BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN opened this weekend's Brooklyn stand with "Purple Rain."

MULLIGRUB steams Soft Grudge.

PLANTS & ANIMALS advance stream Waltzed In From The Rumbling.

PET SOUNDS: The Levitation Festival's tribute LP is streaming.

SONNY & THE SUNSETS share "Moods" ahead of Moods Baby Moods. And dang if a song like this would exist without Prince.

BILLY PAUL,  the R & B singer best known for "Me and Mrs. Jones," has died of pancreatic cancer at age 81.

PRINCE was cremated and celebrated afterward in a small, private service by a group of his "most beloved" family, friends and fellow musicians. His estate could be worth up to 800MM and may all go to his younger sister.  Footage of Prince rocking the SNL40 afterparty surfaced first online and then on the show itself.  Michael Green tells the story of the Purple One leading a 80s cover band in Birmingham. The L.A. Times celebrates his oft-overlooked lyrical prowess and Patterson Hood more generally discusses Prince's 80's output. while ZZ Top’s legendary frontman Billy Gibbons pays tribute to The Artist's guitar virtuosity (including embedded video of Prince covering the Stones). The Guardian reports on Prince's business dealings. his secret vault, and his support for the Paisley Underground.  SPIN re-ups its oral history of Purple Rain. Pitchfork re-ups its look at Dirty Mind.  Billboard covers his difficult relationship with music videos. The well-known Electric Fetus record store in Mpls tells you some of the last CDs he ever bought.  And there's this maybe.

BEYONCE dropped her latest album, Lemonade, which may suggest some marital discord. Is Rachael Roy to blame?

BAT FOR LASHES: Natasha Khan talks to Pitchfork about the perils of modern romance and the tragic tale that propels her upcoming fourth album, The Bride.

BRITTA PHILLIPS moves west and discovers a new sound and a new sense of self. (Thx, Frank Yang.)

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Jungle Book repeated atop the chart with a crushing 60.8MM, dropping a mere 41 percent for a film that opened north of 100MM. That likely projects to 350-400MM in North America alone by the end of its run, possibly a billion worldwide.  The Huntsman: Winter's War was the crushee, placing with mere 20MM debut against a 115MM budget (Snow White and the Huntsman opened at 56MM). Barbershop: The Next Cut showed with 10.8MM, on a 47 percent drop that's probably too large for a 20MM comedy. Zootopia popped back up to the fourth slot with another 6.6MM on a still-leggy 19 percent drop. The Boss rounded out the Top Five withanother 6MM on a 30 percent drop.  Batman v Superman slips below the fold and may end up grossing less than Zootopia.

KELLY RIPA returns to her show tommorrow, after a tough talk with Disney.

KANYE WEST brings his interruption skills to a wedding.

MERYL STREEP & JOHN CAZALE: A tragic romance.

PATTON OSWALD's wife, Michelle McNamara, a crime writer, died at age 46.

INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE drops a second trailer.

NORTH KOREA: Pres Obama said on Sunday that he does not believe North Korea is sincere in its offer to halt nuclear tests if the US suspends military exercises with South Korea, and that Pyongyang would “have to do better than that”.

THE ISLAMIC STATE has been forced to ration fuel in some areas and cut pay by half to its fighters and government officials in regions it controls after the U.S.-led coalition air campaign incinerated about 500MMof the Islamic State’s cash stockpiles and cut its oil revenues by an estimated 50 percent.

SYRIA: The U.S. plans to send up to 250 additional military personnel to Syria to help local forces fighting Islamic State.

PUPS run for dinner, timelapse style.

A GOLDEN RETRIEVER pilots a Tesla car...or does it?

A DIABOLICAL BEAVER menaces Latvia's second-largest city.

HEY, IS THAT A FISH attached to your unit or...oh.