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Harry Shearer is releasing an album under the moniker of his This Is Spinal Tap character, bassist Derek Smalls. The album, Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing), will…

Actor and writer Harry Shearer has filed a $125 million lawsuit against Vivendi, the parent company of Universal Music Group and Studiocanal, over allegedly fraudulent accounting…

Writing a real song is easy; writing a fake song is hard. The fictional song has undergone something of a renaissance recently, thanks largely to…

Mayeth the greatest rock and roll band of all time tap into America yet again? According to Mr. Nigel Tufnel himself, a.k.a. actor and director…

On June 11, Black Sabbath will issue 13, their first album with Ozzy Osbourne in 35 years, but that unholy day also marks the return…

SPIN has made no secret of its reverence for a certain iconic film currently celebrating its 25th anniversary. Yet for all the accolades, Purple Rain…