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  • NewsKen Tucker

    ‘Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll’: Personality Crisis

    Arriving for its second season Thursday night, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll is placed against a new rock-music-TV landscape. How did they do?

  • NewsKen Tucker

    ‘Roadies’: Long May You Run?

    Roadies is creator-director-writer Cameron Crowe’s love letter to rock music, a Showtime series premiering Sunday night that wants to summon up everything he felt for the music he used to cover as a Rolling Stone journalist back in the 1970s.

  • NewsKen Tucker

    'Vinyl' Season Finale Review: Can This Show Be Saved?

    Vinyl wrapped up its first season Sunday night on HBO with a spray-painted rave-up that attempted to psych out the viewing audience, to convince us that this series has the sound and vision that will leave us wanting to see next season’s grand plan for the advent of late-1970s punk and disco. The tenth-episode finale was written by the show’s co-creator and show-runner Terence Winter, and was his swan song, since he and HBO have parted ways for next season. Beginning to the strains of The Coun

  • NewsKen Tucker

    'Girls' Review: Lena Dunham Makes The Girls Grow Up

    Girls: Lena Dunham Makes The Girls Grow Up Girls was such a pop-culture phenomenon when it premiered in 2012—the subject of hundreds, thousands of think-pieces about this new, millennial-minded approach to television-making—that it was sometimes hard to experience it for what it was: a sitcom about some pals and their friends and lovers. In the fifth-season HBO premiere, we get Girls with a bracing clarity: creator Lena Dunham goes for more laughs, more tender moments, and we don’t have to alway

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    Vinyl Renewed for Season 2 at HBO

    Who says rock is dead? HBO has renewed its vintage music drama Vinyl for a second season, the cabler announced Thursday. The season order is surprising, given that Sunday’s two-hour premiere drew a paltry 764,000 viewers. How do you feel about Vinyl’s quick renewal? Hit the comments!

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    Binge Guide: 5 Great Rockumentaries to Stream Before 'Vinyl'

    Boasting the participation of legendary rocker Mick Jagger, as well as venerated New Yorker (and well-known rock buff) Martin Scorsese, the new HBO music drama Vinyl promises a mostly authentic depiction of the ‘70s NYC music scene from two of the men who lived through it. When he’s not making major motion pictures like The Wolf of Wall Street and Shutter Island, Scorsese has devoted his time to chronicling the lives and careers of some of America’s most famous musicians. Sadly, none of those

  • NewsKen Tucker

    'Vinyl' Review: You Can't Always Get What You Want

    Music has always been an animating energy in the cinema of Martin Scorsese, and he is of the age (he’s now 73) to have grown up alongside the evolution of rock & roll. This gives his new HBO series Vinyl, premiering Sunday, the weight of birthright: He can claim this music—from Chuck Berry on through to punk, disco, and rap-which-became-hiphop—as art experienced first-hand, up-close and personal, and has made artful use of it starting with his first major film, 1973’s Mean Streets. Vinyl tells