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Tom Verlaine and Barrett Strong RIP.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, January 30, 2023 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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TALKING HEADS: A vintage clip of "Psycho Killer" from the OGWT.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to The Arcs, Effed Up, Eddie 9V, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Meg Baird, King Tuff, The Tubs, and more.

SMOKEY ROBINSON returns with “If We Don’t Have Each Other.

PAUL McCARTNEY was almost hit by a car while recreating the iconic artwork for The Beatles’ ‘Abbey Road’ album. There's video.

KRISTEN STEWART is directing three boygenius videos.

NILE RODGERS is working with St. Vincent.

TOM VERLAINE,  whose band Television was one of the most influential to emerge from the New York punk rock scene centered on the nightclub CBGB — but whose exploratory guitar improvisations and poetic songwriting were never easily categorizable as punk, or for that matter as any other genre — died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 73. Hree's the Rolling Stone obit.  Read tributes from Blondie, Steve Albini, Lloyd Cole, Susanna Hoffs, The Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn, Nada Surf, Real Estate, and more. And check out Live At The Academy NYC 12.4.92. Or the NYT playlist of 13 essential Verlaine songs.

BARRETT STRONG, the Motown artist who sang the label’s first major hit “Money (That’s What I Want)” and co-wrote songs for the Temptations and others, including “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” "War," “Cloud Nine,” "Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World is Today),” “I Can’t Get Next to You,” “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” and “Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)” has died. He was 81. Here's the Billboard obit.

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Avatar 2 continues its streak atop the chart with 15.7MM, and will pass The Avengers as the No.10 highest-grossing movie ever in North America this week. Puss In Boots 2 places with 10.6MM and will likely outgross the original.  A Man Called Otto shows with 6.8MM on a 23 percent drop.

THE ROYALS: King Charles reportedly wants Harry at his coronation.

GMA:  T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach are officially out after their affair was publicized.

JAY LENO is recovering from broken bones sustained during a motorcycle accident just two months after he was injured in a fire at his Los Angeles garage.

ALAN CUMMING returned his OBE over misgivings of being associated with the toxicity of empire.

ANNE HATHAWAY singing and dancing to "Lady Marmalade" at the after-party for the Valentino Haute Couture Paris Fashion Week show.

THE ACADEMY of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences confirmed Friday that it is "conducting a review of campaign procedures" in the wake of Andrea Riseborough's surprise Oscar nomination for the small indie film "To Leslie."

THE RAZZIES are dumb and bad.

ANNIE WERSCHLING, best known for her roles in the television shows 24, Bosch and Timeless, has died of cancer at 45.

 

A CAT, just trying to get through January.

A QUOKKA, eating a beetroot.

ANTEATERS: Freakier than you remember.

LAZY SUNDAY, without Narnia.

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The Pretenders. Not Pretenders.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, January 27, 2023 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

....wtih THE PRETENDERS! Circa 1981, via one of Pate's two fab drummers, Jon Hahn.  Your setlist includes "The Wait," "The Adultress," "Message of Love/Louie Louie," "Talk of the Town," "English Roses," "Birds of Paradise," "Kid," "Stop Your Sobbing," "Private Life," "Day After Day," "Jealous Dogs, " Up the Neck," "Tattooed Love Boys," "Bad Boys Get Spanked," "Precious," and "Brass In Pocket/MysteryAchievement."

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features boygenius, The National, and more.

CURTIS MAYFIELD left an indelible mark on Chicago.

THE BOO RADLEYS share "Seeker."

MICK JAGGER announced plans to release his own limited-edition line of harmonicas.

THE BEACH BOYS are getting an all-star tribute concert after the Grammys.

WEDNESDAY (the band), profiled by Pitchfork.

ROD STEWART called a phone-in segment on Sky News to offer to pay for people to have hospital scans, amid the rising number of people on NHS waiting lists.

SEX PISTOLS bassist Glen Matlock has reflected on his time touring with Iggy Pop, admitting that he got "got a bit fed up" of seeing the singer's penis.

RICK ASTLEY is suing rapper Yung Gravy for imitating his "Never Gonna Give You Up" vocal on the single "Betty (Get Money)."

DEAN DAUGHTRY, keyboardist and co-founder of Southern soft-rock act Atlanta Rhythm Section, has died at 76.

 

PAM ANDERSON says she saw Jack Nicholson in a threesome at the Playboy mansion.

SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS has a second trailer online.

TOBEY MAGUIRE & ANDREW GARFIELD on making Spider-Man: No Way Home.

MARVEL's THUNDERBOLTS adds Ayo Edebiri to a cast led by Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, and David Harbour.

