MAGAZINE: "Shot By Both Sides" on TOTP.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Caroline Rose, Nickel Creek and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Depeche Mode, Connections, Purling Hiss, and more.

WILCO joined YO LA TENGO for four covers at the Metro in Chicago.

PETE TOWNSHEND shares "Can't Outrun The Truth," written by his partner, Rachel Fuller.

BOYGENIUS Began As A Book Club.

THE BEST OF SXSW, according to Brooklyn Vegan.

THE NUMBER ONES, on Sean Kingston's "Beautiful Girls," which is not a good song but which is a pretty rich text.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: John Wick: Chapter 4 tops the chart with 73.5MM, a franchise record and the biggest R-rated opening post-pandemic.  Shazam! Fury of the Gods places with 9.7MM on a 68 percent drop.  Ouch.  Scream VI shows with 8.4MM on a 52 percent drop.

JONATHAN MAJORS, a/k/a Kang in Phase 5 of the MCU, was arrested Saturday in New York following an alleged domestic violence incident, which his lawyer denies and maintains he has a written recantation.

VICTORIA ALONSO, a top Marvel exec, is out after co-producing the Oscar-nominated film Argentina, 1985.

APPLE plans to spend a billion to produce movies that will be released in theaters.

NANCY MEYERS:  Why Netflix dumped its 150 MM rom-com.

SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS' director denied that a certain cameo is a deepfake.

OPPENHEIMER will likely break at least one Christoper Nolan record.

REESE WITHERSPOON was married to talent agent Jim Toth for just shy of 12 years before they announced their separation on Friday, March 24.

DANIEL READCLIFFE is expecting his first child with longtime girlfriend Erin Darke.

KATE BOSWORTH & JUSTIN LONG are engaged.

AMANDA BYNES' psych hold is extended another week.

THE POPE'S EXORCIST: Real exorcists weigh in the upcoming Russell Crowe movie.

A DOGGO, flirting.

CATS, surprised.

A DOGGO, disrobing.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with THE BYRDS!  Pretty much because I dig them as we turn into Spring (or Fall).  Let's start with a rare 1965 clip of their breakthrough smash cover of "Mr. Tambourine Man."  There are screaming girls, plus go-go dancers when they hit Shivaree for "All I Really Want to Do" and "Feel A Whole Lot Better."  Next up is a rare sync of "I Knew I'd Want You." There are even more dancers when they cover Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" for Shindig! on June 23, 1965, while I'm pretty sure that's Ed Wynn introducing "Chimes of Freedom."  You might recognize the voice introducing "Bells Of Rhymney" from poolside in August 1965 and "It Won't Be Wrong" from a corral in January 1966 on Where The Action Is.  BONUS:  Want a couple in color?  Here's "Turn, Turn, Turn!" and "Mr. Spaceman." DOUBLE BONUS: A rare 1967 sync of "Eight Miles High."

MY MORNING JACKET gets almost three hours of discussion and analysis on Political Beats.

DIONNE WARWICK visits World Cafe.

NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH-FLYING BIRDS are "Dead to the World."

BLUE AEROPLANES are "Building an Ark for the Anthropocene."

LANA DEL REY's Top 10 collaborations, according to NME.

GRAHAM COXON wishes someone had warned him in 1991.

HENRY ROLLINS on Shatner, Pacino, and more.

DEPECHE MODE, ranked by SPIN. BONUS: The Warring Depeche Mode Tribute Bands Of Los Angeles.

STAR WARS: That David Lindelof movie is now a Steven Knght (Peaky Blinders) movie.

JUSTIN ROILAND, co-creator of Rick And Morty, has been cleared of domestic violence charges after he was dropped from the show.

CAMERON CROWE will direct a new Joni Mitchell movie he’s been developing with Mitchell in secret over the past two years.

KEANU REEVES cut a gentleman's head open at some point.

SAM NEILL, on Robin Williams.

BRIE LARSON won't stick to the script.

AARON SORKIN suffered a severe stroke.

LOVE AND DEATH, ft. Elizabeth Osen, has a trailer online.

SPRING BREAKERS, Ten Years Later.

DUDE, honestly, I can't even look at you right now.

A RARE AND GIANT TRAPDOOR SPIDER is discovered Down Under.

FERAL PIGS are destroying the country, and no one can stop them.

JIMMY WEBB, one of America's master songwriters, plays "Elvis and Me" on Steve Dahl's 1991 NYE PPV event.

SAY SHE SHE visits World Cafe.

THE NATIONAL shares "Eucalyptus."

TOMMY STINSON's Cowboys in the Campfire shares "Dream."

