Pop Pic: Basil Rathbone and Nan Grey

Pop Pic: Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Paperbacks!

Pop Pics: Veronica Lake

 

Hot Trax '71: The Temptations, Al Green, Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep and more!

New singles on the charts 50 years ago this week. 

Listen to the updated Hot Trax '71 playlist on Spotify.

The Temptations - It's Summer

Al Green - Tired of Being Alone

Bobby Goldsboro - Come Back Home

Mac and Katie Kissoon - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep

Gallery: Vintage movie mags

Pop Pic: Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth

 

New music out this week: R.E.M., Small Faces, Madness, more!

Click the links to order from Amazon.

R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe (Original Hib-Tone Recording) [7" Single]

David Crosby - For Free

Roy Hargrove and Mulgrew Miller - In Harmony

Roy Brooks - Understanding

Bill Evans - Behind The Dikes - The 1969 Netherlands Recordings

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000

Glen Campbell - Live from the Troubadour

PJ Harvey and John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By

Essential Small Faces

Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain 1961-1973

Jerry Dammers - At The Home Organ: Demos 1980-1982

Cinnamon Girl - Women Artists Cover Neil Young for Charity

Madness - Absolutely

Pop Culture Roundup: Nope, MOTU, Battle of the Planets and more!

ITEM! Follow up from our report yesterday: Mos Def will mos def not be playing Thelonious Monk, after all.

ITEM! The third-best lead guitarist in the Yardbirds is cranky about COVID restrictions. Let's not get him started on immigration.

ITEM! Sarah Michelle Gellar, who is voicing Teela in the new Masters of the Universe series, didn't like the original show.

ITEM! A "Battle of the Planets" film is in the works.

ITEM! Jordan Peele is reuniting with Daniel Kaluuya for a new horror  flick titled "Nope."

ITEM! Lollapalooza 2021 will be livestreamed on Hulu.

Pop Pic: Natalie Wood