THE KINKS are "The Village Green Preservation Society." God bless 'em.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to The National, Josh Ritter, Jesse Ware, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Robyn Hitchcock, Beach House, The Blue Aeroplanes, and more.

THE NATIONAL was profiled in The New Yorker and played "Eucalyptus" on Fallon.

THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM returns with "Positive Charge."

LUCINDA WILLIAMS, reading a passage from her new memoir, Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You.

POPTIMISM killed the Hipsters.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at T.I.'s "Whatever You Like," the stadium-sized pop-rap song that soundtracked the last days before the financial collapse.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Super Mario Bros remains atop the chart and breaking records with 40MM on a leggy 33 percent drop.  Evil Dead Rise places with 12.2MM on a somewhat leggy 50 percent drop.  Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret shows with a 6.8MM debut, which is probably a disapointment, but the movie could find legs based on good word-of-mouth.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, VOL. 3: Early buzz is hot, though the Rotten Tomatoes score has dropped from 91 to 78 percent as more reviews have rolled in.

MICHAEL J. FOX, on dealing with Parkinson's.

JACK NICHOLSON returned to his courtside seat for the Lakers, after a period of seclusion had folks speculating on his health.

EVA GREEN won her million-dollar High Court battle with a production company over the collapse of an abandoned sci-fi film.

SYDNEY SWEENEY stepping out with her fiancee amid rumors about a ralationship with Top Gun: Maverick's Glen Powell.

JASON MOMOA is also baffled by the success of Aquaman.

CHRISTOPHER ROBIN, but R-rated.

AI v HOLLYWOOD: As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing writers and actors seek limits on artificial intelligence.

LION v TURTLE: Who You Got?

A SQUIRREL leaves a treat for a human friend.

A CHEETAH finds the shade.

RESEARCHERS Turned This Goldfish Into a Cyborg.

LONELY PARROTS find friendship through video chats.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with SQUEEZE!  Despite a new LP, some of you whippersnappers may never heard of Difford, Tilbrook & Co., who previously reeled of stellar string of pop gems, including "Take Me I'm Yours", "Cool for Cats", "Up the Junction", "Goodbye Girl,"  "Another Nail in My Heart", "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)", "If I Didn't Love You", and the one most people know -- even if they don't know it's Squeeze -- "Tempted", which features transient member Paul Carrack on vox and keys.  Fun fact: Carrack was also responsible for the classic, "How Long" as a member of Ace.

QUASI plays KEXP.

DRY CLEANING plays KEXP.

M WARD returns with "Supernatural Thing."

THE ANTLERS shares "Rains."

MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY shares "El Dorado."

PINK FLOYD: "Have You Got It Yet?", a documentary on Syd Barrett and the band, has a trailer online.

AMY WINEHOUSE's journal entries will be published in a new book.

FRUIT BATS' Eric Johnson talks to Uproxx.

THE FUGEES' Prakazrel "Pras" Michelwas convicted on criminal charges that he conspired with a Malaysian financier to orchestrate a series of foreign lobbying campaigns aimed at influencing the U.S. government under two presidents.

DUNE, PART 2: Vanity Fair has your first look.

BEYONCE fights the IRS.

GLEN POWELL's love life gets more complicated.

PAMELA ANDERSON is back in swimwear.

THE HUNGER GAMES prequel has a trailer online.

SIGOURNEY WEAVER is done with Ripley.

JERRY SPRINGER, who went from a somewhat outlandish political career to an almost indescribably outlandish broadcasting career with “The Jerry Springer Show,” which by the mid-1990s was setting a new standard for tawdriness on American television, turning the talk-show format into an arena for shocking confessions, adultery-fueled screaming matches and not infrequent fistfights, died on Thursday in suburban Chicago. He was 79.

A BABY RHINO charges a Wildebeest.

OTTER vs APE: Who You Got?

A BABY GIRAFFE's first steps.

THE ROLLING STONES made their second US TV appearance on The Mike Douglas Show, covering Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away."

JOE P brings fuzz guitar to World Cafe.

TRAPPER SCHOEPP visits World Cafe.

PJ HARVEY returns with "A Child's Question, August."

JASON ISBELL shares "Cast Iron Skillet."

WYE OAK returns with “Every Day Like The Last.”

WILCO: Jeff Tweedy and Nels Cline talk guitars and songwriting.

