Alright, so here we go… and yeah, this is one of those things where you kind of have to take a deep breath before you even start, because you’re talking about Michael Jackson . I mean, not just a pop star, not just a big deal, not just a guy who sold a few million records—this is Michael Jackson. This is as big as it gets. This is Mount Rushmore stuff. This is cultural, global, generational impact that’s almost impossible to overstate, and yet… I’m gonna try anyway, because

Hey, I have an idea! Let's watch people with way more money, way more fame, and way bigger egos than any of us could ever imagine just absolutely go at each other. I gotta tell you, sometimes I love it. I really do. There’s something endlessly entertaining about rivalries in show business. Always has been. And part of that is because entertainment, at its core, is built on ego. Let’s be honest. You don’t become a movie star or a rock god or a legendary TV personality without

Springtime…man, I gotta tell you, there are few things in life that just immediately lift your mood the way spring does. It really is one of those universal, almost magical transitions that everybody feels, whether you’re a nature person or not. You go from that long, brutal, gray, miserable winter (especially here in Chicago where winter feels like it lasts about eleven and a half months) to that first day where the sun actually feels warm on your face, and suddenly everythi

It’s hard to believe that the Red Hot Chili Peppers have been around for almost 45 years. That makes me feel very, very old. I mean, seriously, this band that started out as this weird, funky, punky, half-naked chaos machine on the Sunset Strip is now one of the biggest bands in the history of rock and roll. We’re talking over 120 million records sold, Grammys, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame…they’re legends. Absolute legends. But they didn’t

The TV theme song. Just saying those words makes me smile. Or sigh. Or get a little pissed off. Or all three at once. Because once upon a time, the TV theme song mattered. It wasn’t just background noise. It wasn’t something you skipped past so you could shave ten seconds off your binge-watch session. It was an event. It was a statement. It was mood, tone, personality, storytelling, and sometimes the entire damn plot of the show, delivered in under a minute. And now? It’s pre

INTRODUCTION: My 10 Favorite Music Biopics (Non-Documentary) With the release of the new music biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere , I thought it would be fun to give you my list of my Top 10 Favorite Music Biopics of All Time. Now, just to make this clear right off the bat, these are not documentaries . The ten films I’m ranking here are narrative movies, they are fictionalized (sometimes very fictionalized) dramatizations of real musicians, songwriters, and bands.