The André 3000-starring Jimi Hendrix biopic All Is By My Side is coming out this fall and the official trailer has just been unveiled. While the film doesn’t use any actual Hendrix songs because they couldn’t get the rights to them from his estate, it does make heavy use some generic Hendrix-like guitar riffs and [...]

I'm shocked to see that it has now been a full 20 years since Stevie Ray Vaughan and several others were killed when their helicopter, which they boarded after a sold-out concert, crashed into a hill on Aug. 27, 1990. I first became aware Stevie Ray Vaughan -- like I did with so many other artists -- through watching MTV endlessly throu...

'All Is By My Side' also stars Hayley Atwell and Imogen Poots

After the production-hell delays on biopics about Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix, it is kind of a relief to hear that the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton is right on schedule and has the full support of Ice Cube and Dr. Dre. And now, the film’s main cast has been announced. Ice Cube will be [...]

We learned last year that André 3000 would play Jimi Hendrix in the new biopic All Is By My Side. The movie faces an unfortunate problem: Hendrix’s estate denied the film the rights to use the man’s music. But Hendrix covered a ton of other musicians’ songs, and it looks like the movie, which focuses [...]