THE BETHS, Live at Rock the Garden.

BAD BAD HATS, Live at Rock the Garden.

HEART BONES, Live at Rock the Garden.

THE MARK LANEGAN BAND shares “Letter Never Sent.”

THE HIGHWOMEN -- Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires, Maren Morris, and Natalie Hemby -- cover Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" for the soundtrack of the upcoming movie The Kitchen.

HAIM covers "I Don't Wanna Wait" and "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" for Twofer Tuesday.

THE ROLLING STONES' Brian Jones era gets almost three and a half hours of discussion and analysis on Political Bolitical beats with guest Harry Khachatrian.

ROYAL TRUX: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.

DEERHUNTER frontman Bradford Cox had a ten-minute conversation with a crowd member who accused him of cultural appropriation during a recent show.

ART NEVILLE — a founding member of both the Meters and the Neville Brothers, died Monday at age 81.

LEONARDO DiCAPRIO: Hollywood's Last Movie Star?

A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD has a trailer online.

SHANNEN DOHERTY  is joining the fourth season of Riverdale as a special guest for the show's upcoming tribute to its late cast member Luke Perry.

SEAN GUNN married actress Natasha Halevi on Saturday, June 15.

ANNE HECHE & THOMAS JANE are an item.

BEN AFFLECK & MATT DAMON, together again. With Ridley Scott.

MATT GROENING is pretty sure about a sequel to The Simpsons Movie.

CHRIS KRAFT, NASA’s first flight director and a legendary scientist who helped build the nation’s space program — died Monday, just two days after the world celebrated the historic Apollo 11 walk on the moon. He was 95.

THREE BABY BOBCATS were spotted playing on the backyard wall of Arizona home.

i COULDN'T BREATHE when I slept so I installed a camera.”

SNAIL SLIME: Thai farmers on the cash trail.

THE MUSIC EXPLOSION: "Little Bit O'Soul."

THE NATIONAL, Live at Rock The Garden.

COURTNEY BARNETT, Live at Rock The Garden.

X, Live at Rock The Garden.

SNAIL MAIL & SOCCER MOMMY team up to cover Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris."

RYAN ADAMS resurfaces on social media after abuse allegations.

PRINCE's ESTATE won a 7MM defult judgment against a bootleg record label.

ANDREW BIRD has been cast in the fourth season of Fargo.

THE NUMBER ONES look at the Captain & Tennille's '70s pop atrocity "Love Will Keep Us Together."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The CGI remake of The Lion King rules thechart with 185MM, with the 10th highest opening day ever.  Spider-Man: Far From Home places with 21MM on a 54 percent drop, crossing the 300MM mark domestically (it will cross a Billion worldwide this week). Toy Story 4 shows with 14.6MM on a 30 percent drop that's remarkably leggy, given the Circle of Life.  Crawl takes the fourth slot with 6MM on a 50 percent drop, which probably makes it a modest hit on a low budget.  Yesterday rounds out the Top Five with another 5.1MM on a leggy 21 percent drop.  Below the fold, Stuber fell 51 percent to sixth placewith 4MM and 16MM total against a reported 16MM budget.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME should have passed Avatar as the all-time global box officechamp by the time you read this.

MARVEL announces Phase 4 of the money-making plan, including Black Widow, The Eternals (starring Angelina Jolie and Richard Madden), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Thor: Love and Thunder. Kevin Feige did not have time to tell Comic-Con about Black Panther 2, Captain Marvel 2, a Fantastic Four reboot or "movies about mutants."

THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER, btw, will feature a LGBTQ Valkyrie and a female Thor.

PICARD has a Comic-Con trailer.

WATCHMEN has a Comic-Con trailer.

WESTWORLD dropped its Season 3 trailer.

CATS: Six troubling questions raised by the trailer.

EDDIE MURPHY may get a truckload of money from Netflix to return to standup.

JOAQUIN PHOENIX & ROONEY MARA are engaged after three years of dating.

