NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Dawes, Bartees Strange, Drive-By Truckers, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Death Valley Girls, Working Men's Club, New Order, and more.

JOE PERNICE drops an album of Barry Manilow covers.

MICK FLEETWOOD gets in on the "Dreams" craze.And there's also this.

AC/DC teased "Shot in the Dark" from that album they make.

RADIOHEAD: Kid A turned 20, with reconsideration from BuzzFeedNews and The Quietus.

THE NATIONAL's Matt berninger talks to Stereogum about going solo, Obama, 'Game Of Thrones,' and "appearing" in an erotic podcast.

LAURA JANE GRACE talks about her surprise quarantine album.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE?  Tenet remains atop the chart with 2.7MM on a 21 percent drop. The re-release of Hocus Pocus (1993) placed with 1.9MM.  The New Mutants showed with 1MM on a 9 percent drop.

REGAL CINEMA could "temporarily" close 543 of its theaters in the US.

NO TIME TO DIE moves to April 2, Easter weekend 2021 (and was probably the final straw foor Regal).

RICK MORANIS was randomly attacked in New York City on Thursday.

MEGXIT: An explosive new biography lays bare the depth of the Royal Family's anger and frustration at Harry and Meghan's decision to quit.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN has been charged with six more counts of forcible sexual assault in Los Angeles.

CLINT EASTWOOD looks to be moving quickly to get his next movie going. 

QUIBI is in bad financial straits.

COPS has quietly resumed production, to meet international contracts.

COBRA KAI: Season 3 has a teaser online.

JEFF GOLDBLUM, SAM NEILL & LAURA DERN goof on the "chaos theory" scene from Jurassic Park.

LESS COWBELL: Christopher Walken has had enough.

A TIGER catches a ball.

THE DALLAS ZOO has adopted into their primate family a 17-year-old gorilla named Asha, who zoo officials said will be a “strong female role model for our little ones.”

DURING FAT BEAR WEEK, bears are preparing themselves for hibernation. What if we could take a long nap like that, too?

AN EMU ON THE LAM was lured back into captivity with a pear.

WASINGTON STATE OFFICIALS hunt for a colony of Murder Hornets.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE GO-GOs!  They made history as the first all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts. Kind of a hard band to place seasonally. Their debut, Beauty and the Beat, which yielded hits like "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got the Beat," as well as great album cuts like "This Town," "Lust to Love," "Tonite" and "How Much More," came out in late Summer 1981, iirc, and "Lips" was climbing the charts that Fall, so I mentally place the band in this time of year. And it's still warm enough that the title track to the too-quick sophomore album, "Vacation," -- or their cover of the Capitols' "Cool Jerk" -- doesn't sound too out of place. "Get Up and Go" was also a single from that LP, but it didn't make the Top 40.  The band would chart twice more -- in 1984, with "Head Over Heels" and "Turn to You" -- before splitting and the near-inevitable reunion tours.

DELTA SPIRIT virtually visits The Current.

SUZANNE VEGA visits WNYC's Soundcheck.

FRANCES QUINLAN, Live on KEXP.

TOM PETTY: Hear "Leave Virgina Alone."

ANDY SCHAUF shares a "Clove Cigarette."

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS become bobbleheads in "Get Famous."

ELVIS COSTELLO's Teenage Obsessions.

STEVIE NICKS' Moonlight Confessions.

THE 25 BEST BRITPOP ALBUMS, according to SPIN.

THE TOP 10 LIZ PHAIR SONGS, according to Paste.

THE LA's Turns 30, with restrospectives at Paste, Clashmusic, and Stereogum.

NO TIME TO DIE: Here's Billie Eilish's theme for the Bond film.

SPIDER-MAN is bringing back Jamie Foxx as Electro?

RON HOWARD discusses Tom Hanks, Henry Winkler, friendship, wildfires and workaholism.

KRIS JENNER is being sued by a former bodyguard on allegations of sexual harassment — but vehemently denies his claims.

SHIA LeBEOUF was charged with battery and petty theft.

PATRICK MAHOMES and his fiancée Brittany Matthews are expecting their first child together.

THE SOCIAL NETWORK Turns 10, with pieces at Rolling Stone, Us Weekly, Uproxx, The Ringer and Yahoo!

HOW TO WRITE A HORROR MOVIE: A Crash Course.

DEER Crossing.

A BABY GOAT, balancing on a donkey.

AN ESCAPED FERRET wandered into a stranger's home and climbed into bed with a resident.

A TWO-HEADED SNAKE turns up in a North Carolina home.

THE PSYCHEDLIC FURS broke through with this video for "Love My Way" on the MTV.

JASON ISBELL & AMANDA SHIRES play a Tiny Desk Concert from Home.

SYLVAN ESSO visits WFUV Live.

ALEX IZENBERG covers the Plastic Ono Band and Randy Newman for a Lagniappe Session.

