Karl AS SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE READ, the original Claude Pate website totally crashed last Thursday. Fortunately, Lance (Master of the CP Domain) has performed yeoman’s work over the weekend to recover a lot of our content and stand up a fresh version of Claude Pate Dot Com (Who knows? Maybe you’re on site already!). And now we are also on Substack. We’ll be tweaking both as we go along. Let’s get to it.
New Releases: Paste will point you to Margaret Glaspy, The Mountain Goats and more.
Steve Earle and Los Lobos share “Volver A Celaya.”
Westside Cowboy shares “Dobro.”
Meshell Ndegeocello and Cat Power cover the Human League’s “Don’t You Want Me.”
Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts shares “Second Song.”
Brandon Flowers shares “Tiger’s Blood.”
Sondre Lerche shares “Love Is All.”
Morrissey is self-canceling.
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are “talking all the time now,” and say “next year should be a pretty interesting year.”
Revolver: The Beatles’ masterpiece turns 60. Paste celebrates with a general essay by Nada Surf’s Matthew Caws, and pieces on “Eleanor Rigby,” “I’m Only Sleeping,” “Here, There, and Everywhere,” “Yellow Submarine,” “She Said She Said,” “And Your Bird Can Sing,” “For No One,” “Got To Get You Into My Life,” and “Tomorrow Never Knows.”
Minutemen: Apropos of no big anniversary, Paste also has an essay on this band’s masterpiece, Double Nickels On The Dime.
Gary Glitter has appeared in court over a historical sex offense charge dating back to 1978.
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Weekend Box Office: Spider-Man: Brand New Day repeats atop the chart with 145MM, which is the third-best second weekend ever (and it’s over a Billion overseas). The Odyssey places with 31.5MM on a leggy 38 percent drop; it’s officially Christopher Nolan’s biggest movie ever. One Night Only shows with a 5.7MM debut.
David Ellison is offering AMC Entertainment and Regal Cinemas three-year contractually enforceable commitments that Paramount will release 30 films in theaters a year if it’s allowed to merge with Warner Bros. Also: The U.K. has cleared Paramount acquisition of Warner Bros. on competition grounds.
John Hughes wanted a sequel to The Breakfast Club?
Madden, the biopic with Nic Cage and directed by David O. Russell, is going straight to Amazon Prime. Ouch.
Perez Hilton is in serious but stable condition after livestreaming self-harm.
Jessie Cave, on going from the Harry Potter franchise to OnlyFans.
VICE: The best business school on Earth?
The End of Oak Street is being promoted by a podcast of AI doggos. Yes, really.
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Cats & Dogs, living together…
Golden Pups, befriending the fish pond.
A Lion’s first veggie.
A Seal joins in the push-ups.
