Bye bye Huckleberry, holy Jimmy bands and ‘The Stranger’ + this day in history w/millennials in the workplace and our song of the day by Evidence of a Struggle on your #MorningMonarchy for April 11, 2025.
Notes/Links:
#NewWorldNextWeek: Attack of the CRINK! + Stand Up For Glyphosate & Dire Wolves Resurrected
https://x.com/shartstorm8d8/status/1910506763696431446
Dire Wolves Extinct Again After New Dr. Fauci Experiments
https://babylonbee.com/news/dire-wolves-extinct-again-after-new-dr-fauci-experiments/
Tim Pool Confirms Meeting With Netanyahu to Discuss ‘Anti-Semitism’ in Pro-Trump Spaces
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64903
Tim Pool Podcast Reportedly Joins the White House Press Pool; The so-called “manosphere” helped deliver the young male vote to Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
https://gizmodo.com/tim-pool-podcast-reportedly-joins-the-white-house-press-pool-2000582130
Video: EXPOSED – Inside Tim Pool’s Secret Meeting with Netanyahu (Audio)
https://x.com/KimIversenShow/status/1910091759641653680
The alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer faces the death penalty. Will a jury impose that punishment?; Even if he’s convicted, a jury might decide on a lesser punishment for Luigi Mangione in the trial’s penalty phase
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/luigi-mangione-death-penalty-jury-unitedhealthcare-ceo
Video: Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced she is seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione. (Audio)
https://x.com/tpbreaking/status/1907100474949386711
Lena Dunham makes rare public speech in support of transgender rights
https://archive.is/JWWCJ
Lena Dunham makes rare public speech in support of transgender rights
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/04/02/lena-dunham-now-girls-rare-public-appearance/82773151007/
Matt Pinfield Survives Coma, Gives Health Update: “Guys, I’m Alive!” (Exclusive); The SoCal Sound host has been released from the ICU and is recovering currently in a rehabilitation center in Los Angeles. (Mar. 13, 2025)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/matt-pinfield-coma-health-update-alive-1236161739/
Lana Del Rey Releases “Henry, Come On,” First Single From Upcoming Album ‘The Right Person Will Stay’; The Grammy nominee first teased the track in January 2024 on Instagram.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/lana-del-rey-new-single-henry-come-on-1236187841/
Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65; A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable. At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade.
https://archive.is/rhsYH
Val_Kilmer#Filmography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Kilmer#Filmography
Val Kilmer Asked Will Forte to Do ‘The Amazing Race’ Together; Will Forte’s agent refused to let him do “The Amazing Race” with Val Kilmer and it’s “maybe to this day, he biggest regret of my whole career.”
https://archive.is/hfjSr
Video: Actor Val Kilmer, 65, Dies of Pneumonia (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJcMAzKc4dI
Maurice Jarre – “Skeet Surfing” (w/Val Kilmer // Audio)
‘Top Secret!’
La-La Land Records – March 8, 2022
*Maurice Jarre – “Skeet Surfing” (w/Val Kilmer) https://youtu.be/hxrES1WyVt4 // https://www.discogs.com/release/22503779-Maurice-Jarre-Top-Secret // From ‘Top Secret!,’ the two disc expanded edition of the Motion Picture Soundtrack of the 1984 film debut by actor and singer Val Kilmer, who passed on away April 1st at the age of 65. From Producer Shawn’s copy of ‘Top Secret!’. This 2xCD is not available digitally, and was issued in a limited edition of 2000.*
Madonna Is Happy to Report That She & Elton John Have Officially ‘Buried the Hatchet’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/madonna-is-happy-to-report-that-she-elton-john-have-officially-buried-the-hatchet/ar-AA1Ctp9q
NO FAKES Act Returns to Congress With Support From YouTube, OpenAI for AI Deepfake Bill; The bipartisan legislation has been reintroduced to both houses of Congress for the 2025 term – now with new tech industry champions.
