THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with R.E.M.! Live in Germany circa 1985, more complete than what has previously turned up on the Tube. Songs include "Feeling Gravity's Pull," "Harbourcoat," "Sitting Still," "Maps & Legends," "Fall On Me," "Green Grow The Rushes," "Driver 8," "Hyena," "So. Central Rain," CCR's "Have You Ever Seen The Rain," "Can't Get There From Here," Roger Miller's "King Of The Road," "Seven Chinese Bros.," "Auctioneer," "Old Man Kinsey," "Little America," "Pretty Persuasion, " "Theme From Two Steps Onward," Aerosmith's "Toys In The Attic," and Television's "See No Evil." Plus, previously unlinked here: "Second Guessing," "Ghost Riders In The Sky," "(Don't Go Back to) Rockville," "We Walk/ Behind Closed Doors" and "Paint It Black." 

RATBOYS plays KEXP.

WAR plays KCRW.

J MASCIS shares "Right Behind You."

MIDDLE KIDS have "Terrible News."

ROB MOOSE: Meet The Arranger Pulling the Strings in Indie Rock and Pop.

AMY WINEHOUSE:  The Back to Black biopic has a trailer online.

MOGWAI's career-spanning documentary, If The Stars Had Sound, has a trailer online.

ESPN was forced to return at least 37 Emmy awards after using fake names to secure awards for ineligible on-air talent on shows like College GameDay. 

POOR THINGS includes a sex scene that had to be edited in order to fit in with UK law.

FKA TWIGS shared her thoughts on a Calvin Klein poster featuring the singer which has been banned in the UK.

TINA FEY on Mean Girls, then and now.

MARGOT ROBBIE: “Everyone’s probably sick of the sight of me for now.”

MR & MRS SMITH has a trailer online.

ABIGAIL has a trailer online.

FRIENDS scripts rescued from the trash are headed to auction.

JOHN KRASINSKI & NATALIE PORTMAN are starring in Fountain of Youth with Guy Ritchie directing.

KRISTEN STEWART, on how gay Twilight is. Among other things.

SELENA GOMEZ will play LINDA RONSTADT in a biopic.

AN ORPHANED KANGAROO, in his new adoptive home.

A HARPIST has a Disney-esque moment.

ADOPTION DAY for a Good Girl.

LIZ PHAIR: "Jealousy." It sneers like she does.

ALANA SRINGSTEEN plays World Cafe.

MGMT have "Nothing To Declare."

THE UMBRELLAS jangle on "Gone."

GRUFF RHYS shares "Bad Friend."

PARAMORE teases a cover of Talking Heads' "Burning Down the House."

KEANU REEVES, on his love of Interpol and Kim Gordon.

BOY GEORGE will never be friends with JANET JACKSON.

KATE BUSH eulogized DEL PALMER.

THE SAG AWARDS nominations went to these folks. Congrats!

THE DGA AWARDS nominations went to these folks. Congrats!

THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM has a trailer online.

28 YEARS LATER: Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are pitching this sequel to studios and streamers.

MATTHEW PERRY's Secret Dark Side.

JASON MOMOA & LISA BONET settled their child custody one day after filing for divorce.

PAUL GIAMATTI, on In-N-Out.

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON is making a secret movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn,and Regina King.

KEVIN SMITH apologized to SHANNON DOHERTY after she confessed Mallrats ended her film career.

STAR TREK 4 is still in the works, as well as one set decades before 2009’s reboot.

SUPERGIRL: Milly Alcock, Emilia Jones and Meg Donnelly are in the mix for screen tests.

AMAZON is laying off several hundred employees as part of a plan to consolidate Amazon Studios and MGM.

A MANED WOLF, gentle and tall.

A PALLAS CAT sounds weird.

A BABY KOALA, reunited with its worried Mom.

THE FIVE AMERICANS: "I See The Light."

THE BRIGHTS: Jangle Pop. Need I say more?

THE LEMONHEADS cover Euguene Kelly/Eugenius's "Seven Out."

WAXAHATCHEE shares "Right Back To It."

THE SMILE shares "Friend Of A Friend."

SHEER MAG goes a little disco for "Moonstruck."

SINEAD O'CONNOR died of natural causes.

ELVIS COSTELLO: Marc Ribot, on the guitar solo in "Chewing Gum."

THE DOOBIE BROS: "Minute By Minute," dissected.

THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU are headed to the big screen.

MAY DECEMBER's problematic soundtrack.

PAUL GIAMATTI is dating the actress who played his dominatrix on Billions, Clara Wong.

