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Wednesday, August 02, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl
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MUSIC TELEVISION turned 36 yesterday. The first few minutes included The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," while the rest of the first day included Pat Benatar's cover of "You Better Run," Rod Stewart's "She Won't Dance With Me," The Who's "You Better You Bet," PH.D's ""Little Susie's On The Up," Cliff Richard's "We Don't Talk Anymore," The Pretenders' "Brass In Pocket", Todd Rundgren's "Time Heals", REO Speedwagon's "Take It On The Run," Styx's "Rockin' The Paradise", and many more. THE KILLERS play a 10-song set in Vegas for Kimmel. GUIDED BY VOICES streams How Do You Spell Heaven. SHOVELS & ROPE, Live at the Newport Folk Festival. BRENT COBB, Live at the Newport Folk Festival. THE DREAM SYNDICATE shares "Glide." DAVID CROSBY shares "Sell Me A Diamond." THE OLD 97s cover T. Rex's "20th Century Boy" for The A.V. Club. SLOWDIVE's Neil Halstead talks to The Creative Independent about putting the band back together. PATTI SMITH remembers Sam Shepard. THE SMITHS: Rob Shieffield ranks all 73 songs. THE 15 BEST ARCADE FIRE SONGS, according to Paste. THE DARK TOWER has been roiled by clashing visions and brutal test screenings. JAMES FRANCO talks about battling depression. RYAN REYNOLDS, on creative cursing, pushing the envelope, and feuding with Hugh Jackman. BLAKE LIVELY doesn’t have a perfect celebrity relationship, according to Blake Lively. IAN McSHANE is joining the Hellboy reboot. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME has a trailer at Vulture. That's a new Sufjan Stevens song, too. BLACK AMERICA, in the works at Amazon, envisions an alternate history where newly freed African Americans have secured the Southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama post-Reconstruction as reparations for slavery, and with that land, the freedom to shape their own destiny. CONFEDERATE: A leading historian argues the new project from the Game of Thrones creators could shock us by exposing how little of the Confederate future we avoided. THIS DOG hadn't seen a kitten before. A TEXAS CALF looks like Gene Simmons of KISS. CATERPILLARS are being killed by a zombie virus that makes them explode. A CHEAP SEX TOY helps scientists study turtles.
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| Big Thief, Wild Reeds, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Primus, Tiger Cub |
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Tuesday, August 01, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl
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SPOON plays "Can I Sit Next to You" for Colbert. BIG THIEF, Live at the Newport Folk Festival. THE WILD REEDS, Live at the Newport Folk Festival. HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF, Live at the Newport Folk Festival. PRIMUS returns with "The Seven." JAN & DEAN: I figured I'd slip in "Surf City" for the dog days of Summer. Toss in an off-the-TV clip of "Dead Man's Curve" from their comeback and you have Twofer Tuesday, not to mention an argument between Barry & Dick. FYI, technically, neither Barry nor Dick is right, though Dick is closer to the truth. MERLE HAGGARD's torch is carried by roots rockers and old-school acts, but his place in mainstream country is less secure. AFGHAN WHIGS frontman Greg Dulli talks to Salon about keeping it "fun" after death of a beloved bandmate and 30 years of touring. DAVID BOWIE's unseen photoshoot for his debut LP. THE 15 BEST DELTA BLUES SONGS, according to Paste. SAM SHEPARD, reluctant movie star and playwright whose workss redefined the landscape of the American West and its inhabitants, died on Thursday at his home in Kentucky. He was 73. A spokesman for his family announced the death on Monday, saying the cause was complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. JEANNE MOREAU, the sensual, gravel-voiced actress who became the face of the New Wave, France’s iconoclastic mid-20th-century film movement, most notably in François Truffaut’s Jules and Jim, died on Monday at her home in Paris. She was 89. JESSICA LANGE is profiled by the AARP. Get Off My Lawn. CASEY AFFLECK's wife of 9 years, Summer Phoenix, is filing for divorce, and according to her the split's been a long time coming. TILDA SWINTON was considered to play Pennywise in the remake of IT. TOTAL REQUEST LIVE is returning to MTV. I am reminded of this recent podcast from Mary Katharine Ham and Kristen Soltis Anderson about what the TRL cultural space meant to them. HBO was hacked, "which has resulted in some stolen proprietary information, including some of [their] programming." SUICIDE SQUAD 2: The WB continues to have trouble finding a director. A TIGER CUB debuts in China. HAMLET will soon be the most famous cat in NYC. A BIRD hammered through a power pole in Snohomish County, WA.Also, the owls are not what they seem. FUNGUS GNATS have inundated southeastern Vermont.
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| Ben Gibbard, Radiohead, Newport, Tori Amos, Sparks, Croc vs Shark |
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Monday, July 31, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl
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WOLF ALICE shares the NSFW "Yuk Foo," BEN GIBBARD is streaming his vesrion of Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque LP. RADIOHEAD, Live at Poland's Open'er Festival. NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL: Brooklyn Vegan has video highlights. TORI AMOS shares "Cloud Riders." SPARKS shares "Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me)." BELLE & SEBASTIAN shares "We Were Beautiful." 
