitzer Prize-shortlisted day-long musical revue that encompassed 246 songs culled from 1776 to 2016. Filming took place during its world premiere between Oct. 8 and 9, 2016, at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, N.Y. Since then, the piece has been staged as four 6-hour shows.

“Maybe you noticed, this is my subjective take on history,” Mac said during the live set. “I am not interested in this show being about history as much as I am interested in it being about all of us in this room have a lot of history on our backs and we’re trying to figure out what to do with it.”

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Less than a week after a Ted Nugent concert was announced in Birmingham, Alabama, its promoter canceled it following intense outcry, according to Al.com. The musician may have scored hits like “Cat Scratch Fever” and “Free-for-All” in the Seventies, but his criticism of school-shooting victims advocating for gun safety, contempt for animal rights, birtherism, and racist comments like calling Obama a “subhuman mongrel” (for which he apologized) have turned public opinion against him.

Nugent was to play the city’s Avondale Brewing Co. on July 18, with tickets going on sale Friday,...

Ted Nugent recently announced a farewell tour, but one of the dates has already been nixed. His July 18th gig at Avondale Brewing Co. in Birmingham, Alabama, was just canceled after the venue got flooded with backlash over the veteran rocker’s extreme political views.

According to Al.com, the Avondale Brewing Co. Facebook and Instagram posts announcing the show were met with more than 1,000 comments, most of which lambasted the venue’s decision to book the controversial musician.

“Lose this show or lose my business,” wrote one person, while another chimed in, “I will never spend another dollar in your establishment. Grotesque that you would book such trash. Do better.”

On Thursday (May 4th), Avondale Brewing Co. announced the show was canceled, issuing the following statement: “We have heard the concerns of the Avondale community, which is so important to us, and in conjunction with our partners, have taken the...

Enigmatic British rockers Sleep Token are coming to the States, as the masked project has announced a Fall 2023 US tour.

The trek, dubbed the “Rituals” tour, will kick off September 9th in Philadelphia, and wrap up October 5th in Anaheim, California. Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning this Friday (April 14th), with a Live Nation pre-sale starting Thursday (April 13th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster using the code Vinyl. Fans can also check for deals and tickets to sold-out shows via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.

While in the States, Sleep Token will also appear at a handful of festivals, including the Blue Ridge Rock Festival, Louder Than Life, and Aftershock.

Sleep Token are coming up on the release of their third studio album, Take Me Back to Eden, which drops May 19th via Spinefarm. Early singles off...

Twice-impeached former president Donald Trump hasn’t been arrested yet, but Jimmy Fallon is pretty sure he’s starting to feel the heat. During Monday night’s episode of “The Tonight Show,” Fallon joked that the location of Trump’s first official 2024 campaign rally made that abundantly clear.

On Saturday, Trump stopped in Waco, Texas, to make his first official 2024 campaign bid to the people and, as always, his speech was full of lies and gripes about how he’s being treated unfairly. Naturally, Trump complained about the multiple investigations into him, arguing that the courts shouldn’t be believing the testimony of his former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen.

In reality, Waco is about a five or six-hour drive away from the Mexico border. Nonetheless, Fallon took his opening.

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Donald Trump held a rally in Waco, Texas, this weekend during the 30 year anniversary of the federal government’s siege on the Branch Davidian compound in 1993. Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz said that Trump’s choice of locale brought back “visions of [Branch Davidian leader and self-proclaimed prophet] David Koresh.” But Moskowitz isn’t alone in noticing the correlation. A minister in a modern offshoot of the Branch Davidians has also said the former president was “making a statement” by coming to Waco.

“You don’t see stadiums of people chanting ‘Lock her up’ anymore, because it’s not — apparently,...

Donald Trump held the first campaign rally for his 2024 presidential campaign on Saturday, held at the Waco Regional Airport in Texas, making a dramatic entrance with a flyover to the tune of Top Gun single “Danger Zone” as hundreds of his Maga followers in attendance cheered. Meanwhile, “Christian Worship Artist” Vanessa Horabuena took the stage, splashing paint onto a black canvas to quickly turn Rorshach-like splashes of orange, yellows and neutrals into a serious, side-faced profile portrait of Trump with an American flag in the background. The event also featured...

