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Mojo Nixon, RIP.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, February 08, 2024 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

JOHN HIATT: It's been a "Slow Turning."

THE LAST DINNER PARTY plays World Cafe.

THE LEMON TWIGS shares “They Don’t Know How To Fall In Place.”

IRON & WINE shares “You Never Know.”

LES SAVY FAV returns with “Legendary Tippers.”

ELBOW shares "Lover's Leap."

MOUNT KIMBIE shares "Fishbrain."

GARY GLITTER will not be released from prison.

MOJO NIXON, psychobilly musician, actor, and radio personality, has died at age 66.

 

DUNE: PART TWO, or seven minutes of it.

A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE has a trailer online.

LOVE LIES BLEEDING has a trailer online.

RYAN GOSLING, on singing at the Oscars, climbing the WB tower, and more.

DONALD GLOVER & MAYA ERSKINE, on Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

DEMI MOORE kept those clay pots from Ghost.

CHARMLESS: Shannen Doherty and Holly Marie Combs were called out by fellow Charmed star Alyssa Milano at MegaCon Orlando on Sunday, for blaming her for Doherty’s firing at the end of season three.

ETERNALS was so bad that Kumail Nanjiani sought therapy.

 

CATS & DOGS, living together.

A LITTLE SWAN, hiding on Mom's back.

NOT ALL HEROES wear capes.

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Just going to set my head down here for a minute.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, February 07, 2024 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

PAUL COLLINS & PETER CASE, formerly of The Nerves, play "Hanging On The Telephone" in-store.

WILL BUTLER + SISTER SQUARES visits World Cafe.

THE DECEMBERISTS return with "Burial Ground," featuring the Shins' James Mercer.  Solid!

MELVINS returns with “Working The Ditch.”

A. SAVAGE shares “Black Holes, The Stars And You.”

TOBY KEITH, Country icon, known for such patriotic anthems as “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” and “Made in America”, died at 62 following a two-year battle with stomach cancer.

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM revealed that he would rejoin Fleetwood Mac “in a heartbeat,” though Fleetwood and Nicks have said the band died with Christine McVie.

THE GRATEFUL DEAD have broken the record for the most Top 40 albums to chart on the Billboard 200. Again, this more a story about what's happened to the charts.

AC/DC wants you to get ready, presumably for a tour.

THE GRAMMYS ratings were up 34 percent, reaching their high since 2020.

 

ARGYLLE: Why Matthew Vaughn is the most divisive director in Hollywood.

FOX, WB, DISCOVERY, and DISNEY are set to launch a new streaming joint venture that will combine all of their sports assets into a standalone app (including ESPN, TNT and Fox Sports).

HENRY CAVILL: Not a fan of sex scenes.

TAYLOR SWIFT may sue the student tracking her private jet online.

PAUL BETTANY improvised Vision's death scene in Avengers: Infinity War.

GINA CARANO is suing the House of Mouse for discrimination and wrongful termination.

BRAD PITT and the Wild Making of Legends of the Fall.

AFTERBURN: Dave Bautista and Samuel L. Jackson, rescuing the Mona Lisa.

WONDER MAN: A rigger working on the Marvel series died after falling from a catwalk.

 

UBER EATS, but for Cats.

A GOLDEN spots Dad on the street.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

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Inspired by Saul Bellow's "Henderson the Rain King."   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, February 06, 2024 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE BOOMTOWN RATS: Let's roll out "Rat Trap" and "Someone's Looking At You" for Twofer Tuesday.

JONI MITCHELL: "Both Sides Now." Recently.

LUKE COMBS & TRACY CHAPMAN: "Fast Car." Recently.

JOHNNY FEVER: A three-hour WKRP aircheck.

STEREOLAB's Latetia Sadler shares "Who + What."

PITCHFORK: How Condé Nast bought and destroyed America's iconic music publication.

TAYLOR SWIFT Doesn't Take The Grammys Seriously, And Neither Should You.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Rihanna's ballad "Diamonds."

 

KING CHARLES has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and will postpone public duties during his treatment.

CILLIAN MURPHY on 28 Days Later, and being up for a sequel.

FRANCESCA & MARTIN SCORSESE on taking their shtick to the SuperBowl, and more.

FELICITIY HUFFMAN on her comeback after jail.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE is reportedly thinking of doing a tell-all interview with Oprah.

CAREY MULLIGAN says actors who claim to stay above the race for awards are “100 percent lying.”

WINNIE THE POOH: BLOOD AND HONEY 2 has a trailer online.

 

A GOOD DOG waits to cross the street.

MISSION: IMPAWSIBLE on a cat's turf.

ELK rescued from icy waters.

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Kick out the jams, brothers and sisters.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, February 05, 2024 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

SAM COOKE & JACKIE WILSON unexpectedly meet up on "Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha."

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to the Last Dinner Party, Liquid Mike, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has J Mascis, the Paranoid Style, and more.

PR0NO FOR PYROS shares "Little Me."

WAYNE KRAMER, co-founder of the protopunk Detroit band the MC5 that thrashed out such hardcore anthems as “Kick Out the Jams” and influenced everyone from The Clash to Rage Against the Machine, has died at age 75.  The tributes rolled in on social media.

PET SHOP BOYS, on 40 years of pop craft.

JONI MITCHELL: The Grammys Do Not Deserve Her.

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Argylle tops the chart with 18MM, but that's a bomb and the C+ ConemaScore suggests it stays a bomb, arising the question of whether Apple's movie business is crazy.  The Chosen places with 6MM.  The Beekeper shows with 5.2MM on a leggy 21 percent drop.

