JOHNNY NASH: "I Can See Clearly Now." Because I'm hoping for a bright, sunshiney day.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Natalie Merchant, The Tallest Man on Earth, Brian Dunne, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Pynch, John Vanderslice, and more.

LANA DEL REY joined BLEACHERS on “Margaret” at the High Water Music Festival.

NUGGETS: Lenny Kaye is hosting a 50th anniversary concert with Peter Buck, Elliot Easton, Scott McCaughey, Kathy Valentine, plus members of the Seeds, the Leaves, the Chocolate Watchband, and many more. 

ROYAL TRUX's Neil Hagerty has been arrested for attacking Denver police officers.

HALSEY split from Capitol Records over their TikTok strategy.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the playfully flirty "Touch My Body," Mariah Carey's last chart-topper before the Christmas revival.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Super Mario Bros levels up with a record setting 87MM second weekend on a mere 41 percent drop.  The Pope’s Exorcist looks to place with 8.5MM, while Renfield will likely show with 7.7 MM.

CLINT EASTWOOD is beginning to close in on directing what is being internally billed as the final film of his career.

THE NEXT JAMES BOND will likely be in his 30s and not particularly well-known.

NICOLAS CAGE names his Top 5 Nic Cage films.

TIMOTHEE CHALOMET and... Kylie Jenner?

GUY RITCHIE is reportedly being sued by a writer who claims The Gentleman copied scenes from a script he wrote.

THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER, featuring a certain vampire, has a trailer online.

TOP GUN: MAVERICK was not mammoth on streaming (which may be the flip side of its mammoth theatrical run).

AMAZON is looking to exploit MGM properties like Robocop, Stargate, Legally Blonde, Fame, Barbershop, The Magnificent Seven, Pink Panther and The Thomas Crown Affair.

BARKOUR! Barkour!

DEAD BIRDS, converted into drones.

A POSSUM disrupted a Mets broadcast.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with BLIND FAITH! Live at London's Hyde Park in June 1969. After an introduction and brief segments about supergroup members Steve Winwood, Rick Grech, Ginger Baker, and Eric Clapton, your set list includes:"Well All Right", "Sea of Joy","Sleeping in the Ground", "Under My Thumb", "Can't Find My Way Home", "Do What You Like", "In the Presence of the Lord", "Means to an End", and "Had to Cry Today".

KING TUFF plays KEXP.

BOYGENUS rolled out their new material at the Fox Theater in Pomona ahead of their Coachella set this weekend.

KING KRULE shares "Seaforth."

NATION OF LANGUAGE shares “Weak In Your Light.”

SAM BUSH, EMMYLOU HARRIS, and MARGO PRICE covered Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released.”

BOB DYLAN covered the Grateful Dead’s “Truckin’.”

ROBBIE FULKS, profiled at Variety.

YO LA TENGO: Ira Kaplan discussed creating setlists with The Current.

EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL, on Their Peculiar Journey Through Pop and Their Comeback.

MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY & WOODY HARRELSON may be actual brothers.

DRAKE BELL was lost and found.

THE ROYALS have no interest in talking to Harry beyond basic greetings.

WARNER BROS stock dropped five percent after announcing the Max plan.

TIME's 100 Most Influential People.

MINKA KELLY, on performing at peep shows at age 17.

CANNE FILM FESTIVAL: The 2023 lineup.

BARRY Changed Bill Hader's Life. Now It's About to End.

MARY QUANT, the British designer who revolutionized fashion and epitomized the style of the Swinging Sixties, the mother of the miniskirt, died on Thursday at her home in Surrey, in southern England. She was 93.

A DOGGO tale.

WHEN MOM picks out your winter jacket.

18000 DAIRY COWS died in a fire on a Texas farm.

STEELY DAN turn in a spirited "Reelin' in the Years" on the Midnight Special.  Fagen reportedly hated this performance, which appears in Almost Famous.

SAMIA plays KEXP.

PHOEBE BRIDGERS joins THE NATIONAL on "Your Mind Is Not Your Friend."

SPEEDY ORTIZ returns with "Scabs."

R.E.M. talks about the 40th anniversary of Murmur.

THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH, profiled at Paste.

FATHER JOHN MISTY is doing a Scott Walker tribute concert.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Leona Lewis' big-feelings ballad "Bleeding Love."

HARRY POTTER will be coming to Max as a 10-year project.

DEADPOOL 3: Morena Baccarin and Stefan Kapicic will return as Vanessa and Colossus.

