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Still not entirely well, but you knew that.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, July 05, 2023 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS: "Here Comes My Girl."

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Sweeping Promises, Joanna Sternberg and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has The Baseball Project, Grian Chatten, and more.BONUS: Faves of 2023 (So far).

RICHARD SWIFT, remembered by six of his collaborators.

PAUL McCARTNEY “blames” Bruce Springsteen for increasingly long stage times.

HIPGNOSIS: The designers who changed the record sleeve forever.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream," the pinnacle of a moment of gleaming, hyper-processed big-money pop music.

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Indiana Jones and the Dial Destiny tops the chart with 60MM over three days (82MM over five days), at the low end of projections and a disastrous result for the finale to a historically beloved franchise.  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse placed with 11.5MM on a 35 percent drop over the three-day weekend over Elemental with 11.3MM, but over the five-day period Elemental edges Spidey by 17.9MM to 17.8MM.

ALAN ARKIN, an Oscar-winning actor for “Little Miss Sunshine” with a body of work that spans seven decades of stage and screen acting, died June 29 at his home in Carlsbad, Calif,  He was 89.  Give me "The In-Laws."

JONATHAN MAJORS was abusive with his partners, aggressive on sets, and a source of "toxicity" at Yale, two dozen sources tell Rolling Stone.

TOM CRUISE, on Oppenheimer vs Barbie.

BARBIE: Banned in Vietnam.

AFTER BARBIE, Mattel Is Raiding Its Entire Toybox.

DIVERSITY FATIGUE? Hollywood Loses 4 DEI Leaders in Less Than 2 Weeks.

STANLEY TUCCI, on playing gay roles.

JOHN WOO reflects on a career driven by action, ambition, and artistry.

JOHN WICK 5? Maybe Not.

 

A LARGE SHARK at the beach for the Fourth. What say you, Police Chief Brody?

A LAB CHIMP sees the sky for the first time.

MAINE WOMAN punches a bear that chased her dog.

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Sit down, John.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, June 30, 2023 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE FOURTH of JULY WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE BEACH BOYS!  It's time to "Do It Again."  Because folks my age will always remember their mammoth July 4th concerts at the Washington Monument -- as with this 1980 take o­n "Good Vibrations."  Their "Lost Concert" from 1964 includes "Fun, Fun, Fun," "Long, Tall Texan," "Little Deuce Coupe," "Surfer Girl," "Surfin' USA," "Shut Down," "In My Room," "Papa Ooh Mow Mow," and "Hawaii." Their take on "Dance, Dance, Dance" from Shindig! later that year is like a slice of Christmas in July.  There's also a nifty twofer of "I Get Around" and "'When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)" from their first UK TV appearance o­n Ready Steady Go!  The Andy Williams Show serves up "Help Me, Rhonda," while The Jack Benny Hour produced these quick takes o­n "Barbara Ann" and "California Girls."  There's a primitive video for "Wouldn't It Be Nice" that starts with a cameo from Brian Wilson's dogs (Banana and Louie), who appear at the end of the Pet Sounds LP.  And I'll finish with a live version of "God Only Knows" from the 1967 European tour -- one of the last Brian would do for a decade or so.  BONUS: Part 1 and Part 2 of the epic Political Beats podcasts covering the entirety of the Beach Boys' catalog.

RAY CHARLES performs "America The Beautiful" like no one else.

INDEPENDENCE DAY: Bruce Springsteen, circa 1978, before it came out on The River.

AMERICAN MUSIC: The Violent Femmes, circa 1992.

DAVE ALVIN: Hey, baby, it's the "4th of July."

JAMES LILEKS: Truth.

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER: As performed by Jimi Hendrix, Whitney Houston, Smokey Robinson, members of the Grateful Dead, and Umphrey’s McGee.

 

BLUR shares “St. Charles Square.”

THE CLIENTELE shares "Claire’s Not Real."

THE FOLK IMPLOSION returns with "Natural One."

JALEN NGODA shares "Come Around and Love Me." Hell yeah.

GORILLA vs BEAR's faves of 2023 (So Far).

BELLE & SEBASTIAN's Stuart Murdoch: ‘Songs tumble out like dreams - you can't control them.'

AMERICAN FOOTBALL: Against the odds, Indie legends.

THE BEST ALBUMS of 2023 (So Far), according to Variety.

 

MADONNA is not out of the woods after being hospitalized for a serious bacterial infection.

DUNE: PART 2 has a trailer online.

MEGXIT: Harry and Meghan were asked to move their remaining possessions out of their UK home close to Windsor Castle.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE didn't really understand mother, despite sleeping with the director.

