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Jill Sobule, the late singer-songwriter who scored a hit with the queer anthem “I Kissed a Girl” in 1995, will be celebrated this spring with a series of tribute shows around the country dubbed “Jillith Fair — Loving Jill Sobule.” Margaret Cho, John Doe, Tom Morello, Joan Osborne, Lisa Loeb, Marshall Crenshaw, Madeleine Peyroux, and the Go-Go’s Charlotte Caffey and Jane Wiedlin, among others, will all variously make appearances. Full details about which artists will be appearing where are on Sobule’s website. More dates will be announced in the future.

The Go-Go’s Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock, and Kathy Valentine reunited at Coachella on Friday, marking one of the legendary band’s first live performances in seven years.

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During their set, The Go-Go’s were joined by Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong for a performance of “Head Over Heels.” They also interpolated Chappell Roan’s “Hot To Go!” with “We Got the Beat,” and performed other classics like “Vacation,” “Our Lips Are Sealed,” “Skidmarks on My Heart,” and “Lust to Love.”

The Go-Go’s core lineup last performed live together in 2018. They had announced a reunion tour for 2020, but those plans were scuttled by the pandemic. The band later played a brief run of shows in 2021 and 2022 to celebrate their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. However, due to an injury, drummer Gina Schock was unable to participate,...

The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs and Elvis Costello are celebrating Keith Richards’ 81st birthday with a new cover of the (primarily) Keef-penned Rolling Stones cut “Connection.”

Hoffs and Costello’s rendition of the track retains the original 1967 song’s punchy energy, while imbuing it with some more ramshackle jangle, as well as a whole lot of tender, sweet harmonies. Hoffs tells Rolling Stone that she got to do the “Keith part” on the cover (ostensibly referring to the lead guitar riff and vocals), quipping she and Costello “both wanted to do the Keith part,...

Time travel in the sci-fi genre has thrilled audiences for decades. It's been used for comedic and dramatic purposes, giving heroes and villains alike a chance to change their fate. From iconic machines to mind-bending paradoxes, the best time travel movies and television explore ideas and themes that may not be possible with a conventional timeline.

The plot device lends itself to so many genres, from tragedy to time travel rom-coms. It's a classic movie convention, and one that's appeared in several TV shows as well. With its reflections on the human condition and our relationship with the past and future, time travel is also a staple of sci-fi movies. Here are the best examples of time travel sequences across film and television.

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One of the most iconic examples of time travel in film has to be the DeLorean scene in Back to the Future.

The Bangles co-founder Susanna Hoffs has announced she is releasing a new archival album titled The Lost Record on October 18th via Baroque Folk Records. In anticipation, she has shared the original version of “Under a Cloud,” which was later released by The Bangles in 2011.

The material on The Lost Record was originally recorded in 1999 in Hoffs’ garage, where she was joined by Bill Bottrell, Brian MacLeod, and the Go-Go’s members Charlotte Caffey and Jane Wiedlin.

In a statement, Hoff said that time was a “sweet, special period of being home with a new baby, but also an exploration of identity, separate from the Bangles.” She added that the album was like a diary “reflecting on the things that mattered most in life: love and connection.”

On that note, Hoffs’ version of “Under a Cloud” solely features her vocals and is more jangly and string-laden than the version that...

In a bombshell Rolling Stone article, Go-Go’s guitarist Jane Wiedlin says she was sexually molested at age 15 by Rodney Bingenheimer, the SiriusXM radio host once dubbed “The Mayor of the Sunset Strip” in large part due to his ownership in the influential 1970s rock ‘n’ roll hotspot the English Disco.

Wiedlin is one of five women who tell Deadline’s sister publication they were sexually assaulted or molested by Bingenheimer when they were minors in the 1970s and ’80s. The allegations come about eight months after Kari Krome, the songwriter for the ’70s all-female band the Runaways, sued Bingenheimer and the estate of the late Runaways producer Kim Fowley for sexual assault when she was a minor.

Wiedlin details the alleged assault in the Rolling Stone feature, recalling how she and other high school friends — they called themselves the Hollywooders — would sneak out of their homes to visit...

