THE EASTER WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with THE B-52s!  Live at the Capitol Theater, this week in 1980.  Your setlist includes: Lava, Give Me Back My Man, 6060-842, Devil In My Car, 52 Girls, Quiche Lorraine, Dirty Back Road, Private Idaho, Strobe Light, Runnin' Around, Rock Lobster, Dance This Mess Around, Planet Claire, Party Out Of Bounds, Downtown, and 53 Miles West Of Venus.. 

SAM FERMIN visits WNYC Soundcheck.

THE NUDE PARTY visits KEXP.

JESSY WILSON visits World Cafe.

BEACH SLANG pays tribute to Tommy Keene on "Tommy in the 80s."

BLACK LIPS return with "Gentleman."

ADVANCE BASE covers Lucinda Williams' "Sweet Old World."

THE NEW PR0NOGRAPHERS cover Guided By Voices' "The Rally Boys."

WHAT DO R.E.M., OUTKAST, PATTI SMITH & MIKE LOVE have in common?

ANGEL OLSEN talks about her new LP on All Songs Considered.

THE BEST ALBUMS of 2019, according to Vulture.

WBAI was ordered back on the air by a New York judge.

NOW SHOWING:  This weekend's wide releases include Doctor Sleep, which is currently scoring 74 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Last Christmas, which is currently scoring xx percent; Midway, which is scoring 38 percent; and Playing With Fire, scoring 24 percent.

JEFF GOLDBLUM defends WOODY ALLEN: "I think there's a presumption of innocence until proven guilty."

KIM KARDASHIAN, KRIS JENNER & KANYE WEST discuss their empide (and more) at The New York Times.

BILLIE LOURD, on becoming the keeper of Princess Leia.

KRISTEN BELL is returning for the upcoming Gossip Girl update at HBO Max.

PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE is profiled at Vogue.

WHO IS THE MANDALORIAN? Let's Start With Who He's Not.

THE INVISIBLE MAN, ft Elisabeth Moss, has a trailer online.

A DOG sends a message.

A DOG makes the wrong choice.

LINCOLN THE SEA OTTER at the Oregon Zoo.

THE BRONX ZOO "LION QUEEN" was arrested by the NYPD.

RYLEY WALKER, Live at Hopscotch, September 6, 2019. 

AIDA VICTORIA visits Morning Becomes Eclectic.

TRENT REZNOR & ATTICUS ROSS have put their Watchmen soundtrack online.

GRAHAM COXON covers Billy Idol's "White Wedding."

HAZEL ENGLISH returns with a video for "Shaking."

RINGO STARR talks to Morning Edition about his new book, chock full of Fab photos.

JOE PESCI is dropping an album, and it features Maroon 5’s Adam Levine. Yes, really.

AQUARIUM DRUNKARD's 100 fave albums of the 2010s.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Bill Conti's triumphant fanfare "Gonna Fly Now (Theme From 'Rocky')."

WHITNEY HOUSTON's best friend Robyn Crawford opens up about their love affair.

KRISTEN STEWART opens up about her fiirst love, with Robert Pattinson.

CGI JAMES DEAN has been posthumously cast in the Vietnam era action-drama Finding Jack.

INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE was a mistake, according to director Roland Emmerich, making it unanimous.

NOAH BAUMBACH's MOVIES, ranked by The Ringer.

THE IRISHMAN: Will its de-aging tech change the movie biz?

COLOR OUT OF SPACE, with Nic Cage doing H.P. Lovecraft, has a trailer online.

A BOY gets a dog.

THIS DOG couldn't stand to be touched, now loves to cuddle.

THE U.S. SENATE unanimously approved a bill making animal cruelty a federal crime.

A FLESH-EATING TAPEWORM was eating his brain for 15 years.

JON PRATT covers the Ray Charles classic, "I Got a Woman."  I'm shamefully behind in posting this, but the last few weeks have been, um, hectic.

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD play KEXP.

OF MONSTERS AND MEN visits World Cafe.

RHIANNON GIDDENS visits The Current.

THE RENTALS return with "Spaceship."

BEST COAST returns with "For the First Time."

SPINAL TAP have resolved their dispute with Universal Music Group regarding the film’s soundtrack recordings.

KACEY MUSGRAVES enlists LANA DEL REY, ZOOEY DESCHANEL and more for a Christmas special and album.

THE MELLOTRON: Inspiring a new generation of musicians.

THE 200 BEST SONGS of the 2010s, accordingto Stereogum.

ANGELINA JOLIE on parenting, being unpopular in school, and more.

COLIN FARRELL is in talks to play the Penguin in The Batman?

EMMA WATSON calls singledom being self-partnered.

ANTHONY MACKIE got divorced quietly.

JAMIE LEE CURTIS talks about 20 years of sobriety.

KRISTEN STEWART can't wait to propose to her girlfriend. And yet.

