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Wednesday, January 08, 2025 - 08:00 AM
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THE FIVE AMERICANS: "I See The Light." VALLEY visits World Cafe. THE MEKONS return with "Mudcrawlers." JAPANESE BREAKFAST shares "Orlando in Love." MOGWAI shares "Fanzine Made Of Flesh." NICK CAVE shared advice to fans feeling "fearful and depressed" in the new year. ED ASKEW, whose beguiling acid folk records became cult artifacts unearthed by successive generations of crate-diggers, died of natural causes on January 4. He was 84. PETER YARROW, one-third of folk-music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, and a convicted perv, dies at 86. AUBREY PLAZA shared her first statement since the tragic death of her husband Jeff Baena last week. THE LAST OF US: Season 2 Trailer. WOLF MAN has a teaser online. THE GOLDEN GLOBES' ratings were up a bit this year. THE DGA's TV award nominations are out, with movie noms to follow. BEN AFFLECK & JENNIFER LOPEZ finalized their divorce. ELIJAH WOOD: Married, probably. WILL SMITH's Matrix musing may be musical. HUGH GRANT discusses his flops, and more. THE BRISTOL OLD VIC THEATER SCHOOL is shutting down its undergraduate program, which it has deemed “financially unsustainable.” DALMATIANS enjoy a snow maze. SQUID GAME, but with cats. A PUP getting the most out of the staircase.
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Tuesday, January 07, 2025 - 08:00 AM
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ALBERT LEE covers Jimmy Webb's "If You See Me Getting Smaller," one of my favorite Webb tunes, though (afaik) never a hit for anyone.
FRANZ FERDINAND plays CBS Saturday Sessions. TITUS ANDRONICUS, MICHAEL SHANNON, TORRES and more paid tribute to the late David Berman. NEIL YOUNG shared the original mix of "Field of Opportunity" ahead of another lost 1970s album. BILL MURRAY kicked off his US tour this past weekend in Chicago and performed covers of classic hits by Bob Dylan, The Kinks and more. JANE'S ADDICTION, minus Perry Farrell? BLONDIE: Debbie Harry on turning 80, and more. THE NUMBER ONES looks at Post Malone's first chart-topper, the bleakly melodic 21Savage collab "Rockstar." ZENDAYA & TOM HOLLAND are engaged, reportedly. THE GOLDEN GLOBES: Do they foreshadow an Oscars shakeup? FRANCHISES & FAMILY FARE saved the box office in 2024. THE HOUSE OF MOUSE wants to merge Hulu+ and Fubo. WILL SMITH: Caught in the Matrix? GRIMM may head to the big screen. ROGER PRATT, best known for his work as director of photography on Tim Burton‘s Batman (1989) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), has died. He was 77. A DOGGO gets a pupper. BEAVERS carry their babies in their arms like people. FOX vs CAT: Who You Got?
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Monday, January 06, 2025 - 08:00 AM
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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. DEHD plays acoustic at The Current. DAWES plays for Paste. TWIN SHADOW covers Billie Eilish's "Birds of a Feather." FROM ELVIS COSTELLO TO THE FLATLANDERS: Pub-Rock and Americana's Great Overlap. RORY GALLAGHER got a statue unveiled in Belfast. PASTE's Top 40 Rock Albums of 2024. EVAN DANDO, now clean from street drugs and using LSD, will release his long-delayed memoir this spring. BRENTON WOOD, the soul singer best known for his 1967 hit “The Oogum Boogum Song,” has died. He was 83. WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Mufasa repeats atop the chart with 23.8MM on a 35 percent drop. Sonic 3 places with 21.2MM on a 44 percent drop. Nosferatu shows with 13.2 MM on a 39 percent drop (and clears 100MM globally). The estimated total is 105.5MM, 23 percent better than the opening frame of 2024. THE GOLDEN GLOBES were awarded to these folks. Congrats! RICKY GERVAIS shares the jokes he would have told hosting the Globes. JEFF BAENA, indie filmmaker and husband of Aubrey Plaza, has died at 47. THE SUBSTANCE will not have a sequel. YACHT ROCK's Fascinating Legacy. SONNY BUNCH's Top Ten (Or So) Movies of 2024. BRITT ALLCROFT, creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, has died at age 81. CATS & DOGS, living together... A PUPPER hitches a ride during a walk. TORTOISES come to get cleaned. PERRY, who famously served as the model for the Donkey character in “Shrek,” was euthanized on Thursday after battling a painful hoof disease. He was 30.
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Friday, January 03, 2025 - 08:00 AM
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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: 
...with ECHO and the BUNNYMEN! Live at the Royal Albert Hall, circa July 1983. Your setlist includes: "Going Up," "With a Hip," "All That Jazz," "All My Colours (Zimbo)," "Silver," "Simple Stuff," "The Cutter," "The Killing Moon," "Rescue," "Never Stop,""Over The Wall," "Crocodiles," and "Do It Clean." STEVIE WONDER's early years at Motown get over two hours of discussion and analysis on Political Beats. MJ LENDERMAN covers Pink Floyd, George Strait, and Neil Young in NYC. NICK CAVE responds to a fan who left his show early after becoming "too emotional." THE ROCK HALL OF FAME: A method to the madness? PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY: Standards from 1924-29, Ernest Hemingway, and more become available to all. MAGNET's Top 25 Albums of 2024. WAYNE OSMOND, who was an original member of the Osmonds singing group, has died. He was 73. TOM HOLLAND's New Superpower. ANDREW GARFIELD: Cracked Open. DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE actually declined 3.3 percent from 2023. CASUAL VIEWING: Why Netflix looks like that. HARRY POTTER, directed by David Fincher? DIDDY's INNER CIRCLE spills in a new documentary. DUNE 2: Creating the Black-and-White World of House Harkonnen. HEAT VISION's Top 10 Movies of 2024. A BEAR catches a bread slice like a pro. ONE HORSESHOE CRAB helps another. Still hideous. A DOGGO found a lamb. Wasn't even a Germen Shepherd.
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