CBS wants to cut back on late-night talk and play up the games in the wee hours of the morning.

CBS is expected to replace its long-running “Late Late Show” after a 28-year run with a reboot of the Comedy Central game show “@midnight,” according to a person familiar with the matter, in a maneuver that would cut costs and also revive a programming concept controlled by the network’s’ parent company, Paramount Global.

A CBS spokesman declined to comment on the network’s plans, which would mark the second time the network has raided Comedy Central to stock its late-night grid. Stephen Colbert jumped from Comedy Central to CBS in 2015. Deadline previously reported

the decision.

Using “@midnight” would trim some of the frills in CBS’ post-“Late Show” slot, which another person familiar with the business of late-night TV suggested would eliminate tens of millions of dollars in production costs.

In the wake of Kanye West’s horrific media tour spouting love for Hitler, denying the Holocaust, and preaching naked antisemitism, many far-right members of the GOP are scrubbing their social media feeds of past praise for the rapper. A notable exception to that trend is Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) who has preserved her praise of the artist now known as Ye.

The Republican Party has little celebrity outside of hoary rockers like Ted Nugent, Kid Rock, and Lee Greenwood, so it wasn’t surprising when GOP figures hyped Ye...

Matthew McConaughey's career has gone through some rather distinct stages. There were his early days in the '90s when he took on serious parts in films like "Contact" and "Amistad," which got his name out there in Hollywood. Then, in the 2000s, he was mostly associated with romantic comedies like "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" and "Failure to Launch," changing his image to more of a handsome leading man type. Fearing that his streak of rom coms was leading to him being typecast, McConaughey took a hiatus from acting from 2009 to 2011, returning once again to more serious dramatic roles in movies like "Magic Mike" and "The Lincoln Lawyer" before he hit acting gold, winning a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in "Dallas Buyer's Club" in 2013.

The shift of focus was dubbed "The McConaissance," and McConaughey's standing as a legitimate and desirable actor in Hollywood soared once again.

Gru and the minions are back in an all new blast from the past adventure. “Minions: The Rise of Gru” takes viewers back to Gru’s childhood where, on the brink of adolescence, Gru wants nothing more than to join The Sinister Six, a group of villains notorious for their collaboration in crime.

The adventures of all these characters as well as the minions are backed by a reimagined soundtrack full of ’70s hits.

Produced by Jack Antonoff, the soundtrack includes St. Vincent’s rendition of Lipps Inc’s 1979 hit “Funkytown,” H.E.R.’s version of “Dance to the Music” from Sly and the Family Stone in 1967, Bleachers’ rendition of John Lennon’s 1970 song “Instant Karma” and Phoebe Bridgers’ version of The Carpenters’ 1972 ballad “Goodbye to Love.” Even the Minions get a few spotlight moments like when they sing Paul Simon’s “Cecelia.”

Here are all the songs in...

Jimmy Kimmel tackled a wide range of current events during his monologue on Tuesday night’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” including Dr. Mehmet Oz’s run for Senate in Pennsylvania, a topic that has been popular among the late night hosts.

“Meanwhile, Oprah’s former protégé Dr. Oz is running for Senate in Pennsylvania where I guess he lives now. I don’t know,” Kimmel said, after transitioning from a segment mentioning the former daytime queen.

“The primary election is a week from today and Dr. Oz, who’s trying very hard to pretend to be a Maga Republican, wants everyone to know that he has a friend at Mar-a-Lago,” Kimmel continued.

The “Live!” host then cut to a mashup video of Oz touting his Trump endorsement across many, many media appearances.

“Yeah, that’s not something to be proud of, Dr. Oz,” Kimmel quipped.

Kimmel then focused in on some of Dr.

