CUPID, DRAW BACK YOUR BOW:

... with VALENTINE'S DAY: I've never been a big Valentine's Day guy, but I have always liked The Replacements' "Valentine" and Elvis Costello's cover of "My Funny Valentine."  Beyond that, my thoughts typically drift to the Velvet Underground's "I'll Be Your Mirror," The Beatles' "In My Life," and the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows." I think it's probably very difficult to write a straight-ahead, universal love song, and these three are great.

SLOW PULP plays World Cafe.

WAXAHATCHEE shares "Bored."

KURT VILE joined MICHAEL SHANNON & JASON NARDUCY to cover R.E,M.'s "Near Wild Heaven."

RUSSELL SIMMONS is sued for alleged rape.

BRIAN WILSON's "lost" Country album from 1970, featuring manager Fred Vail on vocals, is coming out.

THE OPPOSING VIEW:  Ever Fallen In Love? Love Stinks. Love Hurts. Love Will Tear Us Apart. Only Love Can Break Your Heart. And don't forget to give me back my black t-shirt (nsfw)

THE 100 BEST LOVE SONGS, according to The Telegraph.

THE TOP 50 LOVE SONGS, as measured by Billboard.

VH-1's 40 Awesomely Bad Love Songs.

THE WORST LOVE SONGS, according to faculty members of the University of St. Thomas’ Music Department.

NINE SONGS ABOUT SEEING YOUR EX MAKING OUT, courtesy of The A.V. Club. A hardy perennial.

MADAME WEB's early reviews are, to quote Pete Campbell, "Not great, Bob!"

EMPEROR PALATINE had sex.

CILLIAN MURPHY: Man of the Moment.

J-LO, on her self-financed 20 million three-part multimedia project examining her life as a serial romantic.

THE ROYALS: Not thrilled with Harry & Meghan's new website.

ERIC IDLE criticizes streaming services and even his former Monty Python colleagues.

ED ZWICK: The former director dishes on Denzel, Leo, Matthew Broderick, and Tom Cruise.

A DOGGO joins a street violinist.

PRAIRIE DOG vs DINOSUARS: Who You Got?

SEAGULL, taking an Uber.

REDD KROSS play "Annie's Gone" and cover The Carpenters' "Yesterday Once More" for Twofer Tuesday.

SLEATER-KINNEY visits World Cafe.

THE BLACK KEYS covers William Bell’s “I Forgot To Be Your Lover” which was a hit for Billy Idol in 1986.

LIAM GALLAGHER: Not honored to be a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame nominee.

THE LIBERTINES hear an AI Homer Simpson cover "Time For Heroes."

AC/DC, but with Alanis Morissette’s old rhythm section.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Bruno Mars' studiously horny Police pastiche "Locked Out Of Heaven."

USHER got hitched in Vegas, as one does.

THE DGA AWARDS went to these people.

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

TWISTERS has a trailer online.

WICKED has a trailer online. Not entirely hiding that it's a musical but likely hiding it's a Part One.

THE FALL GUY has a trailer online.

IMAGINARY has a trailer online.

TOM CRUISE, making time with a Russian socialite.

THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY of Sony's live-action Spider-Man Universe.

PUPPER with ball-balancing skills.

A MACAQUE helps a deer feed.

A BUNNY & DUCKLING, training for Easter.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Ducks Ltd, Brittany Howard, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Pylon Reenactment Society, Chelsea Wolfe, and more.

PATTERSON HOOD joins WEDNESDAY to cover Neil Young's "Rockin' In The Free World."

DUCKS LTD., on their favorite janglepop albums.

THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME nominations are out.

DONNA SUMMER's estate is the latest to call out Kanye for aunauthorized sampling.

XTC's Andy Partridge talks to GuitarWorld.

R.E.M. all turned up to see Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy cover Murmur at the 40 Watt Club.

DAMO SUZUKI, the Japanese-born singer who fronted pioneering krautrock group Can during the band’s creative peak, has died aged 74.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Big Game weeked was so dead that Argylle repeats atop the chart with only 6.5MM on a 62 percent drop.  Lisa Frankenstein places with 3.8MM.  The Beekeper shows with 3.4MM on a 35 percent drop. 