Four years before she co-founded the beloved New Wave group the Go-Go’s, guitarist Jane Wiedlin was about 15 years old living with her parents in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. It was around 1974, and she was enamored with glam-rock titans like David Bowie and Marc Bolan. Looking to get as close to the music as possible, she went to the hottest club in L.A.: Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco.

The club — which opened its doors in 1972 — had built a reputation as a well-known haunt for Bowie, Bolan, Iggy Pop,...

Damon Albarn is remembering his late friend Terry Hall of the Specials through his music. On Tuesday, the Gorillaz musician posted a video of himself playing piano to the Specials’ “Friday Night, Saturday Morning” as a tribute to Hall, who died Monday at age 63.

“Terry, you meant the world to me,” Albarn wrote on Twitter alongside the video, which saw him performing a melancholic piano version of the 1980 hit. “I love you.”

Hall and Albarn held a friendship for many years. Hall joined Blur for a performance of “Nite Klub...

Tributes have poured in from across the music industry following the news of The Specials frontman Terry Hall’s death.

The Coventry two-tone band announced that Hall had died aged 63 on Monday (19 December) following a brief illness.

The band tweeted: “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing, following a brief illness, of Terry, our beautiful friend, brother and one of the most brilliant singers, songwriters and lyricists this country has ever produced.

“Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… the joy, the pain, the humour, the fight for justice, but mostly the love.

“He will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him and leaves behind the gift of his remarkable music and profound humanity. Terry often left the stage at the end...

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Terry Hall, the frontman of influential U.K. ska band the Specials and later a member of new wave pop act Fun Boy Three, has died. He was 63.

“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing, following a brief illness, of Terry, our beautiful friend, brother and one of the most brilliant singers, songwriters and lyricists this country has ever produced,” said a tweeted statement from the Special’s official account. “Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… the joy, the pain, the humour, the fight for justice, but mostly the love.”

As the lead singer of the politically and socially conscious Specials, Hall achieved U.K. fame and cult status through songs such as “Ghost Town,” “Gangsters” and “Too Much Too Young.

Terry Hall, the longtime voice of legendary ska group The Specials has died after what the band termed a brief illness. He was 63.

Hall and the Specials reached their widest appeal with the haunting, socially conscious “Ghost Town,” which spent three weeks at No. 1 on the U.K. singles charts in 1981. The song was a commentary on economic strife in Margaret Thatcher’s England and the social unrest of the era, including riots that year in Britain. It was named “Single of the Year” by all three of the major UK music magazines.

The Specials were formed in the late ’70s by songwriter/keyboardist Dammers, vocalist Tim Strickland, guitarist/vocalist Lynval Golding, drummer Silverton Hutchinson and bassist Horace Panter (a.k.a. Sir Horace Gentleman). Strickland was replaced by Hall shortly after the band’s formation. They were at the vanguard of the the 2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s in Britain,...

Terry Hall, lead vocalist of British ska-punk band the Specials, has died at age 63. On Monday, the band released a statement on social media informing fans that the musician had died after a “brief illness,” though more details were not made available.

“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing, following a brief illness, of Terry, our beautiful friend, brother and one of the most brilliant singers, songwriters and lyricists this country has ever produced,” read the statement.

Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest,...

This post contains spoilers for Picard season 2.

When Picard season two found the title character and his crew going back to 2024 after being sent to an alternate universe by Q, fans expected to see some surprising faces. Thus far, the most notable has been a younger Guinan, with Ito Aghayere filling in for Whoopi Goldberg. But some TV fans may have recognized another familiar face in Guinan’s Los Angeles bar, one usually found behind the chaos and not in the center of the action.

Brian Quinn, aka Q of the Impractical Jokers, appears as “Uncle Dale,” a dog walker who arrives to bring home Guinan’s pet Luna. As some observers have noted, this isn’t the first time Quinn has cameoed in a genre show, having shown up in the Syfy series 12 Monkeys and the CBS adventure show MacGyver. Even more interesting is that Quinn’s character...

Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright is a perfect fit for the absurdist antics of art pop’s most elusive duo in this stranger-than-fiction documentary

“They are a band who you can look up on Wikipedia and know nothing!” So says long-term Sparks fan Julia Marcus, just one voice amid a dizzying array of interviewees wrestling with the stranger-than-fiction tale of one of pop’s most influentially indefinable enigmas. Charting a course from experimental American art-rock projects to breakthrough UK chart hits, outlandish film dreams and insanely challenging concert tours (a different album every night!), Edgar Wright’s energetic ode to Ron and Russell Mael marries exhaustively researched archaeology with the sugar-rush thrill of a heady teenage fan letter.

Best of all, it manages both to unpack and preserve the carefully cultivated air of mystery that surrounds the duo, leaving the viewer with a renewed admiration for their century-straddling decades of reinvention,...

If you watch “The Sparks Brothers,” Edgar Wright’s ultimate cult rock documentary about the Greatest Band That Almost No One Has Heard Of, you may find yourself developing a distinct affection for Sparks, the cult duo in question, and liking almost everything about them except, perhaps, for one small insignificant thing.

You’ll like the fact that Sparks — who released their first record in 1971 — have put out 25 albums, consisting of some 345 songs, and that they did it all while remaining more or less under the radar. You’ll like the way that they started off with a glam-rock vibe, then had a computer-rock moment, then went through a disco electronica phase, then an ’80s indie-rock phase, then many other phases.

You’ll like the fact that the band’s two members, Russell Mael and Ron Mael, are brothers who have an otherworldly sense of humor about themselves. You’ll...

The Sparks Brothers, a documentary about a cult band by a brand-name director in Edgar Wright hits big screens this weekend, a felicitous one as New York and LA drop most capacity restrictions in theaters. The film about musician brothers Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks premiered at Sundance this year, notching a 100% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes — all of which could hopefully give the arthouse market some long-term traction through the summer

Roadside Attractions debuts another pedigreed documentary, Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided To Go For It.

The Sparks Brothers, from MRC Non-Fiction, was produced by Wright, Nira Park, George Hencken, and Laura Richardson. It’s a musical odyssey through decades with the brothers and bandmates featuring passionate tributes from Beck, Flea, Jane Wiedlin, Jack Antonoff and Patton Oswalt. It opens on 543 screens in 200 markets.

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Now, this is turning out to be quite the unusual weekend, at the movies (though things are still a bit strange in general as we stumble back a “normal”). Another engaging “show biz” documentary feature debuts the same day as the superb profile of prolific performer Rita Moreno. At some venues, they may actually be playing next to each other, or across the multiplex hallway. While that elegant Egot made a name for herself in music, this other flick delves into the story of a rock band. But they do have another big thing in common: longevity. Ms. M has been performing for 80 years (and in the movies for 73), this duo has been putting out recordings (24 albums so far) for 50 years. Still, they’re considered by some as a “cult” rather than a mainstream act (their legions of devoted rapid fans would vehemently argue this). And somehow scandal has never threatened to split these siblings,...

When Ron and Russell Mael, the two brothers who make up the cult band Sparks, were young, their father would take them to the movies every Saturday. He was a commercial and fine artist who didn’t bother timing these weekly excursions to any showing’s start time, and whatever film they were seeing was usually already playing by the time the family took their seats. Similarly, no matter where you start Edgar Wright’s documentary The Sparks Brothers, it’s like coming into a movie after it’s begun. This is brilliant, but you can’t exactly credit the director. It’s the subject.

According to the documentary, Sparks was the “best British group to ever come out of America.” You can look them up on Wikipedia and learn nothing. Everyone thinks they’re identical twins, but they weren’t even born in the same sunny California town. Sparks...

How can one rock band be successful, underrated, hugely influential, and criminally overlooked all at the same time? Edgar Wright’s debut documentary The Sparks Brothers, which features commentary from celebrity fans Flea, Jane Wiedlin, Beck, Jack Antonoff, Jason Schwartzman, Neil Gaiman, and more, takes audiences on a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers/bandmates Ron and Russell Mael celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band’s favorite band.