There was a party at the moon tower, but Richard Linklater got stuck with the bill. Or at least that’s how it felt to the Austin-based writer-director, one of the principal architects of the American independent movement whose work has launched a string of A-list careers.

The creator of Hollywood hits like “School of Rock” and “The Bad News Bears” remake, as well as laid-back prestige enterprises like “Slacker,” “Waking Life,” and the “Before” trilogy, spoke to The Daily Beast while promoting his latest, Netflix’s nostalgia-rich animated delight “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood.” When the topic of the 1993 classic “Dazed and Confused” came up, it clearly touched a nerve.

“Where’s my money?” he asked. “How come a movie that cost less than 7 million has 12 million in interest against it?”

In addition to giving us a string of quotable lines, “Dazed and Confused” was the ostensible screen debut for Matthew McConaughey,...

Kid Rock and former President Trump have been close since the former first visited the latter in the White House in 2017, leading to a viral image of Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, and Sarah Palin flanking a grinning Trump behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. Kid Rock and Trump became so close, the rocker told Tucker Carlson in an interview that aired Monday night on Fox News, that Trump sought his advice on a rather delicate geopolitical policy issue.

“We’re looking at maps and shit, and I’m like,...

“Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood” introduces itself as a fantastical adventure about a Houston fourth-grader who’s plucked out of school for a confidential NASA mission in the spring of 1969 (those wacky scientists accidentally built the lunar module too small for an adult), but Richard Linklater’s first animated feature since “A Scanner Darkly” isn’t really a story about a kid who secretly paved the way for Neil Armstrong, or even a story about a kid who had any special interest in the stars above. In fact, — the childhood of someone who was born in a place without any sense of yesterday, and came of age at a time that was obsessed with tomorrow.

“Apollo 10 ½” is less compelled by going to the Moon than by remembering what it was like to grow up in its shadow, and the nature of that mission clicks into place once you realize...

When powerhouse vocalist-actor Meat Loaf eulogized composer-producer Jim Steinman last April in Rolling Stone, the singer – who died Thursday at age 74 – said of his “Bat Out of Hell” partner, “We belonged heart and soul to each other. We didn’t know each other. We were each other.”

Meat Loaf (born Marvin Lee Aday) could not have stated the obvious better, as each man’s operatic, oversized talents were only matched by their level of grand theatricality, with thundering melodicism and melodramatic lyricism at the top of the list of their skill sets.

The best Meat Loaf songs – even those without Steinman’s tower-toppling compositions – come on in an epic, adrenalized rush. Even when singing a power ballad, Meat Loaf was loud and brazenly and heartbrokenly emotive. Here are some of the most dramatic and impactful of Meal Loaf’s musical moments:

Stoney & Meatloaf, “What You See is What You Get...

Meat Loaf, the hardworking singer and actor whose theatrical Bat Out of Hell is one of the best-selling albums ever and who played Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, has died. He was 74.

The Grammy winner born Marvin Lee Aday died Thursday night surrounded by his wife Deborah, daughters Pearl and Amanda and close friends, Meat Loaf’s longtime agent Michael Greene told Deadline on behalf of the family. A cause of death is not being released. According to TMZ, the singer died of Covid-related complications.

“We know how much he meant to so many of you and we truly appreciate all of the love and support as we move through this time of grief in losing such an inspiring artist and beautiful man,” Meat Loaf’s family said in a statement. “From his heart to your souls…don’t ever stop rocking!”

Written by Jim Steinman, Meat Loaf...

Welcome to this week’s WWE Monday Night Raw review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have what could be, if Vince sticks to the plan, one of the, if not the biggest Raws of the year. I believe we have Damien Priest defending the US Title against Jeff Hardy and a WWE World Title Match between Bobby Lashley and Randy Orton. That being said, Big E has said he plans on cashing in Money In The Bank on the WWE World Champion to finally become the champion himself. I’m excited to see if this all goes well. Theodore Buggerphuck: I’m not! Me: Oh good God! What do you want? TB: I hate things! Damn them! Damn things! Me: Be careful Buggerphuck. You don’t know what you’re in for. TB: Blow me, chicken-noodle! Kevin Von Erich: He’s right. TB: Kevin Von Erich?...

