CINCO DE MAYO WEEKEND STARTS HERE: 

...with LOS LOBOS: "I Got Loaded" (with an added snippet of "Turn On Your Lovelight") from their fabulous first full-lengther, How Will the Wolf Survive? "Don't Worry Baby," "Evangeline," "Our Last Night," and "A Matter of Time" were on that album, too.

PEE WEE HERMAN: "Tequila." Obvsly.

HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS: Rare video of "A Taste of Honey" from 1967.

CHEAP TRICK brings you the Mariachi mash-up of "Surrender."

JIMMY BUFFETT: Margaritaville. Obvs.

LIZ PHAIR: "Cinco de Mayo." Obvsly.

M83 plays KEXP.

CAROLINE POLACHEK shares "Starburned and Unkissed."

ILLUMINATI HOTTIES shares “Can’t Be Still.”

WASHED OUT shares "The Hardest Part."

THE WAEVE shares "City Lights."

IAN SWEET covers Broken Social Scene's "Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl."

KING PRINCESS covers Steely Dan's "Dirty Work."

NICK CAVE is a grandpa.

ALBERT BROOKS: The Godfather of American Comedy.

STAX: SOULVILLE USA has a trailer online.

BRITNEY SPEARS had a meltdown at the Chateau Marmont.

PARAMOUNT has a new suitor.

WES ANDERSON directed and appears in a short film for MontBlanc.

HUGH JACKMAN teases Deadpool & Wolverine.

RYAN GOSLING turns down dark roles, for family reasons.

SHONDA RIMES on the the future of Bridgerton, and television.

JEFF GOLDBLUM says he doesn’t plan on financially supporting his children when they get older.

KRISTEN STEWART will be in a very different kind of vampire movie.

JOHN CLEESE will remove the racial slurs from the upcoming West End stage adaptation of his sitcom Fawlty Towers.

SEX AND NUDITY IN MOVIES is way down in the post-MeToo era.

SEAGULLS, getting dramatic.

A FIREHOUSE DOG wants the hose.

BIKER DOG: Wait for it.

JUNIPER THE BEAR snacks on ducklings as school kids watch in horror.

EVERY MOTHER'S SON: "Come On Down to My Boat," baby.

DUANE EDDY,  who became the first stand-alone rock ‘n’ roll guitar star with a string of instrumental hits in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s including the theme to TV series “Peter Gunn” and “Rebel Rouser,” died April 30 in Franklin, Tenn., He was 86.

ROSANNE CASH & JOHN LEVENTHAL play the 30A Songwriters Festival.

RA RA RIOT returns with “The Wish.”

ST. VINCENT, on working with Dave Grohl.

SHOEGAZE'S PIONEERING WOMEN Are Still Going Strong.

THE BEST OF 2024 (So Far), according to Pitchfork.

HOW MAMA CASS really died.

RICHARD TANDY, the keyboardist in Electric Light Orchestra who shaped much of the British rock band’s sound, has died aged 76.

HITTING FURY ROAD: Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth go inside Furiosa, their full-throttle Mad Max prequel.

ROBERT DOWNEY, JR won’t accept Chris Hemsworth‘s gripes over Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

RYAN GOSLING & MIKE DAY attended The Fall Guy premiere as Beavis And Butt-Head.

WRITERS' STRIKE: One Year Later, Writers Face a Different Sort of Crisis.

THE ALL-TIME TOP TEN MOVIES, according to Rotten Tomatoes.

A MARKET RESEARCH POLL claims to have established the “ideal” movie length for American audiences.

JOHN TESH is willing to sell NBC that NBA theme again.

WHEN AN ELEPHANT stops by your door.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

THREE WAVES OF DUCKS blocking traffic.

THE TEMPTATIONS gallop through "I Can't Get Next to You" live on TOTP.

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO visits World Cafe.

SIOUXSIE SIOUX & IGGY POP remade their 1987 duet on "The Passenger"... for an ice cream ad.

LA LUZ shares "I'll Go With You."

EVERYONE SAYS HI shares "Brain Freeze."

LOCAL NATIVES shares their favorite harmonies.

DAVID GILMOUR admitted he found The Beatles‘ Get Back documentary a “hard watch”.

FORMER NINE INCH NAILS drummer Chris Vrenna joins the Michigan faculty.

