DOBIE GRAY is in with "The In Crowd."

NEW RELEASES: Pitchfork will point you to Sleater-Kinney, Green Day, and more.

BILL's INDIE BASEMENT has Bolts of Melody, Black Grape, and more.

MODERN ENGLISH return with "Not My Leader."

BILLY JOEL is teasing his first new music in 17 years.

SLEATER-KINNEY look back on the highlights and weird detours of their long career.

SWERVEDRIVER assesses their catalog.

MARY WEISS, the former lead singer of the Shangri-Las, died on Friday at age 75.

MARLENA SHAW, who is best known for her hit track California Soul, has reportedly passed away at the age of 81. 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Mean Girls repeats atop the chart with 11.7MM, but on a 59 percent drop amid the traditional January doldrums.  The Beekeper places with 8.4MM on a 49 percent drop.  Wonka shows with 6.4MM on a leggy 24 percent drop.  Anyone But You, in the fourth slot, has cleared 100MM worldwide, becoming the highest grossing R-rated romantic comedy since 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby.

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE is the first animated movie to make the visual effects Academy Award shortlist since 2020.

OPPENHEIMER: An Oral History, on video with RDJr, Murphy, and Blunt.

ALEC BALDWIN, indicted again for the Rust shooting.

JESSE EISENBERG, on filming at a concentration camp andwanting to direct a musical.  ALSO: He and Riley Keough are playing Sasquatches.

GLEN POWELL, on Hit Man, and Top Gun 3.

AVA DuVERNAY Wants to Build a New System.

JOSH RADNOR ("How I Met Your Mother") met his wife on a psychedelic trip, more or less.

SCRIPTED TV orders are in a precipitous decline.

IF YOUR DOG runs, RUN.

A CAT assists a kitten with a stuck toy.

A DOGGO and a Baby.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with NEIL DIAMOND! There are two types of people, you know.  But here's Neil on the Beeb in 1971.  Your set list: "Sweet Caroline," "Solitary Man," "Cracklin' Rosie," "Done Too Soon," "A Modern Day Version Of Love," "He Aint' Heavy (He's My Brother)," "Holly Holy," and "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show."  And "I Am I Said" is back the Tube right now.

ALLAH-LAS plays KEXP.

PALEHOUND plays KEXP.

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN shares "Chemical Animal."

REAL ESTATE shares "Haunted World."

LANA DEL REY teased a new song, and some kind of promotion or collaboration with SKIMS, Kim Kardashian’s underwear brand.

MERSEY BEAUCOUP: The Beatles in Paris, 1964.

PITCHFORK's FATE: A dark omen for the future of music?

THE BAFTA AWARDS nominations went to these folks. Congrats!

YELLOWSTONE's Taylor Sheridan will adapt and direct Empire Of The Summer Moon.

MICHAEL B. JORDAN & RYAN COOGLER are reuniting on a secret genre project.

THE COEN BROS plan to collaborate again.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER was briefly detained at Munich airport on Wednesday.

BIJOU PHILLIPS left Scientology after her cobnvicted hisband, Danny Masterson, was expelled.

JASON MOMOA hopes to make a "good" movie someday.

THE WEST WING will have an announcment next week. Oh boy?

PINOCCHIO is getting the horror treatment.

JODIE FOSTER turned down the role of Princess Leia in that Star Wars movie.

SOCIETY OF THE SNOW has a trailer online.

A CAT, petting the fishes.

THE INDRI LEMUR has a weird howl.

A BIG DOG, cuddling.

THE HOLLIES: "I Can't Let Go."

TOMMY STINSON playes KEXP.

DAN BOECKNER of Wolf Parade shares "Lose."

BLITZ VEGA, the band led by late Smiths bassist Andy Rourke, shares "Strong Forever."

PITCHFORK will be merged with the men's magazine GQ, and there are a bunch of layoffs already. I had my issues with the site's trajectory in recent years, but it is the end of an era.

JEFF TWEEDY talks about songwriting, influences, and the worst Beatles song.

THE SONGWRITING HALL OF FAME announced its 2024 class, including R.E.M. and Steely Dan.

