Bun E. Carlos' drumming introduced some of Cheap Trick's biggest hits; his sticks were the first sound audiences heard on "I Want You to Want Me" and "Ain't That a Shame," among others. Now six years...

If you have any interest in a sequel to "Independence Day," you'll likely not be disappointed by the improbably enjoyable "Independence Day: Resurgence ." It's silly, light-as-air popcorn...

  Last fall Hogarth Press published the first in a series of novels by contemporary writers reimagining Shakespeare's plays on the 400th anniversary of his death. So far we've had Jeanette...

Longtime environmentalist Neil Young takes a hybrid approach on "Earth," a double disc compilation of live tracks loosely related to sharing our planet with the animal kingdom. The sounds of...

There's a secret about children that Steven Spielberg, Melissa Mathison and Roald Dahl have always known - that no matter how innocent, kids are as capable of understanding darkness as adults, and...

Michael Schulman shares delightfully entertaining stories surrounding Meryl Streep's early rise to stardom in "Her Again." The book describes Streep's reign as homecoming queen in her suburban...

On her fourth solo album "Undercurrent," Sarah Jarosz doubles down on understated elegance. Not that anything she's ever done could be described as rowdy. But in her first release since...

The feature debut of writer-directors Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan doesn't really know what it wants to be. There's a running theme of farts and erections, but also one of loneliness and...

Readers who missed Brady Hartsfield in the second book in Stephen King's trilogy about a psychotic killer will be delighted to know he's alive - but definitely not well - in "End of Watch." Don't...

Anthony D'Amato's work has been compared to Bruce Springsteen, Simon & Garfunkel and early Bob Dylan, and while those are lofty invocations - and there's really only one early Dylan - the...