JACOB ELORDI has been announced as playing The Monster in Guillermo del Toro’s forthcoming adaptation of the horror classic Frankenstein.

TINA FEY will star in a Netflix series based on the 1981 movie The Four Seasons.

MOTHERS' INSTINCT has a trailer online.

SAG-AFTRA has signed a deal with Replica to allow actors to create and license a digital A.I. replica of their voice for video games & other media. 

THE BLOB is getting (another) remake.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

CATS getting into formation.

PARTNERS In Crime.

ALBERT LEE covers Jimmy Webb's "If You See Me Getting Smaller," one of my favorite Webb tunes, though (afaik) never a hit for anyone.

STEPHEN SANCHEZ channels the '50s and '60s on World Cafe.

WILCO covered David Bowie's "Space Oddity" to celebrate his birthday.

TY SEGALL shares "My Best Friend," with his doggos in the video.

BUFFALO TOM returns with "Helmet."

P^SSED JEANS returns with "Moving On."

SMASHING PUMPKINS is taking applications for a new guitarist.

CHUMBAWUMBA, on Manic Street Preachers.

PURPLE RAIN is becoming a stage musical. Sigh.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at "Call Me Maybe," Carly Rae Jepsen's out-of-nowhere pop phenomenon.

PAUL GIAMATTI, on his dormant memories influencing The Holdovers.  Also, he'd like to do horror movies. Plus, he took his Golden Globe to In-N-Out.

MARTIN SCORSESE is making a movie about Jesus. Again.

CHRISTOPER NOLAN is all good with Peloton.

THE GOLDEN GLOBES, btw, had 9.4MM viewers, up 50 percent from 2023.

JONATHAN MAJORS speaks out after his conviction in a domestic violence trial.

LISA BONET & JASON MOMOA are getting divorced.

TIGER WOODS & NIKE are getting divorced.

WILL & JADA's media empire is falling apart after that Oscars Slap.

A PAPA STORK brings MAMA STORK a blanket on the nest.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

A DOGGO, bowling.

SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES: "Tears of a Clown." Originally released in 1967, but it didn't become a hit until 1970. Sometimes, a hit takes time.

NEW RELEASES: Pitchfork will point you to Sprints, Pile, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT's Most Anticipated Albums of 2024.

PATTERSON HOOD, PETER BUCK & SCOTT McCAUGHEY cover Drivin N Cryin's "Let's Go Dancing."

PAUL WELLER thinks younger artists don’t release enough music.

SLEATER-KINNEY talk about their grief-stricken new album.

DEL PALMER, the long-time bass player and former romantic partner of Kate Bush, has died at the age of 71.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Wonka was back atop the chart with 14.4MM on a 36 percent drop. Night Swim placed with 12MM.  Aquaman 2 showed with 10.6MM on a 54 percent drop.  Overall box office was down 18 percent over the opening weekend of 2023.  Below the fold, note that Anyone But You rose 9 percent and Iron Claw dropped a mere 2 percent, so some movies are inding an audience.

THE GOLDEN GLOBES went to these folks.  Congrats!

SEAN PENN saved Variety's red carpet maven Marc Malkin - after the Golden Globes pre-show host found himself stranded on the way back from the Palm Springs Film Festival over the weekend.

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN's Peloton instructor was not a fan of Tenet, but loved Oppenheimer.

NIGEL LYTHGOE is stepping down as a judge on “So You Think You Can Dance,” after two lawsuits accused him of sexual assault.

JODIE FOSTER: Gen Z Can Be "Really Annoying To Work With." And much more.

WILLEM DAFOE, on art, yoga - and his alpacas.

KATE HUDSON finds it “hard to get male movie stars to make rom-coms.”

GET READY to hear more about "pre-internet" times.

CHRISTIAN OLIVER, who starred in films including Speed Racer and Valkyrie among others, was killed Thursday along with his two young daughters when their small plane crashed into the sea off a Caribbean island. Oliver was 51.

DAVID SOUL, the doleful-eyed blond actor and singer who rose to fame portraying half of a cagey crime-fighting duo on the hit 1970s television show “Starsky & Hutch,” and who also scored a No. 1 hit single in 1977 with “Don’t Give Up on Us,” died on Thursday. He was 80.

CINDY MORGAN, the actor best known for playing Lacey Underall in "Caddyshack" and Lora/Yori in Disney's original "Tron" film, has died. She was 69.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

MANGALICA PIG is a Hungarian breed of pig with a woolly coat that makes it look just like a sheep.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT comes to Wake Forest.