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Outstanding Indie covers of 80s hit singles you must listen to now!

For decades, bands have taken old favorites and transformed them into something new for the modern age. Cover songs are often enjoyed by listeners as they stir up feelings of nostalgia. It is always interesting when bands swap musical genres in their cover songs, and below, we have a list of indie bands who have covered popular songs from the 80s. In 2015, indie-rock band The Wind and the Wave released an album of covers simply titled Covers One, featuring excellent remakes of several familiar...
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Walking Dead's Norman Reedus cites this beloved late actor as inspiration at the beginning of his acting career

Actor Norman Reedus began his on-screen career starring in the 1997 releases of Floating, Mimic, and Six Ways to Sunday. These roles led to several other roles in the 90s, including one of his best-known characters, Murphy MacManus, in the cult classic The Boondock Saints. Reedus has often credited other actors as inspiration, and recently, he gave a shout-out to a beloved and greatly missed actor who died way too young. Criterion Collection features a long list of incredible actors and creativ...
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Walking Dead actor who was an 80s heartthrob appears in season 2 of 1923

Taylor Sheridan's 1923 premiered in 2022 to rave reviews. The series is a sequel to 1883 and a prequel to Yellowstone. The story focuses on generations of the Dutton family and the hardships they faced to become successful Montana ranchers of the Yellowstone Ranch. The series' second season premiered in February 2025, and a familiar face from The Walking Dead is featured. The Dutton series of shows is created by Sheridan, and the success has earned him quite a name in the world of Westerns. Yel...
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Has AMC announced the premiere date for The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2?

AMC has created a series of shows set in The Walking Dead universe that continues stories of fan -favorite characters like Daryl Dixon and Carol Peletier. One such spinoff titled Dead City features the on going stories of the unlikely pairing of Maggie and Negan. The series is set to premiere its second season in 2025, has AMC announced the premiere date? When the announcement that a Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) spinoff was in the works, fans thought it seemed an absurd...
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Who is the youngest inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

During the virtual 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, 32-year-old Ilan Rubin, drummer of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails (NIИ), set a record as the youngest living inductee. Before Rubin was inducted, Stevie Wonder held the record at 38 when he was inducted in 1989. Rubin also set records as the first Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee born in the 1980s and born after the HOF was established. The San Diego native is well known for his work in (NIИ) and several other bands, includin...
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Walking Dead's Seth Gilliam cast in new paranormal thriller, Stakeout

Fans of The Walking Dead were thrilled to see Seth Gilliam reprise his role as Father Gabriel in The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live. Gabriel was featured in flashback scenes with Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh), which fleshed out their relationship. Now, Deadline reports that Gilliam has secured his next role in a paranormal thriller, Stakeout. The new movie is from director Micah Kahn and is adapted from his short film, which he produced with Natalie Stavola, Katrina Kearns (I Feel Fine), Victoria...
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The Walking Dead: Dead City storyline viewers dread may play out in season 2

Fans are eager to see what the second season of the Maggie and Negan spinoff, The Walking Dead: Dead City, will bring. The trailers and opening minutes reveal a lot of action, which will see Maggie and Negan, once again, on opposite sides. But the trailer also gives hints that the duo could team up before the season ends. Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) are two characters that seemed impossible to pair up in a spinoff. Maggie's undying hatred toward the man who brutally bea...
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Did Dead City's The Croat appear in The Walking Dead series?

The Walking Dead: Dead City will return to AMC and AMC+ beginning May 4. The series' second season looks full of excitement as things heat up in the battle for Manhattan. Several characters will return in season 2, including The Croat, a former Savior portrayed by Željko Ivanek. Was the Croat featured in the main series? Dead City greatly expands The Walking Dead universe by moving the setting of this story to the streets of post-apcalyptic Manhattan. Here, viewers were reintroduced to Maggie (L...
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AMC's Shudder gearing up for its Halfway to Halloween programing beginning April 1

