On this day in music history - Top 40: Anastacia, by Anastacia (2017):

Top 40: Anastacia

Album by Anastacia,

released June 29, 2017.

Track list:

I’m Outta Love; Paid My Dues; Left Outside Alone; One Day In Your Life; Not That Kind; Cowboys & Kisses; Pieces Of A Dream; Take This Chance; Why’d You Lie To Me; Heavy On My Heart; Lifeline; Welcome To My Truth; Sweet Child O’ Mine; Made For Lovin’ You; Stupid Little Things; What Can We Do (Deeper Love); Time; How Come The World Won’t Stop; Burning Star; Sick And Tired; I Belong To You; Boom; Freak Of Nature; Best Of You; I Can Feel You; Staring At The Sun; Love Is A Crime; Seasons Change; I Dreamed You; You’ll Never Be Alone; I Ask Of You; Army Of Me; Absolutely Positively; Apology; Defeated; Love Is Alive; Who’s Gonna Stop The Rain; I’m Outta Love.

Recommended reading - Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner, by Paul M. Sammon (2017):

Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner

by Paul M. Sammon (2017).

Revised & Updated Edition.

ISBN-10: 0062699466

ISBN-13: 978-0062699466

Description from back cover:

The ultimate guide to Ridley Scott’s transformative sci-fi classic Blade Runner.

Ridley Scott’s 2007 “Final Cut” confirmed the international film cognoscenti’s judgment: Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick’s brilliant and troubling science fiction masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is among the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential science fiction films ever made. Future Noir Revised & Updated Edition offers a deeper understanding of this cinematic phenomenon that is storytelling and visual filmmaking at its best.

In this intensive, intimate, and anything-but-glamorous behind-the-scenes account, film insider and cinephile Paul M. Sammon explores how Ridley Scott purposefully used his creative genius to transform the work of science fiction’s most uncompromising author into a critical sensation and cult classic that would reinvent the genre. Sammon reveals how the making of the original Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry at the time it was made. This revised and expanded edition of Future Noir includes:

An overview of Blade Runner’s impact on moviemaking and its acknowledged significance in popular culture since the book’s original 1996 publication.

An exploration of the history of Blade Runner: The Final Cut and its theatrical release in 2007.

A look at its long-awaited sequel, Blade Runner 2049.

The longest interview Harrison Ford has ever granted about Blade Runner.

Exclusive new interviews with Rutger Hauer and Sean Young.

A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and art, illustrated with production photos and stills, Future Noir provides an eye-opening and enduring look at modern moviemaking, the business of Hollywood, and one of the greatest films of all time.

On this day in music history: Moon Goes Missing, by Carolyn Wonderland (2017):

Moon Goes Missing

Album by Carolyn Wonderland,

released June 9, 2017.

Track list:

Moon Goes Missing; Open Eyes; Hellfire Bitters; Can't Nobody Hide From God; Swamp; Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat; She Wants to Know; To Be Free; Every Time You Go; Come Together; Bad to the Bone.

On this day in movie history - Good Time (2017):

Good Time

directed by Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie,

written by Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 25, 2017.
Music by Oneohtrix Point Never.

Cast:

Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Buddy Duress, Taliah Webster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barkhad Abdi, Necro, Peter Verby, Saida Mansoor, Gladys Mathon, Rose Gregorio, Eric Paykert, Astrid Corrales, Rachel Black, Hirakish Ranasaki, Maynard Nicholl, Ben Edelman, Laurence Blum, Jason Harvey, Robert Clohessy, Michael Kaufman, Goran Spadina, Michael McClard, Eloisa Santos, Bryan Seslow, Craig muMs Grant, George Lee, Kate Halpern, Christopher Kirk, Leticia Ortega, Souleymane Sy Savane, Mahadeo Shivraj, Dorothi Fox, Ratnesh Dubey, Tessa O’Conner, Jim Handley, Cliff Moylan, Peter Linari, Chris Breslin, Evonne Walton, Lewis Dodley, Tara Lynn Wagner, Jim Dzurenda, Roy James Wilson, Brendan M. Burke, Jordan Valdez, Laura Sledge, Jerome Frazier, Javaughn Swindell, Dion McBean, Sean Miller, Benny DeVincenzi, Joey McDevitt, Daniel Chung, Afro, Azul Rodriguez, Jarvis, Mavrin Kirill, KJ Rothweiler, Michael Shershenovich, Mr. Green, Roi Cydulkin, Scrooge, Terrance Williams, Kim Carter, Gianluca Cirafici, Megan Dodd, Samantha Elisafon, Melissa Gonzalez, Rodney Hankins, Carol Hoverman, Andrew Kader, Marissa Lelogeais, Michael Lorch, Michael Melendez, Christian Patane, Ari Sloan, Bakari Williams, Aubrie Therrien, A-F-R-O, Sebastian Bear-McClard, Phil Cappadora, Francisco De Arriba, Luca De Massis, Lucas Elliot Eberl, Marcos A. Gonzalez, Jibril Goodman, Edgar Morais, Shaun Rey, Sacco Sarkis.

