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Laying off the eggnog for now.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE MAMAS & PAPAS: All the leaves are brown, so it's "California Dreamin'" and "Nowhere Man" for Twofer Tuesday.

STING visits the back catalog on World Cafe.

HOVVDY shares a new version of "Bubba."

MATT POND PA shares "The Ballad of the Natural Lines."

NEW ORDER shares the demo for “State of the Nation.”

PITCHFORK will not have a festival in Chicago this summer.

CHAPPELL ROAN dumps her managers.

JERRY GARCIA's AI voice will be reading audiobooks and such.

ANDY LEEK, formerly of Dexys Midnight Runners, has passed at 66.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Migos & Lil Uzi Vert's Atlanta rap classic and unlikely crossover anthem "Bad And Boujee."

 

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING has a trailer online.

HARRY POTTER: HBO knows who it wants for Dumbledore.

GLADIATOR 2: Mostly thumbs up?

THE ROCK wants to disappear?

BRITNEY SPEARS reunited with her estranged 18-year-old son.

MEGAN FOX & MACHINE GUN KELLY are having a child.

QUENTIN TARANTINO's favorite Hugh Grant movie.

THOMAS BRODIE-SANGSTER revealed that his classmates tried to “bully” him while he was filming Love Actually, but he was able to rise above it.

 

TITANIC, but with a cat.

MONKEYS remain on the lam after escaping a South Carolina facility.

A CAT in a tree.

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Thought about taking the holiday.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

CHEAP TRICK: "I Can't Take It." An overlooked gem.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Girl Scout, Our Girl, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Primal Scream, Robin Guthrie, and more.

STEVEN HYDEN, on jam bands, Bruce Springsteen's fictional country career in the 1990s, the importance of having humor in reviews, and so much more.

THE GRAMMYS nominations went to these folks. Congrats.

UNCUT's Top 80 Albums of 2024.

POISON: Returning in 2026.

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Venom 3 topped the chart with 16.2MM on a good 37 percent drop, while Heretic and Best Christmas Pageant Ever are in a photo finish around 11MM apiece.

WICKED: Mattel put the wrong website on the merch, sending people to a pr0n site.

MUFASA: THE LION KING is tracking for a 55-66MM opening on Dec. 20th.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD has a trailer online.

EUPHORIA: HBO denied rumors of the show's demise.

FRANKIE MUNIZ was in the middle of a gnarly crash at Friday’s Craftsman Truck Series Championship.

THE CHRISTMAS MOVIE Industrial Complex. With the director of Hot Frosty.

TONY TODD, who played the killer in Candyman and appeared in the Final Destination franchise and Platoon among more than 240 film and TV credits spanning 40 years, died November 6 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 69.

VETERAN'S DAY: Marking the anniversary of the end of WWI. Thanks a vet today, or anytime, really.

 

CAT vs RACCOON: Who You Got?

A BABY, making fetch happen.

KING COBRA: The biggest evah?

A MAMA CAT gets an adopted kitten.

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Get wrecked.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, November 08, 2024 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE VETERANS' DAY WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

THE WRECK of the EDMUND FITZGERALD: The legend lives o­n from the Chippewa o­n down of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee. Nov. 10th is the anniversary of the 1975 wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald -- 729 feet-long, 75 feet in breadth, 39 feet in depth, weighing 13,632 gross tons -- an ore bulk carrier with a capacity of 25,000 tons. When it was launched o­n June 7 1958, at the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan, Fitzgerald was the largest ship o­n the Great Lakes. Here's misty, water-colored video of the launch.

The "Queen of the Great Lakes" sank in the eastern end of Lake Superior during a fierce storm -- including snow squalls -- that pounded the ship with 30-foot waves. The crew of 29 men perished; without witnesses, a definitive reason has never been determined. A Coast Guard report suggested that faulty hatches failed to keep water out of the ship's cargo holds, though others believe the ship struck an uncharted shoal and took o­n water. A documentary created and aired by the Discovery Channel concluded the loss was due to freak waves that overwhelmed the faulty hatches.

After the wreck, the Rev. Richard Ingalls went to Mariners' Church in Detroit and rang its bell 29 times, o­nce for each life lost. The church continues to hold an annual memorial, which includes reading the names of the crewmen and ringing the church bell. Here's video of Rev. Ingalls recounting that night.  More than 250 people gathered at the church for the 40th anniversary, which was expanded to remember victims from all tragedies on the Great Lakes. And here's a remembrance from a brother of one of the lost crew members.