ED SHEERHAN testifies in his Marvin Gaye plagiarism case: "Most pop songs can fit over most pop songs."

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Rihanna's thumping haunted-house dance-pop track "Disturbia."

JAMES GUNN, on the Guardians and the Superman.

A HAUNTING IN VENICE: Hercule Poirot has a trailer online.

KEANU REEVES, being Keanu Reeves again.

THE FLASH: Early buzz is hot. Was Tom Cruise right again?

KEVIN SMITH, on his complete break from reality.

CARRIE FISHER will make the Hollywood Walk of Fame for May the Fourth.

ELIJAH WOOD's Long Strange Trip (No, not that one.)

A CAT, as a baby.

A BABY ELEPHANT's first steps.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

THE MEMBERS: "Working Girl," from the "Where Are They Now?" file.

TEGAN & SARA visit World Cafe.

RUSTON KELLY visits World Cafe.

THUNDERCAT & TAME IMPALA share "No More Lies."

FONTAINES DC frontman Grian Chatten shares "The Score."

DEER TICK shares "Forgiving Ties" and "The Real Thing."

ROGER WATERS will be allowed to perform a concert in Frankfurt on May 28, an administrative court in the German city has ruled.

THE CLASH's Paul Simonon stated that he wouldn’t have reunited the band for £1million.

HARRY BELAFONTE, who stormed the pop charts and smashed racial barriers in the 1950s with his highly personal brand of folk music, and who went on to become a dynamic force in the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 96.

THE FLASH has a second trailer online.

EQUALIZER 3 has a red band trailer online.

WARNER BROS debuted footage from Barbie, Dune Part 2, Wonka, and more at CinemaCon. There's some very weird Wonka casting.

KRAVEN THE HUNTER will be R-rated, and include a less ridiculous version of the Rhino.

THE ROYALS: Buckingham Palace and Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers reached a secret agreement over historical phone hacking claims, court documents filed on behalf of Prince Harry allege.

DANIEL RADCLIFFE and girlfriend Erin Darke welcomed their first child.

SYDNEY SWEENEY  is still with her fiancé Jonathan Davino and is not dating Glen Powell, multiple sources with knowledge tell TMZ.

YELLOWSTONE creator Taylor Sheridan’s “god complex” reportedly is to blame for actor Kevin Costner’s reported exit from the hit show.

JAMES ELLROY hates Raymond Chandler, James Dean, cancel culture, and the film adaptation of his  “L.A. Confidential.” 

STEVEN SPIELBERG regrets revising the guns out of E.T. and opposes editing Roald Dahl.

DOG & HORSE, living together...

A HORSE helps a woman struggling to get on.

BORDER COLLIE v HUSKY on the obstacle course.

WALL OF VOODOO, on the "Mexican Radio."

FEIST visits World Cafe.

EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL visits World Cafe.

IGGY POP covers Lou Reed's "Walk On The Wild Side" with Duff McKagan and (Red Hot Chili Pepper) Chad Smith.

SPARKS shares "Veronica Lake."

SAMMY HAGAR wanted to reunite Van Halen without Eddie.

LANA DEL REY's ‘Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd' has become the best-selling vinyl album of the year so far.

LUCINDA WILLIAMS published an essay on poet Frank Stanford.

THE PROCLAIMERS have been removed from the official Coronation playlist due to their “anti-monarchy views”.

THE NUMBER ONES looks out Katy Perry's loud, brash, attention-grabbing "I Kissed A Girl."

DISNEY: Big Hits, Big Bombs in 2022.

BAM MARGERA is on the run from police follwoing a family altercation.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER is returning to the big screen.

MEEK MILL vows to fight antisemitism after a visit to Auschwitz with Robert Kraft.

GLEN POWELL... and Sydney Sweeney?

DAVID LYNCH rails against the death of cinemas.

RICHARD LEWIS has Parkinson's disease.

PETE DAVIDSON may face charges after crashing a car into a house.

TUCKER CARLSON is out at Fox. DON LEMON is out at CNN.

MOVIE STARS are ... not young.

A HUSKY PUP with a keen ear.

A HORSE discovers a mirror.

A PUPPER with manners.

AN ARMADILLO, catching a ball.

AN EAGLE Who Adopted a Rock Becomes a Real Dad.