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THE NASHVILLE TEENS, with a stompin' cover of "Tobacco Road." NEW RELEASES: The Raconteurs, black midi, Mark Ronson,and more have their new LPson streaming services. BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE plays CBS This Morning. IMOGEN HEAP plays a Tiny Desk Concert. NEW MODEL ARMY returns with the "End of Days." THE RACONTEURS play "Bored and Razed" and "help Me Stranger" for Colbert. THE DAY THE MUSIC BURNED: A group of bands, artists and estates –– including those of Tupac Shakur and Tom Petty –– are suing Universal Music over the 2008 fire that allegedly destroyed hundreds of thousands of master recordings and other materials. PATRICK STICKLES ranks his band Titus Andronicus's albums at VICE. ELLIOT ROBERTS, who managed the career development of Neil Young, Tom Petty, Talking Heads, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman, Eagles, Yes, Devo, and so many more has died at 76. Neil Young and Stephen Stills pay tribute. DAVE BARTHOLOMEW, a giant of New Orleans music and a rock ‘n’ roll pioneer who with Fats Domino co-wrote and produced such classics as “Ain’t That A Shame,” ″I’m Walkin’,” and “Let The Four Winds Blow,” has died. He was 100 years old. THE NUMBER ONES looks at Barry Manilow's grandly weepy ballad "Mandy." 
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Toy Story 4 tops the chart with 118MM -- but that's barely above its predecessor and far short of The Incredibles 2's 182.6MM (in fairness, there was a bigger gap and pent-up demand for the latter). It's going to make money, even against a reported 200MM budget (it opened just about as big overseas, breaking a worldwide record total for animation), but it's an debut that underscores what a tough summer it has been at the local cineplex. The House of Mouse is likely regretting not opening on the Father's Day weekend (as Pixar summer flicks usually do). The Child's Play reboot distantly places with 14MM against a 10MM budget. The live-action Aladdin shows with 12.2MM on a 30 percent drop that seems especially leggy, given the arrival of Toy Story 4. Men in Black: International skids 64 percent from first to fourth with 10.8MM. The Secret Life of Pets 2 predictably turns out to be the biggest victim of the toys, dropping 58 percent to round out the Top Five with 10.3MM. HALLE BERRY almost returned to her home to find the locks changed and a strange man living inside. CARDI B has been indicted by a grand jury on multiple charges — including 2 felonies — in connection with a brawl at a New York strip club. TOM HARDY is officially returning for Venom 2. RED SONJA will be written and directed by Transparent creator Jill Soloway. MATTHEW PERRY is looking disheveled following a long recovery from surgery to fix a gastrointestinal perforation. THE WALKING DEAD: Getting ready to exploit the Chinese market? JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE to go back in the water... A KITTEH plays a drum solo while sleeping. PEDRO THE TURTLE lost both his back legs, so veterinarians used a Lego toy car kit to build him a very fancy wheelchair. A BULLDOG pilfers babies' pacifiers for months -- and when he suddenly and inexplicably stopped eating, his family found out where those pacifiers (19 of them, anyway) went.
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