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Ed Asner, Star of ‘Up,’ Dead at Age 91
Ed Asner, one of TV’s most decorated actors, has died at the age of 91. Over the weekend, his family took to Twitter to release an official statement that read, “We are sorry to say that our beloved patriarch passed away this morning peacefully. Words cannot express the sadness we feel. With a kiss on your head- Goodnight dad. We love you.” The cause of death has not yet been revealed by the family. Ed Asner, who famously starred as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, was also a titular character in the spin-off series, Lou Grant. He also appeared in many high-profile series including ER, The Good Wife and Cobra Kai. His many years in TV has had him earning two leading actor Emmys and a total of five nominations. While his TV portfolio is extensive, Asner’s film resume should not be ov...
New ‘Shang-Chi’ Featurette Explores Asian Representation in the MCU
Marvel and Disney have shared a brand new featurette for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings entitled “Ready to Rise.” The two-minute visual sees director Destin Daniel Cretton, writer Dave Callaham and stars Simu Liu, Awkwafina, Fala Chen and Michelle Yeoh talk about Asian representation in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “For many of us who grew up in the West, whose parents immigrated, you know, we never really see ourselves on screen meaningfully. Shang-Chi will be an important piece of that conversation,” Liu, who plays the titular role, said in the featurette. “The story of Shang-Chi was actually very personal,” Cretton shared. “I wanted to look at what a superhero could be, what it would mean to me. To be able to add not only one character — Shang-Chi — but to add a whole cornu...
Netflix Drops First Penn Badgley-Narrated Teaser for ‘You’ Season Three
Netflix has dropped off the first teaser for You season three, along with its official release date. The series’ next installment follows Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) and Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) on their post-marriage move to Northern California’s Madre Linda, where they have decided to settle down and raise a child. There, they find themselves surrounded by judgmental mommy bloggers and Insta-famous biohackers, and while Goldberg becomes dedicated to his new role as a father, Quinn’s destructive tendencies swiftly manage to stir the pot. “People these days will name their kids anything to get attention,” Goldberg narrates in the teaser’s opening, presumably speaking to his newly-born child. “And despite your mother’s background and your Glamma’s determination to refer to y...
Reggae’s Mad Scientist: Our 1985 Feature on Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry
This article was originally published in the May 1985 issue of SPIN. In light of Perry’s death, we’re republishing it here. When people said to Bob Marley that his friend Lee “Scratch” Perry was mad, Marley would reply, “Him not mad, him just Scratch.” They were not always persuaded. Indeed, one of Mr. Perry’s several epithets is “The Mad Scientist,” which took on its true meaning when he trashed his Black Art recording studios in Kingston, Jamaica, and spent several months planting small black crosses on every available square inch of his property. He also changed his name to Pipecock Jackson for a short time and for no apparent reason. “It’s great to be mad . . . it’s a pleasure,” cackles Lee. We are squashed together in the tiny back room of a North London record shop, drinking cooking ...
Watch Offset Ring New York Stock Exchange Opening Bell to Celebrate Reservoir Media IPO
“This morning, Reservoir rang the @Nasdaq Opening Bell in celebration of our recent IPO. It is both exciting and humbling to take this next step in Reservoir’s journey,” the company wrote on Twitter while sharing photos from the ceremony. “We look forward to all the opportunities this creates, as we deepen our commitment to #investinginentertainment. Reservoir Media signed Offset and Takeoff to global publishing deals back in 2017, which represent their individual and collective catalogs. Reservoir Media’s EVP of A&R and Catalog Development Faith Newman was responsible for bringing the rappers to the roster. The company experienced its first day of trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange on July 29, when its shares took a 4.9% dip after opening...
In-Demand Songwriter Natalie Hemby Steps Into Her Own With ‘Pins and Needles’
Now, with her Oct. 8 debut for Fantasy/Concord, Pins and Needles, Hemby is fully stepping into her own as an artist. “This is over 20 years of pent-up artist frustration,” she says of the new set, with a laugh. “The interesting part was that the label just loved all the songs. Kudos to Fantasy. They could have not signed me during a pandemic, because people were scaling back and tours were being halted — but they said, ‘No, we’re doing this deal.’” The album was produced and mixed by Hemby’s husband Mike Wrucke (Lambert, Pistol Annies), and includes several songs she co-wrote with artists including Lambert (“Banshee,” “It Takes One to Know One”) and Morris (“Heart Condition”) — but also songs co-written with Daniel Tashian and Rosi Golan (the...
