TALKING HEADS: A vintage clip of "Psycho Killer" from the OGWT.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to The Smile, Ty Segall, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Gruff Rhys, The Umbrellas, and more.

U2 covers covered Crowded House‘s ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ at their first Sphere show of 2024

JAMES VINCENT McMORROW shares "Stay Cool."

BRITTANY HOWARD shares "Prove It To You."

SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE returns with "Novum Vetus."

JONI MITCHELL is making her Grammys debut performance next weekend.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Beekeeper may edge out Mean Girls at the top of the chart with dueling estimates between 7.3 and 7.4MM.  The Statham pic had a very leggy 14 percent drop.  Wonka shows with 5.9MM on a 2 percent drop.  Below the fold, Oscar nominees Poor Things and American Fiction saw big bumps in receipts as they hit hundreds of additional screens.

OSCARS CAMPAIGNS are more complicated than you think.

VINCE McMAHON resigns from TKO after a sexual abuse lawsuit was filed by a former WWE employee.

GEORGE CARLIN's estate sues over an AI-generated stand-up special titled 'I'm glad I'm dead.'

SAG-AFTRA slams sexually explicit AI images of Taylor Swift that have been circulating on social media, and reiterated support for legislation to outlaw such images.

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON: Scorsese, DiCaprio, and Gladstone on Leo's Oscars snub, why Marty doesn't go to many movies, and more.

DESPICABLE ME 4 has a trailer online.

CHRISTOPHER REEVE's story ignites a Hollywood bidding war.

STREAMING: The Disruptors Have Disrupted Themselves.

A DOGGO, surprised by a lemon.

A PRIDE OF LIONS, wandering into traffic.

A MILWAUKEE DOG disappears, turns up at a bar, having fun.

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."

LOS LOBOS plas KCRW.

MARGARET GLASPY plays KEXP.

THE SMILE shares "Friend of a Friend," directed by Paul Thoms Anderson.

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF shares "Colossus Of Roads" and "Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive)."

SHANNON & THE CLAMS shares "The Moon Is In The Wrong Place."

BLUE BENDY shares the post-punk "Come On Baby, Dig!"

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN: Jim and William Reid on sibling rivalry, singing with Shane MacGowan and famous fan Sofia Coppola.

RAMONES HEIRS clash over Netflix biopic.

DAVID LEE ROTH unloads on Wolfgang Van Halen.

MARTYRDOM apologizes for the pig's head tossed around the crowd at its show in Houston.

ROAD HOUSE: te remake has a trailer online.

PAUL GIAMATTI has a podcast.

VINCE MacMAHON: A former WWE employee claims he sexually abused her — including with sex toys that he named after wrestling stars — in a shocking new lawsuit.

ROBERT DOWNEY JR is grateful he didn't win an Oscar for Chaplin.

HALLE BERRY's already-filmed sci-fi flick has been shelved at Netflix.

ED NORTON replaces BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH as Pete Seeger in James Mangold‘s Bob Dylan movie A Complete Unknown.

LEWIS PULLMAN is Marvel’s top choice to star in Thunderbolts, and has an offer for the role vacated by Steven Yeun earlier this month.

HERBERT "COWBOY" COWARD, who as the sadistic toothless man in John Boorman’s Deliverance terrorized canoeists and audiences alike with the chilling line, “He got a real pretty mouth, ain’t he?,” has been killed in a car accident. He was 85.

A CITY HORSE touches grass.

A SENIOR WEINER DOG places last in a race but wins the crowd.

SMILE, you're on candid camera.

999: "Homicide." You better believe it.

YARD ACT plays KUTX.

THE CLINGERS helped pave the way for women in Rock.

PHOSPHORESCENT returns with "Revelator."

GRANDADDY shares "Long As I'm Not The One."

BILLY JOEL is also coming back for the Grammys.

MELANIE, the singer who performed at Woodstock in 1969 and had major pop hits with “Brand New Key” and “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” in the early ’70s, died Tuesday at age 76.

SKYDANCE wants to buy Paramount.

