BLEACHED shares a video for "Flipside." Because who cares what's on the flipside? I do.

ROBYN HITCHCOCK stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

LAMBCHOP, Live at the Bowery Ballroom, March 30, 2017.

MARK EITZEL plays a mini-set for KEXP.

BECK covers "Can't Help Falling In Love With You" for The Man in the High Castle soundtrack.

THURSTON MOORE talks to The Guardian about letting ideas gestate in his head, doing weird things to guitars and being galvanized by a new producer.

PRINCE's death thrust the opioid epidemic further into the spotlight. A year later, questions about his death linger.

THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME induction ceremonies had many stories, including Steve Perry meeting his successor in Journey.

PAUL O'NEILL, the founder of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, a progressive metal band known for spectacular holiday concerts filled with theatrics, lasers and pyrotechnics, was found dead in his hotel room in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday. He was 61. The band said in a statement that Mr. O’Neill died from an unspecified “chronic illness.”

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Boss Baby repeats atop the chart with another 26.3MM on a steep-for-animation 48 percent drop (though it's not unprecedented for Dreamworks animation).  Then again, it faced still-stiff competition from Beauty and the Beast, which placed with 25MM on a 45 percent drop.  Indeed, it also faced weaker competition from Smurfs: The Lost Village, which took in 14MM domestic against a 60MM production budget.  But the blue things took in another 42MM in foreign markets, and the first two were so profitable, it's hard to see even a flop bothering the stuido, though this could easily still make a profit in theaters before reaching the home market.  The remake of Going In Style debuted in fourth with 12.6MMagainst a 25MM budget, which may be just fine, insofar as senior-oriented comedies from Grumpy Old Men to Last Vegas have been pretty leggy counter-programming to the tentpoles and blockbusters.  Ghost In The Shell rounds out the Top 5 with 7.4MM on a steep 63 percent drop, despite a lack of competition before the arrival of The Fate of the Furious next weekend.  It doesn't look like foreign markets will save ScarJo either, unless China and Japan come in yuge for it.

CARRIE FISHER will make an appearance from beyond the grave in the final Star Wars movie of the new trilogy, her brother Todd Fisher tells Confidential.

JANET JACKSON has split from her billionaire husband just months after giving birth to her first child at the age of 50.

BRADLEY COOPER & IRINA SHAYK welcomed their first child two weeks ago.

OLIVIA MUNN & AARON RODGERS have broken up after 3 years of dating. Or, as the Chicago Tribune put it, "Olivia Munn and Boyfriend."

MEGHAN MARKLE, who has been dating Prince Harry for several months, announced Friday that she has shut down her lifestyle website.

BIJOU PHILLIPS recuperates from a kidney transplant.

HARRY SHEARER wrote an op-ed for Rolling Stone explaining the import of his Spinal Tap lawsuit for all creators.

JOHN WICK: Understanding The John Wick Economy.

A WILD TURKEY imitates Frogger in Massachusetts.

A 12-FT PYTHON turned up in the yogurt refrigerators.

A HORSE unzips a woman's hoodie. Don't ask how he learned.

A BAT is not a suitable salad condiment. Unless you're Ozzy Osbourne.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE...

...with THE TALKING HEADS!  Here's the expanded band -- including axeman Adrian Belew (who certainly influenced Jon Pratt's early work in Pate) -- Live in Rome, circa 1980. Your setlist: "Psycho Killer," "Stay Hungry," "Cities," "I Zimbra," "Drugs," "Take Me To The River," "Crosseyed And Painless," "Life During Wartime," "Houses In Motion," "Born Under Punches," and "The Great Curve."

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

AYE NAKO advance streams Silver Haze.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from Elf Power, Big Thief, Walter Martin and more highlight the latest episode.

PEARL JAM covers Brandi Carlile's ""Again Today," with Carlile on backup vox.

DRUMS share "Blood Under My Belt" ahead of Abysmal Thoughts.

CHEMTRAILS share "Headless Pin Up Girl."

THE LA's: "There She Goes." Again.

SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND is getting a stereo remix and comprehensive reissues. Here's the trailer from one of the coming 50th anniversary documentaries.

FEIST is profiled by the New York Times.

PAUL WELLER: The Modfather will soon welcome his eighth child.

CAN is getting an anthology and an authorized biography.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are Smurfs: The Lost Village, which is currently scoring 30 percent on the ol' Topmatometer; The remake of Going In Style, which is scoring 35 percent; and The Case For Christ, which was not screened for critics.

DON RICKLES, the rapid-fire insult machine who for six decades earned quite a living making fun of people of all creeds and colors and everyone from poor slobs to Frank Sinatra, has died. He was 90.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 has a new teaser trailer online.

DANIEL CRAIG has been "just about persuaded" by the prospect of a gazillion dollars to make one more James Bond movie.

CHRISTIAN BALE may star in a... Dick Cheney biopic?

MICHAEL CAINE explains why he voted for Brexit.

MICHAEL BAY threatens to make 14 more Transformers movies unless his demands are met.

VERNE TROYER: Mini-Me is headed to rehab.

HOLLYWOOD faces another possible writers' strike.

SYRIA: The United States launched a military strike on a Syrian government target in retaliation for their chemical weapons attack on civilians earlier in the week.

SHARKNADO: A cyclone in Australia dumped a bull shark shark in a muddy puddle on land.

A DOG at a Nigerian wedding party grappled with a suicide bomber until her explosives detonated, killing the animal as well.

A HORSE returning from a run to Taco Bell escaped serious injury after falling into a 5-foot-deep hole in Southern California. Who among us?

GIANT SLOTHS dug mysterious tunnels in South America.

DAWES played the Icehouse in Mpls for The Current.

