Karl THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:
…with The Go-Gos! They made history as the first all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts. Kind of a hard band to place seasonally. Their debut, Beauty and the Beat, which yielded hits like “Our Lips Are Sealed“ and “We Got the Beat,” as well as great album cuts like “This Town,” “Lust to Love,” “Tonite” and “How Much More,” came out in late Summer 1981, iirc, and “Lips” was climbing the charts that Fall, so I mentally place the band in this time of year. And it’s still warm enough that the title track to the too-quick sophomore album, “Vacation,” — or their cover of the Capitols’ “Cool Jerk” — doesn’t sound too out of place. “Get Up and Go“ was also a single from that LP, but it didn’t make the Top 40. The band would chart twice more — in 1984, with “Head Over Heels“ and “Turn to You“ — before splitting and the near-inevitable reunion tours.
Toadies play KUTX.
Cameron Winter debuted “Love Takes Miles” in N’awlins.
U2 shares “Silencio.” Their upcoming LP will feature Dolly Parton’s last vocal performance.
Sebadoh shares an alternate version of “Beauty of the Ride.”
Andy Schauf barely shares “The Interruptor.”
Morphine will release Cocoon, a new album constructed from music that Mark Sandman left behind in the last years of his life.
Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning has a trailer online.
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Avengers: Endgame Encore may top the weekend box office, tracking for a 25-28MM re-release promising a connection to Doomsday.
Paramount intends to raise approximately 44.4 billion of additional secured debt to help fund its acquisition of Warner Bros., which has been paused by the judge considering the settlement of the antitrust case brought by state AGs.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress has introduced proposed legislation to establish a federal film and television tax credit, aimed at reshoring production work back to the U.S.
Misty Green, written and directed by Chris Rock, has a trailer online.
Madden, starring Nicolas Cage, has a trailer online.
Day Drinker, starring Johnny Depp, has a trailer online.
Clayface has a final trailer online.
Reacher is yuge on streaming too.
House of Mouse: Ex-Disney CEO Bob Chapek is publishing a memoir settling a score with his predecessor — and successor — Bob Iger.
Letterboxd: The New York Times and A24 emerge as potential suitors for the movie review site.
Dick Guttman, who spent more than 70 years as a Hollywood “press agent” with a client list that included Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood, William Holden, Elizabeth Taylor and Buzz Aldrin, has died. He was 93.
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Belgian Malinois: Problem solving. And playing while the owner is away.
A Doggo figures out the treadmill.
A Pupper’s Happy Birthday.
Cats & Dogs, living together…