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A new trailer for Baby Driver director Edgar Wright's upcoming documentary, The Sparks Brothers, has now been released, and teases what to expect from the much-celebrated filmmaker's exploration of the life and times of the pop and rock duo Sparks. Featuring one-on-one interviews with all manner of different celebrity faces from across the spectrum of entertainment, and marks Wright's first foray into documentary filmmaking.

Interviews are shot in crisp black and white, which only makes the wild visualizations and music videos of Sparks pop out of the screen even more. The official synopsis for The Sparks Brothers reads; "How can one rock band be successful, underrated, hugely influential, and criminally overlooked all at the same time? Edgar Wright's debut documentary The Sparks Brothers, which features commentary from celebrity fans Flea, Jane Wiedlin, Beck, Jack Antonoff, Jason Schwartzman, Neil Gaiman, and more, takes audiences on a musical odyssey through five...

"50 years. 25 albums. 345 songs. Unlimited genius..." Focus Features has unveiled the first trailer for Edgar Wright's first documentary film The Sparks Brothers, an extensive profile of the band known as Sparks. This just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and it also stopped by SXSW and Hot Docs. How can one rock band be successful, underrated, hugely influential, and criminally overlooked all at the same time? Edgar Wright's doc film The Spakrs Brothers, which features commentary from celebrity fans Flea, Jane Wiedlin, Beck, Jack Antonoff, Jason Schwartzman, Neil Gaiman, and more, takes audiences on a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers / bandmates Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band's favorite band. This is a fun doc that covers decades of time, spanning their early years to their latest work (they also wrote the music for Leos Carax's Annette...

Few documentaries exude as much love and care for their subject as Edgar Wright’s first non-fiction film, The Sparks Brothers. Following the overlooked yet hugely influential music duo Ron and Russell Mael, the documentary premiered at Sundance and will arrive this summer via Focus Features, ahead of which the first trailer has landed. Featuring interviews with the brothers themselves and Wright, plus Flea, Jane Wiedlin, Beck, Jack Antonoff, Jason Schwartzman, Neil Gaiman, and more, it’s a great primer before the Sparks-penned Annette arrives later this summer––not to mention Wright’s next narrative film The Last Night in Soho.

Michael Frank said in his Sundance review, “At 135 energizing minutes of gushing interest, there’s no denying the exhaustive nature of Wright’s project. At times, it feels like the film doesn’t skip over any portions of the band’s 50-year career, and it makes one wonder how...

The Go-Go’s have been eligible for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ever since their debut LP, Beauty and the Beat, turned 25 in 2006. But they didn’t even appear on a ballot until this year. “I think there was a lot of misogyny within the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for a long, long time,” lead singer Belinda Carlisle recently told Vulture. “Just by the ratio of men to women in it, that really says it all.”

But once voters were finally given the option of choosing the Go-Go’s this year,...

The Go-Go’s, Foo Fighters, Tina Turner and Jay-Z are among the 16 artists now eligible for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the 2021 ceremony. The complete list was released on Wednesday. Voters will decide the inductees in May for a ceremony to be held this autumn.

An artist first becomes eligible 25 years after a recording is released. Many of this year’s contenders have been eligible far longer than that: Kate Bush, Devo, The Go-Go’s, Iron Maiden, Chaka Khan, Carole King (already inducted as a writer), LL Cool J, New York Dolls, Rage Against the Machine, Todd Rundgren, Tina Turner (already inducted with Ike and Tina Turner group) and Dionne Warwick. First-timers on the ballot also include Mary J. Blige and Fela Kuti.

We asked you in a recent poll which overlooked band was your top choice to finally be inducted. The Go-Go’s won that poll.

How to introduce an entity as mercurial as Sparks, the band that forms the subject of Edgar Wright’s fantastic, fond, fizzy documentary portrait, to those who don’t know them? With over five decades and 25 albums’ worth of music, sibling frontmen Ron and Russell Mael have been virtually the only constant in a group whose lineup has changed with roughly the frequency of iPhone updates, and whose sound pinballs around the pop-musical map, from glam-rock to prog-rock to electro to disco to techno. So maybe, given their fondness for the French New Wave, we’ll just say: one sings, the other doesn’t. Or, as suggested by a great clip of an aghast Shelley Winters on a 1981 talk show: One sings, the other looks a bit like Hitler.

