KATHLEEN EDWARDS virtually plays The Current, including Neil Young's "Comes a Time."

WOLF PARADE plays KEXP.

PHOEBE BRIDGERS & COURTNEY BARNETT cover Gillian Welch's 2001 song "Everything Is Free."

ANDY SCHAUF covers Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" during a robot battle on virtual talk show 'The Polar Express.'

HOW PHOEBE BRIDGERS (Begrudgingly) Writes a Rock Song.

BOB DYLAN and How to Sing a Long Song.

THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS: Richard Butler talks to Yahoo about the comeback album, the real story of ‘Pretty in Pink,' and how he got that voice.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson's superstar team-up "Say Say Say."

DWAYNE "THE ROCK" JOHNSON bought (part of) the XFL.

KANYE WEST's "campaign" has 45 canvassers on the ground in Wisconsin right now to get him on the ballot there.

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER was not a fan of the Cats movie.

BRADLEY COOPER is in talks to star in Paul Thomas Anderson's next feature, an untitled coming-of-age drama set in the 1970s San Fernando Valley.

FARGO: Season 4 has a teaser trailer.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 7 is ruffling feathres following news its crew is pushing to blow up a bridge in Poland that is considered by locals to be a national monument.

NETFLIX is, basically, the modern equivalent of a broadcast network in the 1970s or 1980s.

TOM POLLOCK, the former chairman of Universal Pictures and the American Film Institute, died Saturday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles following a heart attack. He was 77.

TWO FRIENDS kill a massive 460-pound feral hog while hunting.

TWO DOGS, doing the mirror routine from Duck Soup.

A BOBCAT navigates a gap on the dock.

GOPHERS, just snacking.

THE PIPETTES: "Your Kisses are Wasted On Me." Before it all went wrong. Sigh.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Land of Talk, Madeline Kenney, Wye Oak, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Fontaines DC, The Psychedelic Furs, St Etienne-curated 70s music, and more.

THE GO-GOS return with "Club Zero."

SEMISONIC returns with "All It Would Take."

TANYA DONNELLY & THE PARKINGTON SISYTERS cover Margaret O'Hara's "You Will Be Loved."

THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS: Richard Bulter talks to NPR about drinking backstage during the band's heyday, its fan base before and after the song "Pretty In Pink" was used in the John Hughes movie and its journey back to making new music.

LAND OF TALK discuss 10 songs that influenced their new album.

DAVID BYRNE talks music and architecture. No food?

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Lionel Richie's international party jam "All Night Long (All Night)."

WILFORD BRIMLEY, a portly actor with a walrus mustache who found his niche playing cantankerous coots in “Absence of Malice,” “The Natural,” “Cocoon” and other films, died on Saturday in a hospital in St. George, Utah. He was 85. Can't believe the NYT left out Hard Target.  And the Brimley/Cocoon Line, recently crossed by Matthew McConnaughey.

ALAN PARKER, the British director whose exceptionally wide-ranging oeuvre ranged from "Bugsy Malone" to "Mississippi Burning," from "Midnight Express" to "Pink Floyd: The Wall," has died. He was 76.

JAMES MURDOCH resigned from the board of the newspaper publisher News Corp, severing his last corporate tie to his father’s global media empire.

NBC INSIDERS allege that NBC Entertainment chairman Paul Telegdy engaged in racist, sexist and homophobic behavior: "It was par for the course."

TOPHER GRACE & ASHLEY HINSHAW welcome their second child.

THE GREEN HORNET: Kevin Smth's next cartoon project.

BRYAN SINGER'S Traumatic 'X-Men' Set: The Movie "Created a Monster."

A 14-YEAR-OLD GOLDEN RETRIEVER sneaks out of his house every day to visit his next-door neighbors.

IF TIK TOK GETS BANNED, where will we see this?

MONGO ONLY PAWN IN GAME OF LIFE: Man Arrested For Punching Police Horse Outside Cowboy Coast Saloon In Ocean City, Maryland.

MURDER HORNETS come to Washington State.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

with MUSIC TELEVISION!  The cable phenom debuted on tomorrow's date in 1981. The first four hours included The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," while the rest of the first day included Pat Benatar's cover of "You Better Run," Rod Stewart's "She Won't Dance With Me," The Who's "You Better You Bet," PH.D's ""Little Susie's On The Up," Cliff Richard's "We Don't Talk Anymore," The Pretenders' "Brass In Pocket", Todd Rundgren's "Time Heals", REO Speedwagon's "Take It On The Run," Styx's "Rockin' The Paradise", and many more.

PERFUME GENIUS visits World Cafe.

THE BETHS play KEXP from home.

DIZZY visits Soundcheck from Canada.

LAURA VEIRS shares a video for "Burn Too Bright," dedicated to the late Richard Swift.

MATT BERNINGER & PHOEBE BRIDGERS discuss what goes into their lyrics, what doesn't, and why everything means everything all the time.

LIZ PHAIR & ALANIS MORISSETTE talk songwriting during an apocalypse and rock-star self-care.

