ARTHUR LEE would have celebrated a birthday yesterday, so here is is with "Alone Again Or."  BONUS: Robyn Hitchcocck plays "The Wreck of the Arthur Lee."

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS continue to add tracks to the advance stream of 50 Song Memoir.

BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEY BEARS stopped by The Current.

FLEET FOXES return with the nine-minute, harmony-laden “Third Of May / Ōdaigahara,” and Robin Peckhold talks to Pitchfork about it.

REAL ESTATE shares “Stained Glass,” ahead of In Mind.

IGGY POP, with an especially destructive "Lust For Life" circa 1977.

THE SHINS: James Mercer talks to The A.V. Club about one of his childhood passions: skateboarding.

LAURA MARLING talks to Noisey about exploring the kink in our desires on Semper Femina.

THE REVOLUTION: Wendy Melvoin talks to Rolling Stone about grieving for Prince and the group's upcoming shows.

THE BEST TOM WAITS COVERS, according to Paste.

INDIANA JONES 5 is coming on July 19, 2019.  Better involve the fountain of youth.

GEORGE MICHAEL died of a heart condition and fatty liver, according to a coroner’s statement released on Tuesday.

TOM HIDDLESTON talks King Kong and Taylor Swift.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON is gearing up for a nasty custody battle.

ROBIN THICKE & PAULA PATTON are on the verge of settling their mega custody war.

ALIEN: COVENANT is a return to the sci-fi horror of the original Alien, according to Ridley Scott.

TWIN PEAKS: Laura Dern talks to Vanity Fair about the revival.

STEVEN SPIELBERG, TOM HANKS & MERYL STREEP may get into The Pentagon Papers.

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER's spin-off is delayed again.

ROBIN HOOD has plenty of movies in development.

ISIS appeared to suffer an important setback on Monday when American-backed militia fighters in Syria seized the main route that connects Raqqa, the Islamic State’s de facto capital, to its territory in southeastern Deir al-Zour Province.

JUST AN ALLIGATOR and his fish out on a FL golf course.

A RARE WHITE RHINO was shot by poachers who sawed off its horn.

ONE OF THE LAST GIANT TUSKER ELEPHANTS, also killed by poachers.

AND THERE WAS KITTY LITTER All Over The Highway.

FATHER JOHN MISTY perfomed a twofer on SNL.

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS are advance streaming tracks from 50 Song Memoir.

DAVID BAZAN streams Care.

HATER advance streams You Tried.

MARK LANEGAN shares "Beehive" ahead of Gargoyle.

HEAT covers the Psychedelic Furs’ “Pretty in Pink.”

LIZ PHAIR & BEST COAST played a vintage Phair twofer at a benefit show.

FOXYGEN talks to PopMatters about the themes that dominate their latest album, their work with an orchestra, and their strange connection to the POTUS.

PREFAB SPROUT returns with America.

SUZANNE VEGA talks about her fave books at the New York Times.

ROBERT RANDOLPH digs into the history of sacred steel music at World Cafe.

BILL PAXTON's valve replacement surgery resulted in a fatal stroke.

CHRISSY TEIGEN talks about her post-partum depression.

DEADPOOL had a short film in front of Logan.

GILMORE GIRLS could return for another run on Netflix.

THE ROMANOFFS: Matt Weiner talks to THR about his post-Mad Men anthology series.

ROBERT OSBORNE, the effervescent primetime host of Turner Classic Movies since the cabler’s inception in 1994, has died. He was 84.

NORTH KOREA was practicing to strike American military bases in Japan with its latest barrage of missiles, state media in Pyongyang reported Tuesday.

THIS EEL-LIKE FISH eats sharks and whales from the inside.

OWL CAFES: Japan moves beyond cat cafes.

A MOUSE delayed an international flight from London to San Francisco.

DEEP FRIED LIZARD: I'm Lovin' It.

TEMPLES visited The Current for a chat and mini-set.

