THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with GARAGE ROCK! It's the time of year when I bring out The Standells - "Dirty Water/ Why Pick On Me", but I couldn't stop there. Let's have a baker's dozen of Nuggets, like Music Machine - "Talk Talk"; Blues Magoos - "We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet"; The Knickerbockers - "Lies"; The Outsiders - "Time Won't Let Me"; Count Five - "Psychotic Reaction"; The Seeds - "Pushin' Too Hard"; 13th Floor Elevators - "You're Gonna Miss Me"; Love - "My Little Red Book"; The Leaves - "Hey Joe"; Electric Prunes - "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night," the Crazy World of Arthur Brown - "Fire" and The Nazz- "Open My Eyes."

THE CHARLATANS UK play KEXP.

THE HOLD STEADY played "Sideways Skull" on Late Night.

DEPECHE MODE covered Gordon Lightfoot/Scott Walker's "Sundown" with the BBC Orchestra.

KISS: After making a threat Ace Frehley did get a phone call from Paul Stanley.

ROYAL ARCTIC INSTITUTE: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.

31 GREAT ALBUMS of 2023 (So Far), according to Brooklyn Vegan.

THE BEST SONGS OF 2023 (So Far), according to Vulture.

MOTLEY CRUE is being sued by guitarist Mick Mars, who is claiming that they kicked him out and that he’s being ripped off.

COOLIO died from Fentanyl.

JOHN LYDON's wife has passed from Alzheimer's.

LANCE REDDICK's cause of death was revealed as heart disease.

THE ROYALS: Plans are being finalized for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to jet to the UK for King Charles’ coronation.

RENFIELD director Chris McKay on Nicholas Cage, the defunct LEGO Batman sequel, and more.

SUPER MARIO BROS has a post-credits scene.

EVIL DEAD RISE has a trailer online.

OLIVIA WILDE & JASON SUDEIKIS tangle over child support.

GREASE: An Oral History.

BRAD PITT let a 105-year-old live on his 40MM estate, according to... Elvira.

AN EXTRAORDINARY WHITE MOOSE, taking a dip.

DOGGO with a selfie?

A VISIT to the Peeps Factory.

DAVID BOWIE plays "Young Americans" for Cavett, looking and sounding too much acquainted with the Thin White Duke.

BOYGENIUS, The Film.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN joins LUCINDA WILLIAMS on "New York Comeback."

SUICIDE covered Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The USA” in Paris in 1988. Sort of?

VERUCA SALT's Louise Post shares “Guilty.”

SHIRLEY COLLINS shares “High And Away.”

TANYA TUCKER shares "Kindness."

AEROMITH's Steven Tyler has denied all the allegations in a recently filed lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault of a minor.  

U2: The Edge talks to MOJO about the heartbreak behind Achtung Baby, political activism and what we can expect from the next album.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Alicia Keys' big, strong, confident love song "No One."

CHRISTINA AGUILERA on losing her virginity, not dating celebrities, oral tips and more.

THE ROYALS: King Charles does want to make Camilla the Queen.

SHREK 5 and a Donkey spinoff? What have you done, Puss In Boots?

REESE WITHERSPOON & TOM BRADY deny they're dating.

DAVID LYNCH will never watch Denis Villeneuve’s Dune.

CAROL BURNETT, on turning 90.

DON LEMON's Misogyny at CNN, Exposed.

THE DATA IS IN: Theatrical Films Massively Outperform Straight-To-Streaming Films.

SNAKE... on a plane.

RED SQUIRRELS: Vaccine call to save animal from killer pox.

CAMBRIDGE MAIL CARRIER attacked by turkey.

SHOCKING BLUE: She's your "Venus."

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, VOL. 3: The Soundtrack.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features Zoon, Shirley Collins, Orchestra Gold, Pry, and more.

HUSKER DU shares an early live take on "Do You Remember?"

THE DRUMS share "I Want It All."

THE BEATLES: How a schoolboy made the band's earliest known UK concert recording.

BOYGENIUS: Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker discuss why "there's nothing I could imagine more fascinating than learning about my boys."

WEDNESDAY, on Wednesday, from Paste.

SUSANNA HOFFS finds her voice—as a novelist.

HARRY POTTER may get rebooted as a series for HBO Max.

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE has a trailer online.

BARBIE has a teaser trailer online.

RUPERT MURDOCH and Ann Lesley Smith have abruptly called off their engagement.

EMILY RATAJKOWSKI hints that she and Harry Styles have been seeing each other for months.

INSIDE AMAZON STUDIOS: Big Swings Hampered by Confusion and Frustration.

THE LITTLE MERMAID: A deep dive from EW.

PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE is rumored to be in talks to both co-write and direct the next James Bond film.

SUPER MARIO BROS: Early reviews are pretty good.

A PUPPER is a quick learner.

A DINGO attacked a young child in Australia. We'll skip the Seinfeld reference.

FOXES LAUGHING for 34 seconds.

SOUL ASYLUM dip into their back catalog for the classic "Never Really Been" at the Northern Lights Theater; Milwaukee, WI.  Throw in a cover of Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" and you have Twofer Tuesday.

THE NEW PR0NOGRAPHERS' frontman AC Newman visits World Cafe.

DEXY'S returns with "I’m Going To Get Free."

SEYMOUR STEIN, the record mogul who signed Madonna, The Ramones, The Smiths, Talking Heads, The Pretenders, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Ice-T, The Replacements and many, many more, died Sunday morning of cancer.  He was 80.  Here's the NYT obit.  And the Belle & Sebastian song.

CHRISTINE McVIE died of a massive stroke, after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer.

THE 50 BEST Tom Waits Covers.

BLURRED LINES: Harbinger of Doom?

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Chris Brown's last chart-topper, the T-Pain collab "Kiss Kiss."

PADDINGTON 3: Long-awaited movie threequel Paddington In Peru is on course to start production on July 24.

GURADIANS OF THE GALAXY, VOL. 3: Writer-director James Gunn and stars Chris Pratt and Karen Gillan preview the final chapter of the saga, its soundtrack, and Gunn's DC future.

LEONARDO DiCAPRIO took the witness stand in the DC trial of hip hop artist Pras Michel on campaign finance and foreign agent charges.

THE HOUSE OF MOUSE is taking on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, not least by (for now) cirumventing the state's attempt to take control of Disney World's government.

MOANA is gettting the live-action treatment.

GAME OF THRONES: A new prequel about Aegon I Targaryen's conquest of Westeros is being actively discussed at HBO.

HEAT 2: Michael Mann may develop his book into a movie with Adam Driver.

CHRIS EVANS seems like he wants to play Steve Rogers again.

BLUE BEETLE has a trailer online. Yes, really.

HYPNOTIC, the new film by Robert Rodriguez starring Ben Affleck, has a trailer online.

RUSSELL CROWE is “not involved” in the upcoming action film Gladiator 2, but wishes new lead actor Paul Mescal “the best of luck.”

AT MY SIGNAL, unleash Hell!

A BLUE WHALE comes up to flare its nostrils.

A GIANT TUNA broke a rod in half during 2-hour fight with Texas fishermen.

TIGER KING star Carole Baskin is closing down her Big Cat Rescue sanctuary and transporting its wildlife to Arkansas.

THE SMOKING POPES: "Need You Around," for a little Chicago flavor.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to boygenius, the Hold Steady, Eddie Chacon, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has The New Pornographers, Deerhoof, Sondre Lerche, and more.

LED ZEPPELIN: Jimmy Page shared “The Seasons,” a previously unreleased six-and-a-half-minute instrumental demo that eventually evolved into “The Rain Song.”

RYUCHI SAKAMOTO, the pioneering Japanese musician and composer, who first came to prominence as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978, has died at 71, likely from cancer.

GENTLE GIANT's Ray Shulman has died at 73 after a long illness.

ARE CDs making a comeback with Gen Z?

THE NUMBER ONES, on peak-babyface Kanye West, Daft Punk, Mike Dean, the 50 Cent sales battle, and "Stronger."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves tops the chart with 38.5MM, which means it needs legs to launch a franchise. John Wick: Chapter 4 place with 28.2MM on a 62 percent drop, a little worse than projected.  Scream VI shows with 5.3MM on a 36 percent drop.

RUST's first assistant director has been sentenced to six months unsupervised probation as part of a plea deal in connection with the fatal on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

IT'S A LOT OF SUFFERING: The Audacious Filmmaking Behind ‘John Wick: Chapter 4.'

MARVEL'S SECRET INVASION has a trailer online.

YELLOWSTONE's main cast, and creator Taylor Sheridan, were expected to attend PaleyFest in Los Angeles on Saturday evening — but unexpectedly didn't show up.

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON: Scorsese's four-hour epic is headed to Cannes.

STREAMING far outpaced traditional theatrical films when it comes to diverstity. Which will likely affect decisions amde about awards eligibility.

HOWELL WAYANS, the patriarch of the comedic family, died at 86 years old.

COCAINE HIPPOS: Colombia's plans to relocate drug trafficker Pablo Escobar's private menagerie will cost approximately 3.5MM.

INDIA welcomed its first newborn cheetah cubs in more than 70 years.

THERE ARE two types of dogs.