OLIVER STONE asks Vladimir Putin to be his 22-year-old daughter's godfather.

JEFFREY EPSTEIN and the Island of Horrors.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, Wedding Crasher.

CHANCE THE SNAPPER was captured in Chicago and transferred to St. Augustine Alligator Farm, where he was released Thursday in a livestreamed event.

MORE THAN 70 CROC HATCHLINGS were rescued recently by specialists at a Florida nuclear plant, and dozens more are expected to emerge soon. What could possibly go wrong?

ONCE NEARLY DEAD As The Dodo, California Condor Comeback Reaches 1000 Chicks.

RARE NEW ZEALAND PARAKEET Population Doubles After 'Epic' Breeding Season.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE...

...with the wicked, wicked WILSON PICKETT, live from Germany, circa 1968. This disappeared from the Tube, but I've managed to find almost all of it reposted there or elsewhere.  His band warms up the crowd with the instrumental "Soulfinger," but Pickett electrifies from the moment he enters for "Everybody Needs Somebody" and doesn't let up through "Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won't Do)," "Mustang Sally" and "Stagger Lee." He takes it down just a half-notch for "I'm In Love" before cranking it back into top gear for "Funky Broadway," during which people dancing in front of the stage start turning up o­nstage (And why not? This rawks almost as hard as The Who's cover of "Shakin' All Over").  The tumultuous finale of "Land of 1000 Dances" from amid the crowd remains missing, but this other "Land of 1000 Dances" from 1966 is almost as wild, and in color to boot. Raw and riveting; if this can't put you in a weekend state of mind, probably nothing can.

ERIN RAE covers Gene Clark, The Monkees, Jonathan Richman, and Scott Walker in an exceptional Lagniappe Session.

DUFF McKAGAN & SHOOTER JENNINGS visit World Cafe.

IGGY POP shares "Free."

MIRANDA LAMBERT shares "It All Comes Out In The Wash" and "Locomotive".

STEVE GUNN shares a cover of Neil Young’s “Motion Pictures (For Carrie),” just in time for the 45th anniversary of Young’s On The Beach.

STEAM: The one-hit wonder with a synced take on "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye."

THE REPLACEMENTS seem to be teasing something special for Tuesday. Is it... alternate mixes to Don’t Tell a Soul?

TAME IMPALA's Kevin Parker is on his own timetable.

PAUL McCARTNEY is turning It’s A Wonderful Life into a stage musical.

BRIAN ENO: An essential guide.

IOWA OFFICIAL JERRY FOXHOVEN Says His Love of Tupac Wasn't What Got Him Fired.

THE NUMBER ONES ooks at America's lush "Sister Golden Hair".

THE LION KING is this weekend's sole wide release, currently scoring 56 percent on the ol' Tomatometer.

TOP GUN: MAVERICK has a trailer online.

IT: CHAPTER TWO has a final trailer online.

JAY & SILENT BOB REBOOT has a trailer online and oh my do I feel old.

CATS has a trailer online; I laughed, I cried, it was better than oh wait.

BRADLEY COOPER & IRINA SHAYK  reach a joint custody arrangement for their daughter.

JAVIER BARDEM is in talks to play King Triton in the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.

QUENTIN TARANTINO talks Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Star Trek, and Bounty Law.

POLICE NAB PENGUINS who keep sneaking into a sushi restaurant.

SELF-CLONING SUPER-TICKS  are sparking worry in some as the arachnids recently were linked with killing five cows by sucking their blood dry in North Carolina.

AUSTRALIA'S COMPETITIVE RABBITS aim for new heights in international competition.

SPIDER vs COCROACH: Who You Got?

KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND: "Boogie Shoes," live in Miami, circa 1974.

GLORIA GAYNOR visits World Cafe, andyes, she sings that one.

BRISTON MARONEY visits World Cafe.

MODERN YACHT ROCK: A playlist from Gorilla Vs. Bear.

