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Thursday, December 07, 2023 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
THE RAVEONETTES' 2011 video for 2001's "The Christmas Song." BOB DYLAN, Live at Jones Beach, New York, on 30 June 1988. U2 covers "A Rainy Night in Soho" in tribute to Shane MacGowan. And so does Glen Hansard. MICHAEL SHANNON & JASON NARDUCY cover R.E.M.'s "Radio Free Europe." VALERIE JUNE covers Duran Duran's "Ordinary World." CAR SEAT HEADREST: Will Toledo on his live LP, his recovery from long COVID, the state of Bandcamp, and more. AARON DESSSNER on Taylor Swift. SCREAMING FEMALES breaks up. R.E.M.'s Top Five Cover Songs. THE 37 BEST ROCK ALBUMS of 2023, according to Pitchfork. NORMAN LEAR, who revolutionized American comedy with such daring, immensely popular early-‘70s sitcoms as “All in the Family” and “Sanford and Son,” died on Tuesday. He was 101. A SECOND FORMER GRAMMYS CEO is facing a lawsuit for sexual assault. PUFF DADDY has been accused of gang-raping and sex-trafficking a 17-year-old schoolgirl. POOR THINGS director Yorgos Lanthimos on Emma Stone's weird sex scenes. MAHERSHALA ALI has hopes for the Blade reboot that had seemed derailed. TAYLOR SWIFT is TIME's Person of the Year. WONKA gets a good review from Timothee Chalamet's mother. DECEMBER 7, 1941: A "date which will live in infamy." I'll be watching Tora! Tora! Tora! BTW, the first nation invaded by the US after entering WWII was Morocco, then Algeria, iirc. War is strange. A POSSUM in your Christmas tree. COWS & DOGS, living together... A BABY HORSE, rescued from a bridge.
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Let's plow. |
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Tuesday, December 05, 2023 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
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Shaking off a cold, hoping for a 2-week sprint. |
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Monday, December 04, 2023 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
U2 cover "Merry Christmas, Baby (Please Come Home)." NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you Guided by Voices, Peter Gabriel, and more. BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Harp, Trevor Horn, and more. LANA DEL REY covers the John Denver classic “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” GRANDDADDY shares "Cabin In My Mind." KISS played their final two shows at MSG, allegedly. KATE PIERSON, from her memories of the B-52’s very first shows in New York City to appearing in the Flintstones movie and singing with R.E.M. and beyond. THE TOP 50 SONGS of 2023, according to Rolling Stone. WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé tops the chart with 22MM, which is a pretty good total for the post-Thanksgiving frame. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes places with 14.5MM on a respectable 50 percent drop. Godzilla Minus One, an actual subtitled Toho epic, shows with 11MM and almost universally good reviews. THANKSGIVING: Eli Roth promises a second helping. ROBERT DOWNEY JR's Third Act. RYAN GOSLING talks Kenergy. MICHAEL B. JORDAN crashed his Ferrari into a parked car. JODIE FOSTER hopes people ate tiring of superhero movies. KELSEY GRAMMER shares the soundtrack of his life. HOW NICOLAS COPPOLA Became Nicolas Cage. CATS & DOGS, living together... DOG and Butterflies. DEER, prancing through the forest at night. CATCHING a falling bear. Pretty sure I've seen this before, but still cool.
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Shane MacGowan and Scott Kempner RIP. |
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Friday, December 01, 2023 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:
SHANE MacGOWAN, the brilliant but chaotic songwriter who as frontman for the Pogues reinvigorated interest in Irish music in the 1980s by harnessing it to the propulsive power of punk rock, died on Thursday. He was 65. His wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, said the cause was pneumonia but did not say where he died. Here's the Billboard obit, and a tribute/obit from The Guardian. Tributes from fellow musicians are compiled by Consequence. A selection of his best work, both with and without The Pogues, is collected at Stereogum, including the Chrismas classic “Fairytale Of New York,” but bizarrely omitting "A Pair of Brown Eyes." BONUS: Over two hours of discussion and analysis of The Pogues. SCOTT KEMPNER, co-founding guitarist of the Dictators and the Del-Lords, is dead at 69. The musician passed away from complications of early onset dementia at a nursing home in Connecticut. That first Del-Lords LP is so, so good. LANA DEL REY put her own spin on ‘Unchained Melody’ for NBC’s new Christmas at Graceland special. HORSEGIRL & LIFEGUARD, two Chicago bands, cover the Stone Roses' "I Wanna Be Adored." PAULA COLE of all people shares "The Replacements and Dinosaur Jr." THE REPLACEMENTS: A Pitchfork podcast on the Tim reissue features some Tommy Stinson. DARYL HALL wins the first stage of his lawsuit against JOHN OATES. SOUNDGARDEN still has litigation going on too. FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA has a trailer online. SEBASTIAN STAN has reportedly been tapped to portray a young Donald Trump in an upcoming film titled The Apprentice. TOM HOLLAND, on whether he will return as Spider-Man. THE FUGITIVE: Director Andrew Davis, on the movie's legacy. KELLY CLARKSON's ex-husband overcharged her as manager, a judge rules. MEG RYAN, on Aging, Dating, and Rom-Coms. BILLY CRYSTAL is the last of his kind. A RARE GIANT RAT that can grow to the size of a baby and chew through coconuts caught on camera for first time. LIONS & TIGERS & DOG, Oh My! A DOGGO and a calf.
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