Will Smith, “Based on a True Story.” It doesn’t take so much as one bar to get a sense of direction for Will Smith’s return to music with Based on a True Story, the rapper’s first release in more than two decades. The opening track reunites Smith with DJ Jazzy…

The Nightmare Before Christmas. Welcome to Week 3 of Halloween Month. As I’m writing this well in advance, something I desperately try to avoid given the breakneck 2020 news cycle, I don’t know what horrors I should probably be addressing. I’m assuming someone important is dead, for example, and…

Jaden and Willow Smith perform at The Warfield in San Francisco on Dec. 10, 2019. Photos: Joaquin Cabello. SAN FRANCISCO — Jaden and Willow Smith, the artist offspring of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, played at The Warfield Tuesday on the penultimate night of the month-long WILLOW and ERYS Tour.…

Behind the scenes secrets of “Top Gun;” there was no room in the jet for Kenny Loggins. There was a time long ago when every movie was legally required to have an original pop song on the soundtrack to release as a single.[Citation Needed] Very few of the songs…