In any case, after the 140 minutes of “The Sparks Brothers” zip by like a tight half-hour, even the previously uninitiated may...

The Go-Go’s are releasing their documentary of the same name this coming winter, featuring interviews with Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine, and Jane Wiedlin. Part of the film focuses on the band’s efforts to write a new song, “Club Zero,” about female empowerment — and they dropped the video for the track Friday.

Directed by Alison Ellwood, the documentary first premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival before airing on Showtime during the summer, when the Covid-19 pandemic made a wide theatrical release out of the question.

Although they’ve never really been seriously considered by official voters, The Go-Go’s are your favorites for 2021 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They received 20% of the vote in our recent poll asking which snubbed band most deserves to be chosen to be inducted. Melissa Etheridge was tops in our separate poll about overlooked female artists. Look out for our poll featuring male artists soon.

The all-female group from the 1980s originally was started by Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, Elissa Bello and Margot Olavarria. Other members who would most likely receive induction would be Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine and Paula Jean Brown. They beat out Duran Duran with 13% and The B-52’s with 11%.

At the delayed 2020 induction ceremony for the Hof, bands Depeche Mode, Doobie Brothers, Nine Inch Nails and T-Rex are finally getting their due.

Here were the 12 bands in our poll with...

Huey Lewis will interview fellow Eighties legend Jane Wiedlin on the next episode of his Apple Music Hits show, ‘80s Radio with Huey Lewis, airing Saturday, October 3rd, at 11 a.m. Et..

Lewis’ conversation with Wiedlin — which is available to hear in part before the full episode premieres — covers an array of topics, starting with the influence that punk had on both the Go-Go’s and Huey Lewis and the News. Lewis noted that his first band, a country-rock outfit called Clover, was managed by Dave Robinson and Jake Riviera,...

Bill & Ted Face the Music is Out Now! Excellent! (Loud screeching guitar solo). And really, the dim time-traveling duo have returned just when we need them the most. Since first making their debut in the 1989 sleeper hit Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, these characters — portrayed with glee by Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves — have become that unique thing: A sci-fi/comedy franchise that somehow is both a cult sensation and a mainstream success. Following the unexpected success of the first film, the sequel Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey was released in the summer of 1991. Fans expecting more of the same were instead treated to a rumination on life and death that featured everything from aliens to evil robot doppelgangers of our leads. But the inventiveness of Bill and Ted creators Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon worked against him, and the film went underappreciated during its original run.

In the nearly...

Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Terry Camilleri, Dan Shor, Tony Steedman, Rod Loomis, Al Leong, Jane Wiedlin, Robert V. Barron, Hal Landon Jr., Bernie Casey | Written by Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon | Directed by Stephen Herek

If you’ve spent time on social media or reading movie-news websites or following the career of Keanu Reeves, then you might be aware that right now, as we speak, there is a third Bill and Ted movie on the way, a movie that brings back Alex Winter and Reeves himself as the air-guitar-shredding, continuously-partying, time-traveling, death-cheating, history-weaving titular legends of the late 80s and early 90s, Bill S. Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan… Wild Stallions. Yup, Bill and Ted are coming back, and there are a lot of us fans who are excited about what that means. It could be an absolute blast.

What this new film also means is that...

The Go-Go’s aren’t in the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. It’s a fact repeated quite a few times in Alison Ellwood’s documentary on the titular band, and “The Go-Go’s” doesn’t just lift the veil on the Los Angeles punk band-turned-pop goddesses but also attempts to cast an eye on the misogyny of a music industry that hasn’t given the band their due. “The Go-Go’s” lit the world on fire, and while Ellwood’s documentary might not do the same thing, it’s a great crash course.

Ellwood’s name, frankly, is worth the Showtime subscription in itself. She helmed the utterly brilliant documentary on the Laurel Canyon music scene for Epix earlier this year, and if you saw that, then it’s hard to avoid comparisons with “The Go-Go’s” despite the fact the two very different musical stylings. Elwood brings...