THE SHINS played in Apogee Studios for Morning Becomes Eclectic.

RODNEY CROWELL performs on WNYC Soundcheck.

MELODY'S ECHO CHAMBER shares “Cross My Heart” ahead of Bon Voyage.

BETH DITTO shares "Fire" ahead of Fake Sugar. (Not a cover.)

THE NEW PRONOGRAPHERS' Carl Newman talks to Salon about the dissonance between his lyrics and music, plus more.

CRAIG FINN is profiled by the Village Voice.

PAUL WELLER: The Modfather slams the ‘insipid' state of modern guitar music (while recommending some), but has revealed that he is a fan of rap, R & B, grime and some singer-songwriters.

THE BEST MODERN MOUSE SONGS, according to Paste.

DAVID SCHWIMMER and his wife, Zoe Buckman, are taking a break.  Look out, copy center girl.

J-LO & A-ROD are talking marriage?

ALEC BALDWIN, with seven highlights from his memoir, one of which is disputed.

ANNE HATHAWAY is profiled by The Muse.

BARRY MANILOW explains why he did a terrible job of hiding his sexuality for 40 years.

KENDALL JENNER was in a controversial Pepsi ad.

SHIA LaBEOUF: Not box office gold in the UK.

SYRIA:  One of the worst chemical bombings in Syria turned a northern rebel-held area into a toxic kill zone on Tuesday, inciting international outrage over the ever-increasing government impunity shown in the country’s six-year war. Western leaders including President Trump blamed the Syrian government of President Assad and called on its patrons, Russia and Iran, to prevent a recurrence of what many described as a war crime.

A CHIMP flung poo in a grandmother's face, as chimps do.

A CATFISH falls from the sky into a Florida family's pool.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT's version of Blofeld was caught on camera.

HOW DO YOU GET a 1.5-ton Rhino on an airplane?

ABBREVIATED DAY, but here we go...

PORTUGAL THE MAN stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

LAURA MARLING performs for WNYC Soundcheck.

HAPPINESS advance streams Write In.

WIRE: Colin Newman and Graham Lewis look back on how they remade rock at Rolling Stone.

SON VOLT's Jay Farrar talks Notes of Blue with the Chicago Tribune.

BECK, ranked by Paste.

FIVE LESSONS from The Guardian's departing music editor.

MEL B claims estranged husband Stephen Belafonte was a monster, brutally beating her, extorting her into doing 3-ways with other women and threatening to release sex tapes.

JESSE EISENBERG and his longtime girlfriend, Anna Strout, have welcomed their first child together, a baby boy.

GET OUT is now the highest-grossing movie ever for a feature debut for a writer/director of an original screenplay.

ROMAN POLANSKI: A Los Angeles County judge has denied the latest effort by Roman Polanski to resolve his 40-year-old statutory rape case, saying that the filmmaker cannot be sentenced in absentia because he remains a fugitive from justice.

LA LA LAND, as directed by David Lynch.

16 DIRTY JOKES that probably shouldn't be in family films.

TERRY TEACHOUT's sixty-one years, sixty-eight films.

A BADGER buries an entire cow.

AN INDONESIAN PYTHON swallows a man whole.

A HEN laid an egg bigger than a baseball.

STAG PARTY: Don't come home with a bra in your antlers. The More You Know. Swoosh.

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS share a video for "Steve McQueen," a spoken word piece featured in the documentary One More Time With Feeling.

THE NEW PRONOGRAPHERS advance stream Whiteout Conditions.

GUIDED BY VOICES advance streams August By Cake.

SPOON played at Apogee Studios for Morning Becomes Eclectic.

BONNY DOON shares "I See You" and it's very Silver Jews with a bit of Pavement.

THE SHINS cover "A Taste Of Honey" for Amazon's The Man In The High Castle soundtrack.

THE SPINNERS:For twofer Tuesday, "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love" and  "I'll Be Around."

RICHARD THOMPSON, masterful singer, songwriter and guitarist clebrated a birthday yesterday. Here he talks to The Vinyl District. (Thx, Frank Yang.)

STING talked to World Cafe about the real-life moment that inspired him to write "Roxannne," and more.

STEVE LILYWHITE has produced bands including the Rolling Stones and U2; now he's sold 500K CDs at KFCs in Indonesia. Not kidding.

POP STARS and their chatbots. Aerosmith's is classic.

ALEC BALDWIN would appreciate it if you didn't bring up that time he called his daughter a 11-year-old daughter a “rude, thoughtless little pig.”

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR has its Stan Lee cameo.

SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING got a set visit from Uprox; this two-parter contains a bunch of minor spoilers.

ORLANDO BLOOM made his Pirates of the Caribbean comeback looking worse for wear in a brand new Dead Men Tell No Tales teaser. Or is it Salazar's Revenge? Hm.

KIM KARDASHIAN denied reports she was attacked in L.A.

AMERICAN IDOL will not be coming back in 2018, despite the fact that both NBC and FOX made offers to put it back on the air, because a tug of war between co-owners of the show torpedoed the deals.

DORIS DAY was surprised to learn yesterday was her 95th birthday.  Que sera sera.

PHILIP BAKER HALL, with 175 film and television credits from Boogie Nights to Seinfeld, gets a profile from the Washington Post.

A HIGH-LEVEL DEFECTOR FROM NORTH KOREA warned in a new interview that Kim Jong Un would use nuclear weapons against the U.S. or its allies to stay in power if necessary.

NEARLY EXTINCT TIGERS were found breeding in a Thai jungle.

A STONED DOG was seen leaning up against a door in the vet's after allegedly ingesting cannabis.

DOLPHINS beat up octopuses before eating them.

MONSTROUS SPIDERS AND CENTIPEDES prey on large animals.