THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with SQUEEZE!  Some of you whippersnappers may never heard of Difford, Tilbrook & Co., who previously reeled of stellar string of pop gems, including "Take Me I'm Yours", "Cool for Cats", "Up the Junction", "Goodbye Girl,"  "Another Nail in My Heart", "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)", "If I Didn't Love You", and the one most people know -- even if they don't know it's Squeeze -- "Tempted", which features transient member Paul Carrack on vox and keys.  Fun fact: Carrack was also responsible for the classic, "How Long" as a member of Ace.

CJ RAMONE advance streams "The Holy Spell."

CHRISTONE "KINGFISH" INGRAM advance streams Kingfish.

LUCETTE advance streams Deluxe Hotel Room.

SUMMER CAMP returns with "Love of My Life" and "Danny and John."

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN joined LITTLE STEVEN onstage for Born to Run‘s “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” as well as Little Steven’s ’80s anti-Apartheid anthem “Sun City” and “I Don’t Want to Go Home.”

THE UNTOUCHABLES: "I Spy For the FBI."

TOM PETTY's "Won't Back Down" gets the American Anthem treatment from NPR.

AA BONDY talks to Aquarium Drunkard about abandoning the rule book with his synth-driven LP Enderness.

DOLLY PARTON's Most Shoppable Looks.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Terry Jacks' extremely mellow death-lament "Seasons In The Sun."

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, which is currently scoring 67 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; The Hustle, which is currently scoring 14 percent; Poms, which is scoring 27 percvent; and Tolkien, scoring 46 percent.

IT CHAPTER TWO has a teaser trailer online.

PRINCE HARRY opened up about the joys of fatherhood.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME's directors discuss a deleted scene.

ZENDAYA (Spider-Man: Far from Home, HBO's Euphoria), profiled by Vogue.

BH90210: Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling explain.

KEANU REEVES talks John Wick, Bill and Ted with Uproxx.

ALEX TREBEK, in his first at-home television interview since he went public with his pancreatic cancer diagnosis.

AN ORANGUTAN and a HOUND DOG, hanging out together...

THEY TOOK THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN / Goin' anyyyyywheeeerrrrrre...

KICKER: Nothing much to see here. Just a bobcat, sitting on top of a utility pole, high above I-75 in Florida.  

LOVE: "Your Mind and We Belong Together." Rare promo.

LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS, Live at Rockwood Music Hall.

GARCIA PEOPLES tackle classics by Pearls Before Swine and Bob Dylan for their first-ever Lagniappe Session.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: The last two episodes have featured Japanese Breakfast, Future Teens and Patio, plus The Quiet Temple, Faye Webster and more.

BLACK MOUNTAIN shares "Licensed To Drive."

MIKAL CRONIN shares "Breathe," which is a bit psychedelic but not Pink Floyd.

PETER PERRETT (The Only Ones) shares a video for  "Once Is Enough."

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle talks about all the distractions that went into making In League With Dragons.

THE MEAT PUPPETS' Curt Kirkwood talks to Brooklyn Vegan about  the reunion of the original lineup, the new album, Grant Hart, and more.

A LED ZEPPELIN DOCUMENTARY being shopped at the Cannes Film Market is the first to feature the surviving members.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at "Love's Theme," the chintzy instrumental from Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra.

HOWARD STERN opens up about a health scare, retirement, and his metamorphosis from shock jock to insightful interviewer.

PRINCE HARRY & MEGHAN MARKLE have named their baby son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, icymi.

LORI LAUGHLIN's attorneys believe they have a good chance of being acquitted.

BRITNEY SPEARS obtained a restraining order against ex-manager Sam Lufti.

TYRA BANKS is back on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2019.

ROCKETMAN: Inside Taron Egerton's Transformation Into Elton John (and, He Hopes, a Major Star).

WATCHMEN: The HBO spin-off has a teaser trailer online.

HERE, let me make that taste better for you.

MORE THAN 300 CATS have been rescued after they were found living in a single apartment.

A HEROIC PARROT somehow survived being kidnapped from a zoo, wounded in a police shoot-out, and bitten by a snake.

PAUL McCARTNEY: "Birthday."

RADIATOR HOSPITAL streams Music For Daydreaming.

THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH, Live at the Palace in St. Paul.

FOALS visits the World Cafe.

LANA DEL REY previews a cover of Sublime's “Doin’ Time.”

IMPERIAL TEEN returns with "We Do What We Do Best."

MAC DeMARCO shares a freaky video for "On The Square."

DON McLEAN will no longer receive the George and Ira Gershwin Award from UCLA after the university learned the musician pleaded guilty to domestic violence charges in 2016.

MEAT LOAF reportedly broke his collarbone falling off stage.