TOM HOLLANDER says he accidentally got sent Tom Holland's ginormous box office bonus for an Avengers movie.

AVATAR - THE LAST AIRBENDER: The live-action version has a trailer online.

ROAD HOUSE remake director Dug Liman boycotted the film's SXSW premiere because it's headed to streaming.

JON STEWART is returning to the Daily Show on Mondays.

SUPERGIRL: Milly Alcock and Meg Donnelly are the finalists for James Gunn's revamped DCEU.

MATTHEW VAUGHN has ideas for Kingsman 3, sort of.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

PREPARE FOR TAKEOFF: A kind of "Finding Nemo" vibe.

PAWFECT Dogwalk.

ORNAGUTAN vs OTTERS: Who You Got?

THE MAMAS & PAPAS lip-synced "California Dreaming" really well o­n Hullaballoo, but not showing you the go-go dancers, who are worth the wait.

NEIL YOUNG: Honey Slides 2024.

ROBERT POLLARD adopts the name Rip Van Winkle for "Prose Kaiser."

THE BLACK KEYS share "Beautiful People (Stay High)."

FUTURE ISLANDS: Samuel T. Herring on his old performance-art band Art Lord & The Self-Portraits, linking up with Madlib and Kenny Segal, doing rap battles in his school cafeteria, that legendary Letterman performance, and much more.

JOHNNY MARR: Not a fan of "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" being played at a Donald Trump rally.

FRANK FARIAN, the German producer who gave you Boney M and Milli Vanilli, has died at 82.

THE OSCARS nominations went to these folks. Congrats!  Plus, the snubs and misses.

RYAN GOSLING issued a statement about those Barbie snubs.

MONDAY NIGHT RAW is headed to Netflix.

HIT MAN, ft Glen Powell, has a teaser trailer online.

ANNE HATHAWAY walked out of a Vanity Fair photoshoot to honor a work stoppage at Conde Nast.

GARY GRAHAM, who starred as the human detective who partners with an extraterrestrial newcomer to solve crimes on the Fox sci-fi television franchise Alien Nation, has died. He was 73.

CHARLES OSGOOD, the genial radio and television commentator who anchored CBS Sunday Morning for more than two decades, died Tuesday. He was 91. 

REVIVING a newborn foal.

CATS will be cats.

A BIRD imitates John Cleese.

RICHARD THOMPSON: The culmination of 1000 Years Of Popular Music.

THE HIVES play KEXP.

SQUIRREL FLOWER plays a mini-concert on World Cafe.

CHARLEY CROCKETT shares "10 Dollar Cowboy."

PITCHFORK: Declaring music journalism to be dead amid the uncertainty of the site's absoption by GQ is premature.

ELLE KING was hammered for a trainwreck of an appearance at a Dolly Parton tribute at the Opry.

THE dB's PETER HOLSAPPLE & CHRIS STAMEY are playing the 50th anniversary of The Trouser Press.

SUSIE TENNANT, longtime member of the Seattle music community, promotions and marketing legend, and early supporter of Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and others - has died of early onset dementia. She was 61 years old.

THE NUMBER ONES on Taylor Swift's first chart-topper, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together."

OSCARS NOMINATIONS are announced this morning.  Variety and THR are among those with predictions.

NORMAN JEWISON, who steered the 1967 racial drama “In the Heat of the Night” to a best picture Oscar and also helmed such popular films as “Moonstruck,” “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” and “The Thomas Crown Affair,” as well as film musicals “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Jesus Christ Superstar,” died Saturday at his Los Angeles residence. He was 97.

FERRARI's Slow-Motion Crash in Nine Steps.

THE WIZARD OF OZ, but set in Inglewood?  Have they seen The Wiz?

JURASSIC WORLD is turning to the screenwriter of Jurassic Park for the next installment.

ANTHONY HOPKINS is writing hs biography; his wife is working on a documentary about him.

GODZILLA MINUS ONE had only 35 visual effects artists.

A DOGGO takes his place.

AN ELEPHANT pranks a Jeep.

CATS& DOGS, living together...

SEA LION: A day in the life.