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The Twilight Zone is one of the most brilliant and trippy series ever made. Created by Rod Serling, the CBS series is a virtual and psychologically thrilling trip into the unknown. The Twilight Zone premiered over six decades ago, and it still holds up very well as far as the stories and the visual experience go. Maybe that’s why the Jordan Peele reboot failed: it couldn’t capture the same magic as the Serling series did. So, if you loved the trippy stories, inventive settings, and compelling characters in The Twilight Zone, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Severance is a sci-fi mystery psychological thriller dark comedy-drama series created by Dan Erickson. The Apple TV+ series is set in a world where a biotechnology...

The new documentary “Sly Lives, aka the Burden of Black Genius,” which focuses on the life and career of the brilliant but troubled musician Sly Stone and his group Sly and the Family Stone, is both a conventional documentary and an extremely unconventional one.

Like its predecessor, the Oscar and Grammy-winning “Summer of Soul” — which was also directed by the Roots’ Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and produced by Joseph Patel — “Sly Lives” works to incorporate the main story with a larger theme, in this case, as the subtitle indicates, the pressures that come with being both Black and a genius — pressures that have brought down more than one such genius and have led many of them toward self-destruction. That subtitle isn’t saying that geniuses aren’t created equally — but what happens after that genius manifests itself can be very different for minorities, particularly Black people.

In the film, artists who...

Mike Ratledge, the keyboardist and a co-founder of English rock band Soft Machine, has died, the band’s guitarist John Etheridge confirmed. He was 81 years old.

“Incredibly sad news that my great friend and Soft Machine legend passed away two hours ago after a brief illness,” Etheridge wrote on Facebook. “Mike was the backbone of Soft Machine in the early years and a man with an absolutely incisive mind – a marvelous composer and keyboardist. A real renaissance man – so talented, cultured, charming – and wonderful companion. We used to meet every...

Perhaps knowing that if you want a thing done well, you have to do it yourself, Bob Dylan performed the part of [checks notes] Bob Dylan before approving the script for the musical biopic based on his life, A Complete Unknown.

Although the role of the young songwriter eventually went to Timothée Chalamet — who is now getting plenty of awards buzz, plus our own Film Performer of the Year accolade — Dylan played a major role behind the scenes. As revealed on The Town podcast by one of the film’s producers, Peter Jaysen, Dylan not only “had approval over the script,” he also “had meaningful input” with writer and director James Mangold.

“He met with Jim Mangold multiple times,” Jaysen explained. “At one point they sat there and they read the entire script out loud, with Jim Mangold reading every part and stage direction, and Bob Dylan only reading lines of dialogue for himself.

Perhaps knowing that if you want a thing done well, you have to do it yourself, Bob Dylan performed the part of [checks notes] Bob Dylan before approving the script for the musical biopic based on his life, A Complete Unknown.

Although the role of the young songwriter eventually went to Timothée Chalamet — who is now getting plenty of awards buzz, plus our own Film Performer of the Year accolade — Dylan played a major role behind the scenes. As revealed on The Town podcast by one of the film’s producers, Peter Jaysen, Dylan not only “had approval over the script,” he also “had meaningful input” with writer and director James Mangold.

“He met with Jim Mangold multiple times,” Jaysen explained. “At one point they sat there and they read the entire script out loud, with Jim Mangold reading every part and stage direction, and Bob Dylan only reading lines of dialogue for himself.

Music biopics introduce new audiences to artists; iconic musicians like Keith Moon, Karen Carpenter, and Syd Barrett deserve their own films. Best biopics offer insight into artists' lives; Moon's wild behavior, Carpenter's tragic struggles, and Barrett's extraordinary story could shine on screen. Ozzy Osbourne, Nico, Janis Joplin, and Marvin Gaye also have compelling life stories that would make impactful and emotional biopics.

A well-made music biopic has the power to open new audiences up to artists and bands they would never otherwise have known, and plenty of iconic musicians have yet to receive the big screen treatment. The recent success of movies such as Baz Luhrmanns Elvis or the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown led me to wonder what other great musicians would benefit from having their life stories depicted in a film. With this in mind, I considered some of my favorite musicians and pondered whose...

