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Gerry Marsden and Tanya Roberts RIP, and 2021 Things. |
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Monday, January 04, 2021 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
JON PRATT greets the new year with a vintage guitar and vintage song, "Girl of My Dreams." SYLVAN ESSO plays for World Cafe. BARTEES STRANGE virtually visits The Current. BRANIDI CARLILE collaborated with the remaining SOUNDGARDEN members on "Black Hole Sun" and "Searching With My Good Eye Closed." BLEACHERS covers the Waterboys' classic "The Whole Of The Moon." GERRY MARSDEN, the lead singer of Gerry and the Pacemakers known for hits including "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "Ferry Cross the Mersey," has died at 78 after a short illness. With more form The Guardian. THE20 BEST DEBUTS of 2020, according to NME. THE 15 TOP POP LPs of 2020, according to Paste. STEVE BROWN, who produced everyone from Elton John to the Cult, has died aged 63. THE NUMBER ONES, on beautiful silliness, punks becoming pop stars, the rise of the Stock Aitken Waterman empire, and Bananarama's "Venus," a banger. WEEKEND BOX OFFICE? Wonder Woman 1984 repeats atop the chart with 5.5MM on a 67 percent drop. Croods: A New Age places with 2.2MM on a 25 percent rise. News of the World shows with 1.7MM on a 25 percent drop. TANYA ROBERTS, a one-time Bond girl and cult classic '80s star -- has died at 65. ZOE KRAVITZ and Karl Glusman have called it quits following just 18 months of marriage. BILLY BALDWIN chimes in on Hilaria Baldwin.So does his wife, Chynna Phillips. LARRY KING is battling COVID in a famed Los Angeles hospital. HOLLYWOOD tapped a record number of women to call the shots on major movies in 2020. THE 50 BEST MOVIES of 2020, according to Paste. A BABY BEAR, catching snowflakes. A KITTEN's First Snow Day. SO LONG, and thanks for all the fish.
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Good Riddance 2020, Happy NYE & NY. |
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Thursday, December 31, 2020 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
THE NEW YEAR HOLIDAY STARTS HERE: ...with THE BEAT FARMERS! Making a tradition of this more sober than usual, professionally-shot, early BF gig recorded at Universal Studios, including "There She Goes Again" (VU); "Road to Ruin," "Bigger Fool," "Reason to Believe" (Springsteen), "Powderfinger" (N. Young), "Happy Boy," "Big Ugly Wheels," "Bigger Stones," "Gun Sale at the Church," "Dallas Blues," "I Wanna Be Free," "Lakeside Trailer Park," "Death Train," and "Seven Year Itch." If you're new to the band, my picks would be "Bigger Stones," "Happy Boy" and the cover of your choice. BONUS: Now how much would you pay? But wait... there's more! If you really want to see someone put the "bar" in "bar band," watch these NSFW clips from Houston, TX of the late Country Dick Montana leading the band through "Lucille" (K. Rogers) -- complete with his favorite beer bottle stunts -- followed by "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Wino," "Are You Drinkin' With Me, Jesus?" and "Mondo." SUPER-SPECIAL BONUS: Country Dick rolls out "California Kid" and "Anarchy in the UK" (Language warning). U2: Crushingly obvious, I know. NICK CAVE & SHANE MacGOWAN: "What a Wonderful World." ABBA wishes you a "Happy New Year," but it doesn't sound anywhere as celebratory as "Take A Chance On Me." THE MOUNTAIN GOATS perform "This Year" at the M-Shop in Ames, IA. OTIS & CARLA have a "New Year's Resolution." CLAUDE PATE: Don't forget you can stream "New Year" on the Tube, with comments from a member of The Eclectics and Friend of Pate Ken King.JOE JACKSON: Pate frequently attempted "One More Time" to often hilarious effect, so today I stick with Joe's early material, including "Sunday Papers" live on the OGWT, "Kinda Kute" on the Kenny Everett Video Show, and a Beat Crazy-era run of "On Your Radio." The Rock Goes To College show provides live takes on "It's Different For Girls," "I'm The Man," and this pulsing version of his signature "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" BONUS: The appropos finale, "Got The Time? FLUXBLOG 's 2020 Survey Mix. AMANDA SHIRES covers Genesis' "That's All." REMEMBERING ADAM SCHLESINGER and the Year Music Died. THE NUMBER ONES on white man's overbite music and Steve Winwood's "Higher Love." THE ZOMBIES: "This Will Be Our Year." HILARIA BALDWIN is in full damage control mode. DAWN WELLS, who starred as the demure Mary Ann in popular 1960s sitcom “Gilligan's Island,” died Wednesday of causes related to COVID-19 in Los Angeles. She was 82. ANGELA KINSEY: The office alum revealed her positive COVID-19 status to fans on Instagram. MICHAEL SHEEN returned hs OBE. THE DOGS of 2020. A DOG invaded a professional soccer match in Potosi, Bolivia, halting play for around three minutes. WHICH DOGGO are you? ROAD BLOCK in Tanzania. EELS are dealing with cocaine in the Thames.
