Cassette revivals, hip-hop museums and viral movies + this day in history w/the Dunblane school massacre and our song of the day by The Chats on your Morning Monarchy for March 13, 2020.
Notes/Links:
Woody Allen Memoir Dropped by Hachette After Staff Walkout
https://twitter.com/NOTDumPhuk/status/1236306212104388608
RT Says: Woody Allen, we will publish your book
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/1237239690148937731
More than 70 people are on Harvey Weinstein’s “Red Flag List” (a list of people he was afraid would talk to journalists about his sexual conduct), & they include his former assistant and #RussianDoll creator Leslye Headland, Megan Ellison, and Jason Blum
https://twitter.com/DharmaBohemes/status/1237887292141760516
Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson Test Positive for Coronavirus
https://twitter.com/NOTDumPhuk/status/1237925836788883458
Howie Mandel’s Hazmat Suit for ‘America’s Got Talent’ Arrival Has Fans Standing up for Him
https://twitter.com/shartstorm8d8/status/1237790801305845760
Naomi Campbell wears full hazmat suit and mask at airport amid coronavirus fears
https://twitter.com/shartstorm8d8/status/1237790610347544582
8 Books About Disease to Get You Through the #Coronavirus Outbreak
https://twitter.com/NOTDumPhuk/status/1237725536446746624
Pearl Jam postpone North American leg of Gigaton Tour due to coronavirus
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/1237439242382475264
Tekashi 6ix9ine reportedly to be released from prison in August
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/1237439518174822400
Britney Spears’ son recently went on an Instagram livestream to call out his grandfather for Britney’s conservatorship and to reveal that his mother wants to quit music completely.
https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1236333349188169728
Rocker Nick Cave Defends Old Songs From ‘Perpetually Pissed Off Coterie of Pearl-Clutchers’: “I would rather be remembered for writing something that was…offensive, than to be forgotten for writing something bloodless.”
https://twitter.com/reason/status/1237938870362218497
Led Zeppelin prevails in ‘Stairway to Heaven’ copyright case
https://twitter.com/shartstorm8d8/status/1237991447778869248
Jurors weren’t allowed to listen to ‘Taurus’? How did they decide without hearing it? Jimmy P(l)age(rism) & Led Zeppelin wins ‘Stairway to Heaven’ copyright case. Zep & Spirit toured before Stairway was written. It IS one of many Zep rip offs.
https://twitter.com/CourageSower/status/1237546712463314945
Self-portrait of John Lennon as Hitler on sale for 54k
https://twitter.com/headisajar/status/1237894030391836672
The Bill That Killed Freelance
https://twitter.com/NOTDumPhuk/status/1237759723061030922
New Mrs. Doubtfire First Look Revealed
https://twitter.com/shartstorm8d8/status/1238128044969058304
Mystik portable music player awaits audio cassette revival
https://twitter.com/wtfiscrackin/status/1237075468509155331
Sleater-Kinney and Wilco announce joint 2020 tour
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/1237438571210059776
Our year-end report is here! Explore the most popular formats, most collected and most expensive albums, and everything else that went down in the Discogs Database and Marketplace in 2019
https://twitter.com/discogs/status/1237046762164101120
A Universal Hip-Hop Museum is coming to the Bronx (Audio)
https://twitter.com/DharmaBohemes/status/1236683435013484544
Max von Sydow Dead: ‘Seventh Seal,’ ‘Exorcist’ Actor Was 90
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/1237169991465697280
McCoy Tyner, Piano Legend and John Coltrane Collaborator, Dead at 81
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/1236144714950328321
Steve Pringle, Portland radio host and blues scene icon, dies at 56
https://twitter.com/Oregonian/status/1191565439572291585
Portland radio personality Steve Pringle dies at 56 (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1238331663232331776
JUST IN: SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, has been cancelled due to concerns over the spread of the new coronavirus, mayor says. (Audio)
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1236049453741740033
New reports by multiple independent sources have confirmed that #Coachella will be delaying its two April weekends due to the spread of coronavirus. The same lineup is said to now be scheduled for the weekends of October 9 and 16.
https://twitter.com/HYPEBEAST/status/1237211820487659520
TREEFORT MUSIC FEST 2020 WILL NOW TAKE PLACE SEPTEMBER 23rd-27th
https://twitter.com/treefortfest/status/1237770270326132738
Here’s more wholesome / beautiful content to assuage the bereavement you feel over the fact that the world will end forthwith: Cat playing theremin you’re welcome (Audio)
https://twitter.com/telefontelaviv/status/1237165293815738368
Prince Harry says President Donald Trump has climate ‘blood on his hands’ in call with Russian hoaxers
https://twitter.com/shartstorm8d8/status/1237990291212087296
From the man who brought you “Windows”…A thriller like you’ve never seen before…”CORONA VIRUS”
https://twitter.com/AphixJS/status/1237230430488793088
#DeepFocus: The president dies in the White House trying to contain the pandemonium. Popcorn time! ‘Virus’ (Official Trailer) 1980 // “A military-engineered virus, released during a plane crash, kills the entire human population. The only survivors are scientists in Antarctica, who desperately try to find a cure and save what is left…” (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1238339011812311040
#ThisDayInHistory: #March13 w/In Scotland, 16 primary school children and one teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton – a known pedo – who later commits suicide…in the #Dunblane school massacre in 1996. (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1238521374924103680
+ #Uranus/#Pluto discovered, #Mendelssohn ‘Violin Concerto’ debut, #FDR #BankHoliday ends, #OperationNorthwoods planned, @MTVEurope
launches in…#Israel, #TheBends, #PhoenixLights, #PopeFrank selected
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1238521376014647301
Flashback: Collateral News – Reopening the Anthrax Case // Related Anthrax Updates: In bizarre, Soviet-style move, White House threatens to veto intel budget unless FBI’s Anthrax frame-up is accepted // Obama threatens to veto proposed 2nd probe into Anthrax attacks // Video: Rep Holt urges independent Anthrax investigation // Bruce Ivins’ attorney calls for case to be re-opened (Mar. 13, 2010)
https://mediamonarchy.com/collateral-news-reopening-anthrax-case/
+ #SammyKaye, #LRonHubbard, #WilliamCasey, #RoyHaynes, #NeilSedaka, #JamieDimon, #AdamClayton, #TerenceBlanchard, #Common, #DannyMasterson birthdays
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1238521377432334337
#NewMusicFriday: @FourTet/#FourTet drops beautiful, new music when we need it most – while the @BoomtownThe/#BoomtownRats break 36yr silence (take that Tool & Dixie Chicks!) + @AcidTongue, @SamDoores, @Wolf_Sweden & much more https://allmusic.com/newreleases/20200313 #March13 💿🕺📻
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1238307814369447936
#PumpUpThaVolume: The Chats (@TheChatsBand) – “Dine And Dash” (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1238310881429086208