THE FOUR TOPS: Levi Stubbs works up a sweat on live French TV, belting out a supercharged "I'll Be There."

TEMPLES, Live at Rockwood Music Hall.

PENELOPE ISLES plays KEXP.

BECCA STEVENS plays World Cafe.

THROWING MUSES share "Dark Blue."

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS shares "The Day The Politicians Died.”

DAVE ROBACK,a co-founder of Mazzy Star and key figure in the Los Angeles Paisley Underground scene of neo-psychedelia in the 1980s, has died at 61. The tributes pour in.

DUFFY wrote that she dropped out of the spotight after she was drugged, raped and held captive. 

THE B-52's KATE PIERSON shares the soundtrack of her life.

STREAMING MUSIC now comprises 80 percent of inductry revenue.

MEGXIT: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle plan to attend Princess Beatrice's wedding later this year.

THE HOUSE OF MOUSE has a new CEO.

THE BACHELOR, but for senior citizens.

NO TIME TO DIE dropped a featurette online.  Phoebe Waller-Bridge talks about polishing the script.

A HISTORY OF THE MOVIE MONSTER: Cinema has always turned to the terrifying and grotesque to unmask our own twisted nature.

EVERY JOHN HUGHES MOVIE ranked by Consequence of Sound.

FERAL HOGS are pretty fast.

THIS DOG failed every single test thrown at him to become a service dog, hilariously.

A BABOON on the way to a vasectomy escapes with two female companions in Sydney.

HORDES OF TICKS are drinking so much moose blood in Vermont that half of calves have died.

I WANT CANDY from The Strangeloves and a super-charged Bow Wow Wow for Twofer Tuesday.

JENNY LEWIS plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

TWIN PEAKS plays World Cafe.

FRANKIE COSMOS plays KEXP.

SOCCER MOMMY shares "Bloodstream."

TEARS FOR FEARS gets almost two hours of discussion and analysis on Political Beats, with guest Sean Hackbarth of the US Chamber of Commerce.

TENNIS: How Alaina and Patrick Riley survived some of the darkest months of their relationship, sailed the Sea of Cortez (again) and then made their buoyant new album.

YEASAYER are suing Kendrick Lamar and the Weeknd over a song from the Black Panther soundtrack.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Herb Alpert's flukey, 'General Hospital'-driven instrumental jazz-funk smash "Rise," a groove that will be familiar to any '90s rap fan.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN has been convicted on two counts, but acquitted of the most serious sex crimes in his New York sexual assault trial. He will be sentenced on March 11.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 7 has stopped production in Venice, due to a Coronavirus outbreak in Italy.

SPIDER-MAN: Is the Sinister Six in our future?

VANESSA BRYANT sued the owner and operator of the helicopter that crashed in fog and killed Kobe Bryan and their daughter Gianna.

CHRIS EVANS is in negotiations to enter the Little Shop of Horrors; he'd be a dentist!

CHARLIE HEATON (Stranger Things) is profiled by GQ.

NETFLIX opens a window on what its viewers are watching.

PYTHON HUNTERS, helping save the Everglades.

A DUCK was left behind by thieves in a Birmingham shop.

PABLO ESCOBAR'S HIPPOS have bred prodigiously and they now terrorize a Colombian town.

A PET POODLE was scooped up and then dropped by a hawk in Whitehall, Allegheny County.

THE KNACK: "Frustrated."

NEW RELEASES: Paste points you to Best Coast, King Krule, and more; Pitchfork adds Greg Dulli.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT points to Julian Cope, Spinning Coin, Capricorn One, and more.

NADA SURF plays World Cafe.

JAMES HETFIELD of Metallica is out of rehab and playing Eddie Money.

SUPERGRASS has always been about manic energy.

WOLF PARADE discusses their influences.

THE BEST POSTHUMOUS ALBUMS, according to Paste.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Michael Jackson's dance music masterpiece "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Sonic the Hedgehog repeats atop the chart with 26.3MM on a 55 percent drop that's not too steep considering last weekend had a holiday.  It's made almost as much overseas as domestic, which ain't bad considering China is disrupted by the coronavirus.  Call of the Wild places with 24.8MM against a reported 125-150MM budget. Ouch. Andboth of these will likely get steamrolled by Pixar in two weeks. Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey shows with 7MM on another precipitous skid of 60 percent.  Brahms: The Boy II takes the fourth slot with a 5.9MM debut, which is okay but is going to be nowhere near the return on investment of the original.  Bad Boys for Life rounds out the Top Five with another 5.86MM as it closes in on 200MM domestic.