Grant Morrison shared an ambitious unproduced comic script involving LSD and real-life figures in a psychedelic narrative experiment. The proposed comic, "Dors of Perception," aimed to be tactile and interactive, allowing multiple interpretations through folding panels and cutting lines. Despite being unpublished, Morrison considers "Dors of Perception" as one of their most pyrotechnic works, leaving open the possibility of future publication.

Grant Morrison is unquestionably one of the greatest writers to ever work in the comics medium. Yet for all the masterpieces the writer has put out through the years, there are an equal number of scripts and concepts that never saw the light of day. Morrison recently shared their script for an unproduced story, and the wildly-ambitious comic might just be their unseen masterpiece.

Writing via their newsletter Xanaduum, Morrison shared the script for a fourteen-page comic called Dors of Perception. According to Morrison, this proposed story was produced...

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:

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Weekly Commentary: With the Directors Guild of America and BAFTA Awards in hand, in addition to the tragic news of the death of Alexei Navalny, the subject of the Oscar-winning “Navalny” last year, “20 Days in Mariupol” is too important to ignore.

Will Win:...

The Academy has revealed the list of eligible films for consideration in best animated, documentary and international feature of the year, encompassing a broad range of blockbusters and critically acclaimed titles.

GKids’ “The Boy and the Heron,” Pixar’s “Elemental,” Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” and Illumination’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” are among the 33 animated films in the running. This is up from 27 in 2023, when “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” took home the prize.

The eventual five nominees are determined by members of the shorts and animation branch, and any Academy members outside the branch who wish to participate. The number of outside members who opt in is unknown. All films submitted for animated feature also qualify for the Academy Awards in other categories, including best picture.

Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Oscars predictions in all categories.

There are 88 films representing their countries for the international feature Oscar,...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday unveiled the films eligible for consideration for the 2024 Oscars in the categories of Documentary Feature Film and International Feature Film and Animated Feature Film.

A total of 167 documentaries have made the cut for the 96th Academy Awards, while 88 countries are eligible for the International Feature. Shortlists of 15 films in both categories will be revealed December 21.

In the Animated Feature race, 33 films are eligible for the 2024 race.

Final Oscar nominations will be revealed January 23, 2024, with the 96th Oscars to air Sunday, March 10 on ABC hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

Here are the film lists revealed today, with AMPAS noting that not all have had their qualifying release yet, a requirement to advance in the voting process.

Animated Feature

The Amazing Maurice

Blue Giant

The Boy and the Heron

Chang’an

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Deep Sea

Elemental

Ernest & Celestine: A...

The very popular series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki is absolutely legendary, especially for its unique power system made up of Stand abilities. Any JoJo fan knows that Stands are one of the highlights of the story, but some Stands have at least one unfortunate thing about them that makes them seem strange.

Many of JoJo's Stands were named after famous copyrighted properties that would be a certified lawsuit for Araki once JoJo's hit the States. This led to the necessity of renaming Stands in the English dub, but their dub names are just terrible in comparison. These are referred to as localized Stand names.

Updated November 13, 2023, by Ajay Aravind: Unfortunately, copyright issues prevent JoJo's Bizarre Adventure dubs from using their Stands' excellent original names. To honor the musical groups and songs that Stands are named after, dubbers attempted to come up with comparable names. Most JoJo fans can agree,...

It might or might not be true, as Nick Broomfield declares in his new feature documentary, that “most people today” haven’t heard of Brian Jones. If it’s true of most young music fans, then a) yikes and b) The Stones and Brian Jones is here to bridge the generation gap. The Magnolia release, which is receiving a one-night theatrical showcase 10 days before its Nov. 17 general release, joins an ever-expanding pack of doc portraits exploring boomer musicians who led the rock revolution of the ’60s and ’70s.

Broomfield’s earlier takes on pop culture giants — among them Kurt Cobain, Whitney Houston, Leonard Cohen and Biggie and Tupac — have ranged from basic to divisive to lurid. In this case, taking a deep dive into public and private archives, he emerges with a surprisingly poignant study of the Rolling Stones co-founder, a middle-class kid who rebelled against his upbringing, found his...

