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The duet Dave Grohl always wanted to put together: “I was this close”
Dave Grohl has revealed he came close to arranging an unlikely musical pairing between rock band Weezer and easy-listening icon Barry Manilow for the 2013 documentary and soundtrack Sound City: Real to Reel. The Foo Fighters frontman, known for uniting disparate musical eras and styles, said the collaboration ultimately fell through despite his best efforts,…
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4 Rock Songs That Define the Classic Sound of the Mid-1990s
American Songwriter has picked four rock tracks it says capture the shifting sound of the mid-1990s, a period when grunge’s dominance was giving way to new styles such as jam bands and emerging electronic influences. The selection charts that transition through bands that defined the decade’s mainstream rock landscape. – “Heart-Shaped Box” by Nirvana, from…
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Steam reportedly refunds Battlefield 6 player with 470 hours logged after EA quietly pulled Rush mode from Quickplay
A Battlefield 6 player reportedly received a full refund from Steam despite having logged around 470 hours, after EA quietly removed the popular Rush mode from matchmaking without any patch notes. The case is notable because it far exceeds Valve’s usual two-hour refund threshold, showing that Steam can make exceptions when a publisher makes significant,…
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Watch: BEHEMOTH’s NERGAL Performs Entire ‘Sventevith (Storming Near The Baltic)’ Album At 2026 HELLSINKI METAL FESTIVAL
BEHEMOTH frontman Adam “Nergal” Darski teamed up with Icelandic black metal band MISÞYRMING to perform his group’s 1995 debut album, “Sventevith (Storming Near The Baltic)”, in full for the first time as a complete conceptual piece. The one-off collaboration, staged at the 2026 Hellsinki Metal Festival in Helsinki, Finland, marks the 30th anniversary of the…
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The “crazy, wacky” actor Mel Brooks said was born to be a Nazi: “I think he secretly is”
Mel Brooks once jokingly described actor Richard Lewis as “born to be a Nazi”, adding that he thought Lewis “secretly is”, in keeping with the deliberately provocative humour associated with Brooks’s work. The remark appears to have been a comic exaggeration rather than a serious allegation, and reflects their shared willingness to make jokes about…
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess wasn’t enough, you can now run Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask natively on IOS
A modified version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and its sequel Majora’s Mask can now reportedly be run natively on iOS devices, following on from a similar project that brought Twilight Princess to Apple’s mobile platform. This continues a trend of fan-made ports using decompilation projects that let classic Nintendo 64 titles…
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Julien Baker Joins Lucy Dacus For “Bullseye” At Outside Lands
Lucy Dacus brought her boygenius bandmate Julien Baker on stage during her set at the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco to perform their song “Bullseye” together. The moment offered fans a rare live glimpse of the pair’s close creative partnership outside their full band, adding to a run of notable guest appearances at this…
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Sony’s Spider-Man sequel eyes $1bn domestic after huge second weekend
“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” closed its cinema run as one of the biggest box office successes in history, posting the third-biggest second weekend ever with $145 million domestically and pushing Sony and Marvel’s superhero sequel towards records no film had previously achieved. The Tom Holland-led picture ultimately reached $1.67 billion globally within days of release,…
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Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Officially Becomes His Biggest Movie of All Time
Christopher Nolan’s epic film “The Odyssey” has passed $1 billion at the global box office, three weeks into its release, making it the highest-grossing film of his career. The milestone is notable because Nolan’s previous film, “Oppenheimer”, narrowly missed the $1 billion mark in 2023 despite going on to win Best Picture and Best Director…