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When a friend calls, Dave Grohl answers. And when that particular friend is Josh Homme, calling to ask him to make an appearance at the Josh Homme & Friends benefit concert, the Foo Fighters frontman jumped straight into rehearsal mode. Grohl’s process started with pulling up the lyrics to Doja Cat’s rebellious single “Paint the Town Red” and concluded with him penning a completely new song specifically for Homme. “I spent a couple of days trying to figure out like, ‘What the fuck am I gonna play?’” Grohl…

A new children’s science book about Tesla and EVs, Everything Tesla: From How They Work To How Fast They Go And All The Fun In Between!, launches today, written by twin 9th graders Aiden and Eliana Miao, and targeted at kids between the ages of 8 and 13. Aiden and Eliana are from Palo Alto, California and spent the last 4 years assembling the impressive tome, which was originally going to be 20 pages long but swelled to over 200 pages as they researched and wanted to add more to the book. The authors…

You probably don’t know his face or his voice. But you definitely know his music. Max Martin, the Swedish genius behind so many hits from the past 25 years, has always been an elusive figure, remaining behind the scenes. He refuses to become any kind of celebrity. Yet he has helped create so many classics, including some on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs list: Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” (which comes in at 357) and the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want it That Way” (240). He’s written or co-written 26 Number One hits,…

Steve Harley was many things, but a man crippled by modesty was not among them.In his first big music press interview – before the appearance of Cockney Rebel’s debut album, when all they had released was a solitary single that featured a 40-piece orchestra, which had failed to make the UK charts – he proclaimed his band “a musical force that others will follow” and pitted himself squarely against the biggest names in British pop. Cockney Rebel, he suggested, would kick David Bowie “up the arse”: “he’ll say ‘I’ve got to…

It’s said that artists are painstakingly dedicated to their craft, so I have no other option than to take off my imaginary hat for the pilot that toiled for six hours to draw a penis with the word “see ya” in the sky. Huzzah!Dave Bautista Opens Up About His Relationship With Denis VilleneuveThe NSFW art was created by a pilot flying a Diamond DA 42 plane and spotted by FlightRadar24, an online flight tracking service. According to FlightRadar24, the plane took off at 8:47 p.m. on Saturday night and landed at 2:47 a.m. on…

In her new memoir, Burn Book, Kara Swisher cites a 2014 profile that dubbed her “Silicon Valley’s Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist.” She might prefer to downplay the first and emphasize the second. Some people would switch that around. But there is no dispute about Swisher’s impact: When it comes to tech punditry, she’s at the top of the heap.No tech journalist has built a bigger brand for herself. Her three-decade career is a study in hard work and uncommon confidence. She rose from being a reporter at The…

Dua Lipa has been hard at work on her follow-up to Future Nostalgia and the singer told Jimmy Kimmel last night that she wrote nearly 100 songs for the LP. She also admitted to the late-night host that she penned all of the songs in a notebook she bought at CVS. “Its got every single song I’ve written for this album,” Dua explained to Kimmel of the notebook, which she brought with her to Jimmy Kimmel Live. “I wrote 97 songs… And only because I have this . It’s now become this relic of mine, in a way.” She…

Karol G entered her acting era with Griselda — and she’s slaying in it. In a new interview with TheWrap, Griselda director Andrés Baiz revealed that the singer was so good in her part as Carla — Griselda’s confidante and a sex worker who helped the drug lord smuggle product to the U.S. — that they wrote her more lines. “We actually started writing more for her because she was doing so great,” Baiz said. “She brought a lot of authenticity to her character. is from Medellín, so the way she speaks, the way she…

Almost two decades ago, I went to a medical conference to learn about treatment options for my son’s ulcerative colitis. His doctor described an incident involving a non-speaking autistic teenage patient, who everyone assumed couldn’t understand anything. His parents were mystified and frustrated because his repetitive behaviours, including screaming and hitting his head against the wall, were out of control. As they were telling the doctor that his teachers were sure this was a purely behavioural issue, the boy grabbed…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeArgylle director Matthew Vaughn has denied that Taylor Swift is the mysterious author whose book inspired his new spy thriller.The forthcoming Apple TV+ film, which stars Henry Cavill as the titular spy, is based on a manuscript written by pseudonymous author “Elly Conway”. Elly Conway is also the name of the film’s protagonist, played by Bryce Dallas Howard.The film rights to the…