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J Mascis, Pedro the Lion, Long Ryders, Meat Puppets, Ryan Adams, Doggo |
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Monday, January 14, 2019 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
LIZ PHAIR: "Jealousy." It sneers like she does.J MASCIS stops by the World Cafe. PEDRO THE LION plays a Microshow at 7th St Entry. THE LONG RYDERS share their first new song in 30 years, "Greenville." THE MEAT PUPPETS share "Nine Pins." RYAN ADAMS shares "“Doylestown Girl" and "Manchester." RADIOHEAD share the rarity "Ill WInd." BEIRUT shares a video for "Landslide." THE WHO, or "The Who," are planning another album and tour. WOODSTOCK is "coming back" this summer. JULIEN BAKER has an essay paying tribute to Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchison, who died by suicide earlier in 2018. THE NUMBER ONES looks at Diana Ross' chiffon take on "Ain't No Mountain High Enough."
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Upside tops the chart with 19.6MM in the first upset of 2019. Purchesd from the wreckage of the Weinstein Co, STX looks to break even at a minimum against a 38MM budget. The King of Atlantis is dethroned as Aquaman places with 17.3MM on a 44 percent drop; it crosses the Billion Dollar mark, the first DCEU flick to manage it. A Dog's Way Home shows with 11.3M, which is fine against an 18MM budget. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse crawls up into the fourth slot with another 9MM on a mere 31 percent drop, raising the odds of a sequel. Escape Room rounds out the Top Five with 8.9MM and a 32MM domestic total against a 9MM budget, which is all good. GAME OF THROVES: Season 8 Teaser Trailer. AVENGERS: ENDGAME may get previewed by a dying fan. JANEANE GAROFOLO wants people to "leave Louis C.K. alone." BRIE LARSON and her fiancé, actor and musician Alex Greenwald, have broken off their engagement. EDDIE MURPHY will star in Coming to America 2. DWAYNE "THE ROCK" JOHNSON denied an apparently fabricated interview. TOM HARDY and his wife named their baby Forrest. Run! MEGYN KELLY split from NBC with her full contract payout. JO ANDRES, Steve Buscemi's wife, passed away at 65. "MUST... PROTECT... HOOMAN... from the bright hot light!" TUNA sells for a record 3MM in auction at Tokyo's new fish market. THE CINCINNATI ZOO named its adorable new penguin chicks Pierogi and Toast. GEOrGE THE SNAIL, Believed to Be the Last of His Species, Dies at 14 in Hawaii.
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REM, Pedro the Lion, Liz Brasher, Toro y Moi, Surf Dolphins |
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Friday, January 11, 2019 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: ... with R.E.M.! Live in Germany circa 1985, more complete than what has previously turned up on the Tube. Songs include "Feeling Gravity's Pull," "Harbourcoat," "Sitting Still," "Maps & Legends," "Fall On Me," "Green Grow The Rushes," "Driver 8," "Hyena," "So. Central Rain," CCR's "Have You Ever Seen The Rain," "Can't Get There From Here," Roger Miller's "King Of The Road," "Seven Chinese Bros.," "Auctioneer," "Old Man Kinsey," "Little America," "Pretty Persuasion, " "Theme From Two Steps Onward," Aerosmith's "Toys In The Attic," and Television's "See No Evil." Plus, previously unlinked here: "Second Guessing," "Ghost Riders In The Sky," "(Don't Go Back to) Rockville," "We Walk/ Behind Closed Doors" and "Paint It Black." PEDRO THE LION advance streams Phoenix. LIZ BRASHER advance streams Painted Image. TORO Y MOI advance streams Outer Peace. MERCURY REV & NORAH JONES cover Bobbie Gentry's "Okolona River Bottom Band." NATALIE PRASS covers Prefab Sprout's "Wild Horses." BAY CITY ROLLERS: The immortal genius of "S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y... NIGHT! ACE OF CUPS shared the same San Francisco stages as Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead, but never made an album – until now. SHARON VAN ETTEN: "The more I let go, the more I progress as a human being." HOWELL BEGLE, a Washington lawyer who found a second career crusading on behalf of underpaid black R & B stars of the 1950s and ’60s, leading to industrywide royalty reform and the creation of the charitable Rhythm & Blues Foundation, died on Dec. 30 at a hospital in Lebanon, N.H. He was 74. THE NUMBER ONES looks at Edwin Starr's raw political funk anthem "War."
NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include A Dog’s Way Home, which is currently scoring 71 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; The Upside, which is currently scoring 31 percent; and Replicas, which was not advance screened. Expanding wide are If Beale Street Could Talk, scoring 95 percent; and On the Basis of Sex, scoring 71 percent. JEFF BEZOS reportedly used Lin-Manuel Miranda to spend time with Lauren Sanchez. He had no prenup. MARVEL president Kevin Feige says “hundreds” of superheroes could enter the MCU following the Disney-Fox merger. AVENGERS ASSEMBLING for the Oscars? MARTIN SCORSESE & BOB DYLAN are reuiniting for a film about the Rolling Thunder tour. REESE WITHERSPOON is profiled by Vogue. SAMUEL L. JACKSON: Hollywood's Most Bankable Star. GREEN BOOK director Peter Farrelly used to flash people as a joke. He did co-direct There's Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber, and Kingpin, so this is my shocked face.
DRONE FOOTAGE of a pod of dolphins swimming alongside a surfer off the Southern California coast. AN EGRET, surfing on a gator. MORE THAN 100 PRAYING MANTISES sneak in via Christmas tree. HEY, IS THAT A BUNCH OF KITTENS in your pants, or... oh.
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Kurt Vile, The Suffers, Hiffamoose, Lana Del Rey, Ex Hex, Doggo |
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Thursday, January 10, 2019 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES: "Tears of a Clown." Originally released in 1967, but it didn't become a hit until 1970. Sometimes, a hit takes time. KURT VILE plays and chats up FUV Live. THE SUFFERS stopped by WFUV's Studio A. HUFFAMOOSE stops by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set. LANA DEL REY shares “hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have – but i have it.” EX HEX shares "Cosmic Cave." DEERHUNTER shares "Plains." LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS shares a video for "It Rains Love." STEVE EARLE talks to All Songs Considered about one of his heroes, Guy Clark. BOB MOULD is quizzed on his past by NME. RYAN ADAMS is planning another 3-LP year, starting with Big Colors and Wednesday. THE NUMBER ONES looks at Bread's soft-rock sex song "Make It With You." JOHN LASSETER, who left Disney under a MeToo cloud, has been hired to run Skydance Animation. Time's Up is unhappy. R. KELLY is being investigated again in Chicago. THE OSCARS plans to go without a host. JEFF BEZOS: Amazon's CEO and his wife, MacKenzie, are getting a divorce after 25 years of marriage, after getting caught cheating with TV host Lauren Sanchez. KATE MARA & JAMIE BELL are expecting a child. JENNIFER LOPEZ is profiled by Harper's Bazaar. STAN LEE is getting a a public appreciation of his life and work at Hollywood’s iconic TCL Chinese Theatre, courtesy of Kevin Smith. STAR TREK 4 has been shelved, news buried in a story about the Game of Thrones prequel. DUNE: Stellan Skarsgard is to play Baron Harkonnenin the remake. IM NOT ANGRY WITH YOU SUSAN, I'm just disappointed. A DOG shoots an ex-LSU lineman on a hunting trip. A MOOSE wanders into a hospital for a snack. DELTA's CEO says travelers’ reliance on emotional support animals is “out of control” — but that he doesn’t blame millennials for the boom in in-flight pets.
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