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10 Essential Keyboard Tracks to Celebrate National Piano Month

September is National Piano Month. As you’re probably well aware, musicians have been tickling the ivories for centuries now, and popular music as we know it wouldn’t be the same without the instrument....  read more

10 Musicians with Uncanny Celebrity Doppelgangers

Here are 10 musicians who have us seeing double.  read more

Kevin Smith Announces Final Film To Be A Two-Parter

The infamous actor, director, and screenwriter Kevin Smith recently told a Montreal audience during a screening of a recent film that the final film of his career is simply too big a story to tell in just one movie. The film is entitled Hit Somebody and it is a comedy/drama based on a song off of Warren Zevon's final album. The song tells the story of a sardonic hockey player who is known for fighting on the rink. Not surprisingly, Smith's epic film adaptation is set to follow a similar kind of character and his dream to get into the NHL. According to an interview with MTV News, the films will take place in the 1970s during the "last gasp of the goon era of hockey when it was all about fighting". Smith envisions his labor of love not only making people laugh, but also pleasing critics and winning awards, even declaring it to be an "award-type movie".   read more

New Warren Zevon Tracks To Be Released In May

Warren Zevon may no longer sing about hairy-handed gents running amuck in Kent, but he is still releasing records. The “Werewolves of London” singer’s son, Jordan, located 126 demos and outtakes after Zevon’s 2003 death; 16 of those songs comprise Preludes – Rare and Unreleased Recordings, to be released on May 1. Preludes also includes a second disc featuring an interview between Zevon and KGSR-FM’s Jody Denberg. A memoir entitled I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon will be released the same day. The book acts as a scrapbook of Zevon’s life and times,...  read more