Karl Richard Lloyd, the Television co-founder and guitarist who helped bring a deft virtuosity to punk’s stripped-down fury, has died at the age of 75. Eff cancer.
New Releases: Paste will point you to Chastity Belt, Girl Tones, and more.
Bill’s Indie Grotto has Twisted Teens, Django Django, and more.
Superchunk released a new EP called Wintry Mix, including covers of Wham!, The Magnetic Fields, and Galaxie 500.
Tegan & Sara share “I Love Christmas” and “A December To Remember.”
MJ Lenderman covers Neil Young’s “Separate Ways.”
Guppy shares “Looking Right At It.”
Olivia Rodrigo’s “take me home (4 christmas)” shares a vibe with the Waitresses’ 1981 classic “Christmas Wrapping,” but that band’s Chris Butler is cool with it.
Angine de Poitrine brought out a third member… on triangle.
Tom Jones thought he was going to die after being rushed to the hospital by paramedics last week.
Alanis Morissette has come out as pansexual and I thought you, you, you… oughta know.
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Weekend Box Office: Godzilla Minus Zero tops the chart with 31.6MM, which iirc is a record for a live-action, foreign language film in North America. Cat in the Hat places with 20.5MM, which is not great, not bad. Drummer Boy, a faith-based flick from Angel Studios, shows with 9.3MM.
Robert Pattinson has emerged as a contender for 007.
Bill Skarsgård seems annoyed that he was not in the James Bond sweepstakes, despite being a Swede. He’s up for being cast as a villain though.
Russell Brand finds out about prison life.
Sylvester Stallone, on ending his rivalry with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
U2’s The Edge wrote a sequel to Elf. Yes, really.
Jamie Foxx’s Halloween party featured a stabbing.
More Girls, no Adam Driver.
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A Rogue Corgi, at the Panthers-Broncos game.
A Hawk, freed after flying into a car grille at 55 m.p.h.
A Squirrel, farting in the bath.