VALERIE JUNE also visited The Current for a chat and mini-set.

CAROLINE SPENCE streams and talks about Spades & Roses..

SOLANGE and MICHAEL McDONALD played "What A Fool Believes" at Okeechobee Fest.

SHARON VAN ETTEN over the 1962 Skeeter Davis country-pop classic "The End Of The World" for The Man In The High Castle.

THE SHINS are "Painting a Hole" ahead of Heartworms.

TOTO: "Hold the Line." Guilty pleasure.

ROD STEWART offered his “deepest apologies” after he was filmed appearing to re-enact an ISIS-style beheading.

A RONNIE JAMES DIO HOLOGRAM is set to tour the world, fronting the Dio Disciples.

AMERICANA FEST celebrates non- Americans, but there's more than one America, amirite?

ESSENTIAL PSYCHEDELIC SOUL SONGS, compiled by Brooklyn Vegan.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Logan went berserker atop the chart with 85.3MM, well ahead of studio projections of 60MM.  As March premieres go, Logan comes in behind only Batman v Superman, The Hunger Games, and Alice In Wonderland.  Given a production budget just under 100MM, this will be a big winner, as Wolverine plays big in international markets.  Get Out places with 26.1MM on a 22 percent drop, much less than the 55-60 percent drops for horror films or even the 35-40 percent drops for critical darlings. The Shack showed with 16.1MM; this faith-based movie attracted some known actors and will likely do pretty well against a 20MM budget.  The LEGO Batman Movie takes the fourth slot with 11.7MM on a 39 percent drop that seems a bit large considering the lack of competition for family films at the moment.  Before I Fall rounds out the Top Five with 4.9MM against a 5MM production budget.

NATALIE PORTMAN and her husband Benjamin Millepied have welcomed their second child together.

EMMA WATSON is confused about the backlash to her Vanity Fair photoshoot.

BEAUTY & THE BEAST: Russian officials are coming under pressure to check if Disney's new film breaches the country's law against “gay propaganda”.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER fired The Apprentice.

JARED LETO is circling a Tron reboot.

HOW A MINOR CHARACTER IN TAXI DRIVER Influenced One of the Most Iconic Scenes in Pulp Fiction.

TOMMY PAGE, a pop star whose song “I'll Be Your Everything” went to No. 1 in 1990 and who later became a record company executive, publisher of Billboard magazine and a vice president at Pandora, has died.  He was 46.

IRAQ: Twelve people from the embattled city of Mosul, including a 2-month-old baby, have been treated for suspected exposure to a blistering chemical agent, medics said Saturday, as Islamic State militants strike back at government-held neighborhoods while trying to hold off advancing government forces.

IRAN reported the first successful experiment carried out by its aerial defense system S-300 received from Russia.

TEN TURKEYS try to confer a tenth life on a dead cat using their secret ritual.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: There is a subreddit named Insightful Squirrel Men.

TWO CROCODILES were stolen from a mobile zoo in Sydney.

SPIDERS engage in deadly, kinky, marathon sex.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

....wtih THE PRETENDERS! Circa 1981, via one of Pate's two fab drummers, Jon Hahn.  Your setlist includes "The Wait," "The Adultress," "Message of Love/Louie Louie," "Talk of the Town," "English Roses," "Birds of Paradise," "Kid," "Stop Your Sobbing," "Private Life," "Day After Day," "Jealous Dogs, " Up the Neck," "Tattooed Love Boys," "Bad Boys Get Spanked," "Precious," and "Brass In Pocket/MysteryAchievement."

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF advance streams The Navigator.

VALERIE JUNE advance streams The Order of Time.

MARTY STUART advance streams Way Out West.

JAY SOM advance streams Everybody Works.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features new tracks from Land of Talk, Juana Molina, Ride and more in the latest edition.

PETER BJORN & JOHN share "Stuck," a bonus track from the deluxe edition of Breakin' Point.

