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Most heavy metal fans know that Black Sabbath was deeply inspired by horror cinema early in their career. Hell, even their name comes from the 1963 Italian horror film Black Sabbath, starring Boris Karloff. Now, the band’s legendary bassist, Geezer Butler, is pulling back the curtain and name-dropping some of the specific films that influenced them. Spoiler alert: one movie was so terrifying that the musician had to have a […]

Elliott Smith was one of the most influential and groundbreaking rock artists of all time. What better way to honor the fallen genius than to name an asteroid after him? Edinburgh-based independent filmmaker Orlando Campopiano championed the move, per Stereogum. He got the idea for the tribute one night while looking at the stars and listening to Smith’s song “Shooting Star” from his posthumous album From a Basement on the […]

If you lived through the popularity of the following Millennial anthems with your sanity intact, you deserve a Purple Heart. Or whatever the pop cultural equivalent would be. Because these three songs were as much club bangers as they were utterly confusing. Here, we’re revisiting the singles that hyped us up in an era of hedonistic party anthems and mainstream recession pop hits. “Like a G6” by Far East Movement […]