Welcome Guest! Mar 29, 2024 - 02:47 AM  
Homepage  |  Downloads  |  FAQ  |  Forums  |  Gallery  |  WebLinks
Main Menu
Online
There are 150 unlogged users and 0 registered users online.

You can log-in or register for a user account here.
  
Live Aid at 35, plus Friday Things.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, July 17, 2020 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with LIVE AID! This week was the 35th Anniversary of the trans-Atlantic rock event aimed at aiding starving people in Ethiopia (Its prime movers, like Bob Geldof & Bono, would later discover, actually getting the aid past the Marxist dictatorship would be the difficult part). Most of the day's music has found its way online, including the set from Queen that was memorialized in Boheman Rhapsody, a decidiely career-boosting appearance by U2, a look at the pre-lip-syncing Madonna, a peak-80s Bowie set and -- as my pal Nathan reminded me recently -- a raft of appearances from the Style Council to the Four Tops to Paul Young to Judas Priest to the Cars to the Beach Boys to the Pretenders to The Who to Simple Minds to Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and so many more.  Revisiting these videos, I was particularly taken by a solo Elvis Costello (who pobably could not afford a touring band at this point in his career) making The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" much more than what's on the page with help from a stadium crowd, and the improbable greatness of Kiki Dee in Mom wear, joining Elton John for "Don't Go Breaking My Heart."

TEMPLES play KEXP.

THAO & THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN play KEXP from Home.

PRINCE: Hear a previously unreleased 1979 version of "I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man."

HENNESSEY covers The Waterboys' "We Will Not Be Lovers." 

 

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD share "Honey" and I can dig it.

THE REPLACEMENTS are issuing a super-deluxe Pleased to Meet Me!

MARGOT PRICE on the Bob Dylan Classic She Wishes She Wrote.

DJ SHADOW on the Music That Made Him.

 

NETFLIX  is revealing its biggest blockbusters for the first time. 

AMBER HEARD's former assistant testified that her own story of being violently raped was “twisted” by the actress for “her own use.”

KANYE WEST is no longer running for potus, but he's on the ballot in OK.

HENRY CAVILL is building hs own gaming PC.

ORLANDO BLOOM lost his doggo.

TWO AND A HALF MEN's Conchatta Ferrell had a heart attack.

WATCHMEN screenwriter David Hayter talks about some odd early drafts of the script.

THE PANDEMIC WILL CHANGE HOLLYWOOD: Five writers and actors predict what's next.

 

A KANGAROO was corraled on the streets of Fort Lauderdale.  There's some NSFW video also.

A FISH with human lips and teeth.

GOOD AFTERNOON, thanks for coming to the meeting.

1096 Reads

Thursday Things, Thankfully.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, July 16, 2020 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

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

SORRY connects from London with The Current for a live virtual session.

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Live at Rockwood Music Hall.

JONATHAN WILSON visits World Cafe.

ANGEL OLSEN & HAND HABITS cover Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers' "Walls." 

 

JOAN JETT covers the T. Rex classic "Jeepster."

YO LA TENGO is posting tracks at Bandcamp.

THE POLARIS PRIZE shortlist is announced.

THE 25 BEST SONGS of 2020 (So Far), according to The A.V. Club.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Irene Cara's Giorgio Moroder-produced dance-pop blockbuster "Flashdance... What A Feeling." (And a Number Two.)

 

KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR asks: Where Is the Outrage Over Anti-Semitism in Sports and Hollywood?

AMBER HEARD felt she was “above the law,” her former personal assistant has alleged.

JOHNNY DEPP was so revolted by feces left in his bed that he wanted to have a DNA test done on it to identify the pooper, a UK court was told Wednesday.

KANYE WEST is already out of his presidential bid.

BRITNEY SPEARS' mother, Lynne Spears, has filed legal documents to be included in all decisions made about the pop star's finances.

UTA is poised to become the first of the major Hollywood agencies to reunite the Writers Guild of Americas.

BRAD PITT doesn't currently have a relationship with his eldest son, Maddox. .

SURVIVOR will no longer be part ofthe fall schedule as a result of the COVID-19 production shutdown.

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA breaks down the writing of Hamilton's "My Shot."

 

KITTENS Who Yell.

MAN BITES SEAGULL who tried to steal his Big Mac.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT extends to bubonic plague.

946 Reads

And I thought Monday was exhausting, yet a few Wednesday things.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, July 15, 2020 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

REALLY, just a handful of Wednesday Things because my head is asplodey.

