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Nostalgia is Sega’s newest driving force as they look back from the past and pluck out some beloved classics from the cobwebs and drag them into the present day with the Aaa treatment. The Game Awards 2023 was the perfect event to announce the reboots of five titles with a small teaser but what really stood out and drove fans crazy was Crazy Taxi.

Excitement is an understatement especially if retro gamers and new players alike can share and experience legacy franchises in modern consoles but with the core game still in there, and Sega isn’t slowing down.

Remasters, reboots, and remakes are nothing new but when done right then it is justified. Crazy Taxi made its debut through arcade machines back in 1999 then got ported in superseding home consoles such as the DreamCast, PS2, GameCube, Xbox, and even in the form of handhelds like the PSP and Gba.

If you’ve been online at all over the past two weeks, you’ve heard “Planet of the Bass,” a viral 1990s Eurodance parody that rapidly evolved from TikTok gag to, arguably, the song of the summer. Performed by comedian Kyle Gordon (who co-wrote the tune with TV writer Brooks Allison) and singer-songwriter Chrissi Poland, it purports to be a track from the ambiguously European duo of DJ Crazy Times and Ms. Biljana Electronica. Over infectious synthesizers and an irresistible club beat, the pair delivers nonsensical lyrics (“Life, it never...

Nashville producer Dave Cobb is best known for his work with country icons like Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, and Jason Isbell. But when he was a kid in the Eighties, he listened mostly to hard rock bands like Bad Company, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, and Van Halen. He was 11 when Sammy Hagar took over as lead singer of Van Halen, and their early albums together left a huge impression on him.

“I remember playing drums along to ‘Dreams’ and just freaking out,” Cobb tells Rolling Stone. “I watched [their 1986 concert film] Live Without...

Sammy Hagar and the Circle have teamed up with Nashville producer Dave Cobb for their new LP Crazy Times, which is arriving September 30. Check out the title track right here.

The Circle, which includes Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, drummer Jason Bonham, and guitarist Vic Johnson, has been Hagar’s primary touring band since 2015. Their debut LP Space Between arrived in 2019. Crazy Times marks their first collaboration with Cobb (Chris Stapleton) and features nine new songs and a cover of the 1978 Elvis Costello classic “Pump It Up.”

“Working with Dave...

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Spoilers ahoy, as we dig through the many callbacks and references in World Enough And Time...

This article contains lots and lots of Doctor Who spoilers.

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Pain… Pain… Pain… That’s one of the main emotions I experienced while watching this week’s (rather excellent) Doctor Who, as I knew this weekly round-up of references, similarities and generally interesting ‘stuff’ was going to be a whopper. That doesn’t mean I haven’t missed anything, though, so if you spot something I’ve not mentioned, do the honourable thing and leave it in the comments section below...

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So, Genesis Of The Cybermen, then. In case you missed the episode’s biggest sledgehammer of a reference,...

Iggy Pop and Josh Homme have released the first trailer for their new documentary “American Valhalla,” which showcases their collaboration on Iggy’s latest studio album, “Post Pop Depression,” and the world tour the two embarked on following the release of the album. The punk legend and the Queens Of The Stone Age frontman recorded the album with Homme’s band member Dean Fertita and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders. The documentary takes its name from one of the songs from the album.

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“I became one of those singers whose career is a slave to his band,” Pop says in the clip. “I wanted an emotional escape, so I decided I had to strike out on my own, live and on record, to see what I was worth.”

Homme adds, “So, when [Iggy] texts...

Iggy Pop and Thurston Moore have teamed up to talk music, their careers and jam out together in a new three-part documentary series, “I’ve Nothing But My Name.”

Produced by Rough Trade, the first installment of the “in conversation” docuseries features the iconic punk rocker and former Sonic Youth singer and guitarist at Iggy’s home in Miami. The name of the project stems from Iggy’s song “American Valhalla,” featured on his latest album “Post Pop Depression.”

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The two musicians discuss The Stooges’ experimentation with their sound, their influence on Sonic Youth, and how Iggy once wrote 12 essays on his former sexual partners, which he tried to have published. The video also includes the duo jamming out to Chuck Berry’s famous tune “Johnny B. Good” around the 15:50 mark.

“Mommy’s Box” is director/actor Johnny Greenlaw’s second directorial feat, and will be arriving in theaters this Friday. Before its release, IndieWire has an exclusive clip of the drama which shows a young boy making a promise to his mother. Check out the clip below.

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Greenlaw stars as Nick, a New York music producer who works with young musicians, parties too much and deals with his own demons and chemical dependency. When he gets news that his mentally unstable mother has died, he returns home to Long Island for her wake. As he discovers family secrets and confronts the lingering influence of his late mother, Nick finds a new love and a sense of spirituality he never believed in.

“Mommy’s Box” is co-written by Greenlaw and Caitlin Scherer and co-stars Carly Brooke,...

Some people have a knack for putting themselves at the center of history. Daniel Fields was just a middle-class kid from Queens, but — during the second half of the 20th century — he discovered the Ramones, burned down the Beatles and seemingly had sex with every gay man at Harvard in the early 1960s. He was, to quote John Cameron Mitchell, “Handmaiden to the gods, midwife to some of the most important people in music.”

And Fields will be happy to tell you all about it, recounting his glory days with the bluntness of a grandfather recording his life story for posterity and the candidness of a 75-year-old man who’s remembering it for himself. So why, after 100 minutes of listening to him ramble on about everything he’s seen and everything he’s snorted, do we still have no idea what he actually did? Why, at the end of Brendan Toller...

Stand-up comedian was already the first to sell out the New York City arena three times in one month for the same tour

Louis Ck has added a fourth show at Madison Square Garden — a record, his rep told TheWrap — the stand-up comedian announced via a subscriber email on Saturday.

The star of FX’s “Louie” will now perform at the midtown New York City venue on Jan. 27, in addition to his Jan. 24 gig, and two others that have already happened.

On his current run — even before this new show was added — Ck became the first comedian to sell out...

Ernie Hudson is probably best known for his role as Winston Zeddemore in Ghostbusters, the warden in Oz or his role in his current series, The Secret Life of the American Teenager.

But, he’s been on stage and screen for years also appearing in Las Vegas, Law and Order, Desperate Housewives, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and was on Broadway in last year’s, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.

In his new film, Doonby, he plays Leroy, a blues musician who quits his life on the road to settle down with the woman of his dreams.

He’s a truly talented guy and gave a wonderfully candid interview. We talk about how he got his start, the worst non-acting job he’s ever had, if he still has to audition (and when he does, his tech savvy way around it), his new film Doonby and so much more!