Hear Tenacious D’s previously-unreleased cover of REO Speedwagon’s Keep On Loving You, from the new Good Music To Lift Los ...

Tenacious D covers REO Speedwagon’s 1980 classic “Keep on Loving You” as part of “Good Music to Lift Los Angeles,” a new ...

The group went on hiatus last year after member Kyle Gass joked about an assassination attempt on then-candidate Donald Trump ...

"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed screenwriter best known for his “Harlem trilogy” consisting of the films “New Jack City” (1991), “Sugar Hill” and “Above the Rim” (both 1994), died Wednesday of ...

While at The Village Voice, he wrote a piece titled “Teddy Riley’s New Jack Swing: Harlem Gangsters Raise a Genius” in 1987 that coined the name of a new hybrid of R&B and rap. He moved to ...

a writer who penned the screenplay for New Jack City and reportedly coined the phrase “New Jack Swing,” has died. Barry Michael Cooper’s other works include writings in The Village Voice and ...

Hollywood writer and producer Barry Michael Cooper, who scripted a string of beloved 1990s movies, has died in Baltimore at the age of 66. Cooper helped pen the screenplay of the iconic 1991 crime ...

The piece, titled “Teddy Riley’s New Jack Swing: Harlem Gangsters Raise a Genius,” captured a star on his meteoric rise to the top but also coined the term “new jack swing” that defined ...