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THE PRIMITONS play "Seeing Is Believing" at an in-store appearance from 1985. Proof positive that the Internet makes the "Where Are They Now?" file bottomless. Background at Trouser Press.
NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Black Country, New Road, Craig Finn, and more.
BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has The Waterboys, The Mekons, and more.
BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD gives a track-by-track tour of the new LP.
BROOKLYN VEGAN's 25 Fave LPs of 2025 (So Far).
JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Richie Faulkner talks suffering a stroke and brain damage after having emergency heart surgery.
DAVE ALLEN, the original bassist for Gang of Four (and Shriekback), has died at age 69.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: A Minecraft Movie tops the chart with 157MM, the biggest debut for a videogame movie evah. A Working Man places with 7.2MM on a 53 percent drop. Chosen Last Supper Part 2 shows with 6.9MM. Below the fold, Snow White sits at 77.2MM and one wonders how hard the studio will try to push it above 100MM.
BILL MURRAY, on what happened on the set of “Being Mortal,” Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut that was shut down over complaints of the prolific comedian’s on-set misconduct.
TRON: ARES has a trailer online, scored by Nine Inch Nails.
WILL FORTE, on being Val Kilmer's roomie.
RUSSELL BRAND has denied the sexual assault charges leveled against him by British police Friday.
CINEMACON was a tense, testy affair that threatened to resurface old tensions between studios and exhibitors.
THE RUNNING MAN: Glen Powell got the blessing from Arnold to take on the remake.
THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS is looking to evoke the optimistic spirit of the 1950s and 1960s Space Race.
ELIZABETH OLSEN would like you to know that she doesn't watch a lot of Marvel content.
LAWRENCE FISHBURNE, on being snubbed for The Matrix Resurrections.
PUPPERS great and small.
SHARING A WAFFLE with a pig.
THE HORSE is a baller.
OTTERS in a gang war.
CATS & DOGS, living together…