VIVIAN GIRLS reunite for "Sick."

FOUR TET shares "Dreamer."

WESTERMAN gets a bit electronic in covering Simon & Garfunkel's "Kathy's Song."

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS invite STEPHEN COLBER on for "This Year."

RAY & DAVE DAVIES are recording new Kinks music.

DAVID CROSBY is the subject of a documentary from Cameron Crowe.

SLEATER-KINNEY shares "The Center Won't Hold" --  and discusses the departure of drummer Janet Weiss.

GRIMES: Peeled eyeballs, isolation tanks and neuroplastic goals.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at John Denver's wildly corny "Thank God I'm A Country Boy."

KEVIN SPACEY skips on felony sex assault charges due to the unavailability of the complainant.

GAME OF THRONES' Alfie Allen (Theon), Gwendoline Christie (Ser Brienne) and Carice van Houten (Melisandre) self-submitted for the Emmys after HBO did not enter them. All three got nominated.

TOM HOLLAND is hanging with a mystery blonde at British Summer Time Hyde Park Festival in London.

GOSSIP GIRL is spinning off a series to HBO Max.

WESTWORLD co-showrunner Jonathan Nolan is insisting that the new season will be less of a guessing game.

JAY & SILENT BOB REBOOT will include three different Batmen.

NETFLIX lost domestic subscribers in the last quarter, for the first time in eight years.

THIS STRAY DOG efused to be caught for 3 years — but the woman who loved her never gave up.

A GIANT JELLYFISH the size of a human stunned a diver off the south-western coast of England.

ESCAPE ARTIST: A shellfish caught by a Japanese fisherman wasn’t quite what they expected.

ZOO LIONS beating the heat wave with ... bloodsicles.

BO DONALDSON & THE HEYWOODS: "Billy, Don't Be a Hero," from the Summer of '74. Workin' the Elvis jumpuit look.

TODD SNIDER plays Mountain Stage.

MOLLY TUTTLE plays World Cafe.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features tracks from Khruangbin, Bon Iver, Brian Eno, and more.

WILCO returns with "Love is Everywhere (Beware)."

FRANKIE COSMOS shares a full band version of "Rings (On A Tree)."

HAMMERED HULLS, ft Mary Timony and Alec MacKaye, shares "Written Words."

WHITNEY shares a video for “Valleys (My Love).”

PHOEBE BRIDGERS talks about the Cure’s 1992 hit “Friday I’m in Love.”

2019's ESSENTIAL POSTPUNK LPs. according to Paste.

KHRUANGBIN: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.

JOHNNY CLEGG, who co-founded two groundbreaking, racially mixed bands during the apartheid era, died Tuesday in Johannesburg at age 66. He had battled pancreatic cancer since 2015.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Freddy Fender's bilingual country heart-wrecker "Before The Next Teardrop Falls."

THE EMMYS nominations went to these folks. Game of Thrones and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel dominated. And there were snubs.

R KELLY was denied bail based on obstruction of justice charges, part of a multi-count indictment unveiled on Friday in Chicago and New York.

THOR 4: Taika Waititi is returning as director, which adds to the woes of Warner Bros.' long-gestating adaptation of Japanese manga Akira.

LORI LAUGHLIN appears to still be hoping that a technical glitch in the system will result in her walking away from the college admissions scandal without jail time.

HARRY STYLES is in early negotiations to play the iconic role of Prince Eric in the House of Mouse live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.

CHRIS PRATT wore a t-shirt depicting the Gadsden flag, so people on Twitter freaked out because 2019.

THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT has a trailer online.

QUENTIN TARANTINO talks more Star Trek.

CHANCE THE SNAPPER has been captured in Humboldt Park Lagoon in Chicago, one week after the reptile was first spotted there.

CRAB INVASION! The Florida man went outside and saw hundreds of crabs climbing all over his screens and in his yard.

A POINTER does his job.

A PAIR OF RARE WILDCAT KITTENS have been captured on camera for the first time.