Last Friday night, I found myself unexpectedly sucked in by ABC’s broadcast of Nik Wallenda’s tightrope walk across Niagara Falls from America into Canada. At the end of his journey, as part of a made-for-TV stunt within a made-for-TV stunt (I guess that would make it a meta-made-for-TV stunt), Wallenda…

Shape Shifter (Starfaith Records) is the 36th album in 44 years for guitar hero Carlos Santana…and it’s the album I’ve been waiting for. He seemed to be coasting on 2010’s Guitar Heaven where he did up some played-out rock chestnuts by Led Zep, Cream, Ringo, Doors and Purple. And…

Joe Walsh, congressman from Illinois and Tea Party hero, recently made headlines for describing President Obama as a “tyrant.” This was in response to the recent decision by the administration to stop the deportation of undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children.

Regardless of whether one agrees…

Maybe you’ve seen the commercial. It was Best Buy’s Super Bowl ad, but to be honest with you, I had to look that up, because by the time they get around to saying the name of whatever the fuck it is they’re hocking every time I see it, I’m so…

Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present

Monday 9 p.m. (HBO)

Marina Abramović is called the Grandmother Of Performance Art, but she’s not like any grandmother I’ve ever known. In the documentary Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, Abramović shows that she is still committed to messing with our minds…

History lesson, kids.

Ready?

Okay, can you name a single United States attorney general that has not broken some kind of major law in the past, I don’t know, let’s say half century?

I cannot.

Well, there are a few, William B. Saxbe, Griffin Bell, and maybe two other guys.…

As one of heavy metal’s most successful bands of all-time, Iron Maiden has been packing a punch for more than 30 years. Consisting of singer Bruce Dickinson, bassist Steve Harris, drummer Nicko McBrain and guitarists Adrian Smith, Dave Murray and Janick Gers, Iron Maiden has pounded out memorable hits…

Alice Cooper is an American treasure and he knows it. Once the viscous, drunken villain of rock and roll and a threat to the very decency of our moral foundation, Cooper has transformed into the clean and sober fist-pumping defiant champion of our hearts. “I’m lovable,” he says with…

Eric Hutchinson makes albums like guideposts, allowing him to check out where he’s been and where’s he’s going. The 31-year-old singer-songwriter has spent the last three years since his debut studio effort, Sounds Like This, reflecting on his maturation as an artist and life as a rising star, and…

The Copenhagen-native hard rock band Volbeat is a group of musicians not to be trifled with. The band maintains a growing fanbase here in the States with their unrelenting riffs and hooks that stick in your head. At the Orion Music + More Festival this summer, they will play…