In the upcoming episode of “Mastermind,” which is part of Season 21, viewers will watch as four contestants answer questions about their chosen specialist subjects. The show will be hosted by Clive Myrie, and the contestants will tackle a range of topics. The specialist subjects for this episode include the battleship Bismarck, Syd Barrett, Federico García Lorca, and the life and career of Magic Johnson.

This episode is scheduled to air on Monday, October 9, 2023, at 7:30 Pm on BBC Two. “Mastermind” is a quiz show where participants demonstrate their knowledge in a specific field of expertise. The show is known for its challenging questions and the pressure of the famous black chair.

Viewers can tune in to see how well the contestants fare in their chosen specialist subjects and test their own knowledge along the way. “Mastermind” is a show that celebrates intellectual prowess and offers a chance to learn something...

Exclusive: Abramorama founder Richard Abramowitz has elevated longtime business partner Karol Martesko-Fenster to CEO and Co-Chairman of the indie distribution company. Evan Saxon has been promoted to President, Head of International Distribution, in a move meant to double down on their continued emphasis on social impact and music-driven content for theatrical and event releases globally.

Abramowitz continues as Co-Chairman atop the company he founded in 2002.

“Karol, Evan and I have worked closely together for years, with their partnership driving unparalleled results in the event-cinema world,” Abramowitz said. “Their decades-long experience in the music and social impact film genres makes me confident that they will take the company to the next level and continue to dominate, innovate and lead the way as the industry continues to evolve.”

Martesko-Fenster will lead the company in expanding its footprint and partnerships in the filmed entertainment sector while bolstering the strategic services to filmmakers and IP owners across all platforms.

A new documentary looks back on the highs and lows of the mysterious Pink Floyd co-founder, troubled but too often misunderstood

In rock star portraiture, it behooves a writer to avoid straightforward presentation of cliche. The story of a troubled virtuoso tormented by their own genius, turning to drink and drugs, then flaming out before their time has been told over and over again. And so in the making of Have You Got It Yet?, his new documentary about the Pink Floyd cofounder Syd Barrett, director Roddy Bogawa faced the peculiar task of fighting the ready-made drama of a man whose life story sounds like legend.

Barrett led the group as guitarist and vocalist when they dubbed themselves The Pink Floyd Sound in 1965, and he spearheaded the creation of their groundbreaking debut album Piper at the Gates of Dawn two years later. But erratic behavior stemming from his deteriorating mental...

Syd Barrett was the guiding light of the original Pink Floyd — the band’s singer, primary songwriter and guitarist from their first day until their psychedelia-defining 1967 debut album, “Piper at the Gates of Dawn.” His sparkling, childlike melodies and lyrics have cast a huge influence over rock and pop music ever since — David Bowie cited him as a pivotal influence, and it shows — and entire genres of music, particularly the neo-psychedelic waves of the early ‘80s in the U.S. and U.K., bear his fingerprints.

Yet he was also one of rock’s first “acid casualties” — people who took too many drugs, or at least the wrong ones, and were never the same afterward. His bandmates and friends say one day, he was just gone: The distinctive sparkle in his eye and spring in his step had disappeared. He became uncommunicative and withdrawn; he’d go onstage and just stand there,...

Pink Floyd is best known as the band whose Dark Side of the Moon broke all records as the longest charting album in rock music history. Dozens of their songs are classic rock staples, the feature length film of their rock opera The Wall is a cult classic, and their sound is as instantly recognizable as their enigmatic back story. Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd is co-directed by Roddy Bogawa, the filmmaker behind Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis, and Storm Thorgerson, a Pink Floyd intimate who started the graphic arts team which illustrated the band’s most iconic album covers. But the band’s founder and guiding light, Syd Barrett, dimmed in the glare of the spotlight, leaving the group after their second album, long before they achieved the stratospheric success their later work would bring. The...

Well after their deaths, the pop stars of an earlier era — the mid-20th century, to be precise — are receiving documentary treatment, such greats as Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin and Louis Armstrong among them. Artists of the baby boom, on the other hand, a generation of unprecedented size and many other firsts, are participating in the process, as they have been for decades.

