NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Guided by Voices, Andrew Bird, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Blur, Strange Ranger, and more.

STEELY DAN's long-lost Schlitz Beer commercial.  Yes, really.

BULLY covers Jackson Browne’s “These Days.”

ALEXA ROSE covers Lucinda Williams’ “Passionate Kisses.”

LANA DEL REY, working at an Alabama Waffle House.

TONY BENNETT, a singer whose melodic clarity, jazz-influenced phrasing, audience-embracing persona and warm, deceptively simple interpretations of musical standards helped spread the American songbook around the world and won him generations of fans, died on Friday at his home of many decades in Manhattan. He was 96.  The NYT also has 10 essential songs from his catalog.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Barbenheimer blows away expectations... and shatters records.  Barbie tops the chart with an estimated 155MM, when tracking suggested closer to 100MM, while Oppenheimer placed with 80.5MM, when tracking had it at closer to 50MM. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning showed with 19.5MM on a 64 percent drop, suggesting Tom Cruise was right to squawk about Christopher Nolan moving in on all those IMAX screens. Sound of Freedom was verrrrry close behind at 19MM.

THE BEGINNING OF AN ERA?  This weekend also saw a lot of buzz on Film Twitter about the Baarbenheimer phenom possibly marking a tectonic vibe shift, not just in terms of the massess returning to their local theaters, but possibly towards those audiences expressing their desire to move on from endless sequels and cinematic universes to more fresh material.  That has been the general pattern this Summer, with even the much-anticipated Mission Impossible flick (perfectly cromulent, tho perhaps not as good as the prior two installments) looking like it might not fare substantially better in the US than Indiana Jones 5.

QUENTIN TARANTINO did the Berbenheimer experience.

DUNE, PART 2 may have to move to 2024.

JAMIE FOXX spoke about his recent health scare.

THE MARVELS has a trailer online.

MIDNIGHT RUN at 35: A Shining Star of the Middlebrow Firmament.

A DOGGO cleans off at the carwash.

PENGUINS, chasing a butterfly.

A DOOGO makes its own fun with no ball in sight.

EVERYONE likes a good skritch.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THIN LIZZY! Remember that chick who used to dance a lot? Here's Phil Lynott & Co. live at the Sydney Opera House in 1978, playing "Jailbreak," "Bad Reputation," "Cowboy Song," "The Boys Are Back In Town," "Waiting For An Alibi," and "Are You Ready?"

ROSEWAVE: Another Summer, another NPR playlist.

ILLUMINATI HOTTIES shares "Truck." (Not a cover of The Service, sadly).

WHO IS SHE? shares "96 Ghouls."

GREEN DAY debuted "1981."

BLUR: Unapologetically Middle-Aged.

ANTI-FLAG disbanded following possible rape allegations against the frontman.

HOW I STOPPED WORRYING and learned to love reunion tours.

THE HOLLYWOOD STRIKES over streaming could wreck network TV instead.

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN explains why the sex scenes in Oppenheimer were essential.

SAMUEL L. JACKSON, on 51 years of acting, hundreds of roles.

GRETA GERWIG is properly scared of taking on Narnia movies.

DANNY ELFMAN allegedly settled a sexual harassment allegation for over 800K.

VANNA WHITE got a partial raise.

ARIANA GRANDE has already moved on to her Wicked co-star.

CRAB vs SEABIRD: Who You Got?

AN ELEPHANT and a drum.

MEANWHILE, at the bottom of the sea...

THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS are "Standing Next to Me."

SPARKS play a Tiny Desk Concert.

MOUNTAIN GOATS shares "Clean Slate" from the sequel to their classic 2002 album All Hail West Texas.

BIG THIEF shares "Vampire Empire."

ISLANDS shares "Superstitious."

PJ HARVEY Is Making Music for Different Reasons Now.

THE GO-GOS: Belinda Carlisle dishes on the touring life at SPIN.

LIFEGUARD, an up and coming Chicago band, profiled at Pitchfork.

OPPENHEIMER: The critics are blown away. 

AQUAMAN 2: Three Reshoots, Two Batmans and Non-Stop Test Screenings.

