THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE…
…with the wicked, wicked WILSON PICKETT, live from Germany, circa 1968. This disappeared from the Tube, but I've managed to find almost all of it reposted there or elsewhere. His band warms up the crowd with the instrumental "Soulfinger," but Pickett electrifies from the moment he enters for "Everybody Needs Somebody" and doesn't let up through "Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won't Do)," "Mustang Sally" and "Stagger Lee." He cranks it back into top gear for "Funky Broadway," during which people dancing in front of the stage start turning up onstage (And why not? This rawks almost as hard as The Who's cover of "Shakin' All Over"). The tumultuous finale of "Land of 1000 Dances" from amid the crowd remains missing, but this other "Land of 1000 Dances" from 1966 is almost as wild, and in color to boot. Raw and riveting; if this can't put you in a weekend state of mind, probably nothing can.
ROBYN HITCHCOCK has your playlist for 1967.
EDDIE VEDDER covers The English Beat's "Save It For Later."
SUUNS shares "Doreen."
WINNETKA BOWLING LEAGUE shares "This Is Life."
ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS: How a shop girl got to sing with David Bowie.
KINKY FRIEDMAN, the tongue-in-cheek humorist and alt-country musician of the Texas Jewboys, has died at 79.
PARAMOUNT's cost-cutting nukes the websites of MTV News and Comedy Central.
FLIGHT RISK, with Mel Gibson directing Mark Wahlberg, has a trailer online.
MAXXXINE is getting really mixed early buzz.
FKA TWIGS & SHIA LaBEOUF's assault lawsuit gets even more beef.
THE BEAR: Every song in Season 3.
MICHAEL JACKSON was over 500MM in debt when he died.
DONALD SUTHERLAND's Defining Roles.
THE HANDS IN Puppy Challenge.
A DOGGO tries the recliner.
A CAPSIZED TURTLE is rescued on the beach.