THE BONGOS: "Numbers With Wings" was nominated for Best Direction at the first MTV Video Awards.

THE SWELL SEASON visits World Cafe.

CHRIS STAMEY shares the Beach Boys-inspired "I'd Be Lost Without You," with cool guests.

TY SEGALL shares "Possession."

DAVID FRANKLIN COURTWRIGHT shares "feels."

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN played with John Fogerty, Smokey Robinson, Jackson Browne, Tom Morello, Darlene Love and more at an awards show.

STEPHEN STILLS joined NEIL YOUNG at the annual Light Up The Blues charity show.

THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME inductees are announced, snubbing Joy Division/New Order.

JOHN CLEESE, on 50 years of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

TAYLOR SWIFT & BLACKE LIVELY appear to be on the outs.

SEBASTIAN STAN & WYATT RUSSEL, on Thunderbolts*.

JOHN LITHGOW, on JK Rowling and winding down his career at Hogwarts.

TOM CRUISE is encouraging his fans to go see Sinners.

BACK TO THE FUTURE 4 is never going to happen, says screenwriter Bob Gale.

REVENGE OF THE SITH: The Saddest and Sincerest Star Wars Movie.

BILL BELICHICK had an uncomfortable interview on CBS.

DOG BUS VIDEOS: Not one but two.

CATS working out on a treadmill.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

THAT PELICAN is nice, but not the story.

THE KINKS are "The Village Green Preservation Society." God bless 'em.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Tennis, Sunflower Bean, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Deerhoof, the Moonlandingz, and more.  Plus, The Raveonettes released Pe’ahi II.

LANA DEL REY sang three new songs at Stagecoach.

THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE shares “Makes Me Great” and “Out of Body.”

FISHBONE shares “Last Call In America,” ft. George Clinton.

MATT PINFIELD is slowly recovering from his stroke.

OASIS: Noel and Liam Gallagher came together for some filming in a London pub earlier this week - reportedly being met with noise complaints from nearby residents.

WEEZER: The LAPD released footage from a shooting involving bassist Scott Shriner's wife, Jillian Lauren.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Sinners repeats atop the chart with 45MM on an extraordinarily good 6 percent drop.  The rerelease of Revenge of the Sith placed with 25.2MM, which iirc is the second-best suchever  rerelease ever.  The Accountant 2 shows with 24.2MM, wich iirc is about wht the original made in its debut.  A Minecraft Movie was close behind at 22.7MM, resulting in about 146MM in total box office, over twice as good as this frame last year, so good that Hollywood is once again wondering if the theatrical experience is coming back.

TOM CRUISE is underestimated as an actor, according to Kenneth Branagh.

GEORGE LUCAS explains why Yoda speaks backwards.

STEVEN SPIELBERG called The Godfather the greatest American film at a star-studded AFI tribute to Francis Ford Coppola.

NARNIA: Emma Mackey has been cast as the White Witch.

THE SOPRANOS: David Chase wasn't initially sold on James Gandolfini playing Tony because he thought he wasn't "threatening enough."

SELMA BLAIR's multiple sclerosis is in remission. 

DIDDY has rejected a plea deal  in his federal racketeering and sex trafficking case.

A SQUIRREL FAMILY sneaks home.

DOG and Butterflies.

THIS DOG is ungodly fast.

A PADDLEBOARDER encounters Orcas.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with SQUEEZE!  Despite a new LP, some of you whippersnappers may never heard of Difford, Tilbrook & Co., who previously reeled of stellar string of pop gems, including "Take Me I'm Yours", "Cool for Cats", "Up the Junction", "Goodbye Girl,"  "Another Nail in My Heart", "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)", "If I Didn't Love You", and the one most people know -- even if they don't know it's Squeeze -- "Tempted", which features transient member Paul Carrack on vox and keys.  Fun fact: Carrack was also responsible for the classic, "How Long" as a member of Ace.

SOCCER MOMMY plays The Current.

THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS return with "Sandbox."

EZRA FURMAN shares "Power Of The Moon."

HAIM shares “Down to be Wrong.”

