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Shindig, Jay Som, Hot Chip, Phish, Southern Cat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, December 06, 2019 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with A CHRISTMAS SHINDIG! The full episode has gone dark, but still-available clips from 1964 include The Beach Boys' "Dance, Dance, Dance," Bobby Sherman and Donna Loren singing "Keep on Searching," the Righteous Brothers doing "The Jerk" and an awesome milk commercial, Adam Faith with "Watch Your Step," and "Santa Claus Is Back In Town", Bobby Sherman with "Sleigh Ride," Donna Loren returning with a Spector-esque, but rougher "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," and The Beach Boys deliver a set including "Little Saint Nick," "Monster Mash" (yes, really) "Papa Oom Mow Mow," "Johnny B. Goode," and "We Three Kings."

JAY SOM visits KEXP.

HOT CHIP visits KEXP.

PHISH, Live at Nassau Coleseum, Dec. 1, 2019. Including Talking Heads' "Cities."

 

THE KINKS, with the evergreen "Father Christmas."

1973: The Death Rattle, but fans Almost Famous knew that.

25 GREAT EPs from 2019, according to Stereogum.

DEPECHE MODE's 1980s seduction of Eastern Europe, and late stage capitalism.

CMJ is relaunching in 2020.

THE RAMONES' heirs settle a long-running trademark dispute.

 

NOW SHOWING:This weekend's sole wide release is Playmobil, which is currently scoring 23 percent onb the ol' Tomatometer.  But Dark Waters expands wide scoring 92 percent.

R KELLY Is Charged With Using Bribes to Marry Aaliyah at Age 15. Meanwhile, Joycelyn Savage asserted she had been "hacked," and that a series of online accusations published last month that said that the R&B singer had sexually and physically abused her were false.

MULAN has a trailer online.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE apologized to JESSICA BIEL after his "strong lapse in judgment" with a co-star. She'll stand by him.

JOHNNY DEPP's reps have now denied he is working on the musical that will blame Jackson's sex abuse allegations on a glove that feeds on "virgin boy blood."

FELICITY JONES and husband Charles Guard are expecting their first child.

WATCHING BRAD PITT: Is he watching us?

DECEMBER 7, 1941: A "date which will live in infamy." I'll be watching Tora! Tora! Tora! this weekend. BTW, the first nation invaded by the US after entering WWII was Morocco, then Algeria, iirc. War is strange.


A CAT meowing with a 'thick Southern accent' goes viral on Instagram.

TOFFI tried her best; the couch is canceled.

DAVE THE DUCK had something removed after trying to mate 10 times a day.

A SINGLE-CELL CREATURE makes complex decisions without a nervous system. Same, tbh.

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Thursday, December 05, 2019 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE RAMONES: "Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)."

BECK brings new material to Morning Becomes Eclectic.

THE GO-BETWEENS: Hear rarities and live tracks from volume two of 'G Stands For Go-Betweens.'

MIKAL CRONIN visits KUTX.

THE JAMES HUNTER SIX shares "I Can Change Your Mind."

CARIBOU shares "You and I."

 

TOM PETTY, playing a countrified "Refugee"at The Bridge School Benefit in 1988.

THE TOP 100 ALBUMS & SONGS of the 2010s, according to Rolling Stone. And the latter is... odd.

ALTAMONT AT 50: Part of the argument Joel Selvin makes in his 2016 history of that day is that the Rolling Stones — with their own self-interest in mind — have successfully shaped way we understand Altamont, by means of the documentary film Gimme Shelter.

GRIMES, interviewed by Lana Del Rey and Brit Marling.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Andy Gibb's sleazy-but-angsty "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water," a footnote to an absurdly dominant Bee Gees run.

 

NO TIME TO DIE has a trailer online.

STAR WARS is getting LGBTQ representation, as if the whole C-3PO and R2-D2 thing wasn't highly charged.

KATE BECKINSALE wants yyou to know she is not too old for bikini photos.

JASON MOMOA apologizes to CHRIS PRATTabout a plastic water bottle.

THE BEST TV SHOWS of 2019, according to The Ringer.

2019: The End of a TV Era?

McMILLIONS has a trailer online. I knew this would be turned into entertainment.

 

A HEARTSICK TIGER traveled a whopping 800 miles in search of a soulmate and food. Take that, Proclaimers!

CATS HAVE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; we're just bad at reading them.

DOG starts house fire by switching on microwave.

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Wednesday, December 04, 2019 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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GLAM CHOPS: Art Brut's Eddie Argos has a "Countdown to Christmas."

CRAIG FINN, Live at Rockwwell Music Hall.

DEVENDRA BANHART visits WFUV Live.

SHERYL CROW plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

M WARD shares “Migration of Souls.”

TAME IMPALA shares “Posthumous Forgiveness.”

 

BIG THIEF plays "Not" and Cattails" for Stereogum.

ELO: Jeff Lynne talks to All Songs Considered.

ALTAMONT'S mystery Moog player, revealed.

THE TOP 100 SONGS of 2010, according to Treble.

THE BEST ALBUMS of 2019, according to Stereogum.

 

ANTHONY HOPKINS interviews BRAD PITT.

BLACK WIDOW has a teaser trailer online.

THE ROCK talks about remarrying.

GABRIELLE UNION is set to sit down with NBC this week over what really happened on America's Got Talent and why she was sacked from the Simon Cowell-created show.

PLANET OF THE APES is getting yet another reboot.

GRETA GERWIG tells Uproxx why all roads lead to Little Women.

ARMIE HAMMER milks a goat.