https://archive.is/unOEx
Video: Jay Leno spent the day at the CA Capitol, pushing to exempt classic cars from smog checks.︀︀︀︀ I asked him why — with everything else going on — he’s using his influence on this.︀︀︀︀ “I don’t want the Hot Rod business, or mechanical business, to leave the way the film business did…” (Audio)
https://fixupx.com/zavalaa/status/1909772732147114215
Warner Bros to demolish Looney Tunes building after scrubbing classic cartoons
https://archive.is/NI6S7
US TV’s longest-serving female anchor announces exit live on air after 30 years
https://archive.is/SVsj5
Why Many Top Artists Are Ditching Music Festivals in Favor of Stadium Concerts; As more markets offer giant-size venues and bigger potential paydays, multiday music events are becoming less attractive.
https://archive.is/1Hnmy
How the 9:30 Club Became a D.C. Staple and Set a Gold Standard for Small Venues :nine::three::zero:
https://archive.is/Q24Ow
“Nobody as good”: The greatest band of all time, according to Joey Ramone
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/greatest-band-according-to-joey-ramone/
“Pleasure & Privilege” of the Rothschilds Musical
https://mediamonarchy.com/rothschilds-musical/
Video: Hal Linden & Cast Of The Rothschilds “Sons” on The Ed Sullivan Show (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnztP3vCRko
Drake Can Seek Kendrick Lamar’s Record Deal & Other Docs in ‘Not Like Us’ Lawsuit, Judge Says; The label had argued that Drake’s demands for evidence were premature and overbroad, but a judge says the discovery process can move ahead for now.
https://archive.is/cJGhx
Pay-for-Play Radio Payola Scandal of 2005: Typical Music Business Snakery
https://musicianfiend.wordpress.com/2023/08/26/pay-for-play-radio-payola-scandal-of-2005-typical-music-business-snakery/
Video: The 2005 Radio Scandal Was a Glorious Mess (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AySoWKO-dI
Pulp – “Spike Island” (Audio)
‘More’
Rough Trade Records – June 6, 2025
*Pulp – “Spike Island” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-27a1ugJX8U // https://pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/spike-island // https://pulp.ffm.to/more // From ‘More,’ the first new album by Pulp since 2001, due on June 6th via Rough Trade Records.*
News: Pulp to appear on The Jonathan Ross Show 5 April 2025
https://pulpwiki.net/News/1743867063
Pulp and LCD Soundsystem. Together, for two nights at the Hollywood Bowl in September 2025.
https://pulpwiki.net/News/1743274064
#DeepFocus: ‘The Stranger’ 1946 film
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(1946_film)
#DeepFocus/Video: Eddie Muller’s Intro to “The Stranger” (1946) on TCM Noir Alley (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Q7-GKgzXk
#DeepFocus/Video: The Stranger (1946) Trailer | Orson Welles | Loretta Young (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgdfIgbZJLs
#DeepFocus: ‘The Stranger’ @ 7PM MT on MNRCHY TV
https://discord.com/events/311625265627529216/1353194673975463996
Stereolab – “Aerial Troubles”
‘Instant Holograms On Metal Film’
Duophonic UHF Disks / Warp Records – May 23, 2025
*Stereolab – “Aerial Troubles” https://youtu.be/Cg69OglydeE // https://warp.net/stereolab-instant-holograms-on-metal-film // The lead single to preview ‘Instant Holograms On Metal Film,’ the upcoming album by Stereolab, due on May 23rd via Duophonic UHF Disks / Warp Records.*
Stereolab Announce First New Album in Fifteen Years – Instant Holograms On Metal Film
https://louderthanwar.com/stereolab-announce-first-new-album-in-fifteen-years-instant-holograms-on-metal-film/
Flip City Magazine | Comic Satire Magazine
https://www.flipcitymag.com/
April 2015 – Page 2 – Media Monarchy