Ahead of the Friday premiere of a documentary celebrating the Go-Go’s, the band has released “Club Zero,” their first new song in 19 years.

The self-produced song was created via email exchanges between band members and recorded at studios in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

In the closing scene of the Showtime doc The Go-Go’s — premiering tonight, July 31st — the reunited band is shown working on the track, as well as performing “Club Zero” at Los Angeles’ Whisky a Go Go, a one-time stomping ground of the trailblazing all-female rock group.

This review originally ran in January as part of our Sundance Film Festival 2020 coverage.

Even if you’ve seen the footage before, in L.A. punk docs and Vh-1 specials, it’s still thrilling to watch: Five women on stage, their outfits resembling a day-glo mix of thrift-store chic and a temper tantrum’s aftermath, two different kinds of eyeshadow and smeared streaks of rouge fighting for dominance, bashing out crude anthems at the Masque Club. “They played three songs, and two of them were the same song,” one witness remembers about that gig.

Do not ask the Go-Go’s what they thought of their infamous 1997 episode of VH1’s Behind the Music. They did not like it.

“We really were unhappy,” frontwoman Belinda Carlisle says. “It dwelled more on the darker moments and all the negative stuff. We were kind of embarrassed and very, very disappointed.”

“We felt like that representation of us was really salacious,” guitarist and singer Jane Wiedlin says. “But it’s not like VH1 treated us any different than anyone else. I’m 100 percent convinced they had a template: the rise,...

When the Los Angeles based band the Go-Go’s was at the top of the rock world in the 1980s, there were easy labels to describe the five young women who were the first all-female band to play their own instruments, write their own songs and hit No. 1 on the charts.

“They would always describe us as cute, bubbly and effervescent,” lead singer Belinda Carlisle said at theWrap’s studio at Sundance Film Festival, where director Alison Ellwood’s documentary “The Go-Go’s” premiered in January. “It was very superficial and it didn’t describe who we really are.”

“It’s such a ready-made hook,” bassist Kathy Valentine added. “It fits into the general myth of Cinderella and Prince Charming. We were Cinderella and the public was Prince Charming, and they just embraced the myth of this scrappy little band. It fit with the archetypes — the gender boxes, I like to call them.

The Go-Gos’ lips are very unsealed, thankfully, in the documentary named after the band that debuts on Showtime July 31. It’ll be all the reunion that anyone gets for now: a brief summer tour that was announced when the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January is, of course, on hold until Go-Go music can safely make the world dance again. But the film from director Alison Ellwood (“Laurel Canyon”) will be a happy — if occasionally harrowing — occasion for fans of a band that has remained intermittently intact since “We Got the Beat” took the world by storm 40 years ago.

Variety spoke individually with all five members of the group about the film, their place in history and the perennial subject of why they aren’t in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — something Ellwood’s film might finally joyfully cajole certain committees into making happen.

"Gentlemen - I'm here to help with your history report." Studiocanal UK has released an official trailer for the brand new 4K restoration of the 80s comedy time travel classic Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Yes, we're getting a sequel this year finally - Bill & Ted Face the Music - but while we wait for them to figure when this will open, we can revisit the original movie in the best quality yet. Starring Keanu Reeves as Ted Theodore Logan, and Alex Winter as Bill S. Preston Esquire, two high schoolers from San Dimas who end up traveling through time in a phone both. Featuring George Carlin, Terry Camilleri, Dan Shor, Tony Steedman, Rod Loomis, Al Leong, Jane Wiedlin, Robert V. Barron, Clifford David, plus Hal Landon Jr. I love this movie so much! I watched it so many times as a kid. And it's still just as entertaining and...

City on Lock

The new YouTube docuseries follows rap-duo City Girls as they work towards their second LP, City on Lock. Not only do they have to manage the pressures that come with high-profile fame, but Jt serves her prison sentence for credit card fraud while Yung Miami hides her pregnancy from the public out of her fear that people will “limit” her. Despite the group challenges, the teaser highlights Jt’s release and plenty of love from their fans – including one who praises the group for their “bad bitch anthem.

