Smallwood died at the age of 77 from complications of kidney failure on Tuesday, December 30, 2025.

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Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is now the longest-running No. 1 song in U.S. chart history. The 1994 modern Christmas classic has spent a cumulative 20 weeks atop the Billboard Hot ...

"Walk My Walk," an AI-powered country music song, has topped Billboard’s country digital sales chart. It’s still unclear who’s behind the hit, but the backlash behind the AI mystery is real. An ...

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From The Four Horsemen to The Call Of Ktulu, this is everything you need to know about the six (maybe seven) Metallica songs with Dave Mustaine’s name on them When you purchase through links on our ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...