FLAMING GROOVIES "Shake Some Action," circa 1987.

BOYGENIUS visits KEXP.

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND plays WFUV Live.

MEG MYERS plays a Tiny Desk Concert, including a cover of Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill."

SHOVELS & ROPE shares two new songs.

VAMPIRE WEEKEND shares two new songs.

STEPHEN MALKMUS shares "Come Get Me."

RICHARD HAWLEY returns with a rocking number, "Off My Mind."

JENNY LEWIS talks about boxing.

OWEN PALLETT has settled a defamation lawsuit against a woman who accused him of sexual assault, according to the parties involved.

MOTLEY CRUE bassist Nikki Sixx tells Rolling Stone that he does not recall a story in the band’s 2001 memoir The Dirt where he realizes he may have participated in a sexual assault during a party.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Looking Glass' nautical yacht-rock number "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)."

ALEX TREBEK says he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

WB chairman and CEO Kevin Tsujihara reportedly pushed for auditions for British actress Charlotte Kirk amid a sexual relationship; accusations of "extortion" and a proposed settlement agreement followed.

TAYLOR SWIFT talks about what she's learned at 30.

SALMA HAYEK is profiled at Town and Country.

MARK HAMILL talks about how Carrie Fisher will appear in Star Wars: Episode IX.

CRUEL INTENTIONS Turns 20 as Mean Teen movies have again become rather rare.

BRIGHTBURN: James Gunn's tale of an alien child whose ship crashes in rural America, has a trailer online.

THAT FEELING WHEN you have to move all the kittens.

DC EAGLE DRAMA: A raccoon crawled into the DC Eagles' nest and ate Liberty's eggs.

HORSESHOE CRABS' sex lives are under surveillance in Florida.

A MISSING TORTOISE returns to its owner in Roswell NM.

AL GREEN sings "Let's Stay Together" with Toni Childs, Carlos Santana, Tito Puente, David Sanborn, Melissa Etheridge and more.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: The 2019 SXSW Preview.

SUPERORGANISM visits the Paste studio.

RICHARD THOMPSON: Aquarium Drunkard shares a playlist of RT songs covered by other bands.

THE NATIONAL shares "You Had Your Soul with You."

STRAND OF OAKS shares "Keys."

ANDREW BIRD shares "Manifest."

EDDIE VEDDER covers Jason Isbell's "Maybe It's Time," from A Star Is Born. (NSFW intro)

SARA ROMWEBER, the original drummer for North Carolina jangle-pop band Let’s Active, has died at the age of 55 of a brain tumor.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle explains to Vanity Fair how he wound up writing a cycle of songs about dragons and mysteries.

NEW ORDER's Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris arre “relieved” at Peter Hook’s decision not to sell Ian Curtis letters at auction.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Gilbert O'Sullivan's insanely depressing smash "Alone Again (Naturally)."

GAME OF THRONES shares a ttrailer for Season 8.

DARK PHOENIX releases an international trailer.

SHANNEN DOHERTY eulogizes Luke Perry.

RIVERDALE suspends production following Luke Perry’s death.

KYLIE JENNER bcomes the youngest self-made billionaire ever, tho the self-made part is complicated.

R. KELLY sat down for an interview with Gayle King for CBS This Morning, during which he directly addressed the camera and denied any wrongdoing.

SOUTH PARK's Trey Parker files for divorce.

TOM HANKS' grandkids don't know he's a star.

 ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER talks Terminator: Dark Fate.

POW! Right in the meower.

A GIANT GATOR strolls across a road in a Florida retirement community. In time to "Celebration."

A DEAF DOG is reunited with her soldier.

MEET THE DOG who climbed a Himalayan peak.

TEEN visits the Paste studio.

MAGGIE ROGERS visits World Cafe.

THE HOLD STEADY shares “The Last Time That She Talked To Me.”

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS share “Cadaver Sniffing Dog.”

ARCADE FIRE shares a bit of "Baby Mine" from the live-action Dumbo movie.

KATE BUSH's “The Man I Love” video has been released for the first time since it aired in 1994.

THE PRODIGY singer Keith Flint has died aged 49.

XIU XIU's Jamie Stewart talks to PopMatters about demons, caravaggio, feminism and more.

MORRISSEY is headed to Broadway.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Bill Withers' "Lean On Me," geting the rare top rating.

LUKE PERRY, known for roles in Beverly Hills 90210 and Riverdale, died on Monday after suffering a massive stroke on Wednesday. He was 52. His fmr castmates mourned.

GAME OF THRONES: Entertainment Weekly has  spoiler-free behind-the-scenes look at making the final season.

LEAVING NEVERLAND: The Making Of.

NETFLIX indirectly responds to Steven Spielberg's reported effort to change the Oscars rules to the streaming service's detriment.

JASON BIGGS and his son share a gross habit not involving pie.

BRADLEY COOPER has a Number One single.

SHAZAM has a second trailer online.

A CAT rides his horse friend daily.

MORE THAN 1500 TURTLES were found duct-taped in suitcases at a Philippine airport.