CHRIS HEMSWORTH, on Fear, Love, Furiosa, and more.

DWAYNE JOHNSON's tardiness led to a 250 million runaway production?

MEGALOPOLIS: Vanity Fair has a first look at Coppola's wild project.

THE HOUSE OF MOUSE bets 60billion that its parks are the future.

BRIAN COX: Not a fan of the Bible.

MARGO ROBBIE may star in Avengelyne, from the creator of Deadpool, directed by Olivia Wilde.

JEFF BRIDGES shares a health update. The dude abides.

THE SWARM: Last night's Dodger's-Diamondbacks game was delayed by bees.

ZEBRAS escaped a trailer on the interstate near Seattle.

A CROW, acting as hood ornament.

WAIT FOR IT....worth it.

THE BONGOS: "Numbers With Wings" was nominated for Best Direction at the first MTV Video Awards.

CHARLIE CROCKETT visits World Cafe.

THE ROLLING STONES kicked off their tour in Houston.

REDD KROSS returns with "Candy Coloured Catastrophe."

RINGO STARR's  EP with The Strokes‘ guitarist Nick Valensi, ‘Crooked Boy’, is now available on streaming.

U2: Adam Clayton is getting an amicable divorce. From his wife, not the band.

HIPGNOSIS: The bidding war for their song fund has escalated, as Blackstone has agreed to acquire the company for 1.6billion.

A MYSTERIOUS VIRAL 80s SONG was finally idnetified, and the story is a doozy.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Pitbull and Kesha's joyously dumb backwoods-gone-Euro-club novelty "Timber."

MUFASA: THE LION KING has a trailer online.

BRITNEY SPEARS is blowing through her post-conservatorship finances, but is not broke yet.

PARAMOUNT has booted CEO Bob Bakish.

JERRY SEINFELD says that “P.C. crap” and the “extreme left” is making television comedy go extinct.ALSO: The Top 20 Seinfeld episodes, ranked at Uproxx.

RUSSELL BRAND is getting baptized to "leave the past behind" after he was accused of multiple counts of r*pe, assault and emotional abuse between 2006 and 2013.

GERARD DEPARDIEU will stand trial in October on charges of sexual assault.

KANYE WEST is being sued for racial discrimination by one of his former security guards.

THE RUSSO BROTHERS argue that Marvel’s current issues boil down to the changes in how people absorb media: It’s a Hollywood-wide issue, not just a Marvel one.

CHINA FIXER-TURNED-MOVIE-PRODUCER Kenneth Huang charmed Hollywood''s elite before vanishing, owing millions.

COOPER is not a fan of the new dog.

CATS & DOGS, living together.

WHAT DOES THE COW SAY?

A LITTLE GIRL said monsters were in her bedroom. It was 60000 bees.

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

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Charlie Crockett, St. Vincent, the Lostines, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Pet Shop Boys, the Woodentops, and more.

LANA DEL REY joined PAUL CAUTHEN on the righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody" at Stagecoach.

PET SHOP BOYS: Neil Tennant grabs the third rail of Taylor Swift discourse.

DAVID GILMOUR might okay a Pink Floyd hologram show, maybe.

BILL WYMAN, on life after the Stones.

ST. VINCENT, on recording with Dave Grohl, covering Kate Bush, and writing with Taylor Swift.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Challengers tops the chart with 15MM, and I'm going to be in the camp that finds that a bit meh, esp. with a B+ CinemaScore.  But I am open to it having legs next weekend. Unsung Hero places with a 7.75MM debut.  Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire shows with 7.2MM on a leggy 25 percent drop.

THE ROYALS: King Charles III will resume public duties this week after receiving treatment for cancer.

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE won't require "homework" for viewers, they promise.

PARAMOUNT's CEO could be gone by Monday afternoon.

EMMA STONE: You can call her Emily.

BRITNEY SPEARS settled her legal dispute with her dad, Jamie Spears, and TMZ reports that Jamie isn't paying Britney a cent, but Britney is paying Jamie's legal bills.

DAVID CROSS & BOB ODENKIRK got denied by Paramount's analytics department.

KANYE WEST appears to have confirmed reports that he's set to launch an adult entertainment site.

CATS in Roomba tanks.

THE GREAT ESCAPE: Bring your plushie.

A GIANT GOLDEN SPIDER, Down Under, of course.