The Central Coast has been home to a number of creative spirits, including the Ernie Ball guitar company with its manufacturing facility in San Luis Obispo. Ernie Ball had a talented designer, Dudley ...

The groundbreaking 1984 mockumentary comedy This Is Spinal Tap chronicles the proverbial death rattle of the eponymous fictional heavy metal band with such keen attention to detail and human behavior ...

I’m a minute into my interview with Spinal Tap and I’ve already angered vocalist David St. Hubbins. Sitting down with the rock trio, which includes lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel and bassist Derek Smalls ...

Turn your TV sets up to 11, because the Spinal Tap sequel, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, opens in theaters this weekend. And that makes this week the perfect time to rewatch the first Spinal Tap ...

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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues revisits the subjects of 1984's This Is Spinal Tap for a reunion concert. The long-in-the-works sequel reunites director Rob Reiner with stars Christopher Guest, ...

Spinal Tap, the fictional British heavy metal band, continues to resonate with audiences today after debuting in This Is Spinal Tap, the 1984 mockumentary directed by Rob Reiner. Presented as a rock ...

More than 40 years ago, Rob Reiner made his feature directorial debut with ‘This is Spinal Tap,’ a faux documentary – or a mockumentary – about the final American tour of an aging, dysfunctional, and ...

Spinal Tap II (which arrives in theaters on September 12) also concerns itself with last things. As the movie (again directed by Reiner) begins, Spinal Tap the band—ultra-English, ultra-deluded as to ...