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When the expected bad news is beat by the surprise awful news. |
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
THE MAMAS & PAPAS lip-synced "California Dreaming" really well on Hullaballoo, but not showing you the go-go dancers, who are worth the wait. NEIL YOUNG: Honey Slides 2024. ROBERT POLLARD adopts the name Rip Van Winkle for "Prose Kaiser." THE BLACK KEYS share "Beautiful People (Stay High)." FUTURE ISLANDS: Samuel T. Herring on his old performance-art band Art Lord & The Self-Portraits, linking up with Madlib and Kenny Segal, doing rap battles in his school cafeteria, that legendary Letterman performance, and much more. JOHNNY MARR: Not a fan of "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" being played at a Donald Trump rally. FRANK FARIAN, the German producer who gave you Boney M and Milli Vanilli, has died at 82. THE OSCARS nominations went to these folks. Congrats! Plus, the snubs and misses. RYAN GOSLING issued a statement about those Barbie snubs. MONDAY NIGHT RAW is headed to Netflix. HIT MAN, ft Glen Powell, has a teaser trailer online. ANNE HATHAWAY walked out of a Vanity Fair photoshoot to honor a work stoppage at Conde Nast. GARY GRAHAM, who starred as the human detective who partners with an extraterrestrial newcomer to solve crimes on the Fox sci-fi television franchise Alien Nation, has died. He was 73. CHARLES OSGOOD, the genial radio and television commentator who anchored CBS Sunday Morning for more than two decades, died Tuesday. He was 91. REVIVING a newborn foal. CATS will be cats. A BIRD imitates John Cleese.
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Warming up to freezing. |
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
RICHARD THOMPSON: The culmination of 1000 Years Of Popular Music. THE HIVES play KEXP. SQUIRREL FLOWER plays a mini-concert on World Cafe. CHARLEY CROCKETT shares "10 Dollar Cowboy." PITCHFORK: Declaring music journalism to be dead amid the uncertainty of the site's absoption by GQ is premature. ELLE KING was hammered for a trainwreck of an appearance at a Dolly Parton tribute at the Opry. THE dB's PETER HOLSAPPLE & CHRIS STAMEY are playing the 50th anniversary of The Trouser Press. SUSIE TENNANT, longtime member of the Seattle music community, promotions and marketing legend, and early supporter of Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and others - has died of early onset dementia. She was 61 years old. THE NUMBER ONES on Taylor Swift's first chart-topper, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." OSCARS NOMINATIONS are announced this morning. Variety and THR are among those with predictions. NORMAN JEWISON, who steered the 1967 racial drama “In the Heat of the Night” to a best picture Oscar and also helmed such popular films as “Moonstruck,” “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” and “The Thomas Crown Affair,” as well as film musicals “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Jesus Christ Superstar,” died Saturday at his Los Angeles residence. He was 97. FERRARI's Slow-Motion Crash in Nine Steps. THE WIZARD OF OZ, but set in Inglewood? Have they seen The Wiz? JURASSIC WORLD is turning to the screenwriter of Jurassic Park for the next installment. ANTHONY HOPKINS is writing hs biography; his wife is working on a documentary about him. GODZILLA MINUS ONE had only 35 visual effects artists. A DOGGO takes his place. AN ELEPHANT pranks a Jeep. CATS& DOGS, living together... SEA LION: A day in the life.
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Remember Mary Weiss. And Marlena Shaw. |
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Monday, January 22, 2024 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
DOBIE GRAY is in with "The In Crowd." NEW RELEASES: Pitchfork will point you to Sleater-Kinney, Green Day, and more. BILL's INDIE BASEMENT has Bolts of Melody, Black Grape, and more. MODERN ENGLISH return with "Not My Leader." BILLY JOEL is teasing his first new music in 17 years. SLEATER-KINNEY look back on the highlights and weird detours of their long career. SWERVEDRIVER assesses their catalog. MARY WEISS, the former lead singer of the Shangri-Las, died on Friday at age 75. MARLENA SHAW, who is best known for her hit track California Soul, has reportedly passed away at the age of 81. WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Mean Girls repeats atop the chart with 11.7MM, but on a 59 percent drop amid the traditional January doldrums. The Beekeper places with 8.4MM on a 49 percent drop. Wonka shows with 6.4MM on a leggy 24 percent drop. Anyone But You, in the fourth slot, has cleared 100MM worldwide, becoming the highest grossing R-rated romantic comedy since 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby. SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE is the first animated movie to make the visual effects Academy Award shortlist since 2020. OPPENHEIMER: An Oral History, on video with RDJr, Murphy, and Blunt. ALEC BALDWIN, indicted again for the Rust shooting. JESSE EISENBERG, on filming at a concentration camp andwanting to direct a musical. ALSO: He and Riley Keough are playing Sasquatches. GLEN POWELL, on Hit Man, and Top Gun 3. AVA DuVERNAY Wants to Build a New System. JOSH RADNOR ("How I Met Your Mother") met his wife on a psychedelic trip, more or less. SCRIPTED TV orders are in a precipitous decline. IF YOUR DOG runs, RUN. A CAT assists a kitten with a stuck toy. A DOGGO and a Baby. CATS & DOGS, living together...
