Anthony Guidera, the American actor who built a steady career across some of the biggest films of the 1990s, has died at the age of 61. He passed away on June 6, 2026.
Born October 18, 1964 in San Francisco, Guidera landed his first role as a bodyguard in ‘The Godfather Part III’ in 1990. From there he became a familiar presence in major studio productions, with appearances in ‘Species’, ‘The Rock’, ‘The Postman’ and ‘Armageddon’.
His television work ran just as wide. Guidera guest starred in series including Renegade, Baywatch, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Angel, moving easily between action, drama and genre fare across a career that spanned from 1990 to 2005.
One of his most memorable moments came in 1996, when he and co-star Natasha Henstridge won the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss for ‘Species’. The honor placed him alongside a roster of pop-culture moments that defined the era’s biggest ceremonies.
Guidera leaves behind a body of work that put him in the orbit of some of the decade’s most enduring films. He was 61.
A basement bar at last call sets the scene for the first taste of Very Old Morris’ new record. The project shared “Ladies’ Darts Night,” the lead single from the forthcoming album ‘Boogedy Boogedy Boogedy Shoop’, out October 2 on vinyl, cassette and digital platforms. Very Old Morris is the solo project of San Antonio-based singer-songwriter Jerid Reed Morris of The Texases, featuring members of Sub Pop act Rose Windows.
The album lands as an irreverent love letter to ’90s radio country, the likes of Garth, George, and Alan, filtered through a contemporary alt-country lens. Recorded at Jett Bass Studios in Windcrest, Texas, it pairs pedal steel and fiddle with raucous guitars and surprise mariachis. Morris’ lean vocals dovetail with Jordan Bryant’s dulcet timbre and the band’s dense harmonies, cutting through the twang with something closer to dream-pop transcendence.
The lyrics swing between deadpan absurdity and emotional devastation. Opener “Howdy Arabia” plays out as a surrealist Western, “That’s No Way To Act” dissects modern masculinity over Gin Blossoms jangle, and closer “Long Oval” stops everything cold for a father-son reckoning about inheritance and forgiveness that earns its tears honestly.
The record also folds in two covers, Iron & Wine and Calexico’s “Sixteen, Maybe Less” rebuilt as a haunted his-and-hers duet with Bryant, and The Smashing Pumpkins’ “Thirty-Three” reborn as a banjo-driven two-stepper with a mariachi payoff. The eight originals carry the heart of it, a literate, hilarious, formula-subversive country record that sends up the genre’s greatest decade with real affection. Morris is just old enough to desecrate it properly, and the result sounds like nothing else out right now.
Four of the year’s most beloved songs get pulled back to their bones. Holly Humberstone released ‘It’s A Real Cruel World’, a strikingly intimate EP that reimagines four standout tracks from her critically acclaimed second album ‘Cruel World’. The collection offers a fresh perspective on the originals, with new versions of “White Noise,” “Red Chevy,” “Cruel World” and “To Love Somebody.” Listen here.
The EP arrives during a landmark stretch for the British singer-songwriter. She’s delivered striking performances on “Later… with Jools Holland,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” plus an appearance on the season one finale of “SNL UK.” In April, she released ‘Cruel World’ via Interscope Records, a record that has amassed over 83 million streams to date.
The album captures the tension between pain and pleasure, where chaos and acceptance sit side by side. Humberstone built a dark fairytale world of her own making, where childhood relics, monsters and memory collide, and her lucid storytelling carries it all. The stripped-back EP lets that songwriting breathe in its quietest form.
She’s taking the live show back on the road for a run of North American dates, with support from Diva Smith and Leyla Ebrahimi. The Cruel World North American Tour kicks off in June, with festival stops at Bonnaroo, Governors Ball, Summerfest and All Things Go Toronto, plus headline shows at venues like Los Angeles’ The Fonda Theatre, Boston’s Paradise Rock Club, DC’s 9:30 Club, Chicago’s The Vic Theatre, Minneapolis’ Varsity Theater and San Francisco’s The Fillmore. After the headline run, she supports Gracie Abrams at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles this December.