MEGXIT: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tried to hitch a ride back to America on Air Force One after the Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral but were quickly rebuffed.

THE ROCK is set to receive the biggest fee for an actor ever for his role in an upcoming film.

GRETA GERWIG & NOAH BAUMBACH welcomed their second child (his third).

SOFIA VERGARA & JOE MANGIELLO are indeed divorcing.

A HAUNTING IN VENICE: Hercule Poirot has a trailer online.

GLADIATOR 2 was filming a complex action sequence with Paul Mescal and several hundred extras inside a replica of the Colosseum when the actors' strike halted filming.

BRON, the studio behind ‘Joker', ‘Judas and The Black Messiah' and ‘The Idol', has filed for bankruptcy. 

ABOUT 75 RABBITS have overrun a neighborhood outside of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

MATING TORTOISES, Annoyed Leopard.

THERE ARE Two Types of Dogs.

BLONDIE: "Heart of Glass," filmed at Studio 54 in New York City.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features Courtney Barnett, Grandaddy, Lowland Hum, and more.

JULIANA HATFIELD covers ELO's “Can’t Get It Out Of My Head.”

BEABADOOBIE shares “the way things go.”

THE MENZINGERS share “There’s No Place In This World For Me.”

CIGARETTES AFTER SEX shares "Bubblegum" and "Stop Waiting."

PAUL McCARTNEY has started a podcast.

SLOWDIVE: "We've always tried to work as a pretty solid democracy."

CHRISTINE McVIE left behind a fortune of £70million at the time of her death.

TUPAK SHAKUR's murder investigation just saw a search warrant issue.

CALEB SOUTHERN, a producer and musician who famously worked with Ben Folds Five and Archers Of Loaf, has died at 53.

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN calls Oppenheimer his most extreme film to date. PLUS: A rave from director Paul Schrader.

BARBIEHEIMER TRACKING: Barbie is projected to debut at 100MM, while Oppenheimer is projected at 50MM.

SIMON PEGG says AI will weed out mediocrity in Hollywood.

GIGI HADID was charged with the possession of ganja in the Caymans; she claims it's medical.

RENEE ZELLWEGER is reportedly making secret plans to get married for the second time.

POWER TRIO: A behind-the-scenes look at The Marvels.

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE is dead at Netflix after spending 50M in development.

A DOGGO making its own fun at the subway.

PARTNERS in Crime.

DARTH Meow.

THE TUBES: "She's A Beauty" and "Talk To Ya Later" are your Twofer Tuesday.

PET SHOP BOYS get almost three hours of discussion on Political Beats.

DEAD & COMPANY played their final show.

PULP plays the unreleased “Hymn Of The North.”

ANDREW BIRD shares "Mo Teef."

DAN AUERBACH shares "Every Chance I Get (I Want You in the Flesh)."

DAVID BOWIE: Read an excerpt from a Scary Monsters book.

TOM WAITS is reissuing his 1983-93 catalog.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Far East Movement's "Like A G6," a giddy dance-rap ode to an airplane that did not exist.

THE CREATOR has a trailer online.

THE HOLDOVERS has a trailer online.

POM KLEMENTIEFF got hooked on skydiving by Tom Cruise.

LINDSAY LOHAN has given birth to her and her husband Bader Shammas' first child, a son named Luai.

ARIANA GRANDE is separated from her husband.

SOFIA VERGARA and husband Joe Manganiello have separated.

TATUM O'NEAL, recovering from an overdose-induced crisis that nearly killed her and forced her to relearn how to speak, looks back on her life and career.

MICHAEL CERA, on Barbie, drunk fans - and not owning a smartphone.

BLUE BEETLE was nearly delayed to next year amidst the ongoing strikes in Hollywood.

GARGOYLES: The live-action version of the 90s fave will be directed by Kenneth Branagh. Which makes sense in the way that his directing Thor did.

DOGGOS with slalom skills.

A DOGGO uses his tongue in a jailbreak.

A DEER enjoys a large puddle with kids.

A HUNGRY FOX brought his friends.