Jesse Singer articles

In 1967, Jimi Hendrix was already melting minds in London—but in the U.S., mainstream crowds didn’t quite know what to do with him yet. So when he signed on to open for The Monkees, America’s most teen-screaming pop phenomenon, it was a mismatch from the jump.

Some missed the invite. Some were never invited. Some declined. Some didn’t realize it’d be history. Here are the bands that absolutely should have headlined Woodstock—but didn’t.

There have been many good one-liner comedians from Henny Youngman to Jimmy Car. But to our mind there have been no two greater masters of the genre then Steven Wright and Mitch Hedberg. And these lines are some of the reasons why...

Every once in a while, someone comes along who feels like a glitch in the universe—and Jason Becker was that kid. He played faster, cleaner, and more musically than guitarists twice his age. He was on track to rewrite guitar history…until everything changed, and he suddenly found himself unable to play the instrument that defined his life.

Spotify Wrapped is fun…until it exposes exactly who you really are at 2 a.m. It’s playful, colorful, and brutally honest. And the truth it reveals? Let’s just say people suddenly 'can’t believe' their own stats the moment right before they hit share.

Some stars seem untouchable…until they suddenly aren’t. Over the years, many huge celebrities have found themselves one bad decision away from serious jail time. Here are the wildest close calls.

Rock and roll has given us some amazingly poetic, profound and perfect lyrics…but it's also provided us with lyrics so clumsy they feel like they were scribbled on a napkin in the studio parking lot seconds before recording—and then they lost the napkin, panicked, and recorded whatever words they could remember. These aren’t cute or cheesy—they’re genuinely bad, confusing, awkward, or unintentionally hilarious...

Michael Jace became known to millions as Julien Lowe—the soft-spoken, religious, morally anchored officer who often served as the conscience of The Shield. But behind the scenes, his life was unraveling—and in 2014, everything collapsed in the most tragic and irreversible way.

Steven Spielberg is often called the greatest director of all time…but is he really? Some outshine him in style, others in boldness, others in pure artistic ambition. So yes—we’re taking a side on this one.