Pop Pic: Sammy and the Fam

Watch Mott The Hoople play live at Taverne de l'Olympia, Nov. 6, 1971

Video Finds: The Creation on "Beat Club," 1967

One of the great mod bands.

  

Hot Trax '71: Sly and the Family Stone, John Denver, the Who, and more!

New songs entering the charts 50 years ago this week. Listen to the Hot Trax '71 playlist!

Sly and the Family Stone - Family Affair

Mickey Newbury - An American Trilogy

The Temptations - Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are)

David Cassidy - Cherish

Steppenwolf - For Ladies Only

Diana Ross - I'm Still Waiting

John Denver - Friends With You

The Who - Behind Blue Eyes

Pop Culture Roundup: Snow White, Oz, Marvel!


ITEM! Gal Gadot is set to play the Evil Queen in Disney’s live-action "Snow White." Rachel Zegler is cast in the title role.

ITEM! An original script to "The Wizard from Oz" and other collectibles from the film are up for auction.

ITEM! Veteran comics writer Mark Waid has authored "How to Create Comics the Marvel Way," out next summer.

Pop Pic: Myrna and Clark

Video Find: P.P. Arnold sings "First Cut is the Deepest" and more on Beat Club, 1967

Coming Up: Tarzan - The New Adventures by Roy Thomas and Thomas Grindberg

Out next May. Available for pre-order now from Amazon.

Details:

Previously available only to subscribers of the Edgar Rice Burroughs' website, Tarzan: The New Adventures is at last available in print.

This incarnation of the Jungle Lord is presented in Sunday newspaper landscape format, with all-new stories penned by comics legend Roy Thomas (Conan the Barbarian, Avengers, X-Men) with stunning illustration by Thomas Grindberg, whose work stands alongside classic Tarzan illustrators such as Hal Foster, J. Allen St. John, and Frank Frazetta. 

Comic art: Original page from Jack Kirby's adaptation of "2001: A Space Odyssey"

Pop Culture Roundup: Billie, Tony, Jason, Dan, Eugene and more!


ITEM! David Chase finally spills the beans about what happened to Tony Soprano.

ITEM! Season 52 of "Sesame Street" will include appearances by Billie Eilish, Kacey Musgraves, Anderson .Paak, Jon Batiste, poet Amanda Gorman and tennis star Naomi Osaka.

ITEM! Participant in a Dec. 5 virtual table read of "It's a Wonderful Life" will include Jason Sudeikis, Rosario Dawson, Mark Hamill, Martin Sheen, Mandy Patinkin, George Wendt, Lou Diamond Phillips, Phil Lamarr, Ben Mankiewicz, Ron Funches, Ed Harris, and more.

ITEM! Check out a primer on pre-Code horror comics.

ITEM! Mort Sahl hosts the Dave Brubeck Quartet. 

ITEM! "Schitt's Creek" star Dan Levy will host a new brunch-making competition show. I could be in a brunch-eating show...

ITEM! Meanwhile, Dan's dad and co-star, Eugene Levy, is set to host a travel program.