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

GRANT IMAHARA,  an electrical engineer and roboticist who hosted the popular science show MythBusters and Netflix's White Rabbit Project, has died following a brain aneurysm. He was 49.

NICK CANNON got the boot from ViacomCBS after the actor and TV host propagated anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on his podcast.  He's also the host of The Masked Singer on Fox (for now).

OLIVER STONE thinks Hollywood has gone crazy.

THE MATRIX cinematographer Bill Pope is sitting out Matrix 4 because in his opinion, shooting sequels was "mind numbing and soul numbing."

MONEY PLANE: An oral history of 2020's ultimate "good bad" movie.

INCEPTION: A decade old on Monday, Christopher Nolan's 2010 dream-within-a-dream blockbuster remains as dense, bewildering, and enjoyable as the day it was released.

MORE TOMORROW... at least no one hopes so mre than I do!

956 Reads

Yesterday was exhausting, but I have some Tuesday Things.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

QUESTION MARK & THE MYSTERIANS: "96 Tears" and " Girl (You Captivate Me)" for Twofer Tuesday.

BOB MOULD shares a "Forecast of Rain."

BILLY JOE ARMSTRONG covers Billy Bragg's "A New England."

BILL CALLAHAN shares "35."

THE JAYHAWKS: Americana's most underappreciated band.

MARGOT PRICE talks album-making and motherhood.

BOB GELDOF reflects on Live Aid after 35 years.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at David Bowie's hard-strutting new-wave funk anthem "Let's Dance."

KELLY PRESTON, an actress best known for her role as a hardhearted fiancée of the Tom Cruise character in the 1996 film "Jerry Maguire," died on Sunday in Florida. She was 57.

NAYA RIVERA: Sheriff Bill Ayub says they're confident the body discovered in Lake Piru Monday is the Glee actress.

LISA MARIE PRESLEY is "beyond devastated" over the death of her son at age 27.

WILL & JADA PINKETT SMITH's  kids are happy their parents publicly addressed the actress' affair with rapper August Alsina.

JOHNNY DEPP, asleep and covered in ice cream.

A GORGEOUS GREY WOLF becomes a good boy when visited by the people that helped raise their pack.

A CAT, in a raincoat walking gracefully through the rain.

LAND SHARKS: Candygram?

971 Reads

New Releases, Indie Basement, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Plus.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, July 13, 2020 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

LEMON PIPERS: "Green Tambourine."

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Margo Price, My Morning Jacket, Rufus Wainwright, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Kelley Stoltz, The Beths, Ian Masters, and more.

GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS dropped a covers LP, All The Good Times.

ELVIS COSTELLO shares "Hetty O'Hara Confidential."

GUIDED BY VOICES shares "To Keep an Area."

 

THE FLAMING LIPS share a video for "Dinosaurs on the Mountain."

FIONA ADAMS, the photographer behind some of the most recognizable pics of The Beatles, has died at the age of 84.

JUDY DYBLE, a founding member of Fairport Convention and Trader Horne -- and briefly part of Giles, Giles and Fripp who would eventually turn into King Crimson -- has died at age 71 after a battle with lung cancer.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Michael Jackson's iconic, era-defining "Beat It."

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Your champion is The Empire Strikes Back. Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

30 ROCK has a reunion trailer.

NAYA RIVERA's disappearance still looks like a tragic drowning.

BROOKLYN BECKHAM will reportedly be tying the knot with girlfriend and actress Nicola Peltz.

ARNIE HAMMER and Elizabeth Chambers Hammer have split after 10 years of marriage.

BILL HADER & RACHEL BILSON are dunzo after six months.

THE MONEY PLANE: Everything you want to know about an explosive casino heist in the sky.

 

THIS BIRD won't let her "mom" out of her sight.

THIS CAT wants indoors.

DON'T ACCEPT PACKAGES from strangers.

RACCOONS visit Washington Week in Review.

KEEP SWIMMING: Huge rays are seen swimming past Florida beachgoers who appear completely unaware of their passing. 

1022 Reads

<   1112131415161718191101111121131141151161171172173174175176177178179180181182183184185186187188189190191192193194195196197207217227237247257267277287297307317327337347357367377387397407417427437447457467477487497507517527537547557567577587597607617627637647657667677687697707717727737747757767777787797807817827837847857867877887897907917927937947957967977987   >

Home  |  Share Your Story  |  Recommend Us