LAURA MARLING shares “Nothing, Not Nearly,” ahead of Semper Femina.

THE DISTRICTS share "Ordinary Day."

THE POLICE want to get "Next To You."

LOU REED's personal archives are headed to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

NEW ORDER: Peter Hook talked to VICE about his book Substance: Inside New Order.

BECK talked to the New York Times about his upcoming album.

THE BIG LEBOWSKI: A history of the soundrack.

NOW SHOWING:This weekend's wide releases include Logan, which is currently scoring 93 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; The Shack, which was not advance screened; and Before I Fall, scoring 67 percent.

LOGAN: Uproxx talks to director James Mangold.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES has a new trailer online.

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR is set to become the most expensive movie ever made.

KONG: SKULL ISLAND's early reviews are pretty good.

FRIENDS: Lisa Kudrow revealed their secret reunion.

SHIRLEY MacLAINE felt her younger brother Warren Beatty's pain during Sunday's big Oscar flub.

TUCK ME IN: Terror in one minute.

SYRIA: A senior official of Al Qaeda was killed on Sunday in Syria by a United States drone strike, an American official said on Wednesday.

IRAN is likely to go on an international shopping spree for surface warships, submarines and anti-ship missiles after the expiration in 2020 of a United Nations resolution prohibiting it from acquiring sophisticated weapons, according to the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence.

YEMEN: The United States conducted 20 airstrikes against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen, including targets in the Abyan, Shabwa and Baydha regions.

THE TALLEST FEMALE DOG in the World.

A BLACK BEAR was accidentally dropped from a helicopter and killed in Thailand.

A PINK PUPPY and her brother were rescued in Wildomar, California.

A CROCODILE SHARK washed up on a UK beach, baffling experts.

THE DANDY WARHOLS drop a video for "Thick Girls Knock Me Out (Richard Starkey)".

WHY? advance streams Moh Lhean, their first new album in five years.

ELLIOT SMITH: Five Excellent Legal Bootlegs.

THE AUSTIN 100: NPR Music's annual mix marking the SXSW Music Festival.

THE DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

CRAIG FINN shares "Preludes" ahead of We All Want The Same Things.

WIRE shares "Diamonds In Cups" ahead of Silver/Lead.

THURSTON MOORE shares "Cease Fire" as a single.

BIG WALNUTS YONDER: Minutemen bassist Mike Watt, Wilco guitarist Nels Cline, Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier, and Nick Reinhart of Tera Melos share “Raise The Drawbridges?”

JENS LEKMAN is tentatively turning the color back up on the world, having found a new way to feature in his own story.

JOHN K. SAMSON talks Punk, Dylan, and more at the Indepenedent.

ANTLERS frontman Peter Silberman talked to Paste about his solo album.

THE 60 BEST DANCE FLOOR CLASSICS, according to Paste.

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

ALIEN: COVENANT has a trailer online.

AQUAMAN had a few secs of vfx test footage leak online.

KATY PERRY and ORLANDO BLOOM are taking a break.

BRANGELEXIT: Amid Brad Pitt's bitter divorce from Angelina Jolie, he has “been texting” with ex-wife Jennifer Aniston.

THE BIG BANG THEORY: Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch are seeking contract parity.

JESSICA CHASTAIN was told by a director that she talks too much about "women stuff."

ANSON MOUNT and IWAN RHEON join the cast of Marvel's Inhumans series.

RUSSIA and CHINA vetoed a UN resolution to impose sanctions on Syria over the alleged use of chemical weapons.

SIBERIAN TIGERS take down a drone.

COW: A Kanabec County sheriff’s deputy was out looking for a cow reportedly in the roadway outside Mora, Minn., late Monday when he hit the cow with his squad car.

A WILD PANDA stepped out of character to kill and eat a goat in China.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Brockport, NY's annual Squirrel Slam, a decade-old fund-raising event, has drawn the ire of animal lovers and environmentalists.