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Television 

Tegan and Sara wrote a memoir. It’s now a TV show.

August 14, 2022August 14, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Autobiography, Freevee, High School, Memoir, Tegan and Sara

If you’ve read High School, the Tegan and Sara memoir, you’ll see that the sisters had interesting upbringings. That book

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Stranger Things has created another global viral music hit. And it’s a weird one.

July 5, 2022July 5, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Master of Puppets, Metallica, Solo, Stranger Things

As Kate Bush continues to cash cheques from Spotify and iTunes after “Running Up That Hill” blew up globally after

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The legend of Robin Hood is being reimagined for a masked band of hip-hop crusaders

June 16, 2022June 16, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Global, Robin Hood, Robyn Hood, social justice

The legend of Robin Hood has been told and re-told a gazillion times over the years. But this newest incarnation

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Music News Television 

Will ex-Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge deliver us this generation’s answer to The X-Files? Maybe.

June 10, 2022June 10, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Dan Farah, Ready Player One, SciFi, To the Stars, Tom DeLonge, UAPs, UFOs

Anyone who’s followed Blink-182 knows that one of the big reasons Tom DeLonge quit the band was because he wanted

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The Sex Pistols revisit “God Save the Queen” for Her Majesty’s platinum jubilee

May 29, 2022May 29, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments God Save the Queen, Queen Elizabeth, Reissues, Sex Pistols

Back in 1977, The Sex Pistols released their “God Save the Queen” during Queen Elizabeth’s 25th-anniversary festivities, something that greatly

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Music History Television 

Here’s the trailer for the upcoming Sex Pistols biopic TV series

May 28, 2022May 28, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Biopic, Danny Boyle, Disney+, Sex Pistols

Come May 31, Danny Boyle’s limited series Pistol will appear on Disney+. It’s a six-part biography/drama based on the Sex

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Music History Television 

Today’s trailers, part 2: The Sex Pistols series, Pistol

May 4, 2022May 4, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Biopic, Danny Boyle, Disney+, Sex Pistols, Steve Jones

Johnny Lydon isn’t happy about it, but Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle has turned the memoir of Pistols’ guitarist Steve

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Television 

What if “Frasier” was more into Seattle grunge? Then the show might have looked like this?

April 17, 2022April 16, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Frasier, Frasier Crane, Grunge, Kelsey Grammar, NBC, Seattle

In case you’ve forgotten, Kelsey Grammar’s Frasier Crane (from NBC’s Frasier, of course) was a stuffy psychologist who hosted a

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The next artist to show up on The Simpsons will be Billie Eilish

April 15, 2022April 15, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Billie Eilish, Finneas, The Simpsons

Billie Eilish drops into Springfield as part of a Simpsons short. Lisa, looking for a place to practice her saxophone,

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The Kids in the Hall have been exhumed thanks to Amazon. Here’s the red band trailer.

April 15, 2022April 15, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Amazon Prime Video, Kids in the Hall

Canada’s most famous comedy ensemble, The Kids in the Hall, will return on May 13 thanks to Amazon Prime Video.

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ICYMI: The Grammys tribute video to the Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins

April 4, 2022April 5, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Foo Fighters, Grammys, Taylor Hawkins, Tribute

A couple of weeks ago, the Foo Fighters were set to perform at the Grammy Awards. But then… (Via Variety)

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