Karl 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.
TROPICAL EFF STORM plays KEXP.
GOOSE plays Racket 2025.
BIG THIEF, Live at The Current in 2017.
LOW, Live at KCRW in 2015.
GUIDED BY VOICES shares "Phantasmagoric Upstarts."
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S Long Journey Home.
LULU's night of passion with Bowie.
WILLIAM SHATNER was rushed to the hospital Wednesday but says he merely "over-indulged."
OVER 1200 HOLLYWOOD NAMES signed a new open letter denouncing the call for a boycott of Israeli film institutions over the war in Gaza.
SPACEBALLS 2 has brought Rick Moranis out of retirement.
LIAM HEMSWORTH stopped using social media for “most of last year” after taking over the role of Geralt in “The Witcher” from fan favorite Henry Cavill.
GLEN POWELL's uncomfortable moment with a toxic celebrity.
EMMA WATSON, on J.K. Rowling.
STILLER & MEARA: NOTHING IS LOST, directed by Ben Stiller, has a trailer online.
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH has a trailer online.
MEGXIT: Is a public joint appearance by King Charles and Prince Harry in the cards?
KIDS WILL BE KIDS, and so will cats.
A BABY HIPPO has a tantrum.
ADOPTING a weak mini-horse.
