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Monday, June 12, 2023 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
EDDIE COCHRAN: "Summertime Blues." Ain't no cure for 'em. NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Jason Isbell, Jenny Lewis, Dream Wife, and more. BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has King Krule, Love and Rockets, the Boo Radleys, and more. JONI MITCHELL played her first ticketed headline show in over two decades. MIRANDA LAMBERT & LEON BRIDGES share "If You Were Mine." THE BEST OF 2023 (So Far), according to Pitchfork and Vulture. JASON ISBELL talks Weathervanesat TIME. THE NUMBER ONES looks at electro-rap, the end of the Black Eyed Peas' imperial era, and "Imma Be." WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts tops the chart with a 60.5MM debut, just a few million ahead of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which places wth 55.4MM on a 54 percent drop that's great for a Marvel blockbuster (Indeed, the sequel has already outgrossed the theatrical run of the original). The Little Mermaid shows with 22.7MM on a 45 percent drop in week 3 (again, this movie's problem's are overseas, not North America). THE SPIDER-VERSE: What's Next? THE CHOSEN: The CW has picked up the first three seasons of a show about Jesus, described by an exec as "based on the biggest IP of all time." DANNY MASTERSON'S ex-lawyers have been hit with fines after a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled they leaked confidential information about Masterson’s rape victims to the Church of Scientology’s lawyer. NETFLIX's crackdown on password sharing appears to be converting freeloaders into paying customers in the U.S. AMY SCHUMER, on why she dropped out of the Barbie movie. BRITNEY SPEARS' ex-husband Kevin Federline denies a report linking the pop star to meth. A DOGGO, leading a school of fish. A CAT, not riding a Roomba. A DOGGO, vigilant for a squirrel, but. AND THERE WERE PIGS all over the highway.
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The butcher, the banker, the drummer and then |
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Friday, June 09, 2023 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: with SLY & THE FAMILY STONE, who rip through a medley of "Everyday People" and "Dance to the Music," plus "Hot Fun in the Summertime," "Don't Call Me N*gger, Whitey," and "I Want to Take You Higher" on network TV, circa 1969. TENNIS plays KEXP. CHARLIE WILSON of the Gap Band plays a Tiny Desk Concert. CHRIS FARREN shares "Bluish." THE BLACK KEYS talk to NME about Noel gallagher, Glastonbury, and more. CALIFONE: Tim Rutili talks to Aquarium Drunkard about his creative process, the 20th anniversary of his Ugly Casanova project with Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock, and how reality television influenced the new album. PRIMAL SCREAM: The son of the late keyboardist Martin Duffy accuses his father's bandmates of financial exploitation. FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE: Welcome Interstate Managers Turns 20. Get off my lawn. ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE: How a 14-year-old came to animate a sequence in the blockbuster. BILL MURRAY and... Kelis? DIEGO LUNA & HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN talk lightsaber bruises and financial stabilty. BRYAN CRANSTON is retiring from acting.... in 2026. EMILY BLUNT, on motherhood, moving behind the camera and the enduring magic of the big screen. POOR THINGS has a trailer online. JENNA JAMESON marries her girlfriend Jessi Lawless in Vegas. BARRY NEWMAN, whose terse integrity and understated rebelliousness made the 1971 movie “Vanishing Point” an enduring hit in the annals of American cinema about the open road, died on May 11 in Manhattan. He was 92. PAT ROBERTSON, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and the Christian Coalition, died on Thursday at his home in Virginia Beach, Va. He was 93. A LARGE POD OF ORCAS, celebrating the hunt. CATS & DOGS, with a tortoise cameo. A PIGEON, an escalator.