At the request of family members surviving her crew, Fitzgerald's 200 lb. bronze bell was recovered by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society in 1995, as a joint project with the National Geographic Society, Canadian Navy, Sony Corporation, and Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. The bell is now o­n display in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. Here's a brief video from o­ne of the underwater explorations of the wreck. Fmr newsman Larry Elliot recalls the remote expedition.  And here is a story from one of the two scuba divers to ever reach the sunken hull.  Throw in the 3-D animation, and you'll feel just like Bill Paxton.

The song by Gordon Lightfoot spent 21 straight weeks o­n the pop charts, peaking at No. 2. Here, Lightfoot discusses writing the song, and the lyrics he's changed.  And there's a homemade video for it, which I highly recommend. Beats the tar of Celine Dion! And here are six cover versions. (PS:  Ken King -- who has lived o­n the U.P. of  Michigan, says the gales of November are quite something.)

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BLITZEN TRAPPER plays KEXP.

NATION OF LANGUAGE covers the Darlene Love classic "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)."

ELBOW shares "Adriana (Again)."

LAIBACH covers "Strange Fruit."

ZACH BRYAN shares “This World’s A Giant."

THE CURE, ranked by NME.

 

RIDLEY SCOTT will never stop directing.

STAR WARS: A new trilogy is officially in the works.

MOANA 2 is tracking to shatter box office records.

DANIEL CRAIG does not care who plays 007.

THE ROYALS: Prince William, on a rough year.

LIAM PAYNE: A hotel staffer and an alleged local drug dealer were taken into custody in the investigation into the singer's fatal fall from a hotel balcony.

ELWOOD EDWARDS, the voice of "You've Got Mail," has passsed at 74.

RAYGUN retires.

 

THE SECRETARYBIRD vs a rubber cobra.

KANGAROOS, hopping in the snow?

HOW THE TABLES have turned.

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We have a chance to find the sunshine.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, November 07, 2024 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

SHARON JONES and the DAP-KINGS:  The video for "100 Days, 100 Nights" was directed by Adam Elias Buncher, who achieved the old skool look using two vintage TV cameras bought on eBay for 50 dollars each.

SHEER MAG plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM officially shares "X-Ray Eyes."

THEIR SONGS BLEW UP ON TIKTOK: They tweaked their sets.

HOW GREENWICH VILLAGE (AND DYLAN) Invented the Sixties.

THE CURE's BEST SONGS, according to ClashMusic.

PULP: Mark Webber's Favorite Records.

 

TOM HANKS has thoughts on superhero movies and movie critics.

PAUL MESCAL: Is he ready to enter Hollywood's major league?

ARCANE: Stalled after the most expensive animated series evah.

WICKED's Cynthia Erivo stirs the cauldron.

GRENDEL, which retells the old English epic poem Beowulf from the perspective of the monster, has an interesting cast, and Muppets.

DUNE 2 is picking an Oscars battle for Hans Zimmer.

JOHN WICK co-director David Leitch looks back at a decade.

 

CAMEL SEX produces a traffic jam.

A PITBULL raised by cats.

CATNIP is a helluva drug.

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Coincidentally, not a ton of "news."   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, November 06, 2024 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD: "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself."

PEDRO THE LION plays KEXP.

RICHARD SWIFT: Hear "Common Law."

BARTEES STRANGE shares "Too Much."

THE CULT's Ian Astbury talks the resurgence of goth, David Bowie's legacy and more.

QUINCY JONES: Still more tributes.

PRE-BRITPOP's sweat, smoke and sonic excess.

EDDIE VEDDER's favorite concert.

 

MICHAEL JACKSON's biopic is delayed to Fall 2025.

HARRY POTTER: The WB's plans for maximum exploitation.

WALTZING WITH BRANDO has a trailer online.

ZOE SALDANA learned to embrace sci-fi.

NETFLIX's offices in France and the Netherlands were searched in a tx fraud investigation.

THE 30 BEST MOVIES of 2024 (So Far), according to IndieWire.

 

RESCUING DOGS by canoe.

CHRISTMAS VIBES already.

A CHICK learning quick.

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