BRITNEY SPEARS feels “gaslit and bullied” by fans who called the cops after she deactivated her Instagram account.

MIA GOTH, on the Oscars avoiding horror.

THE OSCARS: Could a sequel win Best Picture this year?

THE RAZZIES: Sucking more than ever.

 

AN ARMADILLO plays peek-a-boo.

A DOGGO enjoys a roof-clearing.

STOWAWAY GECKO travels 3000 miles from Egypt to England.

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Someone needs to work on that 10-day forecast.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, January 26, 2023 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

999: "Homicide." You better believe it.

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO visits KUTX.  Scott McCaughey is there too.

MUDHONEY shares "Almost Everything."

DEPECHE MODE's David Gahan covers The Raveonettes' "Chains."

PATRICK WOLF returns with “Nowhere Game.”

PAUL McCARTNEY has announced a new photography book containing unseen pictures from Beatlemania.

THE OLD 97s are anything but jagged afer 30 years.

ANTHONY "TOP" TOPHAM, the founding guitarist of The Yardbirds, has died at 75.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Ne-Yo's sad R&B jam "So Sick."

 

JEREMY RENNER was trying to stop his snow-removal tractor from sliding and hitting his grown nephew when he was pulled under the vehicle and crushed on New Year's Day.

ALEC BALDWIN helped talk himself into homicide charges.

RICK & MORTY co-creator Justin Roiland is also being dumped by Hulu after accusations of felony domestic violence.

GHOSTBUSTERS: Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver and Dan Ackroyd are confirmed for the upcoming Afterlife sequel.

TITANS & DOOM PATROL are the latest DC properties ending under the new DCU regime.

BARBARIAN filmmaker Zach Cregger's new project is a hot item.

DAISY JONES & THE SIX has a teaser trailer online.

LANCE KERWIN, a former child star known for television projects James at 15, Salem’s Lot and The Loneliest Runner, has died. He was 62.

 

A CLEVER PUP makes his escape.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

THE FLOOR is lava.

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On such a winter's day.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE MAMAS & PAPAS lip-synced "California Dreaming" really well o­n Hullaballoo, but not showing you the go-go dancers, who are worth the wait.

SYLVAN ESSO & JAN WASNER play CBS This Morning.

TOM WAITS on David Letterman, 1983-2015.

GRUFF RHYS shares "Layer Upon Layer" and "Orea."

NICKEL CREEK returns with "Strangers."

NICK CAVE, on joy, optimism and the state of the world.

KING TUFF: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.

JUSTIN BIEBER sold his catalog to Hipgnosis for 200MM.

PANIC! AT THE DISCO is dunzo.

 

THE OSCARS NOMINATIONS went to these folks. Congrats. As usual, there were snubs and surprises.

RICK & MORTY dumped co-creator Justin Roiland after he was charged with felony domestic abuse.

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA is adding Giancarlo Esposito to the cast of Megalopolis in mid-production.

SEAN PENN & ROBIN WRIGHT: Spotted together, but not together together.

MARVEL: Kevin Fiege doesn't think audiences will tire of comic book movies.

JAMES GUNN may cast MCU actors in his DCU.

ANTONIO BANDERAS said his 2017 heart attack brought him clarity.

MADONNA's self-directed biopic is dunzo.

GUY PEARCE threw shade all over Cate Blanchett, then backtracked.

 

YOU GOBBLE, we gobble back.

A DOGGO, window shopping.

BABY RAMS, practicing.

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Vague recollections of a strange glowing object in the sky.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

RICHARD THOMPSON: The culmination of 1000 Years Of Popular Music.

MARGO PRICE, Live at Rockwood Music Hall.

DOS SANTOS plays World Cafe.

IAN HUNTER shares "Bed of Roses."

BOYGENIUS: The book club.

DAVID CROSBY, essayed at Vulture and Pitchfork.

TICKETMASTER & SEATGEEK EXECS go to Washington.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at James Blunt's caterwauling broken-heart ballad "You're Beautiful."

 

ALEC BALDWIN will not be charged with the shooting of Rust director Joel Souza.

ZACK SNYDER's Rebel Moon will be two movies, because Zack Snyder.

PAM ANDERSON accuses TIM ALLEN of flashing her, which he denies.

MAYA RUDOLPH is becoming the spox for M & Ms in an elaborate Superbowl PR stunt.

ANNE HATHAWAY is thrilled about Princess Diaries 3 but has not signed on to the project.

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES has a trailer online.

GERARD BUTLER Knows Exactly Who He Is.

 

A CHEETAH & A TORTOISE are best friends.

KANGAROOS: Fighting and swimming.

SORRY KIDS, didn't mean to do that.

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