THE KNACK: "Frustrated."

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you toward Bartees Strange, Horsegirl, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Tobin Sprout, Richard Dawson, and more.

THE SNL 50 CONCERT featured Post Nirvana, David Byrne, St Vincent, Jack White and more. But word is that Dan Ackroyd and Bill Hader are skipping Sunday nght's big TV show.

JASON ISBELL shares "Foxes In The Snow."

THE STYLISTICS return after 17 years with "Yes, I Will."

BON IVER shares “Everything is Peaceful Love.”

DAVID JOHANSEN shared a video expressing gratitude for fans' support after his Stage 4 cancer announcement.

BRIAN SETZER revealed that he has been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and cannot currently play guitar, but is hopeful for a full recovery.

DON FELDER shared an update with fans after suffering a medical emergency on stage recently.

STEVEN TYLER, with a street musician.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Captain America: Brave New World tops the chart with 100MM, which is a bit better than projected, but with a B- CinemaScore one wonders how it holds up. Paddington In Peru places with 16MM.  Dog Man shows with 12.5MM.

THE BAFTA AWARDS went to these folks. Congrats.

THE WRITERS' GUILD AWARDS went to these folks. Congrats.

VINCE GILLIGAN hopes that the next generation of hit TV shows returns to heroes over antiheroes.

JAY-Z issued a statement after a lawsuit accusing he and Sean "Diddy" Combs of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 was dismissed.

CONSTANTINE 2: Closer than ever.

SHARON STONE in Euphoria? 

GEORGE WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY is observed today. Here's an inaccurate and profane tribute to the first US President.

DOGGO sings Happy Birthday to himself.

WEINER DOG takes a minute to recognize its owner.

MISSION: Impawsible.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... 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.

PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE plays KEXP.

10CC's Kevin Godley and Graham Gouldman reteamed for an orchestral 50th anniversary version of  “I’m Not In Love.”

MJ LENDERMAN & THE WIND play "Joker Lips" on Kimmel.

TRENT REZNOR joins PETER MURPHY for "Swoon."

THOM YORKE and producer Mark Pritchard share "Back In The Game."

JAPANESE BREAKFAST shares "Mega Circuit."

BEIRUT is making an album commissioned by the Swedish circus Kompani Giraff.

NICKY WIRE And The Enduring Truth Of Manic Street Preachers.

MADONNA is making new music.

HORSEGIRL, on the Velvet Underground, children's recitals, leaving home, and more.

THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME 2025 nominations went to these folks.  Congrats.

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.

CAPTAIN AMERICA - BRAVE NEW WORLD: "I think everyone on the crew knew this is probably not going to be a good film."

HOW THE MCU is starting to incorporate the X-Men.

SNL: What Happens When Lorne Michaels Retires?

THE ACCOUNTANT 2 has a trailer online.

BLAKE LIVELY & JUSTIN BALDONI reject mediation of their feud. She wants his phone records.

KANYE WEST and Bianca Censori are not getting a divorce, a representative for the rapper has claimed.

LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER has been renewed for Season 3. 

THE 100 GREATEST TV PERFORMANCES of the Century, according to Variety.

A LOST PUPPY, found by a drone operator.

CRAB vs EAGLE: Who You Got?

ELEPHANTS, on a trampoline, doing the helicopter, and more. 

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

WILLIAM TYLER shares three tracks from his upcoming LP.

THE BEATLES first concert in Washington.

AMY MILLAN shares "Wire walks."

PUP shares "Hallways."

SHARON VAN ETTEN Strikes Up The Band.

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE is going to play shows post-Adam Schlessinger.

BEN FOLDS resigns as an artistic advisor of the National Symphony Orchestra. 

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD as of this writing is only at 52 percent on the Tomatometer.

OSCARS odds are shaping up with the UK bookies.

MILLIE BOBBY BROWN on Stranger Things, Marriage, and Life on the Farm.

HARRY POTTER: John Lithgow is in final talks to play Albus Dumbledore in HBO's series adaptaion.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON has a trailer online.

SCARLETT JOHANSSEN spoke out against an AI video, even though she agreed with it. (In this case, fair tbqh.)

EUPHORIA: Season 3 looks to be the last.

TAYLOR LAUTNER: Werewolf Hunter.

LARS von TRIER has been admitted to a care center for Parkinson's.

A CAT, acting like a doggo.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

CATS can comfort.

ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS don't want to go to "Chelsea."

LUCINDA WILLIAMS takes on The Beatles at World Cafe.

MY MORNING JACKET shares "Squid Ink."

HORSEGIRL shares "Frontrunner."

JAMES ELKINGTON shares “Very Berk Squad.”

THE BANGLES want to reclaim their legacy.

THE KOOKS' Luke Pritchard tells NME about channelling his love of soul music into their seventh album.

DON HENLEY is being sued by a rare book dealer he accused of planning to sell handwritten lyrics to “Hotel California” and other Eagles songs that he said had been stolen.

THE 1001 ALBUMS GENERATOR: Fighting the algorithm. 

ARIANA GRANDE has a bunch of post-Wicked offers.

SETH ROGEN is the boss now.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD tracks for an estimated 95MM opening weekend.

THE FRIEND, ft Bill Murray and Naomi Watts, has a trailer online.

HOLLYWOOD wins a major legal battle against AI.

THE HOUSE OF MOUSE changes its content warnings.

ARMIE HAMMER claims the allegations against him were “the greatest thing that ever happened" to him after gaining “a sense of distance and perspective from it.”

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Happy birthday to the 16th President of the United States. Even if you saw the Spielberg biopic, here are two things you may not have known about Honest Abe: (1) he was an early adopter of the telegraph; and (2) he once sported a punky haircut. 

A CARRIAGE HORSE feeds the birds. Tuppence a bag.

A DOGGO gets in on his birthday song.

A DOG brought a buffalo into the house.

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

STEVIE WONDER's Seventies output and beyond gets over two and three-quarters hours of discussion and analysis on Political Beats.

THE MINUS 5 shares "Words & Birds."  Oh yeah.

LUCY DACUS shares "Best Guess."

LUCIUS shares "Gold Rush."

DOVES shares “Saint Teresa.”

NOUVELLE VAGUE covers Culture Club’s “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?”

DAVID JOHANSEN revealed that he is battling a brain tumor and stage four cancer.  Eff cancer.

MICHAEL McDONALD is joining THE DOOBIE BROTHERS on a new LP and tour.

A BRYAN ADAMS gig in Australia has been cancelled due to a large sewer fatberg.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Childish Gambino's "This Is America," the viral vague-protest statement currently being used to sell weight-loss drugs.

THE SUPER BOWL racked up record ratings.

AMANDA PALMER, Neil Gaiman's ex-wife, denied claims of human trafficking alleged in a lawsuit by their former nanny.

STAR WARS: Daisy Ridley has an update.

SNL 50: An all-star roster of former cast members are returning to Studio 8H for the series’ 50th anniversary special.

ROB LOWE claimed that Michael Jackson asked his plastic surgeon if he could have his chin.

PETER NAVY TUIASOSOPO, a trailblazer for Polynesian actors in Hollywood, has died at 61. 

THE STORE DOG wants you to check this out.

A PLATYPUS gets skritches.

COULD YOU FIGHT A BEAR? Not likely.