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Mountain Man, Ketch Secor, The Berries, Courtney Barnett, Ducks |
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
THE OHIO PLAYERS are on "Fire." Over nine minutes, and just gets wackier. MOUNTAIN MAN covers Kacey Musgraves, Neil Young, and Fiona Apple in a Lagniappe Session. OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW's Ketch Secor stops by World Cafe. THE BERRIES advance stream Start All Over Again. CHEVAL SOMBRE & DEAN WAREHAM cover The Magnetic Fields' “Grand Canyon.” RYLEY WALKER covers the Dave Matthews Band's "Diggin' A Ditch." THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN returns with "Merrie Land." COURTNEY BARNETT plays “Crippling Self Doubt And A General Lack Of Self Confidence” for Seth Meyers. BEASTIE BOYS: Two surviving members of the band talk to The Guardian about writing a new memoir, their rollercoaster career and coming to terms with the loss of Adam Yauch. TWENTY INSANELY GREAT FLEETWOOD MAC SONGS, according to NME. TEN YEARS LATER: Paste's 40 Best Albums of 2008. THE NUMBER ONES at the Strawberry Alarm Clock's giddy psych-pop nugget "Incense And Peppermints." WONDER WOMAN 1984 has been pushed back seven months. AMY SCHUMER announced her pregnancy on a list of midterm political endorsements, because 2018. SARAH SILVERMAN is already apologizing for her comments about Louis CK masturbating in front of her. HARVEY WEINSTEIN: Lawyers for Harvey Weinstein and women who have accused him of sexual misconduct are working with insurance companies and the New York attorney general's office in an attempt to reach a sweeping settlement of all civil suits pending against the disgraced producer and his former film studio. GEOFFREY RUSH was close to tears while testifying at the "King Leer" defamation trial. ORLANDO BLOOM is ready to settle down with Katy Perry, reportedly. CLIMB EV'RY MOUNTAIN: Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, who plays Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane on HBO’s Game of Thrones, wed fitness guru Kelsey Morgan Henson in Iceland over the weekend. ROSIE O' DONNELL is engaged to Elizabeth Rooney. QUENTIN TARANTINO takes Hollywood Blvd back to 1969 for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. A CANADIAN RAPPER died during a stunt on an airplane wing. DUCKS, wearing raincoats at the market. More here. IT WAS LIKE THIS WHEN I CAME IN, it looks like your pillows just exploded or something. A MASSIVE DIAMONDBACK was spotted slithering across Mangrove Bay Golf Course in St. Petersburg, Florida. A LIONESS killed the father of her cubs at the Indianapolis Zoo.
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Candi Staton, Chromeo, The Cordovas, Delighted Dog |
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Monday, October 22, 2018 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
LENARD COHEN: "Suzanne" is perhaps his best, and it was posted online by...Jan Hammer? CANDI STATON stops by the World Cafe. CHROMEO brings a live band to their Tiny Desk Concert. THE CORDOVAS played The Local for AmericanaFEST. SONIC YOUTH's second restored video is for "Silver Rocket." TURNING 20: Fatboy Slim's You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby and the Silver Jews' American Water. LIZ PHAIR discusses her deserrt island books at Vulture. DAVID BYRNE: "My agent says I’m having a Leonard Cohen moment." LORETTA LYNN has reportedly been hospitalized for an unknown but "serious" health condition. THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Box Tops' "The Letter," the out-of-nowhere smash that future Big Star frontman Alex Chilton sang when he was 16.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Halloween reboot-sequel easily tops the chart with 77.5MM, breaking various records and instantly becoming the biggest film in the long history of the franchise (before inflation, anyway). A Star is Born places again with 19.3MM on a leggy 32 percent drop and keeps a 200MM total within reach. Venom shows with 18.1MM on a 48 percent drop on its way to probably over 500MM worldwide. Goosebumps 2 holds onto the fourth slot with 9.7MM on a mere 38 percent drop, but it still lags far behind the original. First Man rounds out the Top Five with 8.6MM on a 47 percent drop; it's almost recouped its production budget worldwide, but has to be considered a disappointment, which likely hurts its chances in awards season. JOHN CARPENTER tours the soundtrack of his life. SELMA BLAIR has revealed that she has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. GAME OF THRONES: The cast -- inluding Sean Bean -- shot a reunion special with Conan O'Brien. LUKE CAGE is canceled as Netflix further trims its Marvel roster. STRAIGHT DOWN: Paula Abdul took a tumble Saturday night during her show ... but she was a true trooper. COURTNEY COX feels like she's already tied the knot with boyfriend Johnny McDaid. JONESY: The cat from Alien is getting his own spin-off. DANNY LEINER, the director of Dude, Where’s My Car? and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, is dead from cancer at 57. A DELIGHTED DOG runs again after an auto accident. CLUMSY PUP is clumsy. CITIES Are Turning Snails Yellow? DOGS are wearing tuxedos and chiffon as canine wedding guests become more common.
