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Beach House, Violent Femmes, Lauryn Hill, Cat Sanctuary   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, August 08, 2016 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

BEACH SLANG shares a video for "Punks In a Disco Bar."

BEACH HOUSE talks with and performed for Charlie Rose.

VIOLENT FEMMES stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

MS. LAURYN HILL plays Austin City Limits.

SAM BEAM & JESCA HOOP share an acoustic cover of Eurythmics’ “Love Is A Stranger."

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD shares "Roachin" ahead of Zone.

RICHARD HELL & THE VOIDOIDS: Vintage video of "Blank Generation," with a little "Love Comes in Spurts."

 

SO LONG, MARIANNE: Leonard Cohen penned a poignant final letter to his dying muse Marianne Ihlen.

THE BEATLES: Revolver, which many consider their best LP, turned 50 over the weekend. NME brings the trivia, while Stereogum examines the album's place in the pivotal year of 1966.

IT'S ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE: Eight "best" debut LPs.

DR TEETH & THE ELECTRIC MAYHEM drummer Animal talks to Pitchfork about playing the Outside Lands festival.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Suicide Squad tops the chart with 135.1MM. Given the excellent marketing campaign and advance sales, the real question is whether it mostly sustains this biz next weekend or slides like Batman v Superman. Given the terrible reviews and B+ Cinemascore (BvS got a 'B'), that question remains wide open. The difference between the 3:1 multiplier from the opening of of a true blockbuster and the 2:1 multiplier of BvS is the difference between success and failure, and that may be true even if you consider ancillary merch sales.  Word is Suicide Squad needs to make 700-800MM worldwide to profit as a movie; so far it has 267MM worldwide. Jason Bourne places with 22.7MM on a 62 percent drop, raising the question of why this was released right before Suicide Squad. Bad Moms shows with 14.2MM; with 56MM worldwide, this modestly-budgeted comedy has probably reached the breakeven point. The Secret Life of Pets takes the fourth slot with another 11.6MM added to its very successful run, which crossed 500MM this weekend.  Star Trek Beyond rounds out the Top Five with10.2MM on a 59 percent drop in only its third weekend, another victim of the Suicide Squad, yet to cross the 200MM mark worldwide when it needs 500MM (give or take merch sales). Below the fold, Nine Lives, the weekend’s second wide entry, is road kill in sixth with 6.5M against a 30MM budget.

LINDSAY LOHAN had a violent scuffle with her playboy ex on a Mykonos beach.

AMBER HEARD showed up 1.5 hours late for a deposition in her divorce/domestic violence case against Johnny Depp.

BRITNEY SPEARS rejected the music video commissioned for her new song, and there's a dispute over why it was 86'd.

HUGH HEFNER voided the deal to sell the Playboy Mansion.

STAR WARS: Rey is a Palpatine?

THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB WAS DROPPED ON HIROSHIMA on Aug. 6, 1945. The act that ushered in the nuclear age, but also helped end World War II, still stokes controversy. Three men involved in the attack o­n Hiroshima share their memories with the BBC. Film showing the effects of the attack was classified for decades, as were the complete (unredacted) "Magic" military intercepts, which tend to show Japan was not about to surrender. Those interested in a relatively neutral view of the events leading to the bombing could do worse than 1995's Hiroshima, a joint Canadian-Japanese production for Showtime.  Out-of-print, possibly costly.

LANAI, where you can hang out with almost 500 cats.

A CROCODILE attacked a kayaker off the Queensland coast.

A TINY STRAY DOG ran 77 miles of a marathon in the Gobi desert, and may be reunited with the runner she paced.

THE SWARM: Exterminators trying to remove bees probably should wear protective gear. The More You Know.

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