WOODSTOCK promoter Michael Land accused the Dentsu Aegis Network, the company that had been planning to fund the 2019 edition, of draining 17 million dollars from the festival's bank account.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Barbra Streisand's "The Way We Were," a piece of expert schlock that became a modern standard.

STAR WARS:  The House of Mouse announced dates for three more films, plus another Indiana Jones, four Avatars, and more.

GAME OF THRONES: The coffee cup has been removed.

COMMON reveals he was molested as a child -- and Laura Dern helped him remember it.

THE ETERNALS:  Richard Madden (Game of Thrones, Bodyguard) is in talks to join Marvel's next cosmic adventure.

LEGION has a Season 3 trailer online, though imho Season 2 was a huge letdown from a brilliant debut.

BLACK BEAUTY is getting a reboot.

THE GOOD FIGHT ran a placard reading “<i class="small">CBS HAS CENSORED THIS CONTENT.” They weren't joking.

CATS always prefer the container.

IS THAT A GATOR IN TOUR YOGA PANTS or are you just happy... oh.

AN EAGLE crashed through her living room window in Kodiak. Then she had to shoo it out of the house.

THE GO-GOS: "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got the Beat" for Twofer Tuesday.

NICK WATERHOUSE visits The Current.

THE BETHS visit the World Cafe.

THOU: Heavy metal comes to the Tiny Desk Concert.

THE MINUS 5 shares “Beatles Forever (Little Red).”

JONI MITCHELL: The music that defines an icon.

BEN FOLDS FIVE gets two hours and twenty minutes of analysis and discussion with guest Michael Brendan Dougherty of National Review.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN already wrote a new E Street Band album to tour after Western Stars.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Ringo Starr's problematically nostalgic "You're Sixteen."

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME drops a trailer online, with an Endgame/ MCU spoiler.

MEGHAN MARKLE and PRINCE HARRY had a baby boy, icymi. 

AMY SCHUMER has given birth to her first child ever with her husband, Chris Fischer.

BRITNEY SPEARS' Mom jumped into her conservatorship proceedings.

JENNIFER ANISTON is interviewed by Harper's Bazaar.

STRANGER THINGS: The plagiarism lawsuit was withdrawn on the eve of trial.

GAME OF THRONES: Starbucks-gate confirmed.

A BOBCAT trapped in a soccer net in Colorado Springs was lucky to get out alive.

REMY is a jenga legend.

HONESTLY, GARETH,  I can't even look at you right now.

A PARROT trained by drug dealers to alert them of police presence is refusing to speak after being detained.

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

THE FEELIES, Live at Rough Trade, with originals and covers of Iggy and the VU.

VAMPRE WEEKEND, Live and unplugged in Washington Square.

CRAIG FINN visits CBS This Morning.

BAD RELIGION streams Age of Unreason.

HOLY GHOST! shares "Do This."

THE FUTUREHEADS' first new song in seven years is "Jekyll."

PALEHOUND shares a video for "Worthy."

PETE SEEGER is getting a yuge Smithsonian Folkways Collection.

THE NATIONAL talks to The Guardian about depression, infighting - and playing live while Paris burns

WHY THE HITS OF 1999 are so memeable.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Al Wilson's cheesy soul ballad "Show And Tell."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Avengers: Endgame again dominated the chart with 145MM, which does not break the record for the biggest second weekend (The Force Awakens), but even with a 59 percent drop, it's enough to make Endgame the second-biggest film ever after just 10 days in theaters, with a worldwide gross of 2.1 Billion and 620MM domestic. Avatar's 2.79 Billion is now in the crosshairs.  The Intruder places with 11MM against an 8 MM budget. Long Shot shows with 10MM against a 40MM budget (so much for counter-programming). Uglydolls stubled into the fourth slot with 8.5MM against 45MM budget. Captain Marvel rounds out the Top Five with another 4.3MM.

ROBERT DOWNEY, JR had mixed emotions about Averngers: Endgame.

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG is getting redesigned after complaints about the trailer.

ADAM SANDLER's tribute to CHRIS FARLEY ran on Saturday Night.

MADONNA: “I made a mistake when I gave my older children phones when they were 13. It ended my relationship with them, really."

CHARLIZE THERON was offered a role in Wonder Woman -- as the mother.

WINNIE THE POOH voice actor Jim Cummings  is currently locked in a bitter war with his ex-wife and she is claiming years of abuse by the star, including sexual assault, drug addiction and animal abuse.

CONAN O' BRIEN finally interviews Robert Caro.

A BELUGA WHALE believed by marine experts to have been trained by the Russian military is enjoying its stay in Norway -- and the locals are loving it, too.

AN UNEXPECTED CATWALK on the Christian Dior Catwalk.

SOMEONE just give him that ball.

INTROVERT in an open workspace.