It’s a gorgeous, vulnerable companion piece that proves these songs hold up under any light.
A long white dress, a 40-year wait, and a roar that shook the Kia Forum. Rush opened their Fifty Something Tour in Los Angeles on June 7, their first show in 11 years, and the night delivered a moment fans had never seen live: Aimee Mann walked out to sing her parts on “Time Stand Still,” the 1987 single she recorded with the band but had never performed with them onstage until now. Mann sang her ethereal part on the choruses, marking their first live performance of the song together, 40 years after she sang on the studio version. Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson anchored the reunion, with German drummer Anika Nilles filling the chair once held by the late Neil Peart and Loren Gold handling keys, the band weaving multiple Peart tributes through a three-hour, 22-song set.
A church classroom where kids learned to speak in tongues sits at the heart of Stephen Wilson Jr.’s newest song. The Indiana-born, Nashville-based rising star released “Preacher’s Kid” today, the follow-up to his single “Gary,” currently sitting in the Top 40 on Billboard’s Country Airplay Chart. The new track digs into small-town memory and faith, drawn from a true story about exorcisms before lunch and a crying youth pastor who once preached an impending Armageddon.
Wilson Jr. wrapped real autobiography around the song, describing a world where the worldly was forbidden and a small town could feel like a world within a world. His writing turns the underbelly of a complicated upbringing into compelling storytelling, broken and conflicted in the way he says we all are.
The momentum keeps building. Last month he took home his first ACM Award for Visual Media of the Year for the video for “Cuckoo,” co-directed with longtime collaborator Tim Cofield. Their ninth collaboration arrived this year with the video for “Gary,” starring award-winning actor Gary Sinise. Wilson Jr. premiered that single with a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, then carried it to This Past Weekend with Theo Von and The Howard Stern Show.
The road ahead is packed. Wilson Jr. plays Railbird Music Festival this weekend before returning to Nashville for a CMA Fest performance at Nissan Stadium. His headline Gary The Torch Tour runs through the US and Europe, alongside stops on the Outlaw Music Festival, a Dave Matthews Band support slot at the Gorge on September 4, and three nights backing Brandi Carlile at Red Rocks. The run closes with two Nashville shows at The Truth on December 11 and 12.
It’s a vivid, fearless single from a writer who keeps mining his own history for songs that hit deep.
2026 Tour Dates:
6/6 – Lexington, KY – Railbird Music Festival
6/7 – Nashville, TN – CMA Fest (LP Field)
6/20 – San Diego, CA – KSON Countryfest
6/26 – Chelmsford, UK – State Fayre
6/30 – Dublin, IE – Summer Series
7/3 – Irving, TX – Outlaw Music Festival
7/4 – Austin, TX – Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic
7/5 – Woodlands, TX – Outlaw Music Festival
7/10 – St. Paul, MN – Minnesota Yacht Club Festival
7/11 – Winnipeg, MB – Winnipeg Folk Festival
7/17 – Spokane, WA – BECU Live at Northern Quest
7/18 – Whitefish, MT – Under the Big Sky Festival
7/23 – Floyd, VA – FloydFest
7/24 – Virginia Beach, VA – The Dome by Rutter Mills
7/25 – Baltimore, MD – Pier Six Pavilion
8/7 – St. Augustine, FL – St. Augustine Amphitheatre
8/8 – Raleigh, NC – Red Hat Amphitheater
8/18 – Maryland Heights, MO – Outlaw Music Festival
8/21 – East Troy, WI – Outlaw Music Festival
8/22 – Clarkston, MI – Outlaw Music Festival
8/23 – Noblesville, IN – Outlaw Music Festival
8/25 – Tinley Park, IL – Outlaw Music Festival
8/28 – Wantagh, NY – Outlaw Music Festival