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Joe Jackson, Oh Pep!, Mercy Union, Kaia Kater, Laura Gibson, Biscuit |
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Friday, October 19, 2018 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: ...with JOE JACKSON! Live in Tokyo on1986, for the Big World tour. Your set list: One More Time, Wild West, Right & Wrong, You Can't Get What You Want (Til You Know What You Want), (It's a) Big World, Hometown, On Your Radio, Shanghai Sky, Fifty Dollar Love Affair, Cancer/Be My Number Two/Breaking Us in Two, Steppin' Out, Survival, Soul Kiss, It's Different for Girls, The Jet Set, Monday Papers, Tonight and Forever, Jumpin' Jive Medley: Jack You're Dead/What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again)/Jumpin' Jive, I'm the Man, and Man in the Street. OH PEP! advance streams I Wasn't Only Thinking About You... MERCY UNION streams The Quarry. KAIA KATER advance streams Grenades. LAURA GIBSON advance streams Goners. THE BEATLES: Listen to a previously unreleased acoustic demo of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." CHARLES BRADLEY: Listen to the posthumous “Can’t Fight the Feeling.” ARCTIC MONKEYS' explosive debut single "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor," which turns 13, revolutionized the way music was sold in the UK forever. I remember hearing it and thinking that someone finally built on The Jam and Buzzcocks properly. CAT POWER tours the soundtrack of her life. KURT VILE talks to Aquarium Drunkard about his new record, recording with Dean Ween of Ween, the influence of Sonic Youth, working with Kim Gordon, and how collaborating with his “sister” Courtney Barnett helped shape the new album. ROXY MUSIC's debonair art-glam should get its due. PEAK GRUNGE: An oral history of the fall of '93. THE NUMBER ONES looks at Bobbie Gentry's "Ode To Billie Joe," a great work of short American fiction.
NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide rleases include the Halloween sequel-reboot, which is currently scoring 80 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and The Hate U Give, which expands wide at 96 percent. The Old Man and the Gun, which may or may not be Robert redford's last acting gig, opens on 600 screens scoring 90 percent. JOHN CARPENTER talks to Rolling Stone about the Halloween sequel-reboot, soundtracks, and more. He's also interested in a They Live sequel. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN answers NYT staffers' questions. JADA PINKETT SMITH & LEAH REMINI have ended their feud. A greatful nation breathes a sigh of relief. REAL POLITICS IMITATES VEEP, because 2018. THE ENDURING APPEAL of Oscar the Grouch.
BISCUIT THE CHIHUAHUA has dog siblings, but he much prefers hanging out with his chicken sister Rose. A SPIDER SWARM cloaks Lake Vistonida in northern Greece. A RUSSIAN TOWN hires a cat chief to handle strays. WHALE-WATCHERS watch great white sharks eat one.
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