Shudder is your home for horror, thriller, and supernatural content, many of which are Shudder exclusives. This year the streamer is prepared for a very scary Halfway to Halloween event with many original movies and some old favorites as well. The streamer has a long list of new horror filled movies to celebrate the halfway point to many horror fans favorite holiday, Halloween. The event includes new movies, watch parties and a new season of The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs. Watch Parties E...
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Watch Jeffrey Dean Morgan in new horror, now streaming on Shudder

Jeffrey Dean Morgan will return to AMC in a reprisal of his role as Negan in AMC's The Walking Dead: Dead City in May. But, until that time, fans can watch him in his latest project, a campy, gory, slasher horror movie, Bloody Axe Wound. The movie written and directed by Matthew John Lawrence who is best known for his horror-comedy Uncle Peckerhead. Lawrence, Morgan and his wife Hilarie Burton Morgan, produced the film along with Mary Stuart Masterson, Liz DeCesare O’Leary, Jordan Manekin Topper...
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How and when does Nick Clark die in Fear the Walking Dead?

Fear the Walking Dead is the first spinoff of The Walking Dead, which premiered on AMC in 2015. This series was established as a companion to the main series, which is set on the West Coast of the United States. Fear TWD began at the onset of the outbreak and followed the Clark/Manawa family and others as they tried to grasp what was happening as the dead began to rise. One of the fan-favorite characters was Nick Clark, portrayed by Frank Dillane, who didn't survive the entire series. How did he...
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AMC drops official trailer for The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2 and you want to watch this!

The Walking Dead: Dead City is one of many spinoffs of AMC's apocalyptic series The Walking Dead. This series is the first direct spinoff that serves as a sequel to the main series, which aired on AMC for eleven seasons and concluded in 2022. Dead City continues the story of long-time enemies Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). AMC recently released the official trailer for the upcoming second installment of the show, which premieres on AMC and AMC+ beginning May 4. (watch it...
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Walking Dead actor Ross Marquand's latest project, Descendent premieres at SXSW

Actor Ross Marquand is well known for his roles as Aaron in The Walking Dead and Red Skull and Ultron in various Marvel projects. Next, Marquand will star as the lead in Peter Cilella's feature directorial debut, Descendent. The film, which was also written by Cilelle, premiered at the 2025 SXSW event on March 10. Arianne Fraser, Delphine Perrier, Henry Winterstern, and Mark Ward serve as executive producers, with David Lawson Jr, Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, and Caleb Ward producing. The stor...
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The Walking Dead: Dead City - shocking trailer features Maggie holding Lucille

Fans of Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Negan are excited to see the former villain and leader of the Saviors back, clad in leather and welding a new version of Lucille in the season 2 trailer for The Walking Dead: Dead City. This time, his barbed wire-wrapped bat gives quite a shock! In the final scenes of season 1 of Dead City, Negan was blackmailed into joining the likes of The Dama (Lisa Emery) and The Croat (Željko Ivanek) in taking over the island of Manhattan. But the new trailer (below) showcase...
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The Walking Dead: 5 times Rick Grimes made viewers angry with his decision making

Characters from AMC's Walking Dead series oftentimes made decisions that had viewers rolling their eyes or screaming at their screens. As the survivors' leader, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) made many decisions, some good, some bad, and many that left viewers angry. Despite his mistakes, Rick was a fan-favorite character whose departure from the series in season 9 was a significant blow. Luckily, fans saw him return in The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live limited spinoff series. There is no arguin...
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Fear the Walking Dead actress's new horror premiered at SXSW secures May release on Shudder

SXSW 2025 has generated a ton of incredible new moves, including many horror and thriller titles. Watch out for Clown in a Cornfield, Drop, Good Boy, and The Surrender, which premieres on Shudder on May. The Surrender is the feature directorial debut of Julia Max who drew inspiration for the film from a personal experience with losing her stepdad. Executive producers include Susan Gelb, Adam Maffei, and Rob Massar (Peak Season), with Brenden Rodriguez and Daniel Schwab co-producing and KW Campo...
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Netflix's new The Electric State soundtrack features songs from The Clash, Danzig and more