LARRY COLLINS, the prodigious child guitarist who worked with his sister Lorrie as the exuberant 1950s rockabilly duo the Collins Kids, has died at 79.

VULTURE's Second Annual Stunt Awards.

OPPENHEIMER: Inside the production and costume design.

THE ROYALS: Kate Middleton is hospitalized for abdominal surgery. King Charles is seeking treatment for an enlarged prostate.

THE NEW LOOK, with Ben Medelsohn as Dior, has a trailer online.

THIS IS ME... NOW, ft J-Lo as a sex addict, has a trailer online.

TINA FEY may follow Lorne Michaels as the exec of SNL.

ZACK SNYDER wanted Bruce Wayne to impregnate Lois Lane, which was deemed "super creepy" by the WB and DC.

MARVEL's Netflix shows have become MCU canon.

PAULY SHORE will play Richard Simmons in a biopic. Simmons is not thrilled.

KYLE MacLACHLAN recreated one of Lorde‘s recent Instagram posts teasing new music.

THE MOST SEARCHED Sex Scenes.

LYNNE MARTA, whose 30-year Hollywood acting career spanned from 1971 to 2002 and included an appearance in Footloose, has died, aged 78.

A RACCOON hits the Dunkin drive-thru.

PELICAN vs CAPYBARAS: Who You Got?

DOG and Butterfly.

DOGSTAR (in which Keanu plays bass) visits World Cafe.

THE PERNICE BROTHERS return with “Who Will You Believe,”and “December In Her Eyes.”

KIM GORDON returns with "Bye Bye."

FRANK BLACK joins THE DANDY WARHOLS on... wait for it... "Danzig With Myself."

ELTON JOHN secured the EGOT.

IT'S RAINING MEN: A History.

COACHELLA: No Doubt is your headliner.

LEON WILDES, a New York immigration lawyer who successfully fought the United States government’s attempt to deport John Lennon, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 90.

THE EMMYS: What you need to know is that Better Call Saul never won, and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has never been nominated. And the ratings were a record low.

CHARLIE PUTH sang the theme from Friends for the Emmys' In Memoriam segment. But the cast did not pay tribute.

LINDSAY LOHAN made bank for a cameo in the Mean Girls musical.  But she's not a fan of a joke in the film.

ARGYLLE director Matthew Vaughn denies that Taylor Swift wrote the novel.

SPACEMAN: Adam Sandler has a trailer online.

JODIE FOSTER, a half-century later.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

A CAT, with dominoes.

WHEN THE NEIGHBOR DOG rings your doorbell at 4 a.m.

RAY CHARLES jamming out "Walk the Line" & "Ring of Fire" for Johnny Cash Twofer Tuesday.

THE KINKS get over 3 and 1/2 hours of discussion (just up through VGPS) on Political Beats with guest Jay Cost.

YARD ACT shares "We Make Hits."

IDLES shares "Gift Horse."

BILLIE EILISH did the credits theme for the new True Detective.

MADONNA had a "Hello, Cleveland!" moment.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Flo Rida's "Whistle," a once-forgotten song that's recently become a Josh Hutcherson TikTok meme.

THE EMMYS went to these folks. Congrats!

DAVID CHASE: The creator of The Sopranos said he was being told to “dumb down” his productions.

RYAN GOSLING reacts to "I'm Just Ken" winning the Critics' Choice Award.

ROBERT DOWNEY JR read his past reviews at the Critics' Choice Awards.

JODIE FOSTER, on True Detective, Greta Gerwig, and more.

THE GENTLEMEN: Guy Ritchie's Netflix series has a trailer online.

MEAN GIRLS: Why a musical wasn't marketed that way.

TOM HOLLAND & ZENDAYA rewatch Spider-Man: Homecoming.

MARTIN SCORSESE lauds LEONARDO DiCAPRIO.

GEORGE CLOONEY: Directors have more fun.

ELEPHANTS raid a disabled truck full of oranges.

WHAN YOU'RE Fabulous.

BAGHEERA, booped.

THE DOG knows the sound.