Topic: Karl

WE FIVE were on my mind when I woke up this morning, introduced by no less than Fred Astaire.

STRAND OF OAKS: Tim Showalter plays the Sheen Center.

DJANGO DJANGO plays KEXP.

MITSKI shares "Working For The Knife."

FIERY FURNACES play "I'm in No Mood" live in Chicago for Pitchfork Music Festival 2021.

VIOLENT FEMMES: Gordon Gano does The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.

LOW's Never-Ending Climb.

JANET JACKSON once had Control over the charts.

DJ DIPLO may face charges of invasion of privacy and intentionally giving someone a sexually transmitted infection.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON: The Game of Thrones prequel has a teaser trailer online.

PEACEMAKER releases a clip from John Cena's Sucide Squad spinoff.

CHARLIE SHEEN is free of paying Denise Richards child support.

KANYE WEST is in New York to secretly help Kim Kardashian in her debut gig hosting “Saturday Night Live”.

THE SOPRANOS, ranked by The Ringer.

MATTHEW RHYS never planned on buying an old wooden boat that would take four years, tens of thousands of dollars and his own manual labor to restore. But one night he was drinking whiskey and clicking through eBay, and, well, one thing led to another.

EXTREME NUMBERS of PALM-SIZED SPIDERS are invading Georgia.

THERE ARE two types of cat.

CAN A DOG catch a car with a car?

FEIST staples "Mushaboom" and "1 2 3 4" are your Twofer Tuesday.

WAXAHATCHEE plays KEXP.

IRON MAIDEN: Bruce Dickinson is also a licensed pilot and an accomplished fencer.

PITCHFORK lists 200 important artists of the site's first 25 years.

JAPANESE BREAKFAST: Michelle Zauner wrote a book about discovering herself through cooking.

DAR WILLIAMS talks to Weekend Edition.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Jon Bon Jovi's epically ridiculous Oscar-nominated "Blaze Of Glory."

SQUID GAME is so popular that Netflix is being sued by South Korean Internet service provider SK Broadband to pay for costs from increased network traffic and maintenance work.

GEORGE CLOONEY, on Ben Affleck.

LINDSAY LOHAN is starting a podcast.

JERRY SEINFELD addressed an aspect of his animated film Bee Movie that he said “is really not appropriate for children.”

MIAMI VICE's Journey From Misfire to Masterpiece.

WHERE Have All the Sex Scenes Gone?

PAW PATROL, in real life.

A BABY GOAT discovers the drum.

WHEN DREAMS come true.

A MOOSE enjoys the fall foliage.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point youto the Illumianti Hotties, Brandi Carlilie, Ducks Ltd, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has The Specials, Cindy, and audiobooks.

BRITTANY SPENCER & JOHN PAUL WHITE join JASON ISBELL & THE 400 UNIT on the Glady Knight & The Pips classic, “Midnight Train To Georgia.”  Improbably to anyone who knows me, I'd say the Indigo Girls did the best cover of this one in 1995.

ELVIS COSTELLO & JUANES Pump It Up on Kimmel.

KACEY MUSGRAVES, as Jenny from Forrest Gump.

DAVID LEE ROTH is retiring. Couldn't he have stuck it out for a few more days?

PHOEBE BRIDGERS & BO BURNHAM: What's going on here?

BRADI CARLILE wants to join Soundgarden.

THAO & THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN are down for the count.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at New York dance-pop trio Sweet Sensation's incredible disappearing hit ballad "If Wishes Came True."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Venom: Let There Be Carnage easily tops the chart with 90.1MM, beating Black Widow as the biggest debut of the pandemic era (though the Venom sequel was not also streaming).  It also beat the original Venom's 80.2MM pre-pandemic debut.  The Addams Family 2 placed with 18MM, which is pretty solid given that it was also available through VOD.  Shang-Chi showed with 6MM on a 54 percent drop, likely due to competition from Venom 2.  The Many Saints of Newark came in fourth with 5MM, probably a notch below expectations for the Sopranos prequel, but perhaps more evidence that older viewers are going to be tough to lure back to theaters when it also debuted on HBOMax.