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A little more slow "news," light blogging for NYE...E. |
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Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
KEVIN BACON plays Radiohead's "Creep" for his pet goats. THE 50 BEST ALBUMS of 2020, according to NPR. AARON DESSNER talks about collaborating with Taylor Swift on evermore. PAUL HEATON (Housemartins, The Beautiful South) stepped in with a large donation when Q magazine folded. MARK LANEGAN reflects on 2020. PATTI SMITH: "As a writer, you can be a pacifist or a murderer." LEONARD COHEN'S Best Songs, according to SPIN. ALEC BALDWIN snapped on Instagram after his wife was accused of faking her Spanish accent. She swore off Instagram, then posted eight more times. MEGXIT: Harry, Megan, and Archie dropped their first podcast. TOM HANKS, on making a Western and the future of movies. TOM CRUISE is set to resume shooting "Mission: Impossible 7" in the U.K., as it once again braves a devastating wave of coronavirus. EMMA ROBERTS welcomed her first child, a baby boy, with partner Garrett Hedlund. ANTHONY HOPKINS celebrates 45 years of sobriety. ROBERT RODGRIGUEZ jams with Baby Yoda. PETE DOCTER: The Man Behind Pixar's Deepest Explorations. JOE CLARK, who became a legend as the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal of Eastside High School in Paterson in the 1980s, died on Tuesday. I, FOR ONE, welcome our new robot overlords. CHEESE IT, the human is coming! 2020: The year in rascality.
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Leslie West RIP, and easing into the gap between holidays. |
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Monday, December 28, 2020 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE? Wonder Woman 1984 posted a record result for the pandemic since theaters reopened in late August, with 16.7MM domestic and 85MM worldwide. The first Wonder Woman opened to 103.2MM. No word on what it did for HBOMax subscriptions. Wonder Woman 3 is being fast-tracked written by Patty Jenkins, who is attached to direct, and starring Gal Gadot. Tom Hanks' News of the World placed with 2.4MM. Croods: A New Age showed with 1.7MM on a 17 percent drop. WONDER WOMAN 1984, btw, was not good, and I say that as someone who enjoyed the original quite a bit. It has a few good moments, and several good ideas, none of which get fully baked. The WB made sure it would get early buzz from outlets which would go easy on it, only to have the Tomatometer plummet after its release. You can get a non-spoilery flavor of the split critical reaction at THR. DAVID BOWIE's early career gets over three hours of discussion and analysis on Political Beats, with guest Damon Linker. PAUL McCARTNEY as a management study. THE NUMBER ONES, while I was out, looked at Simply Red's "Holding Back the Years," Genesis' "Invisible Touch," Peer Gabriel's "Sledgehammer," and Peter cetera's "Glory of Love." LESLIE WEST, the towering co-founder of hard rock group Mountain who belted the classic rock staple "Mississippi Queen," has died at age 75. THE BEST NON-CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS MOVIES, according to The Ringer. MEGXIT: Harry and Meghan want a more permanent agreement to continue as non-working royals in California despite big-money deals with Netflix and Spotify. HILARIA BALDWIN tried to explain herself after people accused her of pretending to be Spanish. A HOMELESS MAN rescued all the animals at a shelter after it caught on fire. ANIMALS at Sydney's Taronga Zoo were treated to Christmas themed food. RESCUING a deer stuck on a frozen lake, because slippery.
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