The earliest documentary portraits of boomer musicians set the bar high with a fresh, self-reflexive power. D.A. Pennebaker’s 1967 Don’t Look Back traced Dylan’s ambivalent dance into and out of the spotlight, and in 1970 the Maysles brothers’ Gimme Shelter found the Rolling Stones facing darker complexities around the same push-pull. Today, films exploring pop artists’ life’s work, or at least certain aspects of it, are being made while they’re still engaged in it.

Two of the most captivating and poignant documentaries to hit...

Ahead of the anticipated release of the new documentary Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd, we have an exclusive clip to provide an early sneak peek. From Mercury Studios, Believe Media, and A Cat Called Rover, the doc sheds some new light on the tumultuous history of the legendary rock band Pink Floyd and one of its founding members, Syd Barrett, which resulted in his eventual removal from the group. You can watch our clip of the film below ahead of its release in select theaters.

Per the synopsis:

"Syd and Pink Floyd crystallized a cultural moment where anything seemed possible but where that freedom could come with a cost. Was Syd just another drug casualty? Did he suffer from an undiagnosed mental condition? Or did he dislike the attention and fame as the fun turned to work? While there are no clear...

"He launched them into space." Mercury Studios has launched their official trailer for a music history doc film titled in full: Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd. This look back at the origins of the iconic rock band Pink Floyd was co-directed by Hipgnosis founder Storm Thorgerson, who passed away in 2013, but is still credited as director for all his work over the years on this project. The film examines the relationship between Pink Floyd - the visionaries behind prog rock and British psychedelic music – and founding member Syd Barrett, who left the group before they met stardom. It was Syd who gave the group their moniker by combining the names of blues players – Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Intimate interviews with band members David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Roger Waters uncover Barrett’s ongoing impact on the group. Narrated by the actor Jason Isaacs,...

A documentary about legendary Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett, Have You Got It Yet?: The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd, is receiving a North American theatrical release in late June. A newly unveiled official trailer can be seen below.

Directed by filmmaker Roddy Bogawa and the late album cover artist Storm Thorgerson, the feature-length documentary will detail Barrett’s life and time in Pink Floyd with unprecedented access. Classic band members David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Roger Waters were all interviewed for the film, as well as those who were closest to Barrett during his lifetime, such as original band managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King.

Barrett is a figure who has long been shrouded in mystery, guiding Pink Floyd in their early days as a creative leader and chief songwriter. The band’s 1967 debut The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is considered one of the greatest psychedelic records of all-time,...

A documentary about legendary Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett, Have You Got It Yet?: The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd, is receiving a North American theatrical release in late June. A newly unveiled official trailer can be seen below.

Directed by filmmaker Roddy Bogawa and the late album cover artist Storm Thorgerson, the feature-length documentary will detail Barrett’s life and time in Pink Floyd with unprecedented access. Classic band members David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Roger Waters were all interviewed for the film, as well as those who were closest to Barrett during his lifetime, such as original band managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King.

Barrett is a figure who has long been shrouded in mystery, guiding Pink Floyd in their early days as a creative leader and chief songwriter. The band’s 1967 debut The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is considered one of the greatest psychedelic records of all-time,...

The previously announced Syd Barrett documentary Have You Got It Yet?, about the Pink Floyd founder-turned-recluse-turned-mythic cult icon, has shared its first trailer ahead of its U.S. release this summer.

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd features new interviews with the band’s surviving members — Roger Waters (Barrett’s classmate and Pink Floyd’s co-founder), Nick Mason, and David Gilmour — to provide insight into The Piper at the Gates of Dawn mastermind’s meteoric rise, acid-fueled breakdown and eventual exile from the band.

Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon was announced in 1973 at a press conference held at the London Planetarium, a spectral site which mirrored the album cover’s beam of light refracted through a triangle into a rainbow. Perhaps the iconic prismatic image provided the initial idea for fans to sync the classic film The Wizard of Oz (1939) to the album’s rock soundscape.