ANDREW BIRD shares "Andalucia" from his upcoming holiday album.

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS are surprise-releasing another new LP.

PRIMAL SCREAM defends Johnny Rotten after the pic of him wearing a MAGA shirt in 2018 made the rounds on social media again.

MAC DAVIS, a songwriter and performer who began a decades-long ascent in music and entertainment in the early 1960s, died Tuesday in Nashville following heart surgery. He was 78. 

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Madonna's "Crazy For You," the ballad from the 'Vision Quest' soundtrack.

OSCAR ISAAC & JAKE GYLLENHAAL will star in a movie about the making of The Godfather.

CHRISSY TEIGEN & JOHN LEGEND lost their baby.

DONALD GLOVER and Michelle White welcomed their third child together during the coronavirus pandemic.

ANGELINA JOLIE made BRAD PITT quarantine for 14 days after he returned from France before seeing their kids.

LILY JAMES (Downton Abbey, Baby Driver, The Darkest Hour) is profiled by Harper's Bazaar, but don't ask if she's dating Chris Evans.

JK ROWLING: A number of prominent British literary figures, including John Cleese, have signed an open letter supporting the author amid the row over her stance on transgender rights. There is a counter-letter as well.

BORAT 2 has a teaser online.

GAME OF THRONES: George R.R. Martin names his least favorite scene in the series.

WILL CORONAVIRUS RESTRICTIONS mean more CGI in movies?

WHICH HOLLYWOOD SEX SYMBOLS Actually Have Sex on Screen? A Study.

A THREE-LEGGED BEAR walked into an open garage and made off with a bottle of Diet Coke.

A CAT and her piglets.

A GROUP OF PARROTS at a UK zoo have been removed after repeating obscene language at visitors.

HOLD ME, SQUEEZE ME, Bite My Head.

DUMPTRUCK: "Back Where I Belong."

DEERHOOF is streaming Love-Lore, a 35-minute, 43-song, live-in-the-studio covers medley album.  The tracklist is here.

DEHD plays virtually for The Current.

THE XX's Romy shares "Lifetime."

BAT FOR LASHES covers The Carpenters' "We’ve Only Just Begun."

SHARON VAN ETTEN covers Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt."

HELEN REDDY, who  charted 20 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart in her lifetime, including three No. 1s: the Grammy Award-winning “I Am Woman” (which she co-wrote with Ray Burton), “Delta Dawn” and “Angie Baby,” died Tuesday. The hitmaker was 78 years old.

ANGEL OLSEN: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.

NEW ORDER's Gillian Gilbert on Power, Corruption & Lies.

THE TOP 40 DEBUT LP OPENERS, according to Paste.

THE NUMBER ONES Bonus Tracks looks at R.E.M.'s 2008 rocker "Supernatural Superserious," the band's final Hot 100 hit.

THE LION KING is getting a sequel, with Barry Jenkins set to direct.

BORAT 2 will be at Amazon Prime before Election Day.

MEGHAN McCAIN and her husband Ben Domenech welcome a baby girl.

SHANNON DOHERTY is not signing off just yet.

JENNIFER ANISTON revealed that she once contemplated quitting acting. 

ZENDAYA is in talks to star in a Ronnie Spector biopic.

THE CRAFT: LEGACY has a trailer online.

ARKANSAS HUNTERS bag the longest alligator in state history.

A CASSOWARY named Princess Salem enjoyed cantaloupe and watermelon at the Denver Zoo.

A MOOSE relocated out of Denver made the 30-mile trip back to the city.

THE RAMONES get almost three hours of discussion and analysis on Political Beats with guest Christian Schneider.

BRIGHT EYES plays a Tiny Desk Concert from Home.

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT virtually visits The Current.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle shares all 18 seconds of “Bomb-Ass Teacup.”

LAURA VEIRS shares “Another Space And Time.”

IDLES: The defiant Bristol punks answer the critics, rail against "class war" and talk up their explosive third album.

NOEL GALLAGHER wants better pop stars.

AC/DC tease something.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at USA For Africa's self-congratualtory celebrity-singalong travesty "We Are The World."

MEGXIT: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle deny they're starring in a Netflix show.

JOAQUIN PHOENIX & ROONEY MARA welcome their first child together, a son named River.

AMANDA SEYFRIED and husband Thomas Sadoski have welcomed their second child, a baby boy.

CHADWICK BOSEMAN donated some of his salary to his “21 Bridges” co-star Sienna Miller.

THE THREE BODY PROBLEM, helmed by "Game of Thrones" producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, is already controversial.

BOX OFFICE NUMBERS aren't just business jargon.

COP ROCK: Bad thirty years ago, bad now?

TOM HARDY as JAMES BOND? The pros and cons.

CURIOUS PENGUINS: This colony of little penguins in Australia get up close and personal with a GoPro camera. 

A BABY GIANT PANDA gets an examination. Here's more.

HITCHCOCK in 17 seconds.