Ubisoft premiered a new animated trailer for their upcoming game title Assassin's Creed Unity during a demo/Q&A at Comic-Con Friday The gory clip was created by an appropriate duo of darkness metal mainstay/horror filmmaker Rob Zombie and The Walking Dead co-creator Tony Moore Game Never Over 10 Most Addictive Video Games The clip functions...

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This week Blackberry Smoke released the scorching double-live album and DVD Leave a Scar Live in North Carolina but it looks like Smoke fans won't have to wait long to hear new music from the Southern rockers Singer-guitarist Charlie Starr tells Rolling Stone Country the band just wrapped sessions on...

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Perhaps the biggest surprise at this year's Comic-Con is that Community has a panel there The acclaimed series was toiling on death row a month ago after NBC cancelled the Dan Harmon-created comedy and a deal to resurrect the show with Hulu and Netflix fell through However Yahoo! stepped in...

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It's pretty much beyond dispute that Step Brothers is one of the funniest movies of the 21st century and this past week it got a shout out from Kanye West and became the focus of our new column Be Kind Rewind "Any arguments about Step Brothers would fizzle if the movie wasn't...

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Chicago is the new Dublin… and then some Garth Brooks has added six more shows to his September run in the Windy City making for a total of ten concerts at Allstate Arena spread out between September 4-6 and September 11-14 Tickets went on sale Friday at 1000 am CT for...

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In July 1985 while on stage in Philadelphia for Live Aid the massive global benefit concert for famine relief in Ethiopia Bob Dylan remarked that family farmers in the US could use some help too The comment spurred fellow music superstars Willie Nelson Neil Young and John Mellencamp into action...

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As the founder of Young Money Entertainment Lil Wayne has proven he can put together a roster Drake and Nicki Minaj both won Rookie of the Year honors Tyga provides speed off the bench and Lil Twist fills the ridiculous hair requirement Lil Wayne Return of the Hip-Hop King In fact while...

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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Beastie Boys' celebrated second record Paul's Boutique the current owner of the New York City storefront on the album cover will sport a mural paying tribute to the group Beginning at 11 am on July 26th artist Danielle Mastrion will be painting the...

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Chicken and dumplings and the Secret Sisters please The Secret Sisters Bob Dylan Conspire on 'Dirty Lie' — Song Premiere The singing siblings will release a deluxe edition of their acclaimed new album Put Your Needle Down in all Cracker Barrel Old Country Store locations and online on August 4th The disc...

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July 27th marks the 30th anniversary of Prince's Academy Award-winning rock musical Purple Rain Celebrate with this exclusive excerpt from Chapter 5 of Alan Light's upcoming Let's Go Crazy Prince and the Making of Purple Rain out December 2014 Pre-order the book here "The shooting was mostly frantic" recalls Prince tour...

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Today marks the 31st anniversary of Metallica's debut album Kill 'Em All but guitarist Kirk Hammett will be celebrating his pre-Kill 'Em All life by jamming with his first band Exodus at his "Fear FestEvil After Party" tonight at the San Diego Comic-Con International The gig is an extension of...

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"Are you kidding me man?!" composer Angelo Badalamenti howls jokingly when Rolling Stone asks him what he thought of Twin Peaks the TV series he scored in the early Nineties "It was really off the wall I thought it was either going to sink violently down the drain or hopefully...

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The massive "Weird Al" Yankovic cult knew it was only a matter of time until the rest of the world joined their ranks but few people could have foreseen what happened this past week when his new album Mandatory Fun became the first Number One comedy album on the Billboard...

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As Florida Georgia Line hunker down in Nashville to finish the follow-up to their double platinum debut Here's to the Good Times Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley have finally found some time to look back on their meteoric rise as country music's hottest duo In the process they've found inspiration...

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There are few topics that get baseball fans more riled up than the question of who should (or should not) be in the Hall of Fame People tend to take that shit extremely personally as if denying your pet case for induction a plaque in Cooperstown — or giving one...

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When it came to offering deep and hilarious insights into his life and career the Dude most certainly abided in his recent Reddit AMA Promoting the upcoming film adaptation of The Giver Jeff Bridges opened up on a variety of interesting topics – including his favorite scene from The Big Lebowski and that one...

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Andy Samberg is setting aside his badge and picking up a racket The Brooklyn Nine-Nine star is set to play a "superstar tennis bad boy" in a new HBO comedy event focused on a seven-day Wimbledon showdown According to The Hollywood Reporter the one-off mockumentary titled 7 Days in Hell will find...

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With lyrical metaphors of churning weather cycles Zac Brown Band allude to the evolution of heartbreak in an unfolding relationship that was "all right but now all wrong" in the single "All Alright" from The Grohl Sessions Vol 1 Readers' Poll Best Songs of 2014 So Far In the song's new video...

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Last month George RR Martin started a Prizeo campaign to benefit Santa Fe's Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary offering two $20000 donors the chance to be written into (and killed off from) an upcoming Song of Ice and Fire book An anonymous female and Facebook employee Dave Goldblatt claimed the two spots but as the...

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Hot town "scummer" in the city — Peter Travers is back once again to count down the worst movies of the month and July was particularly rife with garbage Our trusty critic says he could've tossed 25 movies into the Scum Bucket but he's gracious enough to leave us with...

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In honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman's final film A Most Wanted Man hitting theaters today we are reprinting David Browne's cover story on the actor's final days from our February 27th issue  Slouched in the front row of the labyrinth Theater Company's performance space in New York's West Village last May Philip Seymour...

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It was a night of jokes red Solo cups and Number One hits when Dierks Bentley sat down with a group of songwriters for an informal concert filmed by PBS for its superlative concert program Front and Center The performance also helped mark the 10th year of the Country Music...

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Back in 1999 two upstart comedians Rachel Dratch and Tina Fey "accidentally" booked the same stage at Chicago's legendary Second City So they decided to share the spotlight performing their shows simultaneously Dratch delivered a one-woman play about the obscure (possibly fictional) women's rights pioneer Edwina Garth Burnham; and Fey...

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New duo Maddie & Tae all but cut purveyors of bro country off at the knees with their debut single "Girl in a Country Song" The tongue-in-cheek hip-shaker transparently references decidedly non-feminist lyrics from artists like Florida Georgia Line Jason Aldean Billy Currington and Blake Shelton When Rolling Stone Country...

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In 2008 ticket sales at the Newport Folk Festival had become so slow that founder George Wein was considering selling the 50-year-old event where Dylan went electric in 1965 That's when Jay Sweet – a journalist and music supervisor for filmmakers the Farrelly Brothers – wrote an 18-page proposal asking for...