The band’s history with movies is vast and varied. They scored films in the aftermath of the demise and departure of the band’s founder, Syd Barrett. The success of Dark Side of the Moon also helped the group become motion picture producers, investing in the 1975 comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The Wall, directed by Alan Parker and starring Bob Geldof, pushed boundaries and redefined a rock opera on film. And while the bassist/vocalist/songwriter Roger Waters didn’t let Stanley Kubrick...

On 1 March 1973, a new moon rose over rock music. Immersive, quadrophonic, celestial and deeply introspective, Pink Floyd’s eighth album arrived in a heady flurry of cash tills, chiming clocks, pained-angel arias and cold, disembodied voices speaking of violence, death and insanity. Where their prog-rock peers were busy crafting grandiose yet chintzy pantomimes of Arthurian legend, sci-fi fantasy and messianic pinball, the Floyd delved into the dark universe of humanity’s inner space; into the stresses and horrors of everyday life that daily push us all to the brink. A record as relatable as it was cosmic, as melodic on the topics of “Time” and “Money” as it was climactic on the themes of war, division and madness, The Dark Side of the Moon set a new standard for high-concept intellectual rock. Forty-five million prism-clad units later, it remains the fourth best-selling record ever made.

Fifty years on, we seem...

On 1 March 1973, a new moon rose over rock music. Immersive, quadrophonic, celestial and deeply introspective, Pink Floyd’s eighth album arrived in a heady flurry of cash tills, chiming clocks, pained-angel arias and cold, disembodied voices speaking of violence, death and insanity. Where their prog-rock peers were busy crafting grandiose yet chintzy pantomimes of Arthurian legend, sci-fi fantasy and messianic pinball, the Floyd delved into the dark universe of humanity’s inner space; into the stresses and horrors of everyday life that daily push us all to the brink. A record as relatable as it was cosmic, as melodic on the topics of “Time” and “Money” as it was climactic on the themes of war, division and madness, The Dark Side of the Moon set a new standard for high-concept intellectual rock. Forty-five million prism-clad units later, it remains the fourth best-selling record ever made.

Fifty years on, we seem...

Brick by brick, the feud between Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters and David Gilmour has become one of the great tragicomedies in rock history. This week, a quarrel that has raged on and off (mostly on) since the mid-Eighties took another lurid turn when Gilmour’s wife, novelist and lyricist Polly Samson, accused Rogers of being “a Putin apologist”.

Waters has been catching flak over his repeated calls for the West to stop arming Ukraine in its war with Russia – and for his claims that he’s on a Ukrainian “kill list”. Just so nobody was in any doubt where Gilmour stood, the guitarist later backed his wife, tweeting: “Every word demonstrably true.”

Waters, who in 2020 accused Samson of using the Pink Floyd website as a platform for her literary career, hit back. “Roger Waters is aware of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments made about him on Twitter by...

Jeff Beck played his first gigs on a guitar he built himself, plugging in with local bands in the London suburbs from age 13, before honing his craft at Wimbledon School of Art, studying the artistry of rock and roll and rhythm and blues. Beck mixed the virtuosity and speed Les Paul displayed on radio broadcasts, and the heaviness of even the most melodic Gene Vincent records into his own sound. Beck transformed The Yardbirds from blues purists to proto psychedelia pioneers before inventing hard rock on The Jeff Beck Group’s 1968 Truth album. A new Jeff Beck Group came out with Rough and Ready, infusing fluid jazz phrasings onto R&b ensemble rhythms.

It’s been said Pink Floyd considered asking Beck to join after Syd Barrett left. Beck turned down an invitation to replace Brian Jones in the Rolling Stones for a project with Vanilla Fudge bassist and vocalist Tim Bogert,...

It’s been fun to observe the musical turn Caleb Landry Jones has taken in recent years. Not simply content with being our generation’s Crispin Glover—a weedy, creepy impression left in Twin Peaks, Get Out, and Heaven Knows What, and his Cannes-winning turn in Nitram—he’s tried his hand at being the new Syd Barrett. The results have been largely successful, and when we talked to him last year Jones had a practical approach to staying unique. One among many choice quotes: “I’ve been fortunate to not have to adhere to some of those pressures, of looking at it more like a business and less like a medium [Laughs] for an artist to work in.”

