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3 Times Legendary Artists Almost Joined the Lineup for Your Favorite Rock Bands
American Songwriter highlights three occasions when major guitarists were considered for places in already famous rock bands, illustrating how small personnel changes might have altered the course of popular music. The article argues that the eventual line-ups were well suited to their bands, while the near-misses reveal contrasting musical styles and career paths. Eric Clapton…
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FEAR FACTORY’s First Single Featuring New Singer MILO SILVESTRO, ‘Roboticist’, To Arrive Next Week
Fear Factory will release “Roboticist” on 29 August, its first single featuring singer Milo Silvestro and drummer Pete Webber. The release is significant because it introduces the band’s current touring line-up on record and previews its next album, which guitarist Dino Cazares says retains the group’s established heavy, melodic industrial-metal sound while moving its concept…
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All fishes in How to Fish and how to catch them
Destructoid has published a work-in-progress guide to catching every creature in the game How to Fish. It matters because catches are tied to specific islands, rods and baits, including boss encounters that require unusual items. The starting Lighthouse area contains rock crabs, shrimp and lobsters, caught with the Crab Fishing Rod using free lures or…
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Silent Hill: Townfall’s new gameplay trailer quietly confirms how long its PS5 exclusivity will last
A new gameplay trailer for Silent Hill: Townfall has revealed over 18 minutes of first-look footage while also quietly confirming how long the game will remain a PlayStation 5 console exclusive. Small print at the end of the trailer states that the game, already confirmed for PC, will not appear on other consoles until at…
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‘Spiderman: Brand New Day’ Did What No MCU Movie After ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Had the Guts To Do
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has often been criticised for undoing bold storytelling decisions soon after making them, but the new film Spider-Man: Brand New Day breaks that pattern by refusing to reverse the consequences set up at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home. This matters because it marks a rare instance of the franchise…
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Forget ‘Terminator,’ This Near-Perfect Time-Travel Thriller Is Officially Free to Watch
Collider has spotlighted “Looper” as a standout time-travel thriller now streaming free on Tubi, arguing it outshines more recent genre entries built around multiverse concepts. Written and directed by Rian Johnson before his “Star Wars” and “Knives Out” work, the 2012 film builds a stripped-down premise around organised crime using outlawed time travel to eliminate…
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US rapper BigXthaPlug arrested on drug and gun charges
Dallas-based rapper BigXthaPlug, real name Xavier Landum, has been arrested in Texas on charges including driving while intoxicated, marijuana possession and illegal possession of a firearm. The arrest is significant as it comes while he was already out on bail from a similar arrest a year earlier, and follows a high-profile 2025 performance at London’s…
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The 2004 blockbuster that could have launched Robert Pattinson’s career: “My first film audition”
Robert Pattinson’s road to fame nearly took a different route, as he revealed his very first film audition was for the 2004 epic Troy, before he landed the roles in Harry Potter and Twilight that made him a star. Speaking to The Independent, the actor recalled trying out for the part of Patroclus, Brad Pitt’s…
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Paramount accuses Mark Ruffalo of antisemitism after actor criticises studio’s Israel links
Paramount has publicly accused actor Mark Ruffalo of invoking “antisemitic tropes” after he criticised the studio’s financial links to Israel via Oracle, the tech firm backing Paramount Skydance’s proposed $110 billion merger with Warner Bros Discovery. Ruffalo, a longstanding pro-Palestinian advocate who pledged last October not to work with Israeli film institutions during the Gaza…
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Ed Sheeran wants to build ANOTHER wildlife pond: Superstar risks wrath of residents at his £1.1million ‘Sheeran-ville II’ recording studio… but will this pool be just for newts and tadpoles?
Ed Sheeran is seeking planning permission to build a second wildlife pond at his sprawling Suffolk estate, home to his £1.1million recording studio complex nicknamed “Sheeran-ville”. The proposal is likely to reignite tensions with local residents, who have previously raised concerns about the scale of development at the singer’s property near Framlingham. The new pond…