You may remember that last year for Record Store Day, Father/Daughter Records put out Faux Real, a compilation of punk and indie bands covering fictional TV and movie bands. RSD rejected the idea of ...

The script of Empire Records is a shared language for ‘90s kids who dreamed of growing up to work in a store as anarchist and exciting as the small-town music mecca in the film. The 1995 comedy didn’t ...

Happy Rex Manning Day? Prepare to feel old, guys, because the cult classic Empire Records turns 20 this year. While it hardly holds a candle to Clerks, in my opinion, it's still an viable window into ...

For our generation — a shoulder demographic between Generation X and the millennials — this was one of our movies, a film that managed, however oddly, to capture the ineffable feeling of being a ...

Empire Records debuted in theaters 30 years ago. The film, directed by Allan Moyle, follows a group of teens who work at an indie record store called Empire Records. It chronicles one day in the group ...

It's the role that put her on the map It’s a happy coincidence that Renée Zellweger’s birthday falls in the same month as Rex Manning Day on April 8 – a celebration honoring the character and faux pop ...

There has always been something unintentionally ironic about the anthemic cry of “Damn the man! Save the Empire!” from 1995 cult classic film, “Empire Records.” What greater example of “the man” than ...