KIM KARDASHIAN and... Odell Beckham Jr.  Singer-footballer couples so hot right now.

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE has a trailer online.

COYOTE v ACME is likely to be shelved again.

ROBERT DOWNEY JR, on Tropic Thunder, and playing Tony Stark.

BILLY DEE WILLIAMS, on the public backlash to betraying Han Solo.

CARL WEATHERS' official cause of death has been revealed.

JURASSIC WORLD: The franchise has already lost the director of the next installment.

HANK BRADFORD,  the clever stand-up comic who performed a half-dozen times on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson before serving a five-year stint as head writer on the program, has died. He was 88.

THERE'S DOG YOGA, and Corgi yoga.

A BABY GOAT eyes the perfect jump.

THE DOGGO wants the sauce.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with JAMES BROWN! The Godfather of Soul, y'all, with his star time from the T.A.M.I. Show in 1964; your setlist includes "Out of Sight", "Prisoner of Love", "Please, Please, Please" and "Night Train."

THE BROKEN BONES plays KEXP.

BLONDE REDHEAD plays KEXP.

CROWDED HOUSE shares "Oh Hi."

IDLES plays "Gift Horse" on Fallon.

MAGGIE ROGERS shares "Don't Forget Me."

MARK KNOPFLER'S GUITAR HEROES -- 54 of them -- cover his “Going Home” from Local Hero.

FAYE WEBSTER shares "Feeling Good Today."

JASON ISBELL & AMANDA SHIRES are getting divorced.

TRACY CHAPMAN's "Fast Car" is taking off again.

HENRY FAMBROUGH, the last surviving original member of the iconic R&B group the Spinners, whose hits included "It’s a Shame", "Could It Be I’m Falling in Love", and "The Rubberband Man," died on Wednesday, a spokesperson for the group said. He was 85.

THE OSCARS established a new category for Achievement In Casting.

THE REGIME has a trailer online.

40 MEGSTARS assembled for the cover of British Vogue.

DAKOTA JOHNSON: Hollywood is Effing Bleak.

JENNA ORTEGA was “sure of what she wanted to do” while filming her intimate scene with Martin Freeman in Miller’s Girl, according to the film’s intimacy coordinator.

MARTIN SCORSESE expressed his concerns about immersive and 3D screenings, and how they can distract from a film’s quality.

RYAN COOGLER & MICHAEL B. JORDAN's secret movie lands at the WB.

PAUL GIAMATTI wants to know why Cher wants to talk to him.

GAME OF THRONES: Yet another spin-off is in the works.

BIG BUG vs ROBO-BUG: Who You Got?

A HEROIC GOODBYE: Luck the dog leaves the hospital after he was shot in a robbery.

MAMA OPOSSUM, transporting her babies.

JOHN HIATT: It's been a "Slow Turning."

THE LAST DINNER PARTY plays World Cafe.

THE LEMON TWIGS shares “They Don’t Know How To Fall In Place.”

IRON & WINE shares “You Never Know.”

LES SAVY FAV returns with “Legendary Tippers.”

ELBOW shares "Lover's Leap."

MOUNT KIMBIE shares "Fishbrain."

GARY GLITTER will not be released from prison.

MOJO NIXON, psychobilly musician, actor, and radio personality, has died at age 66.

DUNE: PART TWO, or seven minutes of it.

A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE has a trailer online.

LOVE LIES BLEEDING has a trailer online.

RYAN GOSLING, on singing at the Oscars, climbing the WB tower, and more.

DONALD GLOVER & MAYA ERSKINE, on Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

DEMI MOORE kept those clay pots from Ghost.

CHARMLESS: Shannen Doherty and Holly Marie Combs were called out by fellow Charmed star Alyssa Milano at MegaCon Orlando on Sunday, for blaming her for Doherty’s firing at the end of season three.

ETERNALS was so bad that Kumail Nanjiani sought therapy.

CATS & DOGS, living together.

A LITTLE SWAN, hiding on Mom's back.

NOT ALL HEROES wear capes.