“Chalamet’s looking pretty good right now, huh?” a musician pal said as we staggered in a daze out of “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.” Writer-director Scott Cooper’s moribund portrait of The ...
Ba, ba-ba, ba-ba. Clap, clap-clap, clap-clap. Stomp, stomp-stomp, stomp-stomp. Bo Diddley popularized but didn’t invent the “Bo Diddley beat,” the syncopated, off-beat rhythm that seems designed for ...
Most music biopics take place in a world of alternative facts where Queen broke up before Live Aid, Elton John named himself after John Lennon, Mötley Crüe‘s Vince Neil sang Billy Squier’s “My Kinda ...
Boxed sets celebrating classic rock albums offer the joy of discovery, in all those abandoned alternate versions being brought into the light as bonus tracks, but usually also some simultaneous ...