8/29 – Bethel, NY – Outlaw Music Festival
8/30 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Outlaw Music Festival
9/4 – George, WA – Gorge Amphitheatre (supporting Dave Matthews Band)
9/6 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
9/11–9/13 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre (supporting Brandi Carlile)
9/17 – Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre
9/18 – Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre SOLD OUT
9/19 – Portland, OR – McMenamins Grand Lodge (Concerts in the Grove)
9/22 – Nampa, ID – Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater
9/24 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic
9/29 – Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial Theatre
10/15 – Belfast, UK – SSE Arena
10/17 – Sligo, IE – Sligo Live Festival
10/19 – Glasgow, UK – O2 Academy Glasgow SOLD OUT
10/20 – Glasgow, UK – O2 Academy Glasgow
10/22 – London, UK – O2 Academy Brixton
10/23 – Bristol, UK – The Prospect Building
10/25 – Manchester, UK – O2 Victoria Warehouse
10/27 – Paris, FR – Le Trianon
10/29 – Zurich, CH – Volkshaus
10/30 – Cologne, DE – Theater am Tanzbrunnen
11/1 – Utrecht, NL – TivoliVredenburg (Ronda)
11/3 – Copenhagen, DK – VEGA
11/4 – Stockholm, SE – Fållan
11/5 – Oslo, NO – Sentrum Scene
11/20–11/22 – St. Petersburg, FL – St. Pete Country Fest
11/21 – Birmingham, AL – Avondale Brewing Company SOLD OUT
12/2 – Pittsburgh, PA – Citizens Live at The Wylie
12/9 – Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy
12/11 – Nashville, TN – The Truth SOLD OUT
12/12 – Nashville, TN – The Truth
1/20–23 – Cancun, MX – Dave & Tim Riviera Maya 2027
A cultural revolution caught on tape, raging across a Dutch festival field. A high-definition recording captures Brazilian metal titans Sepultura at the legendary Pinkpop Festival in Landgraaf, Netherlands in 1996, during one of the most explosive periods of their career. Their album ‘Roots’ had landed just months earlier, its fusion of thrash, groove metal, and indigenous Brazilian tribal rhythms sending shockwaves through the metal world. The most revered lineup, brothers Max and Igor Cavalera alongside Andreas Kisser and Paulo Jr., stood at the absolute peak of its creative and commercial power. The setlist tears through their most iconic material, from the earth-shaking groove of “Roots Bloody Roots” to the anthemic fury of “Refuse/Resist,” commanding the massive crowd with unrelenting force. The footage carries real historical weight, documenting the final tour of the original lineup before Max Cavalera’s departure later that year, the end of an era preserved for anyone who wants to see one of the 90s’ most important metal acts at full power.
A field recording of a sleeping dog helped finish one of the most quietly moving tracks on Jason Calhoun’s new record. The Philadelphia-based artist and composer announced ‘Revelations of Divine Love’ today, out August 7 on Dear Life Records. It’s his fifth release for the label, and the 14 tracks whirr, hum, and glow in shorter form than his recent work, trading extended hypnotic compositions for concise pieces that catch a fleeting moment and hold it close. Listen here.
Two singles introduce the project. “Tolstoy Tatsoi” works with abstracted, gestural melody unmoored from traditional rhythm, a tapping pulse Calhoun describes as disjointed yet in place, like tapping your foot to a song in your head while the radio plays something else. He calls it a leaky faucet syncopation that mirrors real-time thought.
The second single, “At Home,” came together when Calhoun’s dog and partner wandered into his studio and fell asleep on the floor. He recorded them snoring. Having recently moved, he was sitting with the joy of a new space, and their presence in the room helped complete the piece.