MAGGIE ROGERS & SYLVAN ESSO cover Broken Social Scene's "Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl."

THE FACES are working on a new album after 50 years, says Kenney Jones.

SHANNON SHARPE is "electing to step aside temporarily" from ESPN in the wake of sexual assault allegations.

JULIA GARNER, on taking on the mantle of the Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four: First Steps.

JOSH HARTNETT: Not a fan of social media.

HUGH GRANT has criticized schools for allegedly restricting outdoor play and has also campaigned for the banishment of laptops and tablets in the classroom.

LINDA EVANGELISTA on cosmetic surgery disasters and more.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN's retrial on sex abuse claims gets underway.

RAINN WILSON criticizes left-leaning news.

PARAMOUNT & the FCC start talks about their Skydance merger.

A DOGGO crashes the high school track meet.

A BLIND & DEAF DOGGO reunites with its owner.

ELEPHANTS adorably block traffic.

THE ROLLING STONES made their second US TV appearance on The Mike Douglas Show, covering Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away."

BETH GIBBONS plays KCRW.

CURTIS HARDING shares "There She Goes." 

THE WONDER YEARS shares a lo-fi version of “Wyatt’s Song (Your Name).”

GREG FREEMAN shares "Point And Shoot." He talked to Stereogum about Bulington, Johnny Cash, and more.

THE TOP 100 GUITARISTS, according to Consequence, where no one has heard of Richard Thompson.

TENNIS discuss their farewell.

RIOT FEST's line-up includes “Weird Al” Yankovic and the Beach Boys?

WEDNESDAY: Season 2 has a trailer online.

PREDATOR: BADLANDS has a trailer online.

PEE-WEE AS HIMSELF has a trailer online.

DAVID HARBOUR, on Stranger Things, Thunderbolts, and more.

CONCLAVE is doing big streaming business as a real papal election looms.

10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU heads to Broadway via Lena Dunham and Carly Rae Jepsen.

BILL HADER and Daniel Zelman are developing an HBO series centered on Jim Jones and the infamous events at Jonestown.

ANTHONY BOURDAIN's biopic will star Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers).

THE BRADY BUNCH: Susan Olsen suffered a terrible injury filming the first episode.

OTTERS, obsessed with a vacuum cleaner.

THIS DOGGO also digs the vacuum.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

A LITTLE BIRD befriends an orphaned kitten. 

THE MEMBERS: "Working Girl," from the "Where Are They Now?" file.

THE CULTURE CORNER: Revisiting Prince's Around the World in a Day.

FOXWARREN shares "Yvonne."

BILLY IDOL & AVRIL LAVIGNE share "77."

THE MOONLANDINGZ & IGGY POP share "It’s Where I’m From."

ANDY BELL & DEBBIE HARRY share "Heart's A Liar."

ROY THOMAS BAKER, who was among the most successful music producers of the 1970s and 1980s and who helped produce Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” died at his home in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., on April 12. He was 78. Besides Queen, Mr. Baker collaborated with other well-known bands like the Cars, Journey, Lindsey Buckingham, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne, Smashing Pumpkins, Guns N’ Roses, Foreigner, Alice Cooper, and Cheap Trick while working as a producer and sound engineer at several recording studios over the course of his career.  Here's the Rolling Stone obit.

CARLOS SANTANA postponed a concert in San Antonio Tuesday night after the legendary guitarist was hospitalized for dehydration.

FYRE FESTIVAL is turning into a streaming service?

ANDOR: Season 2 is now the highest among all live-action Star Wars projects.

THUNDERBOLTS: Early buzz is hot, but no serious reveiws yet.

SEBASTIAN STAN survived communism, and more.

SHANNON SHARPE's accuser released purported audio of a threat.

VILLAGE ROADSHOW's film library, including The Matrix, will sell for at least 417.5MM.

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER: The reboot has a trailer online.

ANIMAL FARM: Andy Serkis is assembling  an all-star voice cast.

DEMI MOORE is the cover for People's World's Most Beautiful issue.

A CYCLIST is saved from a wolf attack.

DOGGOS: Three to a bed.

A GIANT ALBINO TURTLE, with remora fishes attached.