Netflix's latest adventure movie, The Electric State, stars Millie Bobby Brown of Stranger Things and Chris Pratt of Guardians of the Galaxy. The story is set in an alternate version of the 1990s, a world vastly different from the real version of that decade. The setting may differ, but the music is still the same, and this soundtrack features some great ones. The story is based on Simon Stålenhag's graphic novel and follows Michelle (Brown), an orphan searching for her brother Christopher (Wood...
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This Walking Dead spinoff has a new streaming home on Netflix, beginning March 17

AMC Networks has done an incredible job in the creation of several spinoffs of The Walking Dead. The TV universe is based on the comic written by Robert Kirkman and consists of the flagship series and six spinoffs, with more to come, as teased by TWD Chief Content Officer Scott M. Gimple. in 2025, AMC will release new seasons of two of its most popular series, The Walking Dead: Dead City and The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. These series are direct sequels to the main series which concluded in Nov....
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Walking Dead's Ryan Hurst joins Jon Bernthal and Samantha Morton in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey

The Hollywood Reporter has announced that actor Ryan Hurst has secured his next role in award-winning director Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Hurst joins previously announced fellow Walking Dead actors Jon Bernthal, Corey Hawkins, and Samantha Morton.The film is written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan who is known for Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight Rises. The Odyssey is described as a mythical action movie that is based on the Greek poem by Homer. This film will be Nolan's most e...
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Who wrote The Walking Dead comics?

The Walking Dead series premiered on AMC in 2010 and aired for eleven seasons, inspiring the creation of several spinoffs. The series is based on The Walking Dead comic, which was first published in 2003 and consists of 193 issues. The comic was written and created by Robert Kirkman, who executive produced and wrote for the series. Tony Moore served as the artist for the first six issues and cover artist for the first 24; after that, Charlie Adlard provided the art for the remainder of the issue...
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Walking Dead's Lew Temple to star in new true crime horror thriller, Ed Kemper, first look photos and trailer

Actor Lew Temple is known for his many roles within the horror genre, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006), Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007), and Devil's Rejects (2005). Recently, Temple appeared in the season premiere of the fourth season of Righteous Gemstones and will next appear in the true crime horror Ed Kemper. Ed Kemper hails from Epic Pictures' specialty horror label Dread and was directed by Chad Ferrin (Pig Killer, H.P. Lovecraft’s The Old Ones). Ferrin co-wrote th...
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Watch new Netflix original The Electric State featuring the voice work of this Fear the Walking Dead actor

Netflix releases its latest sci-fi adventure film, The Electric State, on March 15. Starring Stranger Things and Enola Holmes actress Millie Bobby Brown with Guardians of the Galaxy actor Chris Pratt and features the voice talents of Fear the Walking Dead's Colman Domingo and many more. The film, based on Simon Stålenhag's graphic novel, is directed by the Russo brothers, Anthony and Joe, and was written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. The group previously worked together on Marvel's...
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The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2 - Maggie returns to Manhattan

At the end of The Walking Dead: Dead City season 1, Maggie (Lauren Cohan) vows to finish things with Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as a way of reconnecting with her son Hershel (Logan Kim). But things don't always go as planned in an apocalypse, and the teaser trailers for the upcoming season show Maggie returning to Manhattan. The Walking Dead: Dead City will return to AMC and AMC+ beginning May 4. The eight-part season will feature Maggie's return to Manhattan and Negan's return to his Savior ro...
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Who is Enver Gjokaj that portrayed Pete Dolgen in The Walking Dead?

Pete Dolgen (Enver Gjokaj) and his brother Mitch (Kirk Acevedo) are introduced in season 4 of The Walking Dead. They are part of a group of survivors led by Martinez (Jose Pablo Cantillo), the former second in command at Woodbury, a community led by the Governor (David Morrisey). In season 4 of The Walking Dead, the Governor returns in a flashback to what happened to him after the fall of Woodbury. After burning the town to the ground, he spends many months wondering and eventually encounters s...
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