Pop singer Olivia Rodrigo – the actual teenager behind this year’s biggest teen pop hits, like “Driver’s License” and “good 4 u” – paid a visit to the White House on Wednesday for a “get out the vax” campaign to encourage young people to get vaccinated against Covid-19. The thinking behind the appearance was that if young people won’t listen to Dr. Anthony Fauci, an elder who has never written a bop that slaps, maybe they’ll listen to one of their own who has many bops. She appeared at a press briefing – “Which should have a big impact on the millions of teens who watch the White House press briefings,” Seth Meyers joked on Thursday’s “Late Night.”

“That’s right, pop star Olivia Rodrigo made a surprise appearance at the afternoon press briefings,” Meyers said. “It was almost as surprising as when Sarah Sanders would appear at one,...

Over the past few decades, Ted Nugent’s controversial, often confrontational politics have overshadowed his music, and over the last year he has spent most of his energy on denying the existence of Covid-19. Now Nugent, whose age at 72 makes him one of the most vulnerable to the virus, has admitted he has contracted the coronavirus.

“Everybody told me I should not announce this,” he said in a Facebook Live broadcast on Monday afternoon. “I have had flu symptoms for the last 10 days. … I thought I was dying, just a clusterfuck.

After calling Covid-19 a “scam” and “not a real pandemic” in December, musician Ted Nugent revealed in a Facebook Live that he has tested positive for the virus. “I have had flu symptoms for the last 10 days,” he said. “I thought I was dying… I literally could hardly crawl out of bed the last […]

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Ted Nugent has made it very difficult for anyone who isn’t a QAnon dummy to even slightly enjoy his music. Back in December, he referred to Covid-19 as a scam (never mind that over 1 million people have died from the virus) and proudly proclaimed that he wasn’t going to get the vaccine. At the time, he said, “You come…...

Let's face it - You and I, we both love comedy films from the 80s. Across the board they exude a certain warmth, light goofiness, and charm that was distinctive to the decade and never to be seen again. 80s comedies are perhaps our greatest cinematic resource when in need of breezy escape or old comfort. They're also not a bad place for 80s boobs and a bit of innocent, campy raunchiness.

The 80s gifted us a lengthy, diverse list of goofy flicks and great comedies - some of them duds, others passable, and quite a few so fantastically influential they changed the course of crafting funny. Let's not tiptoe around the almost fact: The 1980s brought us comedy classics.

Beneath the classics is a goldmine of minor classics, cult hits, and obscure capers that hardly have an audience but should. We're examining some of those more obscure films, individually and in-depth,...

Hardcore legend Ian MacKaye explains how Woodstock and an unexpected house guest helped lay the foundation for his love of music in this new excerpt from Eric Spitznagel’s new book, Rock Stars on the Record: The Albums That Changed Their Lives.

The book consists of interviews with an array of artists discussing the music that influenced them most when they were kids. Along with MacKaye, the book features Laura Jane Grace, Mitski, Cherie Currie, Mac DeMarco, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Suzi Quatro and more.

For MacKaye, his parents weren’t...

It’s December 31st, and I’m sure you know what that means, dear reader… that’s right, it’s Val Kilmer’s birthday! Today we celebrate by examining the John Holmes crime pic Wonderland (2003), starring Kilmer as the fallen star.

I went into the proceedings expecting a more sweeping Boogie Nights-esque tale of an ill-fated career in the porn industry during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Boogie Nights, after all, was inspired by Holmes’s life. Instead, Wonderland is more focused on the days, weeks and months immediately on either side of the gruesome 8763 Wonderland Avenue murders in Laurel Canyon on July 1st, 1981. It is more of a microcosmic crime study than a sweeping cautionary tale. The “Four on the Floor Murders” quickly joined the ranks of the Manson family killings and the Black Dahlia murder as some of the most infamous crimes in 20th century Hollywood lore.

