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."
FRIKO plays WFUV.
DEAN WAREHAM shares “You Were The Ones I Had To Betray.”
MICHAEL SHANNON & JASON NARDUCY cover R.E.M.'s "Driver 8" on Fallon.
RIDE's Andy Bell covers The Passions' “I’m In Love With A German Film Star.”
FRANZ FERDINAND's Alex Kapranos, on covering Chappell Roan and others, booking indie shows in '90s Glasgow, his stint as a food critic, and more.
CHROMEWAVES: Frank Yang's Top 10 of 2024.
PTICHFORK's 2024 Readers' Poll.
JAMIE LEE CURTIS donated a million to a relief fund for communities impacted by the ongoing wildfires in the Los Angeles area.
WICKED rakes in another 70MM in VOD sales.
28 YEARS LATER: Sans Cilian Murphy (for now).
THE RUNNING MAN: Colman Domingo is set to play the host of the world’s most dangerous game show.
PETER PAN'S NEVERLAND NIGHTMARE is the latest installment of “the Poohniverse.”
JAMES MANGOLD, director of Walk The Line and A Complete Unknown, shares the soundtrack of his life.
ANITA BRYANT, the pop singer and Oklahoma beauty queen who gained fame by convincing America that a “breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine” before seeing her popularity plummet as she railed against gay rights, has died. She was 84.
A DEAF DOG gets signals from the ref.
CATS & DOGS, living together…
ALPACAS are spitters.