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4 Must-Have Albums To Start Your Tom Petty Vinyl Collection

• Four Tom Petty albums recommended to start a vinyl collection.
• Picks span his career: Torpedoes, Hard Promises, Full Moon Fever, Echo.
• Echo is the most contentious choice over Wildflowers.

American Songwriter offers a starter guide for building a Tom Petty vinyl collection, arguing that his consistently strong catalogue makes narrowing it to just four albums difficult. The chosen quartet spans different eras of Petty's career, making them a well-rounded foundation for new collectors while also representing a…

The 1957 Buddy Holly riff Paul McCartney always wanted to figure out

This article from Far Out Magazine sets out to explore a particular Buddy Holly guitar riff from 1957 that Paul McCartney long admired and wanted to learn to play himself. The piece frames Holly as a formative influence on The Beatles and McCartney specifically, positioning the riff as…

‘Lover, Not a Fighter’ Review: Freewheeling Slovak Charmer Charts a Sober (but Not Solemn) GenZ Romance

Variety's Guy Lodge reviews "Lover, Not a Fighter", the debut feature from Slovak writer-director Martina Buchelová, which won the Proxima competition at the Karlovy Vary film festival. The Slovakian-Czech co-production is praised as an original and endearing comic voice, a crowd-pleasing and broadly accessible film that nonetheless retains…

Greek Filmmaker Christos Nikou, the Director of ‘Apples’ and ‘Fingernails,’ on Creating ‘Tender Cinema’

At the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Greek director Christos Nikou — best known for "Apples" and "Fingernails" — served as mentor to the 10 participants of Future Frames, a programme for emerging European directors, with Variety observing the discussion. Nikou used the session to stress the importance of…

Born 53 Years Ago Today in Florida, Thee Award-Winning Songwriter Best Known for His No. 1 Hits With Toby Keith

• Songwriter Scotty Emerick, Toby Keith's key collaborator, was born on 11 July 1973.
• The duo co-wrote around 53 songs, including several number-one hits.
• Emerick now tours with Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band.

On what would have been his 53rd birthday, American Songwriter profiles country songwriter Scotty Emerick, born Walter Scott Emerick in Hollywood, Florida, on 11 July 1973. Emerick is best known for his prolific creative partnership with the late Toby Keith, with whom he co-wrote a string of number-one…

50 Cent Reacts to His Diddy Documentary Receiving 3 Emmy Noms: ‘You Can’t Argue With the Work’

• 50 Cent's Diddy documentary earned three Primetime Emmy nominations.
• The four-part Netflix series was released in December 2025.
• His next project, Fightland, premieres on Starz on 31 July.

50 Cent has celebrated his Netflix documentary about Sean "Diddy" Combs, titled Sean Combs: The Reckoning, receiving three Primetime Emmy nominations, announced on Wednesday 8 July. The rapper and producer, who runs G-Unit Film and Television, marked the news on Instagram, writing that critics had doubted the project…

Moran feels Mayo still not the ‘finished article’

Mayo manager Andy Moran has said his team are "not the finished article" even after they eased into their first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final in five years with a commanding 17-point victory over Louth at Croke Park. Moran, who has sought to blend youth and experience this…

Tom Hanks’ 10-Part WWII Masterpiece Continues Its Unstoppable Reign on Streaming

• Band of Brothers still a streaming hit 25 years on.
• Hanks wrote all 10 episodes and directed one.
• It streams on HBO, Prime Video and Apple TV.

This article from Collider marks the 25th anniversary of Band of Brothers, the acclaimed 10-part World War II miniseries co-created by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, noting that it remains a major streaming success on HBO and video-on-demand platforms. It frames the show within Hanks's broader, career-long commitment…

The 1930s filmmaking duo Martin Scorsese considers to be out of everyone’s league: “Truly experimental films”

• Scorsese credits directing duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger as major influences on his artistic vision and filmmaking philosophy
• The 1948 film 'The Red Shoes' profoundly affected Scorsese in childhood and remains central to how he approaches cinema
• Scorsese praises Powell and Pressburger for creating daring, experimental work whilst successfully operating within the traditional studio system

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