https://mediamonarchy.com/2015/04/page/2/
Flashback: @PumpUpThaVolume: Episode154 – Everything New (Apr. 11, 2015)
https://mediamonarchy.com/putv154/
Flashback: Ukraine to ban Communist and Nazi Ideology & Symbolism (Apr. 11, 2015)
https://mediamonarchy.com/ukraine-to-ban-communist-and-nazi/
#MorningMonarchy: April 11, 2016 – Kerry offers no US apology for #Hiroshima
https://mediamonarchy.com/20160411morningmonarchy/
#MixlrMusic: April 11, 2016 ♬ Atari Teenage Riot & Boards Of Canada
https://mediamonarchy.com/20160411mixlrmusic/
#GoodNewsNextWeek: A Fridge Full Of Free Food + 28 Pages & Soda Sales Flat
https://mediamonarchy.com/gnnw014-video/ // https://mediamonarchy.com/gnnw014-audio/
#ThisDayInHistory/#MorningMonarchy: April 11, 2017 – Millennials in the workplace (Audio)
https://mediamonarchy.com/20170411morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: April 11, 2017 ♬ Blockhead & Miguel
https://mediamonarchy.com/20170411pumpupthavolume/
#MorningMonarchy: April 11, 2019 – Jury rules deaths of 2 women and their 6 adopted children was a murder-suicide after being told that one of the women had searched death by drowning online. #HartWitches
https://mediamonarchy.com/20190411morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: April 11, 2019 ♬ HEALTH & Gabor Szabo
https://mediamonarchy.com/20190411pumpupthavolume/
#NewWorldNextWeek: Hallelujah! Government Allows Homeowners to Grow Vegetables! + Netanyahu Wins & Trustworthiness Scores
https://mediamonarchy.com/nwnw371-video/ // https://mediamonarchy.com/nwnw371-audio/
#MorningMonarchy: April 11, 2022 – Biden #SecretService Infiltrated by FAKE #HomelandSecurity Agents
https://mediamonarchy.com/20220411morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: April 11, 2022 ♬ The Reverberations & Alestorm
https://mediamonarchy.com/20220411pumpupthavolume/
#MorningMonarchy: April 11, 2023 – Chief Innovation Officer – because that’s totally a real job title – of the National Archives talks about using Artificial Intelligence to rewrite history to eliminate the “inherent bias” in the existing records.
https://mediamonarchy.com/20230411morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: April 11, 2023 ♬ L’Avenue & Phytophiliac
https://mediamonarchy.com/20230411pumpupthavolume/
#MorningMonarchy: April 11, 2024 – X-Men Writer/Artist Ed Piskor Passes Away From Apparent Suicide
https://mediamonarchy.com/20240411morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: April 11, 2024 ♬ Stereolab & Lee “Scratch” Perry
https://mediamonarchy.com/20240411pumpupthavolume/
#NewWorldNextWeek: Sixth Time’s The Charm for Zimbabwe’s “New” Currency + Asia Turf Wars & Gen Z Homeschool
https://mediamonarchy.com/nwnw550-video/ // https://mediamonarchy.com/nwnw550-audio/
#PumpUpThaVolume/#NewMusicFriday: #April11 w/Bon Iver, Real Lies, Jon Pardi, Spin Doctors, Valerie June, Cold Specks & more! ♬
https://mediamonarchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20250411_NewMusicFriday.png // https://www.allmusic.com/newreleases/20250411
Evidence of a Struggle – “Give Us A Kiss” (Audio)
‘Eddy Derecho’
The Glue Factory / The Orchard – May 2, 2025
*#PumpUpThaVolume/#TruthMusic: Evidence of a Struggle – “Give Us A Kiss” https://youtu.be/VAYbbS9rqr0 // https://orcd.co/giveusakiss // This song about incentivized control by media, government, religion, business, pharma, banking and mass media will be included on ‘Eddy Derecho,’ the upcoming album by Evidence of a Struggle, the project of multi-instrumentalist, W P C Simmons V a.k.a. Rev. Billy Simmons. Featuring Matt Walker (Morrissey, Garbage) on drums and synth, he album drops on May 2nd via The Glue Factory / The Orchard.*