Adele’s “Easy on Me” broke the Spotify and Amazon Music records for the most streams for a song in a day or a week. It topped the charts in 26 countries, including the United Kingdom, and United States, marking Adele’s third and fifth chart toppers in the respective territories, and reached the top 10 in 36 countries.
Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future on The David Letterman Show in 1980
Isaac Asimov appears on David Letterman’s first talk show before moving to his late-night slot for NBC, and asks Isaac Asimov to predict the future. Asimov would go on to make a few more predictions in 1983 that were just as accurate.
Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard Announce Tour Dates For 2022
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova will be performing their first shows together in over a decade next March to coincide with the 15th anniversary of the film ONCE. These select dates will highlight songs from The Swell Season and Once as well as their individual careers.
As announced by Variety “The pair came to prominence starring in the 2007 film Once and winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song with their composition “Falling Slowly” in 2008. Their collaboration continued as The Swell Season, who released the critically acclaimed album Strict Joy in 2009 via ANTI-. The two branched out into solo careers in 2011, though their legacy as a duo has continued to grow.”
Since their last appearance together both Markéta and Glen have kept themselves busy. Markéta has released three longform singles in the last two years – “Mother”, ”Among the Living”, and ”Quintessence” – and has a new full length album planned for 2022. She just released a video/short film for the song “Among the Living”, which was filmed in and around her home in Iceland. Glen most recently collaborated with Cat Power and Eddie Vedder on the soundtrack for the film Flag Day, released in August of this year. Glen also performed as part of Eddie’s new band The Earthlings at the 2021 Ohana Festival. He is also preparing new music for 2022.
Over the course of the last decade, Once has become a classic and a cultural touchstone being referenced in everything from The Simpsons to, most recently, Ted Lasso. The musical is a favorite to be staged by high schools and colleges everywhere with “Falling Slowly” earning a spot as a seasonal favorite for shows like The Voice and American Idol.
Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard 2022 Tour Dates:
Fri 3/11 – Minneapolis, MN – State Theater
Sat 3/12 – Chicago, IL – Cadillac Palace Theatre
Mon 3/14 – Philadelphia, PA – Kimmel Cultural Campus
Tue 3/15 – Boston, MA – Emerson Theatre
Thu 3/17 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
Fri 3/18 – Washington DC – The Anthem
What Paul McCartney and John Lennon Talked About in Their Last Conversation
Paul McCartney describes to Howard Stern bonding over baking bread during his last conversation with ex-bandmate John Lennon.
My Next Read: “Good Pop, Bad Pop” by Jarvis Cocker
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display?
We all have a random collection of the things that made us – photos, tickets, clothes, souvenirs, stuffed in a box, packed in a suitcase, crammed into a drawer. When Jarvis Cocker starts clearing out his loft, he finds a jumble of objects that catalogue his story and ask him some awkward questions:
Who do you think you are?
Are clothes important?
Why are there so many pairs of broken glasses up here?
From a Gold Star polycotton shirt to a pack of Wrigley’s Extra, from his teenage attempts to write songs to the Sexy Laughs Fantastic Dirty Joke Book, his upcoming book Good Pop, Bad Pop – released on May 26, 2022 – is the hard evidence of Jarvis’s unique life, Pulp, 20th century pop culture, the good times and the mistakes he’d rather forget. And this accumulated debris of a lifetime reveals his creative process – writing and musicianship, performance and ambition, style and stagecraft.
This is not a life story. It’s a loft story.
Sonic Reducers: The Beatles’ Roadie Mal Evans Will Have His Memoirs Published In 2022
Sonic Reducers. 1 topic (OK, maybe 2 today). 2 music nerds. 5 minutes.
We discuss Beatles low-key road manager and jack-of-all-trades Mal Evans and his upcoming spotlight in 2022, and get you prepped for another weekend of new music.
David: A Short Film By Zach Woods Starring Will Ferrell
Team Coco are thrilled to present “David,” a short film directed by Conan O’Brien’s friend Zach Woods, starring Will Ferrell, William Jackson Harper, and Fred Hechinger about a severely depressed man (Harper) reaches out for an emergency therapy session. He’s not the only one who needs help.
Kurstin x Grohl: The Hanukkah Sessions 2021: Night Three with Barry Manilow’s “Copacabana”
Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin’s 2021 Hanukkah Sessions continue with Day 3 and this classic song.
Barry Pincus – not only one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th (or any) century, but a mega-mensch to boot!
So, like a good neighbor, you deserve a break today. So grab a bucket of chicken and let’s get stuck on…..
BARRY MANILOW’S “Copacabana”!
Commercial for Marvel’s Pizzazz Magazine, featuring Spidey from 1978
Spiderman is Deadpool 40 years earlier.
Bill Murray Reads The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at NYC’s Barnes & Noble in 1996
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