THE CLASH AT DEMONHEAD covers Metric's "Black Sheep." I remember when Envy was Nat Oh yeah? Oh yeah.FEIST shares cultural highlights with The Guardian. GILLIAM WELCH talks to Stereogum about rediscovering The Harrow & The Harvest six years after its release and when we can expect a new Gillian Welch album. HARVEY DANGER's "Flagpole Sitta" turned 20. THE POINTER SISTERS: 10 of Their Best. 
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Dunkirk beat out The Emoji Movie at the top of the charts, suggesting civilization only seems dead. Dunkirk grossed 28.1MM on a leggy 44 percent drop. The Emoji Movie placed with 25.7MM and if it does well enough I expect them to spin off Poop into a standalone feature. Girls Trip shows with 20MM on a surprisingly leggy 36 percent drop. That left the debut of Atomic Blonde in the fourth slot with 18MM against a 30MM budget; that may be a slight disappointment, though a few million ahead of John Wick, and likely to play well when it rolls out in full overseas. Spider-Man: Homecoming rounds out the Top Five with another 13.5MM and gets a timely hold with only a 39 percent drop in this frame. Below the fold, Apes and Valerian show signs of losing money in the big-screen phase. ATOMIC BLONDE was marketed as a female John Wick; it is both more and less than that. It is more than that insofar as the brutal action scenes are paired with a more twist-laden, LeCarre-style Cold War spy tale, not to mention a tour of outrageous 80s fashion and music. It is less than that because John Wick had a more sympathetic lead and more wicked fun. Charlize Theron's Lorraine Broughton is (almost) all business --even when seducing someone -- which is right for the role, but drains the audience of some sympaththy for her (someone could write a thinkpiece about the trickiness of writing a female action lead). The fun factor (besides Theron's endeless wardrobe)is provided more by James McAvoy's David Percival, an operative who has "gone native" in decdent Berlin, where Theron is tasked with retrieving a NOC list (increasingly the spy movie MacGuffin of choice). The supporting performances here are also quite good, esp. Eddie Marsan, the Stasi agent once in possession of the list. It's an enjoyable flick -- the action scenes are brutal and the period soundtrackhelps lighten the the occasional grimness an greyness of a film that spends as much time in East Berlin as it does. Just don't hexpect it to be a female John Wick. GEORGE CLOONEY lashed out at a French magazine that published pictures of his newborn twins. NORM McDONALD talks to the Daily Beast about President Donald Trump, Caitlyn Jenner, and the state of comedy. JENNIFER ANISTON & REESE WITHERSPOON are shopping a show about morning news shows. KATE BECKINSALE has an "overzealous fan" who allegedly threatened to stab her. EMILIA CLARKE has Chewbacca on her Instagram. MARTY SKLAR: Meet a man who shaped Disney's theme parks. 
CROC vs SHARK: Who You Got? A MOUNTIE Pursues A Bear. A MONITOR LIZARD, living in a Cape Coral attic. IS THAT A BOA CONSTRICTOR stuck to your face?
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Friday, July 28, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl
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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE... 
... with THE RASCALS! I was delighted to rediscover one of my fave clips, their cover of "Mickey's Monkey" in a medley with "Turn On Your Love Light." A second live medley includes a pair of Rascals originals, "I've Been Lonely Too Long" and "Come On Up." Plus, a copy of "It's a Beautiful Morning" has returned to the Tube, as well as "Groovin'" and "How Can I Be Sure?" Round it out with the live-instudio version of the obligatory "Good Lovin'," and the early "Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore" from Hullaballoo. TYLER CHILDERS advance streams Purgatory. RANDY NEWMAN advance streams Dark Matter. BETH DITTO plays a short set at the Turf Club. THE CARS share a previously unreleased studio version of "They Won't See You." RINGO STARR & PAUL McCARTNEY reunite on “We’re On the Road Again." It also features The Eagles’ Joe Walsh, Edgar Winter, and Toto’s Steve Lukather (who co-wrote the song). STARS share "Fluorescent Light." 
KENNY ROGERS & THE FIRST EDITION: "I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)." Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Yeah. THE MERCURY PRIZE nominees are announced. The Guardian is unimpressed. MICHAEL JACKSON's estate owes QUINCY JONES 9,4MM in royalties. RIDE: Mark Gardener and Loz Colbert talk to Drowned In Sound about the band's triumphant return. BEN GIBBARD writes about the great Teenage Fanclub. 
NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are The Emoji Movie, which was not widely screened for critics; and Atomic Blonde, currently scoring 79 percent on the ol' Tomatometer. SUBURBICON, ft Matt Damon and Oscar Issac, has a trailer online. JAMES BOND: French director Yann Demange is reportedly “frontrunner” to direct the recently-announced 2019 Bond film. MADONNA and ther twin girls have accepted undisclosed damages from Associated Newspapers over a “serious invasion of privacy”. TAXI DRIVER: Behind The Scenes. ARRESTED REBELLION: Ron Howard narrates Star Wars. 
THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Giant militant marmots rage on the highway. THE YEAR OF THE GOAT: Strolling through the barn like Peter Lorre. A GIANT SPIDER terrorizes a family at home. PET TRANSLATION could happen within a decade.
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