THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with NEIL YOUNG!  Live on the Beeb, circa '71. Your setlist includes: "Out on the Weekend," "Old Man," "Journey Thru the Past," "Heart of Gold," "Don't Let It Bring You Down," "A Man Needs A Maid," "Love in Mind," and "Dance, Dance, Dance."

"THE BEATLES" shares "Now and Then." George Harrison warned you.

J.R. BOHANNON Plays Vince Guaraldi.

THE BUDOS BAND plays KEXP.

JEFFREY ALEXANDER covers The Fall, Top Drawer, and Swedish psych legends International Harvester for a Lagniappe Session.

R.E.M.: Mike Mills reflects on Up. And explains why you're never going to see them reunite.

AEROSMITH's Steven Tyler is facing a new sexual assault allegation.

SPIRITUAL CRAMP, profiled by NME.

SEMISONIC: Dan Wilson on circling around after 22 years.

KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES has a teaser trailer.

THE FALL GUY, ft Ryan Gosling, has a trailer online.

THE BOY AND THE HERON has an English trailer.

TUPAC SHAKUR: A former southern California street gang leader pleaded not guilty to orchestrating a drive-by shooting of the rapper.

AL PACINO will pay 30K in monthly child support.

DOLLY PARTON, on turning down the SuperBowl, and much more.

BRITNEY SPEARS is moving units again.

A PIG and a hula hoop.

A DOGGO remembers the vet coming home.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

COUSTEAU: "The Last Good Day of the Year." Or close to it.

BLACK PUMAS play KUTX.

SHARON VAN ETTEN shares "Close to You," co-written by Courtney Barnett.

CLOUD NOTHINGS share "Final Summer."

BRIGITTE CALLS ME BABY evoke the warmth and familiarity of the greats been and gone - from Roy Orbison to The Smiths.

HUEY LEWIS is headed to Broadway, again.

DISCOGS: What's Going On?

IS MARVEL IN TROUBLE? Creatively? Yes.

THE MARVELS Box Office Predictions.

HBO BOSSES are secret internet trolls.

ALAN RUCK drove his truck into a pizzeria. Wait until his Dad finds out.

MEAN GIRLS reunite for Wal-mart bucks (except Rachel McAdams).

SCARLETT JOHANSSON has taken legal action against an AI app that used her name and likeness in an online advertisement without permission.

BROOKE SHIELDS DGAF.

SHAWN LEVY: Taylor Swift, Star Wars, Stranger Things, and Deadpool Have One Man in Common.

A RACCOON wants skritches.

DUCKS have a neighborhood meetup.

DOZENS OF BIRD SPECIES are getting renamed.

TRANSLATOR is "Everywhere That I'm Not," including the "Where Are They Now?" file.

DE LA SOUL: Why Buhloone Mindstate matters, 30 years later. They were a fave of Nathan's.

GUIDED BY VOICES shares "The Race Is On, The King Is Dead."

MGMT returns with "Mother Nature."

MARNIE STERN shares "'Til It's Over."

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE's Kevin Drew picks his top ten ballads.

DARYL'S HOUSE is coming back.

SPIRITUAL CRAMP: A profile disgised as a review.

ZOE KRAVITZ & CHANNING TATUM are engaged.

ROBERT DE NIRO took the stand in his former housekeeper's discrimination claim.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER once hired an accent removal coach.

CONSTANTINE: Keanu & Co. have been hashing out the story for a sequel.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING - PART ONE got the President's attention on AI.

GUILLERMO DEL TORO's horror movie picks.

THE MARVELS: Is that slow-fading letter a tease?

A LIZARD fights a snake to save his buddy.

A HERD OF ELK, chilling in a subdivision.

A GOAT, sprinting down a mountain.

HOLDING HANDS in the car.

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

COURTNEY BARNETT visits World Cafe.

TOADIES cover Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone."

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: Inside John Darnielle's Boiling Brain.

THE LIBERTINES, on their future and "striving for the perfect song."

BUFFY SAINT-MARIE Responds to an Exposé About Her Native Heritage.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night (TGIF)," a goofy joke-song that made pop-chart history.

THE SURVIVING FRIENDS mourn the late Matthew Perry. And Gwyneth Paltrow weighs in. Ione Skye shared one of lis last texts.

BARBIE co-writer Noah Baumbach thought it was a terrible idea at first.

DAVING FINCHER on Fight Club, incels, Spider-Man, and more.

IT FOLLOWS is getting a sequel.

NOW YOU SEE ME is getting a threequel.

PRISCILLA: Cailee Spaeny, on playing the King's wife, and watching The Naked Gun.

MARY LOU RETTON shared a health update.

TAYLOR SWIFT, but as a 400-pound pumpkin.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

CATS & DOGS, living together...

DOG RESCUES never get old.

A HOUSE CAT broke into a Lynx's cage.

NEW RELEASES: Paste has the Mountain Goats, Golden Apples, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has King Gizzard, Circus Devils, OMD, and more.

LADY GAGA joined U2 at the Sphere.

BRANDON FLOWERS joined ED SHEERHAN for "Mr. Brightside" in Vegas.

TALKING HEADS talked on Colbert.

THE BEATLES' "final" song will be released this week with an assist from Peter Jackson's AI.

GEORGE HARRISON: A paradox even to his biographer.

GRAM PARSONS' long-lost sci-fi movie will live on as a book.

R.E.M. vs THE REPLACEMENTS: Was it a rivalry?

MATTHEW PERRY, the affable actor who became a television superstar playing Chandler Bing on the beloved NBC sitcom Friends, has died. He was 54.  Here are critics' appreciations from Alan Sepinwall, THR, and Variety. And just a few of the tributes from his colleagues.  The cast is reeling. Here is his final interview, and how he wanted to be remembered after he died. And here is how he knew he woould be remembered.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Five Nights at Freddy’s tops the chart with 78MM, despite a day-and-date co-release on Peacock. Second biggest videogame adaptation opening, I think.  Taylor Swift's tour movie places with 14.7MM on a 56 percent drop, with a global total around 200MM on a 15MM budget. Killers of the Flower Moon shows with 9MM on a steeper-than-expected 61 percent drop.

TAYLOR SWIFT hits billionaire status.

JONATHAN MAJORS' movie is pulled from the release shedule, whie the live-action Snow White gets delayed.

RICHARD MOLL,  the fun-loving actor who portrayed the towering and tenderhearted bailiff Aristotle Nostradamus “Bull” Shannon on all nine seasons of the popular NBC sitcom Night Court during its original run, has died. He was 80. 

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN: Oppenheimer isn't a biopic.

GEMINI MAN: Big on Netflix.

RICHARD DEYFUSS is unhappy about The Shark Is Broken.

BOOGIE SHOES: My friend Nathan would have loved this. 

AT MY SIGNAL, unleash Hell!

THE SLOTH RESCUE: Not new, but still charming.