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Jack Lee RIP |
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Thursday, June 08, 2023 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
AEROSMITH: "Train Kept A-Rollin'" At least until Midnight. UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA plays a Tiny Desk Concert. BUSH TETRAS returns with "They Live In My Head." SHARON VAN ETTEN shares "Quiet Eyes." PJ HARVEY shares "I Inside The Old I Dying." ROGER WATERS: The State Dept. weighed in on his recent performances in Germany. JACK LEE, frontman of the 1970s power-pop trio the Nerves and the writer of Blondie’s colossal 1978 hit “Hanging on the Telephone,” died in Santa Monica, California, on May 26. He was 71. THE NUMBER ONES looks at Kesha's party-monster anthem "Tik Tok," the first chart-topper of the '10s. ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE has a chase sequence that took four years to animate. CHRISTOPHER NOLAN, on visualizing the physics in Oppenheimer's head. EXPEND4BLES has a trailer online. BRYAN SINGER is self-financing a documentary defending himself. LEONARDO DiCAPRIO and Gigi Hadid? JAY JOHNSTON (Mr. Show, Arrested Development, The Sarah Silverman Show, Bob's Burger's, Anchorman) was arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. JARED LETO scaled a Berlin hotel without a harness. TRUE LOVE'S First Kiss. A STUCK TURTLE gets help from humans. CATS & DOGS, living together...
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The Girl From Ipanema and Grorge Winston RIP. |
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Wednesday, June 07, 2023 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
CARL DOUGLAS, with the classic "Kung Fu Fighting." BEN FOLDS plays World Cafe. PETER GABRIEL shares "Road To Joy," co-produced by Brian Eno. KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD share "Dragon." ASTRUD GILBERTO, the Brazilian singer whose version of “The Girl From Ipanema” helped popularize bossa nova around the world, has died at 83. JENNY LEWIS Keeps Finding the Magic. THE 50 BEST ALBUMS of 2023 (So Far), according to Stereogum. GEORGE WINSTON, the pianist and guitarist known for foundational solo piano recordings at the dawn of New Age, died Sunday (June 4) after a decade-long battle with cancer. ZACK SNYDER GOES GALACTIC: Vanity Fair's Exclusive First Look at Rebel Moon. SAG-AFTRA voted to authorize a strike as the actors enter negotiations with the studios. CHRIS HEMSWORTH, critiqued by eight-year-olds, and more. THE ROYALS: In suing UK tabloids, Prince Harry became the first prominent member of the British royal family to give evidence in court in 130 years. ELLIOT PAGE claims he had a passionate romance with co-star Olivia Thirlby on the set of “Juno” and they had sex “all the time” while filming. CUBA GOODING JR settled accusations that he raped a woman in a New York City hotel a decade ago. THE BINGE PURGE: TV's streaming model is broken. It's also not going away. A CAT, imitiating Michael Jackson. A MAMA CAT moves in on the ducks. AN ORANGUTAN and a kitty. A DOG tries to stop a tiger and lion from fighting.
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A reasonable fascimile of Summer. |
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Tuesday, June 06, 2023 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
URGE OVERKILL: Their killer '93 single "Sister Havana" and their even more famous cover of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" are your Twofer Tuesday. GLYDERS covers Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Damned, Scott Walker, and Johnny Mathis for a Lagniappe Session. DARK CANYON covers Lee Hazlewood for a Lagniappe Session. SEMISONC returns with “Little Bit Of Sun” and “Grow Your Own.” BLOC PARTY returns with "Keep It Rolling." JENNY LEWIS on touring with Harry Styles, being happily single and the importance of joy - mostly in puppy form - in your life. LUCINDA WILLIAMS talks about her new record, the Stinson brothers, and more. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, on returning to his family's folk roots. PAUL OAKENFOLD denies sexual harassment allegations. THE NUMBER ONES looks at Jay-Z & Alicia Keys' inescapable New York anthem "Empire State Of Mind," which happens to be Jay's only chart-topper as lead artist. TAYLOR SWIFT & MATTY HEALY are dunzo. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, on telling Maria Shriver that he knocked up the housekeeper. THE FAST & FURIOUS: Vin Diesel and Jason Momoa are beefing? HOUSE OF MOUSE: The Man Reimagining Disney Classics for Today's World. MATTHEW BRODERICK, on John Hughes and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. CHRISTOPHER NOLAN breaks down the best ways to watch a movie. THE IDOL: "This Is Not Going to Be for Everybody." DREW BARRYMORE, figuring it out on-air. BAM MARGERA has been placed on involuntary psychiatric hold by police. A KINGFISHER, fishing. AN ELEPHANT, drinking. A DRAGONFLY, cleaning its windshields.
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