After serving as an associate editor at NavPress’ Discipleship Journal and consulting editor for Current Thoughts and Trends, Adam now oversees the editing and publishing of Plugged In’s reviews as the site’s director. He and his wife, Jennifer, have three children. In their free time, the Holzes enjoy playing games, a variety of musical instruments, swimming and … watching movies.
Given 2010’s resurgence of ’90s grunge bands, it was probably inevitable that the members of Stone Temple Pilots patched up their differences and got back together.
Video games have always been about life and death, digitally speaking. When I was growing up, losing your digital life was pretty straightforward: fail to dodge Donkey Kong’s barrel, and Mario bites it. Game over. We still have video games, of course, …
So, American Idol fans, how is Season 9 going for you? I confess, though I once watched almost every week and often voted, I’m just finding it hard to care much this year. Why, you ask? Well, to tell you the truth, I’m not really sure. It’s not that th …
This week brought news of another celebrity’s premature death. Corey Haim, one of the teen stars of 1987’s vampire flick The Lost Boys, died March 10 in California at the age of 38. Published reports have speculated about the role prescription medicati …
Remember Me marks Robert Pattinson’s first non-Twilight role since that franchise catapulted his career into the stratosphere. What can fans expect to find in this gritty drama about love, loss and acceptance?
You can think of Final Fantasy as an experimental rock ‘n’ roll band that has an identifiable backbeat but plays around with a different vibe on every album. So what exactly does the latest sound like?
Demon Hunter is on the prowl again with two new guitarists. Has the personnel change impacted the band’s bluntly prophetic metalcore message?
“Little White Church” delivers a put-upon woman’s old-school country ultimatum: Make an honest woman out of me, or we’re done.
My wife and I subscribe to Entertainment Weekly. And this week when the magazine showed up in our mailbox, the image smiling at me from the cover was enough to make me blurt out “AHHHHH” and jump back into the street. What was it, you ask? It was Johnn …
Kris Allen and Adam Lambert may have gotten most of the press on American Idol’s eighth season. But third-place finisher Danny Gokey’s upbeat country debut deserves equal (if not more) attention.
What happens when Poison’s frontman invites Disney superstar Miley Cyrus to join him on a song about two people taking their clothes off? Isn’t that a rhetorical question?
Lifehouse burst onto the scene with a loud clang in 2001, but subsequent releases have been more mellow—and haven’t sold as well. So is the L.A. band returning to its rockin’ roots?
In his first chart-topping U.S. track, English R&B crooner Taio Cruz makes no bones about his self-serving ways. And in doing so, he’d have you believe he’s being … romantic.
Last week, Parade magazine published Internet-exclusive outtakes from an interview with enduring pop icon Elton John. In it, the English singer talked about, well, just about everything: love, drugs, fame, commitment, friendship, HIV and … Jesus. “I th …
Cedric the Entertainer stars in this unlikely—and not-so-sanitary—comedic mash-up of The Bourne Supremacy and M:i:III.