That freedom comes across entirely in Gadzooks Vol. 2, his follow-up to last year’s record and third overall. I’ve been listening to it on and off, as both a single stream...

Syd Barrett, who walked Pink Floyd through the gates of dawn before mental illness forced his departure from the then-rising group, will be the focus of an upcoming documentary featuring new interviews with his former bandmates.

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd will chronicle the early years of the band, as well as the life of the elusive and madcap Barrett after he left the band during the recording of 1968’s A Saucerful of Secrets; Roger “Syd” Barrett died in 2006 at the age of 60.

Mercury Studios,...

Exclusive: Mercury Studios has completed work on a documentary about the co-founder of one of the greatest rock n’ roll bands of all time.

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd explores the enigmatic Barrett, who wrote Pink Floyd’s first two hits and even came up with the band’s name (a mashup of obscure blues players Pink Anderson and Floyd Council). In 1968, only a few years after the group’s founding, Barrett was forced out of Pink Floyd when his bandmates became alarmed about his mental stability and use of psychedelic drugs.

Barrett recorded a couple of solo albums before exiting the business.

Musician-artist Syd Barrett, co-founder of Pink Floyd

“Barrett dropped out of music, returning home to Cambridge for the last 30 years of his life and his first love of painting,” according to a release about the documentary. “Poignantly, some of...

Pink Floyd are set to make an estimated £400m from the sale of their back catalogue.

It has been reported that the American private equity group Blackstone is competing with other companies such as Sony, Warner, BMG and Primary Wave for Pink Floyd’s catalogue.

According to The Times, the deal and copyrights would also include the band’s songs and master copy recordings.

The publication also reports that the band is looking for £400m but said the deal could fall apart if it goes over that number.

Pink Floyd was founded in 1965 by Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright, joined in 1967 by singer and guitarist David Gilmour.

Initially, the band released two charting singles and celebrated the successful debut of their 1967 album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

Earlier this year, Pink Floyd released its first new music in almost three decades to raise money for the people of Ukraine.

The first episode of Season 2 of “Russian Doll” ends with Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) alone in Central Park, at an impressive new low for a woman who’s died dozens of times: After boarding the 6 train in 2022, she’s disembarked in 1982, on the night her mother, Nora (Chloë Sevigny), lost the 149 gold coins that made up Nadia’s family inheritance. To make matters worse, Nadia is (more or less) occupying Nora’s body.

But the episode also ends on a wonderful musical high, the crashing cymbals and blasting organ of “Get It While You Can” adding momentum to a rotating 360-degree shot that switches between Lyonne and Sevigny and back again. Janis Joplin’s rendition of the gleeful soul track isn’t really for either mother or daughter. It’s for us. It’s a celebration of the fact that “Russian Doll” is back and weirder than ever.

Music supervisor Brienne Rose...

Update (3/21/22): Nick Mason has announced rescheduled tour dates, updated below, for the fall. “We are really looking forward to returning to North America and we’re happy to be able to now announce these new dates for later this year,” the drummer said in a statement. “We wanted to make sure to come back when it’s safe for our fans, the band, and our crew.” The trek now includes several new dates, which will go on sale March 25 at 10 a.m. local time.

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Nick Mason’s Saucerful of...

As the Marvel Cinematic Universe grows, it gains opportunities to include some in-universe Easter eggs to make its continuity feel more lived in. The most recent Marvel TV series for Disney+, Hawkeye, goes so far as to include a full-blown Broadway musical featuring the exploits of that world’s Avengers. But while Rogers: The Musical is a fun extra feature for fans to pore over, there’s another Marvel property from the recent past that understands the power of good old-fashioned singin’ and dancin’ more than any other superhero project.

FX’s Legion, which first premiered five years ago today, exists outside of the Marvel continuity…like way, way outside of it. This series borrows some of the X-Men characters owned by Fox at the time to present a trippy, auteurist vision from Fargo creator Noah Hawley.

Anybody who tells you that they understood everything that happened in Legion is lying.

Legendary photographer Mick Rock, known as “The Man Who Shot the Seventies,” has died. A statement on his official Twitter page confirmed the news. He was 72.