"People would freak out when we played." Showtime has unveiled the first official trailer for another music history, rock doc titled The Go-Go's, a film entirely about the history of the all-women punk band The Go-Go's. It takes a look into the success of the Go-Go's. The Go-Go's were formed in Los Angeles in 1978, but they only hit it big in the 80s. Except for short periods when other musicians joined briefly, the band has had a relatively stable line-up consisting of Charlotte Caffey on lead guitar & keyboards, Belinda Carlisle on vocals, Gina Schock on drums, Kathy Valentine on bass guitar, Jane Wiedlin on rhythm guitar. They were the first, and to date only, all-female band that wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the album charts. The Go-Go's will also release their first new recording in nearly 20 years, "Club Zero," starting on July 31st just...

Music Lodge, held during the Sundance Film Festival, is a venue that hosts the Associated Press Festival Headquarters and features music performances, giving the lodge its motto as “Media is our business, Music is our heritage.” Over its 16-year history, Music Lodge has also strongly focused on annual support for nonprofits.

Kerry Washington Signs Good Vibes Charity Wall

The entertainment industry is known for its generous spirit to aid a global crisis or individual cause. Film casts and celebrities stepped out of their media appointments to sign the Music Lodge Good Vibes Wall in support of their respective charities. Their autographs noted a wide range of heart -felt charities from worldwide issues, humanitarian aid, the arts and personal nonprofits. The wall will be donated to MusiCares and below is a highlight list of the guests who are working to help make our world a better place.

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The meteoric and ruinous rise to fame is more than a movie cliché; it’s a virtual guarantee for just about any artist without his or her head screwed on straight. But “The Go-Go’s” tackles the seminal all-female ’80s rock band with such honesty, openness and effervescence that it not only rises above that clichéd, almost telegraphed arc but transcends the ranks of other music documentaries to offer a story you desperately want to keep watching, even when you already know where it’s going.

It’s fascinating to think of the performers of “Our Lips Are Sealed,” “Head Over Heels” and even their earliest hit “We Got the Beat” as punk rockers, but “The Go-Go’s” reminds audiences of the band’s scrappy origins as a group of young women inspired by the Los Angeles punk scene to start their own band. Though members Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin,...

Some people might come to a Go-Go’s documentary wanting a purely fun, bubbly experience, based on the effervescence the group projected at its breakthrough peak in the early ’80s. Others might want a sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll tell-all, if they’re aware of the tensions and bad habits that led the all-female band to acrimoniously break up in the mid-’80s.

Debauchery, or debutantes — which vision would director Alison Ellwood (“History of the Eagles”) favor for her film, titled “The Go-Go’s”?

As the group and their director stopped by Variety‘s Sundance studio for a video interview Thursday, right before the film’s premiere, it was clear they were happy that pop-punk frolic got its due in the new movie, since the sordid side of things already got a protracted hashing out in a VH1 “Behind the Music” 20 years ago.

“I was really happy...

With filming on the third Bill & Ted film now wrapped, along with new 12″ figures from Blitzway And new 6″ action figures from Incendium on the way, we though we’d take a look back at the modern classic that is Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure!

Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Terry Camilleri, Dan Shor, Tony Steedman, Rod Loomis, Al Leong, Jane Wiedlin, Robert V. Barron, Hal Landon Jr., Bernie Casey | Written by Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon | Directed by Stephen Herek

If you’ve spent time on social media or reading movie-news websites or following the career of Keanu Reeves, then you might be aware that right now, as we speak, there is a third Bill and Ted movie in production, a movie that brings back Alex Winter and Reeves himself as the air-guitar-shredding, continuously-partying, time-traveling, death-cheating, history-weaving titular legends of the late 80s and early 90s, Bill S. Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan…...

1980: Another World's Tracey and Russ married.

1984: Santa Barbara's Joe spotted his true love, Kelly.

1997: Rebecca Herbst debuted as Elizabeth on General Hospital.

2001: Spyder Games' Gretel performed."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."