Sandaime J SOUL BROTHERS Set to Drop New Single ‘JSB IN BLACK’: See the Teaser
The single will also include “KICK & SLIDE,” the theme of the LDH children’s anime by the same name currently airing on the popular TV Tokyo kids’ show Ohasuta. The fan club version of the single will include live footage of four songs from the group’s ongoing concert tour — Sandaime J SOUL BROTHERS LIVE TOUR 2021 “THIS IS JSB” — which will be the most recent concert performances by the group to be made available on video. Watch a “JSB IN BLACK” teaser below: You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair...
Japan’s Fujipacific Chairman Ichiro Asatsuma Talks 55-Year Career, Future of J-Pop & More
What have you placed the most importance on during these past 50 years? To be quick in finding good songs, whether they be Japanese or Western, and obtaining the rights to them. I originally used to work part-time as a music critic while working full-time at a company that had nothing to do with music. So when I got the job at my current company, I read M. William Krasilovsky’s This Business of Music [first published in 1964] and came away with a vague understanding that “OK, so the challenge is to be quick in finding good songs, writers of good songs, and artists suited to sing those good songs.” Fifty-five years have passed since I began working at this company, but that thinking hasn’t changed. Compared to the year 1960, sales of Western music in Japan have been declining. What do you t...
Evan Rachel Wood Flips Off Marilyn Manson Onstage
Actress and musician Evan Rachel Wood flipped the bird to her alleged abuser Marilyn Manson during her concert at the Bourbon Room in Hollywood Saturday night. Singing the New Radicals’ “You Get What You Give,” Wood simultaneously sang the lyrics, “Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson / … Marilyn Manson.” The crowd cheered for Wood and she threw up her arms in the air. The video begins with Wood telling the audience, “I’ve been saving this, but it seems like an appropriate time.” This comes a few days after Manson’s appearance at Kanye West’s Donda listening party at Soldier Field in Chicago. Her caption on Instagram is in support of survivors: “For my fellow survivors who got slapped in the face this week. I love you. Don’t give up.” Wood spoke out in February, accusing Manson of grooming ...
The Reissue Section: Summer 2021
From deep jazz spiritualism to big dumb rock, Summer 2021 has been chockfull of archival releases of old favorites, obscure discoveries and newly unearthed recordings that will appeal to a vast array of music fans with ice cream money to burn. I keep hearing about how the CD era is dead and all that stuff. But this current cache of archival titles continues to prove the compact disc is very much a format that continues to bring joy and happiness to a large swath of the music-buying public. So yes, CD players still belong in cars, you savages! Stone Temple PilotsTiny Music…Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop Deluxe Edition (Atlantic/Rhino) Third albums are the ones that tend to cement an act’s career in a way that either helps them ascend to new heights or sink like a stone. For Stone Temple P...
Drake Will (Finally) Be Your Certified Lover Boy On September 3
After multiple delays, Drake confirmed on Monday (August 30) that he will finally be dropping his new studio album, Certified Lover Boy, this Friday. Get ready. On Instagram, Drake posted an image of multiple pregnant-mother emojis in various skin tones and shirt colors. The image is set to be the official album cover, and he captioned the post, in all caps, “Certified Lover Boy September 3.” Last week, a cryptic video clip that teased the release date for the highly anticipated album was aired by SportsCenter on ESPN. The clip showed some sports highlights and then was interrupted by glitching footage and warped audio of someone holding a sign that read, “CLB September 3.” In a response to the so-called interruption, SportsCenter tweeted: “We want to apologize for any interruptions v...
Rock, Roll, Riot, Repeat: An Oral History of Kill Rock Stars
In NOFX’s song “Kill the Rock Stars,” Fat Mike calls out Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna with the lyric, “‘Kill the rockstars’ how ironic, Kathleen/You’ve been crowned the newest queen,” and opines, “You can’t change the world by blaming men.” The song title not subtly references Kill Rock Stars, Bikini Kill’s label at the time. The 24 years since the song was included on the pop-punk band’s 1997 album So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes have not been kind. Both Bikini Kill and Kill Rock Stars’ roster over its 30-year history have, in fact, changed the world. The label is best known for important releases from Riot Grrrl bands such as Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, and Heavens to Betsy. The feminist punk (or punk feminist) movement has been idealized, criticized, relitigated, historicized and...