CARL WEATHERS, who starred as Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films and appeared in Predator, The Mandalorian, Happy Gilmore, Action Jackson, Arrested Development and dozens of other films and TV shows, died Thursday. He was 76.  Stallone,  Schwarzenegger and Sandler were among those paying tribute. He is forever a champion.

THE GRAMMYS went to these folks. Congrats!

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON's next film is rounding the cast.

JAMIE LEE CURTIS marks 25 years sober.

WHAT DID PEAK TV Let Escape from 'Pandora's Box'?

PARAMOUNT+'s SuperBowl ad is... something.

 

A RACCOON is blamed for a power outage in Toronto (though we all know the squirrels masterminded it).

A SNOW LEOPARD plays scared when her cub pounces.

A PIGEON suspected of being a Chinese spy was released by police after eight months.

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Takin' it again. Again! Again! Takin' it again.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, February 02, 2024 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

I got flowers...in the Spring...

First D.J.: "Rise and shine, campers and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today."

Second D.J.: "It's cold out there every day. What is this, Miami Beach?"

First D.J.: "Not hardly. So the big question o­n everybody's lips..."

Second D.J.: "O­n their chapped lips..."

First D.J.: "...their chapped lips is, 'Does Phil feel lucky?' Punxsatawney Phil! That's right, woodchuck chuckers, it's...

(IN UNISON): GROUNDHOG DAY!!!"

Saturday, Punxsutawney Phil ---  the Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators, and Weather Prophet Extraordinary will predict whether we will have six more weeks of winter.  According to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, Phil has seen his shadow 103 times, and hasn't seen it (predicting an early spring) only 18 times.  Phil's track record is hotly disputed. In general, Groundhogs Do Not Make Good Meteorologists. Nevertheless, thousands will await the sunrise and the groundhog at Gobbler's Knob in the tiny Pennsylvania hamlet that has become known as the "Weather Capital of the World," due in no small part to the movie that makes every day Groundhog Day.

This is o­ne time where the Internet really fails to capture the true excitement of a movie about a large squirrel predicting the weather. However, you can see the trailer as a refresher (while BuzzFeed compiles trivia).

In 2005, Roger Ebert revisited Groundhog Day, declaring that the film "finds its note and purpose so precisely that its genius may not be immediately noticeable. It unfolds so inevitably, is so entertaining, so apparently effortless, that you have to stand back and slap yourself before you see how good it really is."

At the other end of the political spectrum, Jonah Goldberg's equally effusive movie meditation grabbed the cover of National Review: "When I set out to write this article, I thought it'd be fun to do a quirky homage to an offbeat flick, o­ne I think is brilliant as both comedy and moral philosophy. But while doing what I intended to be cursory research -- how much reporting do you need for a review of a twelve-year-old movie that plays constantly o­n cable? -- I discovered that I wasn't alone in my interest. In the years since its release the film has been taken up by Jews, Catholics, Evangelicals, Hindus, Buddhists, Wiccans, and followers of the oppressed Chinese Falun Gong movement."

Indeed, a 2004 article mentioned by Ebert (but not linked) from London's Independent observes that the Harold Ramis comedy has been hailed by some religious leaders as the most spiritual film of all time. More examples can be found at the NYT and the Christian Science Monitor.

As Phil Connors ultimately observed: "When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter."

ACCORDINGLY, we conclude:

...with Sonny & Cher o­n Hullabaloo and famously o­n Letterman years later, plus UB40 with Chrissie Hynde, not to mention The Cynics (from the Bonograph tribute CD), and David Bowie & Marianne Faithfull.

WILCO plays KCRW.

BLACK PUMAS plays World Cafe.

BILLY JOEL returns with “Turn the Lights Back On,” his first pop song since 2007.

THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN cover Circus Lupus's "Unrequited," their first recording in over a decade.

HOOTIE: Busted.

VICTORIA MONET's Grammys Moment.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN's Mom passed at 98.

 

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED.  Tomorrow is the anniversary of the passing of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson in a plane crash outside Clear Lake, IA, and it is still bringing people to the historic Surf Ballroom (now a National Historic Landmark), as well as the Riverside Ballroom, where the Winter Dance Party made its penultimate stop. So it's worth linking to an MPR audio feature on the Winter Dance Party and a Weekend Edition piece on Buddy Holly's old classmates.. We'll start with some video of Buddy Holly playing "That'll Be the Day," and "Peggy Sue."  There's even less video of Valens, outside this lipsync of "Ooh, My Head!", but there's rare live audio of "La Bamba" and "Donna" on the Tube. And no survey would be complete without the Bopper's signature song, "Chantilly Lace."  The tragedy has echoed through the years in movies like The Buddy Holly Story and La Bamba.  The latter featured Los Lobos, who would make "La Bamba" a hit again almost 30 years later, with Marshall Crenshaw as Holly, who can be seen here covering "Crying, Waiting Hoping", introduced by Wolfman Jack.

 

MATTHEW VAUGHN does care what you think.

LARRY DAVID attacked ELMO on live TV.

BRAD PITT will star in Quentin Tarantino's The Movie Critic.

TIM BURTON and "Gone Girl" author Gillian Flynn are remaking "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman."

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN hopes Oppenheimer points the way to a new movie landscape.

WHY 2-D ANIMATION is so hot right now.

MICHAEL SHANNON. MATTHEW MACFAYDEN. James Garfield.

HOW "THE HOLDOVERS" achieved "the film look."

 

A BABY CAPYBARA with hiccups.

TODAY THE TOWN, tomorrow the world.

JUST ME and my shadow.

THE BIRDS: A murmuration in Italy.

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