Before he was Tom Cody in Streets of Fire, Michael Paré was Eddie Wilson, the lead singer of Eddie and The Cruisers in the 1983 movie of the same name.

Anya Taylor-Joy didn’t get the chance to flex her musical chops in Furiosa this past weekend, but she did in 2021’s Last Night in Soho, performing two different cover versions of the Petula Clark classic, “Downtown.”

Maverick, which came out 30 years ago today, featured several cameos from western film actors and country music stars, including Clint Black, whose song “A Good Run of Bad Luck” appeared on the movie’s soundtrack.

Along with composing the score for Wolfgang Petersen’s 2004 historical epic Troy, James Horner also worked with Josh Groban for the movie’s end credits song, “Remember.”

Ninja Kamui wrapped up its first season on Adult Swim/Toonami this past weekend, and if you’ve been keeping up with all the ninja action, you heard “Vengeance” by Coldrain every week during the opening title sequence. 

Dua Lipa’s new album Radical Optimism is out this week, which seems like a good time to throwback to the song she did for Alita: Battle Angel in 2019, “Swan Song.” 

Considered the worst movie in Denzel Washington’s illustrious career, Denzel was paired with Bob Hoskins for the 1990 comedy Heart Condition, which featured the song “Have a Heart” from Bonnie Raitt on the soundtrack.

The 2009 Bruce Willis movie Surrogates wrapped up its android murder mystery with the Breaking Benjamin song, “I Will Not Bow”, which also got a Surrogates-heavy music video.

Along with starring in movies like An American Werewolf in London and being Dr. Pepper’s spokesperson, David Naughton scored a Billboard hit in 1979 with “Makin It”.

The Matrix celebrated its 25th anniversary this past weekend and everyone remembers how the movie ends on “Wake Up” by Rage Against the Machine.

One of the things that the recently released Road House remake is missing is a house band in the vein of the Double Deuce’s band, which was The Jeff Healey Band.