The album title nods to the British anchoress Julian of Norwich, whose collected writing of the same name is the earliest known work in English written by a woman. Calhoun returns to her famous line that all shall be well, then sits honestly with his own doubt about it, looking for small revelations in a partner asleep on the floor, surviving a conversation with a stranger, being bad at chess.
Away from the studio, Calhoun works at an oncology center, doing routine but necessary work to help provide treatment for those who need it. That sense of care runs through his music too, and ‘Revelations of Divine Love’ offers company as much as sound. It’s a deeply human record built from texture, tentative melody, and an open heart.
The closest thing to hearing Freddie Mercury live heads to Niagara Falls this fall. One Vision of Queen featuring Marc Martel returns to the Avalon Theatre on Thursday, October 1, bringing one of the world’s most spectacular Queen tribute shows to the Fallsview stage. Born in Montreal, Martel has built a global reputation on a vocal resemblance to Mercury so striking it stops people cold.
His voice carried into the 2018 Academy Award-winning film ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, lending Mercury’s iconic sound to one of the biggest music movies of its era. Even Queen drummer Roger Taylor has marveled at it, saying you close your eyes and think it’s Freddie, calling the resemblance uncanny.
The show runs through the catalog Queen fans know by heart, with powerful vocals and an electrifying stage presence carrying every song. It’s a night built for anyone who ever wanted to stand in a room and feel those anthems land again.
Setlist Highlights:
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“We Will Rock You”
“We Are The Champions”
“Another One Bites The Dust”
“Under Pressure”
“Somebody To Love”
“Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
Show Details:
Date: Thursday, October 1, 2026
Showtime: 8:30pm
Venue: Avalon Theatre
Tickets are on sale Friday, June 12 at 10:00am through ticketmaster.ca
Toronto becomes the centre of the universe (again) this June. Paul Wells brings his Road Show to the reborn Hugh’s Room on Broadview Avenue on Saturday, June 20, three months after his sold-out Vancouver show. Canada’s biggest political Substack lands in Canada’s biggest city for an evening built around a single thread, Toronto itself.
Wells started staging these live events in 2023 as a way to thank subscribers and bring his audiences together, political junkies, music fans, and people who’d rather listen than shout. Every Ottawa Holiday Show and the first Vancouver Road Show has sold out. With Hugh’s Room holding a modest 200, tickets should move fast.
The night pulls together politics, media, and the arts. Wells sits down with Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow to talk about the challenges facing the city, followed by a panel featuring Mark Carney’s former chief of staff Marco Mendicino, former top Conservative staffer Jason Lietaer, and Toronto Star editor-in-chief Nicole MacIntyre.
The arts side runs pretty wide, too. Wells talks with playwright Michael Healey, whose plays ‘Rogers v. Rogers’ and ‘The Master Plan’ ran at nearby Crow’s Theatre. Rapper Cadence Weapon appears fresh off his new album ‘Forager’ and a new book, ‘Ways of Listening’, published under his given name Rollie Pemberton. Wells also introduces Milton singer-songwriter Gavin McLeod, a young talent worth watching.
Cameco serves as Presenting Sponsor for the evening. It’s a relaxed community hall with a glorious history, and the kind of room where a city gets to talk about itself.
Show Details:
Date: Saturday, June 20, 2026
Doors: 7:00pm
Show: 8:00pm
Venue: Hugh’s Room, 296 Broadview Ave, Toronto
Tickets are on sale now, $60 in advance and $67 at the door
25 years of gaming get a hardware tribute built for the people who lived through it. Xbox revealed its 25th Anniversary Collection on June 7, headlined by the Series X25 Limited Edition console and the Controller X25 Special Edition. The console draws on one of the most iconic designs in Xbox history, reimagined for the Series X with the full power of a modern machine, and arrives November 2026. The controller packs 25 years into every detail, with a see-through back case and battery door revealing the classic Xbox logo, original-color ABXY buttons, and a green Xbox button that nods to the first green “X.” It lands October 2026.