EMILY RATAJKOWSKI alleges Robin Thicke grabbed her bare breasts while they were filming the “Blurred Lines” video.

STANLEY TUCCI's Passion Was Acting. Now (after cancer), It's Food.

QUEEN ELIZABETH II reportedly has seen all the James Bond movies. 

SEINFELD is streaming in the wrong aspect ratio on Netflix.

MEAN GIRLS: 15 Secrets.

THAT THING YOU DO: An Oral History.

ONE BABY GOAT already had the coffee.

A CAT, learning to brush.

A LITTLE dog trainer.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE GO-GOs!  They made history as the first all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts. Kind of a hard band to place seasonally. Their debut, Beauty and the Beat, which yielded hits like "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got the Beat," as well as great album cuts like "This Town," "Lust to Love," "Tonite" and "How Much More," came out in late Summer 1981, iirc, and "Lips" was climbing the charts that Fall, so I mentally place the band in this time of year. And it's still warm enough that the title track to the too-quick sophomore album, "Vacation," -- or their cover of the Capitols' "Cool Jerk" -- doesn't sound too out of place. "Get Up and Go" was also a single from that LP, but it didn't make the Top 40.  The band would chart twice more -- in 1984, with "Head Over Heels" and "Turn to You" -- before splitting and the near-inevitable reunion tours.

THE RECORD COMPANY plays The Current.

BONNIE COSBY streams her debut EP, Virginiana.

THE ROLLING STONES share a cover of the Chi-Lites' "Troubles A' Comin'."

ELTON JOHN & STEVIE WONDER (and Kanye West's Sunday Service Choir) share "Finish Line."

ANGEL OLSEN performs "Lark" live in Chicago for Pitchfork Music Festival 2021.

STURGILL SIMPSON ruptured his vocal cords.

MICK JAGGER, Live at the Thirsty Beaver. And no one noticed.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON and the House of Mouse settled her lawsuit over the streaming release of Black Widow, and it sounds like she got a multi-picture deal.

NO TIME TO DIE: Early reviews.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, Daniel Craig discovers the meme.

VENOM: NO TIME TO DIE has split the critics.

TOM HARDY can stare through the screen and into your soul.

MALCOLM McDOWELL talks 50 years of A Clockwork Orange.

QUENTIN TARANTINO, on becoming a novelist and, you know, feet.

THE SOPRANOS: Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching It?

SHAKIRA and her son were accosted by two wild boars, which reportedly made off with her handbag.

DOGGO Dance-Off.

DOGS & CAT, living together...

A SQUIRREL hits the court.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features Wet Leg, NoSo, Grace Cummings, and more.

JOHN MELLENCAMP & BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN share "Wasted Days."

COURTNEY BARNETT shares "Write A List Of Things To Look Forward To."

TORI AMOS shares “Speaking With Trees.”

IDLES shares “The Beachland Ballroom.”

NEKO CASE, on the Victorian age, Jane's Addiction and '80s era The Who, & what initially drew her to punk rock.

THE DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, profiled at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

BELLE & SEBASTIAN: The Genius Of... "If You're Feeling Sinister."

DAVID BOWIE's 2001 album Toy, which was shelved amid problems with his record label, will receive its first official release this year.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Mariah Carey's grand moment of arrival, the juggernaut debut single "Vision Of Love."

BRITNEY SPEARS: A judge granted her lawyer's request to temporarily remove James P. Spears as conservator. 

LORI LAUGHLIN is returning to the Hallmark Channel.

ANGELINA JOLIE “lights up” when she talks about her growing friendship with The Weeknd.

R KELLY has a defender in... Bill Cosby.

LAW & ORDER is coming back, right where it left off.

JONATHAN MOSTOW on the Making of Breakdown and What Really Happened After Terminator 3.

TOMMY KIRK, one of Disney’s major young stars of the 1950s and early ’60s with performances in generational touchstone films such as Old Yeller, The Shaggy Dog and Son of Flubber, died Tuesday at his home in Las Vegas. He was 79.

HEY THERE, Mr. Blue Dog.

DOGS vs MOUSE: Who you Got?

IT'S Fat Bear Week in Alaska.