DANIEL CRAIG shut down a question about hiring Phoebe Waller-Bridge to punch up the script for No Time To Die (Bond 25.)

A DOG ABANDONED in the desert learns to trust people again.

THIS STRAY PIT BULL may be the world's most determined.

A MILLION CANNIBAL ANTS trapped in a nuclear bunker for years have escaped, scientists in Poland have said.

TWIGLET, a 420-pound hog, was rescued from a flat where it ate Chinese takeout.

X stopped by 30 Rock to play "Hot House" and "Breathless," lo these many moons ago.

THE NEW PR0NOGRAPHERS, Live at Rockwood Music Hall.

PERNICE BROTHERS, Live at the Mercury Lounge, October 20, 2019.

JEREMY IVEY plays World Cafe Live.

FIONA APPLE covers The Waterboys'' “The Whole Of The Moon.”

BLONDIE covers T. Rex's signature "Bang a Gong (Get it On)" this week in 1987.

EDDIE VEDDER joins RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS for Prince's "Purple Rain" and Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower."

MICHAEL JACKSON'S ESTATE bought majority ownership of the U.S. rights to Sly and the Family Stone's catalog.

R.E.M.: How Monster signaled the end of alternative rock.

THE TOP 100 ALBUMS of the 2010s, according to Stereogum.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Marvin Gaye's final #1 hit, the sensitive disco odyssey, "Got To Give It Up (Part 1)."

MARTIN SCORSESE brings his anti-Marvel argument to the NYT op-ed page.

KEANU REEVES and ... longtime pal Alexandra Grant?

ANNA FARIS appears to be engaged to cinematographer Michael Barrett.

FELICITY HUFFMAN logs community service hours as part of her Varsity Blues sentence.

ARCTIC DOGS had a historically bad opening weekend.

FANTASTIC BEASTS will in fact complete the trilogy.

HOLLYWOOD may kill US trade with South Africa.

A RAVEN acts just like a puppy with his human.

ORPHANED RACCONS, mothered by a pit bull.

A CAT took the field for Monday Night Football; Kevin Harlan has the call.  BONUS: Cats and dogs watch.

A BEAR with a soccer ball, rolling around in the snow in a Colorado resident's backyard. 

THE BOOMTOWN RATS: "I Don't Like Mondays," live at the Secret Policemen's Other Ball.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to releases from Earl Sweatshirt, Miranda Lambert, Sean Henry, and more.

INDIE BASEMENT will point you to releasesfrom new albums from Bradford Cox & Cate Le Bon, Omni and more.

RAPHAEL SAADIQ plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

OLIVIA COLEMAN & PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE cover Portishead's "Glory Box" for charity.

LUCY DACUS does an angry version of Wham!'s "Last Christmas."

ROBYN HITCHCOCK shares a video for "Sunday Never Comes."

R.E.M: Peter Buck talks about nine songs that influenced Monster.  Michael Stpe and Mile Mills chat with NME.  And the demos are online now, along with live tracks from Chicago.

DEREK SMALLS of Spinal Tap talks about his upcoming show in L.A., the British Fund for Ageing Rockers, and the scam that is the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE will rage again.

THE 30 BEST POP ALBUMS of the 2010s, according to Paste.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Fleetwood Mac's incandescent pop classic "Dreams."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Terminator: Dark Fate tops the chart with 29MM, which is below the lowest projections last week and the lowest No. 1 debut in November since Ender's Game in 2013.  It made about the same amount overseas, again well below the 40-50MM many projected.  This is afilm that probably had to make almost 500MM to break even. Ouch.  Ouch.  Ouch.  Joker places with 13.9MM and will break 300MM domestic this week.  Maleficent: Mistress of Evil shows with 12.2MM.  Harriet debuts in the fourth slot with 12MM and could leap ahead once the estimates become actuals.  The Addams Family rode the Hollywood weekened to round out the Top Five with another8.5MM.

THE BEE GEES will be getting the biopic treatment  from Bohemian Rhapsody producer Graham King.

MICHAEL JACKSON again tops the latest Forbes list of top-earning dead celebs.

LORI LAUGHLIN says she's not guilty of new charges in the Varsity Blues scandal.

CARY ELWES talks about Saw on its 15th anniversary.

LADY GAGA & RIDLEY SCOTT are teaming up on a film about the tumultuous Gucci family fashion dynasty and the murder of the grandson of founder Guccio Gucci.

ANT-MAN 3: Peyton Reed will return to direct.

HUNTERS, ft Al Pacino and Jordan Peel tracking Nazis, has a teaser trailer online.

INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE announced a sequel date.

BRIAN TARANTINA (The Marvelous Mrs Maisel)  has died at 60, apparently from a heart issue.

A PUPPER goes down the stairs with style. 

UNLIKE CARNIVORES who get sodium from meat, butterflies have to find other sources—like turtle tears.

SURPRISE dictates I leave it there.

TENTACLE DRONES: Not an animal, but freaky.