Fighting 4 One America — A prominent group of African American actors and entertainers have accepted President Donald J. Trump’s invitation to visit the White House in December to work together on important issues facing the Black Community.

In a late-night night phone call with the President Saturday night, rappers Eric B. and Money-b, actor Isaiah Washington, who are among the stars in Trump vs. Hollywood, and film director Daphne Barak, all agreed to continue their discussion of economic opportunity, criminal justice reform and the President’s groundbreaking “Platinum Plan” to deliver greater opportunity, security, prosperity and fairness to their communities.

“Thirty years ago I had a conversation with Donald Trump and he told me never to be afraid to hire the best people in business, even if they have more experience than me,” said rap pioneer Eric B., a lifelong Democrat. “And that conversation has shaped my business decisions ever since.

With the election less than a week away, here are the stars who will be voting for President Donald Trump’s second term in 2020.

“This November, we must vote to help keep President Trump in office, so he can carry the torch for this land of the free” Voight said in a July 22 Twitter video. -Jon Voight

After the Senate acquitted Trump on impeachment charges, the rapper/rocker posted a picture of himself with the President at a golf course. -Kid Rock

In November 2019, “Duck Dynasty” star Willie Robertson appeared at a Louisiana Trump rally, with his father Phil. -Willie Robertson

Gary Busey, who appeared on the fourth season of NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice,” still considers the president “one of his best friends.” -Gary Busey

Actor Stephen Baldwin constantly shows his support for the President on Twitter and most recently tweeted, #TRUMP2020ToSaveAmerica

“I think he’s fantastic. I love him.

Taylor Mac premiered A 24-Decade History of Popular Music four years ago in October 2016, just ahead of the last U.S. election, when many people in the country were feeling optimistic about the potential of electing the country’s first female president after eight years of the Obama administration’s progressive policies. The magnum opus — which comprises 246 songs that were popular in America from 1776 to 2016, in a 24-hour marathon performance — includes everything from World War I ditties and The Mikado to a mash-up of the Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive” and...

Ace Frehley has never been very open about his political leanings, but that changed in a recent interview with the Cassius Morris Show (via Blabbermouth) when his cover of the Cream song “Politician” from his new LP Origins, Vol. 2 came up.

“I don’t think politics and rock & roll mix — in my opinion,” said the former Kiss guitarist. “And I try to stay away from that as much as I can. I mean, once in a while, I’ll make a crack. I will say I’m a Trump supporter.

Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up close look at life on music’s A list. This edition features drummer and songwriter Joe Vitale.

Veteran drummer Joe Vitale was asleep for the night when Bob Dylan’s June 2020 interview with The New York Times went online,...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Department of Public Health said that film and TV production can resume in the state “no sooner” than June 12, as part of guidelines released by the state.

Any productions will need to be approved by county public health officials, and cast, crew and other industry workers will have to adhere to safety protocols agreed upon by management and those dictated by county public health officers.

“Music, TV and film production may resume in California, recommended no sooner than June 12, 2020 and subject to approval by county public health officers within the jurisdictions of operations following their review of local epidemiological data including cases per 100,000 population, rate of test positivity, and local preparedness to support a health care surge, vulnerable populations, contact tracing and testing,” the California Department of Public Health said in a statement.

The department continued: “To reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission,...

The hit A&e show “Duck Dynasty” has a new home: Fox Nation.

Fox News’ on-demand streaming service is rolling out adventure-based programming for subscribers in June, starting with seasons one through six streaming on June 1. On June 15, seasons seven through 11 will start streaming.

On June 8, the platform will start streaming a new original outdoor lifestyle series hosted by Fox News contributor and retired Staff Sergeant Johnny “Joey” Jones, who typically offers political and military analysis on the network. On each of the six episodes of “Fox Nation Outdoors,” Jones will embark on a two-day hunting trip with a special guest. Those include Ted Nugent, retired four-star Marine General Walter Boomer, actor and Ufc star Randy Couture, country music star Granger Smith and Nascar’s Kurt Busch and Richard Childress.

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