D.C. FONTANA, who helped craft the lore of “Star Trek” and developed one of its signature characters, Spock, as the first female writer for the 1960s television series, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Burbank, Calif. She was 80 and lived in Los Angeles.

 

THIS CAT loves massaging pigs.

A SEAL with the hiccups.

SCIENTSTS used loudspeakers to make dead coral reefs sound healthy. Fish flocked to them.

A DEAD WHALE explodes with 220 pounds of trash in its stomach.

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Tuesday, December 03, 2019 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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GLAM XMAS:  Wizzard's awesome "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" and Slade's "Merry Christmas Everybody" (1973's UK Xmas No. 1) are your Twofer Tuesday.

WHITNEY visits The Current.

LIAM GALLAGHER visits World Cafe.

BLACK UHURU plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

REGINA SPEKTOR shares “One Little Soldier.”

RICHARD ASHCROFT covers "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."

 

DOLLY PARTON sang "Jolene" on TV lask week, icymi.

THE LAST WALTZ, undubbed. Well, two-thirds of it, anyway.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS ALBUMS, according to Rolling Stone and Paste.

BILLIE EILISH didn't know VAN HALEN. A kerfuffle ensued.

IRVING BURGIE, a songwriter whose adaptation of the traditional Jamaican folk song "Day-O" became one of the definitive calypso songs of the 20th century, died on Friday. He was 95.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Bee Gees' iconic disco smash "Stayin' Alive."

 

TAYLOR SWIFT, on intellectual property and the weirdness of Cats.

KATE MIDDLETON spent two days quietly getting some work experience on a maternity ward of a major London hospital.

SHELLEY MORRISON, a character actress best known for playing the feisty maid Rosario Salazar on “Will & Grace,” has died at 83.

JOHN WATERS picks his Top 10 films of the year.

THE BEST TV SHOWS of the 2010s, according to Uproxx.

SHOULD SUPERMAN be "relevant"? Neil Gaiman thinks not.

 

LIL BUB, one of the internet's most famous and distinctive cats, has passed away.

AN 18000-YEAR-OLD PUPPY buried in a lump of frozen mud has been found in Russia. Scientists hope it can help explain the connection between dogs and wolves.

THEMBA THE LION, caught sneezing.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT wages war on Christmas.

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Monday, December 02, 2019 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl 

U2 cover "Merry Christmas, Baby (Please Come Home)."

PRINCE: Hear his 1999 outtakes.

NEW RELEASES: Pitchfork will point you to Ducks Unlimited, TEETH, and more.

INDIE BASEMENT will point you to Stereolab, Breathless, Woolen Men, and more.

THE KACEY MUSGRAVES CHRISTMAS SHOW: Hear her duets with Lana Del Rey, Zooey Deschanel, Fred Armisen, Leon Bridges,and more.

 

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB get a little psychedelic in "Everything Else Has Gone Wrong."

BECK is Home.

THE GOOD LISTENER: Have All The Good Songs Been Written?

MOJO's Top 75 Albums of 2019.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Player's extremely memorable soft rock confection "Baby Come Back."

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Frozen II repeats atop the chart with 85.3MM on a mere 35 percent decline, and it might prove to be stronger if the estimates overestimated the snowstorm in parts of the country.  Knives Out places with 27MM, and 41.7MM since opening last week; the calendar shapes up well for it to find legs on good word of mouth.  Ford v Ferrari shows with 13.2MM on a mere 16 percent drop, which makes 100MM domestic a realistic target (which won't hurt come awards season). A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood also showed legs, taking the fourth slot with 11.8MM on a mere 11 percent drop; it's hard to judge this one, given budget estimates between 25MM and 45MM.  The debut of Queen & Slim rounds out the Top Five with 11.6MM (15.7MM since opening last week), which should be fine against a 20MM budget.

FORD v FERARRI has been needled as a "Dad movie," and perhaps it is, but a very good one.  Sports movies are usually about characters overcoming obstacles, and here the characters hold your interest. While most of the focus will be on Christian Bale's performance and transformation into Ken Miles, and Matt Damon's less flashy, but skillful turn as Carroll Shelby, Catriona Belfe gets the most out of her supporting role as Mollie Miles -- and without her, the audience would be much less investsed in Bale's character.  Plus, James Burton's cover of "Pork Salad Annie" gives me chills.

KNIVES OUT: I may never entirely forgive Rian Johnson for The Last Jedi (even if I'm always a softie for Star Wars), but he scores here with a welcome, original property in the form of a genre that's laregly disappeared from the big screen: the whodunit.  It's a semi-comic homage to the Agatha Christie adaptations that I saw with my Mom when I was a kid that never slides into parody.  Ana de Armas, who I quite liked in Blade Runner 2049, is at the center of the filmand could be accused of playing it a little too straight even for the straight role.  But the rest of the large and talented cast is having so much fun that you can't help but join in, even when they occasionally overdo it (looking at you, Daniel Craig).

KID ROCK went on a drunken rant about Oprah.

E.T.: Henry Thomas reprises his role as Elliot alongside the alien character for Comcast's new four-minute ad called “A Holiday Reunion.

JOHNNY DEPP  is producing an unauthorized musical about Michael Jackson told from the perspective of the King of Pop's iconic glove.

AMERICA'S GOT TALENT hosts had complained about the show's toxic culture.

 

THIS FUZZY ORPHAN COW likes the beach, and anywhere its human is.

A CURIOUS BEAR opens an SUV door and hops in.

A LITTLE GIRL falls in love with an ill shelter pit bull.

A QUESTION OF TASTE in Thai contest to name baby pygmy hippo.

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