CINCO DE MAYO STARTS HERE: 

...with LOS LOBOS: "I Got Loaded" (with an added snippet of "Turn On Your Lovelight") from their fabulous first full-lengther, How Will the Wolf Survive? "Don't Worry Baby," "Evangeline," "Our Last Night," and "A Matter of Time" were on that album, too.

PEE WEE HERMAN: "Tequila." Obvs.

HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS: Rare video of "A Taste of Honey" from 1967.

CHEAP TRICK brings you the Mariachi mash-up of "Surrender."

JIMMY BUFFETT: Margaritaville. Obvs.

LIZ PHAIR: "Cinco de Mayo." Obvs.

THE ALABAMA SHAKES, interviewed by Drive-By Trucker Patterson Hood.

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN: Jim Reid talks to Stereogum about making Psychocandy, and why a 30th anniversary tour isn’t just about nostalgia.

HAS STREAMING Stifled the Music Industry?

THE 50 GREATEST GUITAR SOLOS, according to NME.

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS let Annie Leibovitz take some behind-the-scenes shots for Vanity Fair. BONUS: Captain Phasma. DOUBLE BONUS: The 2nd Star Wars anthology movie, due in 2018, will be a Boba Fett origin story.

JOSS WHEDON quit Twitter (again) after taking flak over the portrayal of Balck Widow in Avengers: Age of Ultron.

TIGER WOODS & LINDSEY VONN are dunzo after three years.

MADONNA regrets kissing Drake, making it unanimous.

CHRIS BROWN  is accused of brawling with another guy early Monday morning during a basketball game.

KRISTIN CAVALLARI talks to Us Weekly about life with Chicago Bears QB Jay Cutler, whom I affectionately like to call "Jerkface."

DANIELLE WATTS (Django Unchained), who accused Los Angeles police of racial profiling when they investigated a report she was having sex with her boyfriend in a parked car has been ordered to apologize to officers as part of a plea deal.

NIGEL TERRY, known for his roles in The Lion in Winter, Excalibur and Caravaggio, died of emphysema aged 69.

IRAN: Leading Persian Gulf states want major new weapons systems and security guarantees from the White House in exchange for backing a nuclear agreement with Iran, according to U.S. and Arab officials.

UNITED STATES intelligence agencies ­badly misjudged al-Qaeda’s ­ability to take advantage of political turmoil in the Middle East and regain strength across the region after Osama bin Laden was killed, according to a new book by the CIA’s former deputy director.

YEMEN: The Saudi-led military coalition fighting a rebel group in Yemen has in the past few weeks used widely-banned cluster munitions supplied by the United States, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Sunday.

TUCKER Takes the Stairs.

EAST COAST STARFISH may survive a zombie plague.

A BLACK LABRADOR named Caroline freaked out during a trip to the grocery store and caused her North Carolina owner to crash their truck into a swimming pool.

A GRIEVING MAMA CAT who lost her kittens adopted a litter.