On this day in movie history - Filmworker (2017):

Filmworker

documentary directed by Tony Zierra,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 19, 2017.
Music by David Ben Shannon.

Cast:

Leon Vitali, Ryan O'Neal, Brian Capron, Mike Alfreds, Nick Redman, Brian Jamieson, Danny Lloyd, Stanley Kubrick, Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Tim Colceri, Julian Senior, Colin Mossman, Warren Lieberfarb, Lisa Leone, Steve Southgate, Phil Rosenthal, Jacob Rosenberg, Max Vitali, Vera Vitali, Masha Vitali, Stellan Skarsgård, Pernilla August, Beverly Wood, Tim Vitali, Maria Hayward, Chris Vitali, Marie Richardson, Treva Etienne, Margaret Adams, Ned Price, Chris Jenkins, Janet Wilson, Adam Baldwin, Marisa Berenson, David Bowie, Scatman Crothers, Tom Cruise, Kirk Douglas, Keir Dullea, Shelley Duvall, Michael Gambon, George Harrison, Arliss Howard, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, James Mason, Paul McCartney, Malcolm McDowell, Jack Nicholson, Slim Pickens, Gordon Ramsay, Peter Sellers, Martin Sheen, Rita Wilson, Shelley Winters.

Recommended reading - The Ross Macdonald Collection, by Ross Macdonald (2017):

The Ross Macdonald Collection

By Ross Macdonald.

Edited by Tom Nolan.

Published by Library of America.

Box edition.

Published 2017.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1598535528

ISBN-13: 978-1598535525

Description:

“The finest series of detective novels ever written by an American.” – The New York Times Book Review.

“Macdonald brought a new method of psychological construction to the hard-boiled novel … he was in line with many of the important mid-century movements of American literary fiction, and deserves to be seen as a worthy addition to them.” – The Times Literary Supplement.

Ross Macdonald transformed the detective novel into a literary expression of unique psychological depth and drama. Here, for the first time in a deluxe three-volume Library of America boxed set, are eleven of his classic Lew Archer mysteries.

Contents: The Way Some People Die; The Barbarous Coast; The Doomsters; The Galton Case; The Zebra-Striped Hearse; The Chill; The Far Side of the Dollar; Black Money; The Instant Enemy; The Goodbye Look; The Underground Man.

On this day in television history - American Epic (2017):

American Epic

documentary series directed by Bernard MacMahon,

written by Duke Erikson, Bernard MacMahon, Allison McGourty, Bill Morgan and Elijah Wald,

was released in the United States on May 16, 2017.
Music by Bernard MacMahon, Duke Erikson, Allison McGourty and Patrick Ferris.
Narrated by Robert Redford.

On this day in music history - Stardust, by Kerani (2017):

Stardust

Album by Kerani,

released May 8, 2017.

Track list:

Stardust; Cosmic Sunrise; Rosetta; Perpetuum Mobile; Beyond; The Next Step; Infinity; Gravity; Worlds Unknown; Stars (Instrumental) [Remix].

On this day in music history - Into The Mist, by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2017):

Into The Mist

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

released April 1, 2017.

Track list:

A Walk In The Park; Moon Over The Lotus Pond; Opus: Into The Mist (Part 1); Opus: Mist Rising (Part 2); Opus: Mist Before Dawn (Part 3); Through Cloud; Feeling Sunshine; Grey Sky Morning; Galloping; The Void.

On this day in movie history - Ghost in the Shell (2017):

Ghost in the Shell

directed by Rupert Sanders,

written by Jamie Moss, William Wheeler and Ehren Kruger,

based on the Manga comic book series by Masamune Shirow,

was released in the United States on March 31, 2017.
Music by Clint Mansell and Lorne Balfe.

Cast:

Scarlett Johansson, Kaori Yamamoto, "Beat" Takeshi Kitano, Michael Carmen Pitt, Andrew Morris, Pilou Asbæk, Chin Han, Lasarus Ratuere, Juliette Binoche, Peter Ferdinando, Kaori Momoi, Danusia Samal, Anamaria Marinca, Michael Wincott, Yutaka Izumihara, Tawanda Manyimo, Daniel Henshall, Rila Fukushima, Chris Obi, Adwoa Aboah, Pete Teo, Hugh Han.