MEGXIT: The Duke and Duchess are fuming... but won't be using the Sussex Royal brand.

KIRK DOUGLAS leaves most of his 61MM frtune to charity.

FRIENDS: The unscripted reunion is on.

QUENTIN TARANTINO and  his wife, Daniella Pick, welcome a son.

WILL ARNETT and his girlfriend, Alessandra Brawn, are expecting their first child together.

JOAQUIN PHOENIX is serving as an executive producer on Gunda, a new documentary focusing on pig sentience.

HARRISON FORD shares the secret to his happy marriage.

JON PETERS is back with the ex-fiancée he left for 12-day-marriage to Pam Anderson.

CLINT EASTWOOD dumps Trump for Bloomberg.

A BEAR, roaming from home to home in Monrovia.

THE SWARM: A group of firefighters and police that were responding to a bee sting were attacked by a swarm of nearly 40000 Africanized bees.

A CANDIAN CORGI's version of fetch.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with OTIS REDDING!  Otis and the Bar-Kays crank up the energy to 11 for a Ready Steady Go special, crashing through "Satisfaction,"  "My Girl" and "Respect," then "Shake" morphing into "Land of a Thousand Dances" performed by Otis, Eric Burdon and Chris Farlowe.  BONUS: from the same special, Eric Burdon covers "Hold On, I'm Coming," while Chris Farlowe covers "It's a Man's World."

NATHANIEL RATELIFF plays WFUV Live.

SAN FERMIN plays KEXP.

CHRIS KING & THE GUTTERBALLS plays KEXP.

ARCHERS OF LOAF returnes with "Raleigh Days."

MAN MAN returns with "Cloud Nein."

ERIC CLAPTON pays tribute to Ginger Baker with Nile Rodgers,Ronnie Wood, Kenney Jones,  Paul Carrack and Steve Winwood.

PERCY SLEDGE: Beyond "When A Man Loves A Woman."

CARIBOU: Dan Snaith talks to Stereogum about the inimitable emotion of wordless vocal samples, blending the familiar with the unfamiliar, making 900 demos for Suddenly, and finding joy in listeners misconstruing his work.

DAVID BOWIE:  I'm Only Dancing (The Soul Tour 74) is coming as a Record Store Day rarity.

STURGILL SIMPSON is done with Elektra Records.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include The Call of the Wild, which is currently scoring 65 percent on the l' Tomatometer; and Brahms: The Boy II, which was not screened for critics.

WESTWORLD: Season 3 has a trailer online.

MARTIN SCORSESE wrote a heartfelt letter to Bong Joon-ho after ‘Parasite"s Oscars success.

FRIENDS: Sales of digital and DVD soar after the show leaves Netflix.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE is starring in Adam McKay’s upcoming Netflix asteroid disaster comedy, “Don’t Look Up.”

MOVIE DOGS: A Taxonomy.

361 GOLDEN RETRIVERS, hanging out together.

THIS DOG does parkour around her yard to stalk squirrels.

488-POUND FERAL HOG killed in Texas.

HUSKER DU covers The Beatles' "Ticket to Ride," circa 1985.

ELBOW visits Morning Becomes Eclectic.

LAURA STEVENSON plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

HEART BONES visits The Current.

MARK LANEGAN shares "Skeleton Key."

STEPHEN MALKMUS shares "Brainwashed."

BAT FOR LASHES  Natasha Khan discusses her new concept album on All Things Considered.

BRENDAN BENSON talks about his upcoming album with American Songwriter.

EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER's "Karn Evil 9" is being adapted into a movie.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Robert John's mostly-forgotten falsetto-laden soft rock ballad "Sad Eyes."

MEGXIT: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's royal duties will officially end on March 31.

STEVEN SPIELBERG's daughter has launched a new career as an adult entertainer?

ELIJAH WOOD and Mette-Marie Kongsved quietly welcomed their first child together.

CHRIS NOTH is a dad again at 65, recently welcoming his second son with wife Tara Wilson.

NICOLAS CAGE will re-enact his old roles in his new move.

THE HARRISON FORD GUIDE To Phoning It In.

THIS GUY Rushes To Save His Animals From Tropical Storm.

DOG OWNERS take more photos of their pet than spouse, family.

SCIENTISTS switch monkey brains on or off using electricity in experiment.