THE KILLERS say they're investigating a sexual misconduct claim involving members of their 2009 touring crew.

AVI BUFFALO has been accused of rape by a former bandmate. Citing the allegations, Sub Pop has pulled Avi Buffalo's music.

IAN SVENONIUS posted a confession of his own "inappropriate" behavior on Instagram. Merge Records has decided to cut ties with him.

TAYLOR SWIFT FANS doxxed a Pitchfork reviewer for giving Folklore an 8... and the reviewer doesn't even make the score.

KIM KARDASHIAN & KANYE WEST reportedly are living separate lives as their future hangs in the balance.

AMBER HEARD's MOM confided that Elon Musk bugged the Tesla he gifted the actress, admitted she preferred ‘angel’ Johnny Depp to the ‘controlling’ billionaire and wished the couple would reconcile.

THE EMMYS are going virtual.

ELLEN DeGENERES addressed alleged workplace misconduct in a letter to her crew.

MATTHEW McCONNAUGHEY is releasing a memoir.

BRYAN CRANSTON revealed that he has recovered after testing positive for the novel coronavirus.

A TV WASTELAND IS COMING: Prepare Your Rewatches Accordingly.

M NIGHT SHYAMALAN talks Signs, which debuted on Aug 2, 2002.

RYAN REYNOLDS reunited a woman with a very special stolen teddy bear.

ONE DAY, a hole will open up in the sky and we'll all look up and this will happen.

HE'S BEHIND ME, isn't he?

THIS DOGGO has moves.

THE SHARK that killed a former New York City fashion executive off the coast of Maine was a great white - and it's still out there, officials said Tuesday.

DR. DOG plays KEXP.

HAMILTON LEITHAUSER plays WFUV via Zoom.

MAN MAN's Honus Honus visits with World Cafe.

ACE FREHLEY covers Deep Purple's "Space Truckin'."

ANNIE LENNOX blasts MADONNA for reportedly sharing an Instagram post supporting a coronavirus conspiracy theory.

TRENT REZNOR is closing in on EGOT status. 

MALIK B., an early member of The Roots, has died. He was 47.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton's blockbuster Bee Gees-written duet, "Islands In The Stream."

ASHLEY JUDD's sexual harassment claim against Harvey Weinsteinwas revived on appeal.

TRACY MORGAN and Megan Wollover are separating.

INCEPTION: The film that defines Christopher Nolan's career?

KILROY WAS HERE: Kevin Smith's next horror flick has a trailer online.

JON CRYER reveals that the first draft of Back to the Future had a scene that turned up in a Spielberg pic.

THE BRUTAL PLEASURE of Watching Charlize Theron Turn to Action. Is there a bigger action star than Theron right now?

THE TOP 26 BABES in Pop Culture, ranked by The Ringer.

POLICE give up fighting sex-mad monkeys which overran the Thai city of Lopburi, eating themselves to death.(The monkeys, not the police.)

THE "SCROTUM FROG" is essential to the Lake Titicaca region and must be saved, experts say.

RARE VIDEOS & PHOTOS of three new male Indochinese tigers taken in Thailand's western forest region.

THIS CAT hears mealtime.

THAO NGUYEN brings cellsits to her Tiny Desk Concert from home.

S.S. GOODMAN visits with World Cafe.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED has new tracks from Angel Olsen, Chrissy Stewart, Shirley Collins and more.

THE LEMON TWIGS share "No One Holds You (Closer Than The One You Haven't Met)."

KORN & YELAWOLF cover the Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down To Georgia."

OH SEES share some "Dreary Nonsense."

FRANZ FERDNINAND's Alex Kapranos & French singer Clara Luciani cover Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood's 1967 classic "Summer Wine."

AC/DC: Back In Black turns 40; Consequence of Sound lists 40 reasons to love it.

KENNY LOGGINS shares the backstory to “House at Pooh Corner.”

GIVE THE DRUMMER SOME: Gregg Bissonettetalks to Rolling Stone about playing with everyone from Ringo Starr to Spinal Tap.

20 TIMELESS SUMMER SONGS, courtesy of Paste.

UNIVERSAL & AMC THEATERS reached a deal to allow movies to move to homes after a mere three weeks in theaters in the United States, almost certainly changing the way that Hollywood does business.

THE EMMYS nominations went to these folks. Netflix beat HBO in quantity.

JOE JONAS & SOPHIE TURNER welcome a daughter.

KANYE WEST & KIM KARDASHIAN had an emotional reunion.

THE ELLEN DeGENERES SHOW has become the subject of an internal investigation by WarnerMedia following numerous accounts of workplace problems.

ALMOST FAMOUS: Cameron Crowe, Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup & Patrick Fugit now have a video reunion (and there's a link to those 20th anniversary podcasts again). There's also an oral history at the NYT.

SAM ROCKWELL is reportedly in talks to star as Merle Haggard in an upcoming biopic about the legendary country singer's life.

A DRAMATIC CAT tries ice cream.

RACOONS got into her bedroom.

A CAT demonstrates how I work out.