SPIDER vs SNAKE: Who you got, Jim Stafford?

GARY CLARK JR visits Morning Becomes Eclectic.

ROYAL TRUX streams White Stuff, their first in 19 years.

WILLIAM TYLER covers Fleetwood Mac, Yo La Tengo, George Frideric Handel and Antonín Leopold Dvořák fr a Lagniappe Session.

THE BIRD AND THE BEE return with a cover of Van Halen's "Panama."

SEBADOH returns with a video for "celebrate the void."

FOALS: Four horsemen of the apocalypse.

RYAN ADAMS' UK and Ireland tour has now been canceled after allegations of sexual misconduct.

MICHAEL JACKSON's songs have been pulled from BBC2 ahead of the Leaving Neverland documentary airing on Channel 4.

JERRY LEE LEWIS suffers a minor stroke.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Neil Diamond's "Song Sung Blue," a happy song about sad songs.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World repeats atop the chart with 30MM; that's down 45 percent...which is less of a drop than the prior installment. It will become 2019's third 100MM domestic grosser this week. Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral places with a 27MM debut, which is probably fine, given that the budgets on this series are low. Alita: Battle Angel shows with 7MM on a 43 percent drop; although it won't crack 100MM in North America by a long shot, it's already made 278MM in overseas markets. The LEGO Movie 2 takes the fourth slot with 6.6MM on a 32 percent drop; this one and Alita will likely lose a bunch of screens to Captain Marvel this weekend. Green Book surges on its Oscar win to round out the Top Five with 4.7MM and a 76MM total so far that looks nice against a 23MM budget.

STEVEN SPIELBERG and others are pushing to require movies to have an exclusive theatrical window of at least four weeks to be eligible for major Oscars (looking at you, Netflix).

AMANDA BYNES  is under the care of mental health professionals and addiction counselors again after suffering a relapse.

JOHNNY DEPP sues AMBER HEARD for defamation, alleging her domestic abuse claims were “an elaborate hoax” and he is going after her for a whopping 50MM.

KATE BECKINSALE & PETE DAVIDSON were spotted at a Rangers game.

MICHAEL J. FOX opens up about a series of recent health scaresin a New York Times interview.

IAN McKELLEN apologizes for remarks he made about the alleged acts of sexual abuse carried out by Kevin Spacey and director Bryan Singer.

HELLBOY has a red band trailer online.

RYAN REYNOLDS paid tribute on the 25th anniversary of John Candy’s passing.

ELIZABETH MOSS may wind up in The Invisible Man.

GHOSTBUSTERS: Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things) and Carrie Coon (The Leftovers) are in talks to star in the reboot.

KATHERINE HELMOND, the seven-time Emmy-nominated Texas actress who played the feisty, man-crazy mother Mona Robinson on the long-running ABC sitcom Who’s the Boss?, has died. She was 89. She was also great on Soap and in Brazil.

A 750-LB GATOR was found in a Georgia ditch.

A RACCOON, enjoying some cherries.

A RUBBERY SEA CREATURE stores plastic in its soft tissue.

AN OTTER with a fancy move.

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."

TOWNES VAN ZANDT: Stream Sky Blue, an unearhed collection of 1973 studio recordings. 

AMANDA PALMER advance streams There Will Be No Intermission.

PATTI GRIFFIN advance streams a self-titled LP.

FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS advance streams Live In London.

THE DRUMS share “626 Bedford Avenue”.

BLAKE BABIES' did a fab cover of the Grass Roots' "Temptation Eyes."

STEVIE NICKS talks to Rolling Stone about Tom Petty, Prince, drag queens, Game of Thrones, and more.

BOB MOULD talks to Now Toronto about optimism in a time of sociopolitical turmoil.

PHOEBE BRIDGERS and Marshall Vore break down "Scott Street” on Song Exploder.

ELVIS COSTELLO's Spike turns 30: "Basically, it's a comedy record."

THE NUMBER ONES glares at Sammy Davis Jr.'s take on the Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory song "The Candy Man"

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral, which per usual was not screened for critics; and Greta, which is currently scoring 60 percent on the ol' Tomatometer.

LUKE PERRY suffered a massive stroke Wednesday, and is currently hospitalized.

ED SHEERHAN secretly married? (sourced to The Sun, so grain of salt)

LADY GAGA shut down Bradley Cooper romance rumors.

MERYL STREEP is a grandmother.

THEM BONES! In a long-running legal battle over profits from the David Boreanaz-Emily Deschanel hit, an arbitrator's stunning decision awarding 179MM calls out top executives Peter Rice, Dana Walden and Gary Newman and could alter the economics of hit shows in the streaming era.

NETFLIX has an alternate version of The Notebook?

FOSSE/VERDON, starring Same Rockwell and Michelle Williams, has a trailer online.

SULLY, the late President George H.W. Bush's service dog, has started his next assignment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

BABY ELEPHANY JOTTO has a nightcap.

GERMAN OFFICIALS seized an indebted family's pet pug and sold it on eBay.

A GIANT TARANTULA prepares to devour an opossum.