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Baby steps out the door. |
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Friday, January 19, 2024 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:
...with NEIL DIAMOND! There are two types of people, you know. But here's Neil on the Beeb in 1971. Your set list: "Sweet Caroline," "Solitary Man," "Cracklin' Rosie," "Done Too Soon," "A Modern Day Version Of Love," "He Aint' Heavy (He's My Brother)," "Holly Holy," and "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show." And "I Am I Said" is back the Tube right now. ALLAH-LAS plays KEXP. PALEHOUND plays KEXP. THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN shares "Chemical Animal." REAL ESTATE shares "Haunted World." LANA DEL REY teased a new song, and some kind of promotion or collaboration with SKIMS, Kim Kardashian’s underwear brand. MERSEY BEAUCOUP: The Beatles in Paris, 1964. PITCHFORK's FATE: A dark omen for the future of music? THE BAFTA AWARDS nominations went to these folks. Congrats! YELLOWSTONE's Taylor Sheridan will adapt and direct Empire Of The Summer Moon. MICHAEL B. JORDAN & RYAN COOGLER are reuniting on a secret genre project. THE COEN BROS plan to collaborate again. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER was briefly detained at Munich airport on Wednesday. BIJOU PHILLIPS left Scientology after her cobnvicted hisband, Danny Masterson, was expelled. JASON MOMOA hopes to make a "good" movie someday. THE WEST WING will have an announcment next week. Oh boy? PINOCCHIO is getting the horror treatment. JODIE FOSTER turned down the role of Princess Leia in that Star Wars movie. SOCIETY OF THE SNOW has a trailer online. A CAT, petting the fishes. THE INDRI LEMUR has a weird howl. A BIG DOG, cuddling.
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Don't call it a respite. |
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Thursday, January 18, 2024 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
THE HOLLIES: "I Can't Let Go." TOMMY STINSON playes KEXP. DAN BOECKNER of Wolf Parade shares "Lose." BLITZ VEGA, the band led by late Smiths bassist Andy Rourke, shares "Strong Forever." PITCHFORK will be merged with the men's magazine GQ, and there are a bunch of layoffs already. I had my issues with the site's trajectory in recent years, but it is the end of an era. JEFF TWEEDY talks about songwriting, influences, and the worst Beatles song. THE SONGWRITING HALL OF FAME announced its 2024 class, including R.E.M. and Steely Dan. LARRY COLLINS, the prodigious child guitarist who worked with his sister Lorrie as the exuberant 1950s rockabilly duo the Collins Kids, has died at 79. VULTURE's Second Annual Stunt Awards. OPPENHEIMER: Inside the production and costume design. THE ROYALS: Kate Middleton is hospitalized for abdominal surgery. King Charles is seeking treatment for an enlarged prostate. THE NEW LOOK, with Ben Medelsohn as Dior, has a trailer online. THIS IS ME... NOW, ft J-Lo as a sex addict, has a trailer online. TINA FEY may follow Lorne Michaels as the exec of SNL. ZACK SNYDER wanted Bruce Wayne to impregnate Lois Lane, which was deemed "super creepy" by the WB and DC. MARVEL's Netflix shows have become MCU canon. PAULY SHORE will play Richard Simmons in a biopic. Simmons is not thrilled. KYLE MacLACHLAN recreated one of Lorde‘s recent Instagram posts teasing new music. THE MOST SEARCHED Sex Scenes. LYNNE MARTA, whose 30-year Hollywood acting career spanned from 1971 to 2002 and included an appearance in Footloose, has died, aged 78. A RACCOON hits the Dunkin drive-thru. PELICAN vs CAPYBARAS: Who You Got? DOG and Butterfly.
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