― Anselm Kiefer

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

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1966: On Dark Shadows, Victoria (Alexandra Moltke) asked David (David Henesy) why he attempted to murder Roger and showed him the bleeder valve. He attacked her and she locked it in a dresser drawer. Later, Victoria went to show the bleeder valve to Elizabeth (Joan Bennett) it was missing.

1980: On Another World,...

1969: Dark Shadows' Laura was stopped by Angelique.

1983: Ryan's Hope's Delia spotted a familiar face in a play.

1994: General Hospital's Bobbie was kicked out by Tony.

2008: All My Children's Greg visited Jenny's grave."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into d ifferent and unexpected images."

― Anselm Kiefer

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1966: On Another World, Bill (Joseph Gallison) joked about Missy (Carol Roux) being an heiress, but Missy wasn't interested in the money she inherited from her mother.

1969: On Dark Shadows, Angelique (Lara Parker) grabbed the hammer and stake away from Laura (Diana Millay), "My name is Angelique,...

Showtime announced Saturday that the network had acquired a feature documentary about The Go-Go’s. The film will premiere late this year.

The Alison Ellwood-directed film features “full access” to the band, along with “candid interviews and archival footage to tell the real story of their meteoric rise to fame and the journeys, triumphs, laughter and struggles along the way,” producers said of the film.

The Go-Go’s posted about the news on social media and with lead singer Belinda Carlisle tweeted that she was “really happy to finally...

A documentary about rock band the Go-Go’s is coming to Showtime.

The premium cable network announced Saturday it has acquired U.S. rights to The Go-Go’s, directed by Alison Ellwood.

Born out of the Los Angeles punk scene, the Go-Go’s shot to the top of the charts in the 1980s. The girl group was made up of Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle (lead vocals), Gina Schock (drums), Kathy Valentine (bass and vocals) and Jane Wiedlin (guitar & vocals).

The band’s 1981 debut album, Beauty and the Beat, featuring the hits Our Lips Are Sealed and We Got the Beat, was one of the most successful debut albums of all time, resulting in a Best New Artist Grammy nomination.

The band granted full access for the documentary feature, Showtime said. The doc will include interviews with members of the...

Showtime is head over heels for The Go-Go’s. The network has acquired the U.S. rights to an upcoming documentary on the iconic all-female rock band, Showtime announced on Saturday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The documentary, aptly titled “The Go-Go’s,” will take an in-depth look at the band’s meteoric rise from the Los Angeles punk and new wave scene of the late ’70s and early ’80s. Alison Ellwood — director of the well-received two-part rock doc “History of the Eagles” that aired in 2013 on Showtime — is attached to direct the project.

The band — Charlotte Caffey and Jane Wiedlin on guitar and vocals, Gina Schock on drums, Kathy Valentine on bass, and lead vocalist Belinda Carlisle — granted “full access” to Ellwood, according to Showtime, with candid interviews offering a look at how they became the first multi-platinum, all-female band to top the charts by writing their...

Head Over Heels, the Broadway musical currently playing at the Hudson Theatre in New York City, is based on a 16th-century prose poem of mistaken identity and jealous lovers that was later turned into a play, The Arcadia. But everyone really knows it as “the Go-Go’s musical” since the upbeat production features all the hits from the pioneering all-female group. It’s one of those meta-mashups that can take some time to get into but, once you do, there’s plenty of fun times to be had while upending the patriarchy.

1980: Another World's Tracey and Russ married.

1984: Santa Barbara's Joe spotted his true love, Kelly.

1997: Rebecca Herbst debuted as Elizabeth on General Hospital.

2001: Spyder Games' Gretel performed."The best prophet of the future is the past."

― Lord Byron

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1966: On Dark Shadows, Victoria (Alexandra Moltke) asked David (David Henesy) why he attempted to murder Roger and showed him the bleeder valve. He attacked her and she locked it in a dresser drawer. Later, Victoria went to show the bleeder valve to Elizabeth (Joan Bennett) it was missing.

1980: On Another World, Russ Matthews (David Bailey) married Tracy Dewitt (Janice Lynde). At...