“It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share our beloved psychedelic renegade Mick Rock has made the Jungian journey to the other side,” the statement read. “Those who had the pleasure of existing in his orbit, know that Mick was always so much more than ‘The Man Who Shot the 70s.’ He was a photographic poet — a true force of nature who...

Earlier this week, Roger Waters blasted Facebook for daring to approach him about the use of his song “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” in an advertisement for Instagram. “It arrived this morning, with an offer for a huge, huge amount of money,” Waters said at a pro–Julian Assange event. “And the answer is, ‘Fuck You. No fuckin’ way.’”

“I only mention that because this is an insidious movement of them to take over absolutely everything,” he continued. “I will not be a party to this bullshit, [Mark] Zuckerberg.”

The...

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When collecting every LP and EP isn’t enough, showcasing your favorite artists on your walls is the next step to music superfandom. But not everyone wants to hang up their beloved catalog (and risk their records getting dusty or damaged) or hang those unframed music posters that you’ll find in every other college freshman’s dorm room. If you’re looking for something decidedly more grown-up,...

Sarah Mary Chadwick knows she’s broken. She gracefully contorts the ache in her voice into bizarre postures throughout her latest album, Me and Ennui Are Friends, Baby, as she parses grief, breakups, and general feeling of worthlessness. But she never allows herself to break down completely. Instead, she props herself on her piano and divines the right chords to treat each of her wounded words like a salve as she makes sense of her middle-age wreckage. “Maybe I should chill out on blaming my parents,” she posits over sparse chords on the title song,...

Zappa is an intimate look into the innovative life and eclectic works of Frank Zappa, the composer. The Beatles, Brian Wilson, and Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd pushed boundaries of what rock could do in the mid-1960s, but Zappa ignored any preconceived compositional restraint. He mixed rock with classical, jazz with chamber, and twelve-tone with Spike Jones. From his 1966 proto-punk, garage band debut, Freak Out, through the immediate experimental turns he took on Lumpy Gravy, We’re Only In it for the Money, and continuing through his career, Zappa’s music sounds unlike any other sonic unit.

Not only was Zappa a unique composer and bandleader, he was a ground-breaking film director, an innovative theatrical presence, and a voice of rebellion in worlds beyond music and the arts. His politics were far ahead of their time, and his critiques of society resonate strongly to this day. A vast majority...

Perhaps the only genre ever to be named after its fans’ level of educational attainment, “college rock” was exactly what the name implied: smart, fun music perfect for hanging out and drinking beer, ideally on a Friday afternoon in fall just after your last class was over. College rock got its start at the close of the Seventies in Athens, Georgia, with the insanely original dance-punk band Pylon; soon it came to be defined by the sweet, cryptic guitar jangle of R.E.M., who went on to help define Nineties alt-rock as well.

A rare, fully authorized book about the late Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett will finally get a wide (and affordable) release this fall. Barrett: The Definitive Visual Companion, which came out as a high-quality luxury book in 2011, will finally be available in paperback on November 24th.

The book collects 350 rare photos of Barrett and Pink Floyd on stage, in rehearsal, and in candid shots at home, as well as all of the surviving artwork he is known to have created in his lifetime — plus love letters, notes, postcards, and other correspondence.

Richard Thompson has been one of rock’s MVPs since the mid-Sixties. He was a founding member of Fairport Convention — the band that invented the merger of rock and British folk — and his subsequent, musically timeless albums with his ex-wife Linda have long been revered: Their 1982 Shoot Out the Lights made Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. He’s also earned the respect of many of his fellow musicians; his songs have been covered by Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, Robert Plant, Bonnie Raitt, Dinosaur Jr., Bob Mould, and the Pointer Sisters,...

Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba are no longer a member of the force at Spectrum.

Spectrum Originals has officially canceled LA's Finest after two seasons, according to Deadline.

The Bad Boys spinoff found Union reprises her role as Syd Barrett, who works as an LAPD detective alongside partner Nancy McKenna, played by Alba.

The supporting cast included Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights) and Duane Martin (Real Husbands of Hollywood) as fellow detectives Ben Walker and Ben Baines, Ryan McPartlin (Chuck) as Nancy’s husband Patrick, and Ernie Hudson (Grace and Frankie) as Syd’s ex-cop father Joseph.

