"To me, Jackhammer's could have been the tryouts for Woodstock '99 ... this has Ozzfest written all over it. This is '90s as f***." — Fanboys
Odlid!, the cross-genre rock band from the Quad Cities that was fronted by The Rock Father (James Zahn) from 1994-1998 got an unexpected boost this week thanks to a featured slot on the Fanboys...
America is in trouble.
As I type this, it's Sunday night, capping off an exceptionally violent weekend from coast to coast. I may be hyper-aware of it because here in Illinois, Chicago has largely reverted to the "Adventures in Babysitting Chicago" of the mid-1980s: a dirty, scary place where you don't want to take your kids. And it, like much...
Political humor is a time-honored tradition that seems to have taken a little bit of a dip in recent years, particularly because the American public seems to have gone pretty soft. As skin gets thinner, I think it's time for me to remind everyone yet again of a fact that I last pointed out back in June of 2017...
Anthony Vincent of Ten Second Songs recently popped-up in a cameo on the Netflix Original Series, The Good Cop (starring Josh Groban and Tony Danza), but that's not why he disappeared for a month. No, he was working toward the release of his newest video, Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" in 42 Styles. Featuring impressions on how the Queen classic would've been performed by the likes of Ozzy...
If you happened to catch the season premiere of Saturday Night Live, you may have seen Kylo Ren Adam Driver as a middle-aged dad getting his first taste of the massively-popular FORTNITE. Playing alongside a pair of 15-year-olds (Pete Davidson and Kyle Mooney), Driver proudly alerts the others that his 11-year-old son loves the game, but it's his first...
Kevin Hart is a busy man, and some might even say that he's "irresponsible." In fact, he'd be one of those people, and today he's announced the expansion of his "widely successful and massively hysterical" 'The Kevin Hart Irresponsible Tour,' adding over 100 new dates across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia. Produced by Live Nation, the new dates will kick off March 23 in Baltimore, MD and hit all new cities...
This afternoon, I sat-in on a discussion about the growing number of Stand-Up Specials that will be rolling out on Netflix in the coming year. Hannibal Buress, John Mulaney and Patton Oswalt threw down some thoughts on working with Netflix on their latest specials - Oswalt largely equating the readily-available library as being like "albums on a shelf" -...
Those who know me are usually aware of my dislike for door-to-door solicitors and telemarketers. They're scummy professions in my eyes (don't call my cell, don't ring my bell - maybe I should trademark that!), so I love it when there's an opportunity to fight back... with a little humor, of course. On December 4, Metal Blade Records will...
In THE FLUFFY MOVIE, comedian GABRIEL IGLESIAS (currently seen on ABC's CRISTELA) performs his hilarious stand-up act in one of the fluffiest movies ever made. Sporting one of his iconic Hawaiian shirts, Gabriel Iglesias traveled the nation in his “Unity Through Laughter” tour and didn’t fail to entertain with jokes about food, weight loss, his trip to India, and...
Funny enough, I've been doing my annual 31 Days of Halloween here on THE ROCK FATHER for eighteen days now, and today of all days, I didn't have an entry scheduled. While I may have goofed, the internet Gods shined upon me this evening with an out-of-the-darkness email from a rep for Chicago band, COMMON SHINER, pointing me in...
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