CREATURE COMMANDOS: The James Gunn-led DCU will start with an animation starring Frank Grillo.

THE CONTINENTAL finally has a trailer online.

THE ROYALS: Prince Harry will attend the coronation of his father, Meghan not so much.

JAMIE FOXX suffered a "medical emergency" Tuesday morning and is recovering in the hospital.

BRAD PITT and the Bizarre Charity Mess That's Left Katrina Victims Stranded Again.

THE PENGUIN has a teaser trailer online.

BLADE: Mia Goth is joining Mahershala Ali in the MCU.

RUPERT MURDOCH made JERRY HALL agree not to give story ideas to Succession.

TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY has a trailer online.

GAME OF THRONES will have another spinoff based on Tales of Dunk And Egg.

THE SYMPATHIZER, with Robert Downey Jr in multiple roles, has a teaser online.

YELLOWJACKETS and the limits of 90s nostalgia.

SANCTUARY, a psychological thriller with Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott, has a trailer online.

A FOX, out for a stroll.

TWO ELEPHANTS, navigating a step down.

NEW YORK CITY hires a Rat Czar.

SIMON & GARFUNKEL count the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike.

YO LA TENGO plays KEXP.

ANGEL OLSEN shares "Forever Means."

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD shares "Penge."

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS shares a remixed and remastered version of “Puttin’ People On The Moon,” from a reissue of The Dirty South.

KAISER CHIEFS share "Jealousy."

THE HOLD STEADY's Craig Finn on revolution tourists, desperate characters and exploitation.

FEIST talks to Vulture about her new album.

THE FEELIES' Brenda Sauter: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.

CAROLINE POLACHEK, profiled at Pitchfork.

PATRICK WOLF, on surviving addiction, bankruptcy and a hit and run.

PEDRO PACAL tells Esquire about how Sarah Paulson helped his career, and more.

AMANDA BYNES has been released from a mental hospital more than 3 weeks after she was first admitted for treatment.

THE ROYALS: King Charles has simply been left “tired and furious” by the continuing disobedience of his family, including disgraced Prince Andrew.

JOHNNY DEPP & AMBER HEARD are in much different places one year after the big defamation trial began.

THE MARVELS has a trailer online.

MILLIE BOBBIE BROWN is engaged to Jon Bon Jovi's son.

HILARY SWANK gives birth to twins at 48.

MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY didn't have his seatbelt on when the Lufthansa flight he was onboard dropped 4000 feet in March.

WARNER BROS plans a new streaming service that brings together classic HBO series like "The Sopranos" and "Succession" with Discovery series like "Dr. Pimple Popper" and "Fixer Upper."

A DOGGO, on a treadmill, sort of.

A BIRD takes shelter from a hailstorm.

DUCK vs TIGER: Who you got?

YO LA TENGO are captured playing the bouncy "Mr. Tough" and "I Feel Like Going Home" at The Current.  And that, my friends, is Twofer Tuesday.

SHARON VAN ETTEN, Live at Surly Festival Field in Minneapolis, 2022.

BRAVE COMBO visits World Cafe (or vice versa).

BONNY DOON shared "Let There Be Music."

THE LINDA LINDAS shared "Too Many Things."

THE HOLD STEADY's Craig Finn discussed the new album with FLOOD.

THE WHO is unlikely to ever tour North America again, according to Roger.

WEDNESDAY's Karly Hartzman talked songwriting with Vulture.

LASSE WELLANDER, ABBA’s longterm guitarist has died at the age of 70.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Usher & Jeezy's horny exhibitionist anthem "Love In This Club."

STAR WARS: VISIONS, Vol. 2 has a trailer online, including Aardman animation's take on the galaxy far, far away.

PETER PAN & WENDY has a trailer online.

KIM KARDASHIAN joins “American Horror Story.”

KEANU REEVES & JONAH HILL are teaming up for a dark Hollywood story.

CHRIS ROCK's brother has claimed that Will Smith didn’t reach out to Rock after the viral Oscars slap, contrary to reports.

STRANGER THINGS is getting an animated spinoff.

JAMES CROMWELL rescued a pig and named it Babe, because obvsly.

AL JAFFEE,  a cartoonist who folded in when the trend in magazine publishing was to fold out, thereby creating one of Mad magazine’s most recognizable and enduring features, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 102.

CAT vs MANTIS: Who you got?

CATS & DOGS, living together...

CATS & DOGS, living together...

INDIA'S TIGERS Bounce Back.