The series had a long and winding road to the screen after starting its life as an NBC pilot.

Despite being a lock for a series order, the Peacock network decided against a pickup, leaving producers to scramble to get the series on the air.

Spectrum Originals subsequently stepped in with a 13 episode order,...

Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba are officially off-duty: Their Spectrum Originals cop drama L.A.’s Finest has been cancelled after two seasons, according to our sister site Deadline.

In the Bad Boys spinoff, Union reprises her role as Syd Barrett, who works as an LAPD detective alongside partner Nancy McKenna, played by Alba. The supporting cast includes Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights) and Duane Martin (Real Husbands of Hollywood) as fellow detectives Ben Walker and Ben Baines, aka “The Bens,” Ryan McPartlin (Chuck) as Nancy’s husband Patrick and Ernie Hudson (Grace and Frankie) as Syd’s ex-cop father Joseph.

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Innovative and acclaimed British director Alan Parker, died Friday, July 31, after a lengthy, but as yet undisclosed illness, according to Variety. He was 76.

Parker was nominated for two Best Director Oscars. One of those films was 1988’s Mississippi Burning, which highly dramatized the investigation of three murdered civil rights activists in 1964. The films starred Willem Dafoe and Gene Hackman, with the latter being nominated for Best Actor. Parker’s first Oscar nomination though came for the 1978 drama Midnight Express, another film based on true events. Oliver Stone won his first Oscar for the screenplay, which focused on Billy Hayes, who escaped a Turkish prison after being convicted of trying to smuggle hashish out of the country. Giorgio Moroder also won his first Oscar for composing the music. It was Parker’s second feature, and it was vastly different from his debut.

Alan Parker had a special connection with music. He...

If there’s one song that sums up the stoic guitar genius of Peter Green, it’s “Jumping at Shadows,” recorded live in February 1970, at the Boston Tea Party. Green was on top of the world; a 23-year-old rock star leading the London band he founded, Fleetwood Mac. They were the toast of Britain, riding their Number One hit “Albatross.” But “Jumping at Shadows” is a doomy blues ballad, his voice full of wistful dread, his guitar full of delicate pain. “I’m going downhill and I blame myself,” he sings.

David Gilmour is finally giving a wide release to his first new song in five years, “Yes, I Have Ghosts.” Previously, the former Pink Floyd frontman released the tune via the audiobook edition of his wife and long-time collaborator Polly Samson’s novel, A Theatre for Dreamers.

Over a waltzing acoustic guitar line and harp played by Gilmour’s daughter, Romany, he sings about “specters of strangers” and fleeting faces in a crowd. “Yes, I have ghosts,” he sings, “Not all of them dead/Making dust of my dreams/Spinning round and around,...

David Gilmour will release his first new song in five years via an unusual format, the audiobook.

The track, “Yes, I Have Ghosts,” will be available initially only on the audio edition of A Theatre for Dreamers, the latest novel by Gilmour’s wife and long-time collaborator, Polly Samson. The recording also features music Gilmour wrote for the story to accompany Samson’s narration. The audiobook will come out on June 25th, and the wide release of “Yes, I Have Ghosts,” will be a week later.

“Polly’s vivid and poetic writing,...

Sony has debuted an official trailer for the concert film Roger Waters: Us + Them, filmed during Roger Waters' concert tour in 2017 - 2018. Get ready to rock! This isn't anything more than just a presentation of the concert experience, which featured multiple acts and performances, along with some activism segments. For those that don't know, Roger Waters is an English songwriter, singer, bassist, and composer - who co-founded the band Pink Floyd in 1965. He started out at the bassist, but after Syd Barrett left in 1968, he also became their lyricist, co-lead vocalist, and conceptual leader. Waters collaborates once more with Sean Evans, visionary director of the highly acclaimed movie, Roger Waters: The Wall, to deliver this creatively pioneering film that inspires with its powerful music and message of human rights, liberty and love. Enjoy. Here's the official trailer for concert film Roger Waters: Us + Them, direct from Sony's YouTube: Roger Waters,...