In this video from our Oscar showcase The Contenders, Whiplash stars Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons talk about their own surprisingly substantial music backgrounds and how that helped shape ...

J.K. Simmons, thankfully, seems very different from his Whiplash character emotionally, but he does have some other crucial ...

Music instruction and combat are rarely linked in movies, and particularly not in the singularly riveting way they come together in Whiplash (**** out four; rated R; opening Friday nationwide). The ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: All we could do was laugh. We had to dig deep to find the right laugh that would hide tears and express incredulity all at once. Our world, our craft, had just been dealt ...

“Whiplash” is headed to Beverly Hills. In celebration of the film’s 10th anniversary, “Whiplash: In Concert,” conducted by Oscar-winning composer Justin Hurwitz, will debut on Nov. 9 and 10 in Beverly ...

In Whiplash, Miles Teller plays Andrew, an obsessive music conservatory student in New York who practices drumming until his hands bleed. Throughout the critically praised film, now in theaters, ...

Jobi Riccio thinks of herself as an outsider — not quite fitting into the bubbles around country music or indie rock, but certainly borrowing liberally from both in her highly personal songwriting.

Chandler Bing once imitated the sound of sitting on a couch in the Central Perk cafe: Wah-pah! That is exactly the sound you'll hear in Whiplash, Damien Chazelle's 2014 movie that has acquired the sta ...