“This Is Spinal Tap,” a parody music documentary that lampooned rock-star grandiosity, rankled some bands when it came out in 1984. Viewers were certain that the movie was targeting Black Sabbath or ...

The band is back, with legendary mock rock icons Spinal Tap — Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer), fresh off his solo parody hit ...

Initially drawing from real life, the director Rob Reiner and his cast found that actual bands experienced moments from their work. By Robert Ito When “This Is Spinal Tap” premiered in 1984, many ...

Members of the indie rock band The Rose in 'The Rose: Come Back to Me' Photo by Richard Hama/Courtesy of 'The Rose: Come Back to Me' EXCLUSIVE: CJ 4DPLEX has acquired worldwide rights to The Rose: ...

While rock history is filled with endlessly mysterious tales, one decades-long puzzle involving Paul McCartney was finally solved last year...and now the full story will be told at last in a new ...

Peter Smokler was a camera operator on the famed rock documentary “Gimme Shelter,” about a 1969 Rolling Stones concert where a man was stabbed to death. Despite his experience in the genre, Smokler ...

In 1986, filmmaker Tony Gayton, then a recent graduate of the University of Southern California, took his camera into the ...