LET'S EAT GRANDMA covers Nick Drake's "From The Morning."

BULLY shares "Days Move Slow."

SLY STONE is set to release a new memoir later this year, featuring a foreward from Questlove.

GENESIS: Their best and most divisive, according to keyboardist Tony Banks.

THE ZOMBIES talk to Aquarium Drunkard's Transmissions podcast.

ARCADE FIRE: The allegations against Win Butler rock Montreal's music scene.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Plain White T's' "Hey There Delilah," an acoustic singalong ballad from a band that usually made emo-leaning pop-punk.

STAR WARS: Damon Lindelof has departed the semi-top secret film he'd been working on with co-writer Justin Britt-Gibson.

NICOLAS CAGE on vampire flicks, sequels and more.

AMANDA BYNES will likely spend an extended period of time getting the psychiatric care she needs.

MEGAN FOX & MACHINE GUN KELLY are taking some time apart.

JAMES BOND, with a quirky "M"?

ZACHARI LEVI agreed that Zack Snyder fans are “happy” that Shazam! Fury Of The Gods has failed at the box office.

YOU HURT MY FEELINGS, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, has a trailer online.

DICK VAN DYKE was in an automobile accident, sustaining a bloody nose and mouth, as well as a possible concussion, but avoiding serious injury.

LIVE MOVED PRETTY FAST at the Succession premiere.

A BABY ELEPHANT and a basketball.

A SHEPHERD's work is never done.

MR. PICKLES, a critically endangered species of tortoise at the Houston Zoo, finally became a father at the age of 90. He and his partner, Mrs. Pickles, welcomed three tortoise hatchlings: Dill, Gherkin and Jalapeño.

FAITH NO MORE: "We Care A Lot."

ANDY SCHAUF plays WNXP.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features MIIRRORS (a Pravda artist), Ratboys, and more.

WAND frontman Cory Hanso goes Country-rock on "Twins."

PETER BUCK's Top 10 collaborations, according to PopMatters.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN was officially awarded a 2021 National Medal Of Arts.

THE ISLEY BROTHERS are fighting in court over the name.

THE MANDALORIAN is in trouble?

EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE's directors are working on a "Star Wars" show for D+.

LANCE REDDICK was remembered by Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne at the "John Wick 4" premiere.

AMANDA BYNES' parents are not considering another conservatorship after her most recent incident.

BEN AFFLECK says that that Michael Jordan had a number of demands when it came to making the forthcoming movie Air.

CIARAN HINDS on "Game of Thrones," sex scenes at 70, and more.

SYDNEY SWEENEY, from the reason she can't drink to blaming herself for her parents' divorce.

MEAN GIRLS: Rosalind Wiseman, whose book Queen Bees And Wannabes was adapted by Tina Fey into the hit 2004 film, has sought legal action against Paramount ahead of the film’s upcoming movie musical.

MOTHER MARY: Green Knight director David Lowery's next film will star Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel, with songs by Jack Antonoff and Charli XCX.

ZACH BRAFF on the Magic Pixie Deam Girl, and Florence Pugh.

ANDY KAUFMAN is the next inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame, despite never actually wrestling for WWE or WWF. I just hope he accepts it in person.

WINNIE THE POOH: BLOOD AND HONEY is banned in China; you know why.

BIG Stretch.

A BARN OWL disrupted court proceedings in South Africa.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT hits Edmonds, WA.

U2 plays World Cafe and a Tiny Desk Concert.

CONNECTIONS bring the power pop on "Cool Change."

SHANNON LAY covers Nick Drake's "From the Morning."

NICK CAVE is not a fan of Charles Bukowski.

PETER GABRIEL, on artificial intelligence.

XXXTENTACION's assailants were convicted of murder.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Rihanna and Jay-Z's colossal, dominant smash "Umbrella."

AMANDA BYNES has been placed on a psychiatric hold after she was found roaming the streets naked and alone.

RUPERT MURDOCH is engaged again, less than a year after divorcing Jerry Hall.

GWYNETH PALTROW is headed to trial over a 2016  “hit-and-run” ski crash.

CHRIS ROCK roasted the Oscars as Adam Sandler received the Mark Twain Award.

ZACK SNYDER revealed that he is working on a role-playing game (RPG) adaptation of his upcoming Netflix film Rebel Moon.

TONI COLLETTE once asked intimacy coordinators to leave the set because she felt “more anxious” with them around.

ALICIA SILVERSTONE would be up for a "Blast From the Past" sequel with Brendan Fraser.

BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO: Making a comeback?

A CAT settles down on a sheep.

TWO DOGGOS, two energy levels.

SO CLOSE, I can almost taste it.