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Yardbirds, Brian Dennehy RIP, and Friday Things. |
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Friday, April 17, 2020 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: ...with THE YARDBIRDS! Live circa 1967, featuring someone the announcer calls "Timmy Page." Your setlist inlcudes "Shapes of Things," "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago," "Over Under Sideways Down," and "I'm a Man." TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS, Live at Winterland, Dec. 30, 1978. LAURA MARLING plays a Tiny Desk Concert from Home. COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS shares "Burlap String" and recommends gardening and poetry. THE NATIONAL's Matt Berninger covers Mercury Rev from home. CAR SEAT HEADREST goes "Hollywood." ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN: A Celebration. PHOEBE BRIDGERS talks about the legacy of Elliot Smith's Figure 8. RICHARD MARX talks to Stereogum about his vocal use of social media, how he and wife Daisy Fuentes are faring being quarantined together, and how his kids had to tell him who Trapt were. BRIAN DENNEHY, a versatile stage and screen actor known for action movies, comedies and classics, but especially for his Tony Award-winning performances in “Death of a Salesman” in 1999 and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” in 2003, died of cardiac arrest in New Haven, Conn. He was 81. MEGXIT: Harry & Meghan scrapped plans for a celebrity-filled bash to celebrate Archie's first birthday after Los Angeles extended coronavirus lockdown. And they volunteered to deliver meals to the needy. PRINCESS BEATRICE and her fiancé Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi have formally canceled their royal wedding. HOWARD FINKEL, WWE Hall of Fame ring announcer, has passed away at age 69. ROGUE ONE: The Disney+ spinoff likely adds Stellan Skarsgard and Kyle Soller. SAVED BY THE BELL: The reboot-sequel has a trailer online. PERRY MASON has a teaser trailer online. AMY SCHUMER realized she had to change her son's name. WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS: The funniest show on TV? WHO FLEW with the crabs? THIS GUY brought an injured baby deer into his house and became her dad. AN OSPREY was close to drowning so a surfer used his board to scoop him out. WHISKEY & LULU: Schwarzenegger knows what the fans want.
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Fountains of Wayne and Tuesday Things. |
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
SOUL ASYLUM dip into their back catalog for the classic "Never Really Been" at the Northern Lights Theater; Milwaukee, WI. Throw in a cover of Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" and you have Twofer Tuesday. MATT WILSON & HIS ORCHESTRA plays for The Current. (Thx, Jon Pratt!) RYAN ADAMS covers Tears For Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," Madonna's "Borderline," Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time," and Huey Lewis & the News' "The Power of Love." ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER covers Destroyer's "Hell" and "The River"in time for Twofer Tuesday. FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE gets two hours and twenty minutes of discussion and analysis on Political Beats with guest Cam Edwards. BONUS: Chris Collingwood remembers his years of friendship and music with Adam Schlesinger, who died at 52 last week. THE ONEDERS are reuniting for a "That Thing You Do" party on Friday night. THE TOP 50 POSTPUNK ALBUMS, according to PopMatters. THE BEATLES broke up 50 years ago. Rob Sheffield on how the band's petty infighting snowballed into rock's most legendary split. THE NUMBER ONES on the Kenny Rogers/Lionel Richie connection, simmering adult-contempo intensity, the value of pop shamelessness, and "Lady." DUNE has a trailer online. BOB IGER Thought He Was Leaving on Top. Now, He's Fighting for Disney's Life. KATE BECKINSALE was spotted holding hands with 22-year-old musician Goody Grace. THE CANNONBALL RUN has a new record, and purists are angry. SELENA GOMEZ, interviewed by Amy Schumer. WEIRD AL YANKOVIC's Enduring Appeal. MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL's Enduring Influence. A GOOD BOY giving hs friend a hug. THE GREATEST GAME of fetch I’ve ever seen? A WOMAN finds a baby bird in the wall — and he grows up imitating everything she says! KATHARINE, the Great White Shark Who Ghosted Her Trackers, Resurfaces. A NEW PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS descends on Africa. CHINA has reclassified dogs as pets instead of livestock for the first time, as part of a clampdown on animal trade and consumption that was spurred by the pandemic. ANIMALS continue to take over the empty streets.
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Another Monday, but we're here, so. |
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Monday, April 13, 2020 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
DAVID BOWIE plays "Young Americans" for Cavett, looking and sounding too much acquainted with the Thin White Duke.NEW RELEASES: Pitchfork will point you to Laura Marling, Hamilton Leithauser, Trace Mountains and more. BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT will point you to the Once and Future Band, which you should def check out, and more. CRAIG FINN plays 3 songs on 'CBS This Morning.' NEIL YOUNG's third acoustic Fireside Session. NEIL FINN covers Bowie's "Heroes." STING, THE ROOTS and Fallon cover “Please Don’t Stand So Close To Me.” PHOEBE BRIDGERS covers John Prine's "Summer’s End." STURGILL SIMPSON tests positive. LAURA MARLING talks to All Things Considered about rewriting the ideas and tropes that she's absorbed from mainstream culture and what music does best in times of trouble. THE GRATEFUL DEAD and RADIOHEAD are among those streaming classic concerts weekly. THE NUMBER ONES looks at BarbraStreisand's stormy, dramatic, lyrically preposterous Bee Gees collaboration "Woman In Love". HARVEY WEINSTEIN has been charged with a new felony sexual assault count by the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office. SOME GOOD NEWS with John Krasinski, Episode 3. SHAILENE WOODLEY is profiled at The New York Times. BROOKE SHIELDS shares her lockdown routine. ROBIN HOOD is getting the Disney CGI remake treatment. TOM HANKS monologued the lockdown SNL. RUPERT GRINT and his girlfriend, Georgia Groome, are expecting their first child. TIMOTHY BROWN, a former NFL running back who later appeared in both the film and TV versions of "M*A*SH," died April 4 from complications with dementia, according to reports. He was 82. THE FRIENDS REUNION is postponed. CAT vs DOG CHALLENGE: Part 1 and Part 2. Who wins depends on how you imagine the game. A PUPPER is rescued from a tire. A HOUSTON POLICE OFFICER assists some chicks. NOT ALL FASHION SHOWS are canceled.
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