WES ANDERSON is OK with this IG.

KEVIN COSTNER does not think child support includes plastic surgery.

THE TOP 10 TV SHOWS of 2023 (So Far), according to Variety.

TRACKING: It's a way to July 21, but Barbie is looking to make 70-80MM, while Oppenheimer looks to make 40MM.

 

TWIGGY: Another Fourth of July tradition, the water-skiing squirrel. She's retired, but it remains a great story. Compelling and rich.

SHARING a watermelon.

A CAT and a horse.

HAPPY to see her wheels.

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It's Smokey!   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, June 29, 2023 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

ROGER McGUINN performs "King of the Hill" -- a song about "Papa" John Phillips -- for Carson.

JESS WILLIAMSON plays World Cafe.

THE BREEDERS: Hear the previously unreleased "Go Man Go."

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN: Hear a live take on “Sometimes Always,” with Isobel Campbell filling in for Hope Sandoval.

FALL OUT BOY updated the lyrics for Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire."  I'm not making you click.

MADONNA was found unresponsive and rushed to a New York City hospital Saturday.

BRYCE DESSNER talks The National and Taylor Swift.

WHY NICK DRAKE enchants every new generation.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Katy Perry and Snoop Dogg's precision-engineered pop earworm "California Gurls."

 

SCORSESE, SPIELBERG & PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON will be helping out at TCM.

PETE DAVIDSON is in rehab after struggling with borderline personality disorder and PTSD.

MEGXIT: Meghan and Harry's trainwreck podcast career.

BARBIE: Mattel's CEO jumped on a plane to argue with Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig about an "off-brand" scene.

FUTURAMA has a trailer online.

RETRIBUTION: Taken meets Speed.

MONICA BELLUCCI & TIM BURTON are an item.

JULIAN SANDS, 65, was confirmed dead after remains were found in the California mountains.

 

PUPPIES, meeting kittens.

CARACAL Ear Flicks.

AN ELEPHANT with swagger.

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Blame Canada!   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, June 28, 2023 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE NASHVILLE TEENS, with a stompin' cover of "Tobacco Road."

MUNA plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE shares "Defeat."

BLONDE REDHEAD returns with "Melody Experiment."

SHERYL CROW, singing her hits, and playing an accordion on rollerblades.

JENNY LEWIS, on dating in her 40s, and much more.

SIMPLE MINDS: The Story Behind Empires and Dance.

FRANKIE VALLI got married at age 89.

 

FILM & TV PROFITS have collapsed over the last decade.

A-LISTERS are urging SAG not to settle for a deal that doesn’t represent all of their demands.

RACHEL BROSNAHAN & DAVID CORENSWET are Lois & Clark in Superman: Legacy.

MARVEL'S SECRET INVASION may be a secret even to D+ subscribers.

WHEEL OF FORTUNE will be hosted by Ryan Seacrest.

PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE, profiled by Vanity Fair.

THE IDOL is ending a week early.

 

CATS & DOGS, living together...

WHISKEY loves the piano.

A MAMA CAT fixes the bed after the kitten messes it up.

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Almost human.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE KINKS: "Last of the Steam Powered Trains" and "Picture Book," circa 1969, from the album The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, for Twofer Tuesday.

ANDY SCHAUF plays WFUV Live.

STEELY DAN: Hear "The Second Arrangement" - erased in a studio mishap in 1979 but later discovered on a cassette tape belonging to the late Roger Nichols.

ALLAH-LAS shares "The Stuff."

RICK ASTLEY, on playing a secret set of Smiths covers at Glastonbury.

AMANDA SHIRES talks up her album with Bobbie Nelson at Variety.

THE TOP 25 ALBUMS of 2023 (So Far), according to Alternative Press.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Eminem's sobriety anthem, "Not Afraid."

 

JAMES GUNN sounds off on a glut of lazy superhero movies.

SUPERMAN: LEGACY has been screen testing pairs of Loises and Clarks.

WES ANDERSON claims his next film is an espionage with Benicio del Toro in every single shot.

MEGXIT: “Turns out Meghan Markle was not a great audio talent, or necessarily any kind of talent,” United Talent Agency CEO Jeremy Zimmer said over coffee during the Cannes Lions advertising festival.

JAMIE FOXX continues to recuperate from a mystery malady.

LINDSAY LOHAN is having a boy.

TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE, and the Deadly Accient That Plagued It.

 

A KOMODO DRAGON, swallowing a whole deer.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

A DOGGO, making his own fun.

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