Hot Trax '72: Elton John, Scott English, Roberta Flack and more!
New songs on the charts 50 years ago this week.
Elton John - Tiny Dancer
The Temptations - Take a Look Around
James Brown - King Heroin
Malo - Sauvecito
Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Giorgio - Son of My Father
The Guess Who - Heartbroken Bopper
Mike Kennedy - Louisiana
Scott English - Brandy
Pop Culture Roundup: Gotham Knights! The Man Who Feel to Earth! Madame Web!
ITEM! The CW will try out a "Gotham Knights" series based on the DC Comic.
ITEM! Bill Nighy will play the character originally played by David Bowie in "The Man Who Fell to Earth" from Showtime.
ITEM! Dakota Johnson will play Madame Web in a new film from the Spider-Man universe.
Watch a new trailer for the King Crimson documentary, "In the Court of the Crimson King"
A new film charts the history of the long-running, lineup-shifting, prog-ish band led by guitarist Robert Fripp.
Pop Culture Roundup: Secret Bat-message! Grease prequel! Billy Summers! Guru Nation! More!
ITEM! A secret message on new movie posters for "The Batman" requires a blacklight to see.
ITEM! A "Grease" prequel series is on the way.
ITEM! A new David Letterman YouTube channel features classic clips from his late night shows.
ITEM! J.J. Abrams is producing a TV adaptation of Stephen King's "Billy Summers."
ITEM! Bob Odenkirk and David Cross will play rival cult leaders on a new series titled "Guru Nation."
New double-disc from Bear Family celebrates 100 years of Jack Kerouac - preview video
Jack Kerouac - 100 Years Of Beatitude is out March 4. You can order it now from Amazon.
Details:
Bear Family Records' tribute to Jack Kerouac on the occasion of his 100th birthday in March 2022. Jack Kerouac, who along with Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs formed the core cell of the Beat Generation.
The beatniks, as representatives of pop literature, listened to a wide range of specific styles of music; we have compiled 52 songs and historical audio documents from 1946 to 1963, from the core of the beatnik era.
Be Bop Jazz as the favorite music of the Beat Generation is featured with Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and others, as well as 'Word Jazz', the combination of jazz and beatnik poetry, such as by Oscar Brown, Jr., Don Morrow and of course Jack Kerouac himself with Steve Allen!
Contemporary pop music and rock 'n' roll around the beatnik subject are also represented, including satirical novelty numbers.
Featuring Big Jay McNeely, Babs Gonzales and others, rhythm 'n' blues is essential as a bridge between beatnik jazz and rock 'n' roll!
Historical sound documents, such as a Jack Kerouac reading, an interview, or the Allen Ginsberg recitation, round out the sound picture!
Two readings from the movie 'High School Confidential', which appeared on an MGM single in 1958, are here on CD for the first time!
And sounds from the 1959 film 'The Beat Generation'!
The colorful 36-page booklet contains rare photos and memorabilia as well as the history of the Beat Generation and its music, written by a connoisseur of the Beatnik scene, Roland Heinrich Rumtreiber!
New comics collected editions out this week: Moon Knight, Doctor Strange, Sea of Sorrows, Captain America, more!
Click the links to order items from Amazon.
The stories that built the Marvel Universe, from the brilliant minds of legendary creators — now available in an accessible new format the whole family can enjoy!
Dr. Stephen Strange is a once-brilliant surgeon whose own failings left his hands in ruins and his career in tatters.
He desperately sought a cure, but found so much more instead. Now, Doctor Strange is the Master of the Mystic Arts, Earth’s Sorcerer Supreme — mankind’s only hope against dark and otherworldly forces!
From Strange’s wicked rival Baron Mordo, to the Dread Dormammu, ruler of the Dark Dimension, prepare to have your horizons widened by the mind-boggling mystic realms on display in these strange tales from Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s spellbinding, visionary run!
COLLECTING: material from Strange Tales (1951) 110-111, 114-141; Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964) 2
Plunge headfirst into the icy waters of dread in this graphic novel of deep sea adventure with a horrific twist!
In the aftermath of the Great War, the North Atlantic is ripe for plunder by independent salvage crews. When a former naval officer hires the SS Vagabond, he leads the ship to a sunken U-boat, and a fortune in gold. Tensions mount as the crew prepares to double cross each other, but the darkness of the ocean floor holds deeper terrors than any of them have bargained for!
From the creative team behind the horror graphic novel Road of Bones, comes an all-new tale of bone-chilling terror!
Collects the complete five issue series.
In every war, there are legends. And World War II birthed Captain America, the heroic Sentinel of Liberty. But in this shocking re-examination of the 1940s Super-Soldier program, a hidden and controversial chapter of history is declassified at last!
Meet the unit of African-American soldiers who were involuntarily subjected to the U.S. War Department’s brutish efforts to refine the Super-Soldier Serum.
And hear the story of Isaiah Bradley — who overcame all odds to don the famous red-white-and-blue on the battlefield! A tragic story that spans decades, Robert Morales and Kyle Baker hit home with a touching, timely and thought-provoking tale!
COLLECTING: Truth: Red, White & Black (2002) 1-7
The Eisner Award-nominated Fantagraphics series is back, collecting the acclaimed and groundbreaking Sunday strips from 1922 to 1924.
One of the most renowned and celebrated comic strips in the art form's history waywardly treks on through the 1920s, with all its madcap animal inhabitants in tow, in this gorgeous, archival hardcover collection.
In this volume: precarious coconuts, incarcerated elephants, and witty weather patterns. Krazy Kat themself take a swing at singing, astronomy, and starring in … their own comic strip! It also features essays by Herriman scholars, plus ten rare full-color experimental strips by Herriman.
This Eisner Award-nominated series, featuring all the Krazy Kat Sunday strips' eternally beguiling love triangle, luminous language, and grand desert décor, makes it plain to Herriman fans and newcomers alike why historians, scholars, and cartoonists consider this the best comic strip ever created.
Captain America. Wolverine. Spider-Man. There’s nobody you’d want to have your back more than this trio of mighty Avengers. So who better for Moon Knight to call upon to lend a hand?
The trouble is, they’re all in Moon Knight’s head — the latest splinters of Marc Spector’s shattered psyche! And as Spector battles his own mind to find balance in his new home of Los Angeles, a powerful criminal mastermind makes his deadly move — trafficking Ultron’s temporarily inert robot body!
Can Moon Knight get his act together in time to take on this deadly threat — or is he way out of his league? Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev, who wowed readers with DAREDEVIL, reunite to deliver a unique take on another fan-favorite Marvel vigilante!
COLLECTING: Moon Knight (2011) 1-12
Watch the BBC's "A History of Horror" documentary series
Originally aired in 2010, hosted by Mark Gatkiss.
Pop Culture Roundup: Studio Ghibli theme park, comics on Substack, Black Panther podcast and more!
ITEM! Rip kicks off a month-long look at Black superheroes through history.
ITEM! A bunch of comics creators plan to debut new work on Substack. Names include: Tom King, Brian K. Vaughan, Grant Morrison, Khary Randolph, Jen Bartel, Elsa Charretier, and Niko Henrichon.
ITEM! Marvel Comics is launching a podcast tracing the history of Black Panther on Feb. 14.
ITEM! The Studio Ghibli theme park is set to open in November.
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