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TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS: "Here Comes My Girl."

SORRY connects from London with The Current for a live virtual session.

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Live at Rockwood Music Hall.

JONATHAN WILSON visits World Cafe.

ANGEL OLSEN & HAND HABITS cover Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers' "Walls." 

JOAN JETT covers the T. Rex classic "Jeepster."

YO LA TENGO is posting tracks at Bandcamp.

THE POLARIS PRIZE shortlist is announced.

THE 25 BEST SONGS of 2020 (So Far), according to The A.V. Club.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Irene Cara's Giorgio Moroder-produced dance-pop blockbuster "Flashdance... What A Feeling." (And a Number Two.)

KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR asks: Where Is the Outrage Over Anti-Semitism in Sports and Hollywood?

AMBER HEARD felt she was “above the law,” her former personal assistant has alleged.

JOHNNY DEPP was so revolted by feces left in his bed that he wanted to have a DNA test done on it to identify the pooper, a UK court was told Wednesday.

KANYE WEST is already out of his presidential bid.

BRITNEY SPEARS' mother, Lynne Spears, has filed legal documents to be included in all decisions made about the pop star's finances.

UTA is poised to become the first of the major Hollywood agencies to reunite the Writers Guild of Americas.

BRAD PITT doesn't currently have a relationship with his eldest son, Maddox. .

SURVIVOR will no longer be part ofthe fall schedule as a result of the COVID-19 production shutdown.

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA breaks down the writing of Hamilton's "My Shot."

KITTENS Who Yell.

MAN BITES SEAGULL who tried to steal his Big Mac.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT extends to bubonic plague.

REALLY, just a handful of Wednesday Things because my head is asplodey.

GRANT IMAHARA,  an electrical engineer and roboticist who hosted the popular science show MythBusters and Netflix's White Rabbit Project, has died following a brain aneurysm. He was 49.

NICK CANNON got the boot from ViacomCBS after the actor and TV host propagated anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on his podcast.  He's also the host of The Masked Singer on Fox (for now).

OLIVER STONE thinks Hollywood has gone crazy.

THE MATRIX cinematographer Bill Pope is sitting out Matrix 4 because in his opinion, shooting sequels was "mind numbing and soul numbing."

MONEY PLANE: An oral history of 2020's ultimate "good bad" movie.

INCEPTION: A decade old on Monday, Christopher Nolan's 2010 dream-within-a-dream blockbuster remains as dense, bewildering, and enjoyable as the day it was released.

MORE TOMORROW... at least no one hopes so mre than I do!

QUESTION MARK & THE MYSTERIANS: "96 Tears" and " Girl (You Captivate Me)" for Twofer Tuesday.

BOB MOULD shares a "Forecast of Rain."

BILLY JOE ARMSTRONG covers Billy Bragg's "A New England."

BILL CALLAHAN shares "35."

THE JAYHAWKS: Americana's most underappreciated band.

MARGOT PRICE talks album-making and motherhood.

BOB GELDOF reflects on Live Aid after 35 years.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at David Bowie's hard-strutting new-wave funk anthem "Let's Dance."

KELLY PRESTON, an actress best known for her role as a hardhearted fiancée of the Tom Cruise character in the 1996 film "Jerry Maguire," died on Sunday in Florida. She was 57.

NAYA RIVERA: Sheriff Bill Ayub says they're confident the body discovered in Lake Piru Monday is the Glee actress.

LISA MARIE PRESLEY is "beyond devastated" over the death of her son at age 27.

WILL & JADA PINKETT SMITH's  kids are happy their parents publicly addressed the actress' affair with rapper August Alsina.

JOHNNY DEPP, asleep and covered in ice cream.

A GORGEOUS GREY WOLF becomes a good boy when visited by the people that helped raise their pack.

A CAT, in a raincoat walking gracefully through the rain.

LAND SHARKS: Candygram?

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Margo Price, My Morning Jacket, Rufus Wainwright, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Kelley Stoltz, The Beths, Ian Masters, and more.

GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS dropped a covers LP, All The Good Times.

ELVIS COSTELLO shares "Hetty O'Hara Confidential."

GUIDED BY VOICES shares "To Keep an Area."

THE FLAMING LIPS share a video for "Dinosaurs on the Mountain."

FIONA ADAMS, the photographer behind some of the most recognizable pics of The Beatles, has died at the age of 84.

JUDY DYBLE, a founding member of Fairport Convention and Trader Horne -- and briefly part of Giles, Giles and Fripp who would eventually turn into King Crimson -- has died at age 71 after a battle with lung cancer.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Michael Jackson's iconic, era-defining "Beat It."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Your champion is The Empire Strikes Back. Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

30 ROCK has a reunion trailer.

NAYA RIVERA's disappearance still looks like a tragic drowning.

BROOKLYN BECKHAM will reportedly be tying the knot with girlfriend and actress Nicola Peltz.

ARNIE HAMMER and Elizabeth Chambers Hammer have split after 10 years of marriage.

BILL HADER & RACHEL BILSON are dunzo after six months.

THE MONEY PLANE: Everything you want to know about an explosive casino heist in the sky.

THIS BIRD won't let her "mom" out of her sight.

THIS CAT wants indoors.

DON'T ACCEPT PACKAGES from strangers.

RACCOONS visit Washington Week in Review.

KEEP SWIMMING: Huge rays are seen swimming past Florida beachgoers who appear completely unaware of their passing. 

THE B-52s, Live at Berklee College of Music, 1979.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features Sufjan Stevens, Bill Callahan, Fenne Lily, Lonnie Holley And More.

ELLIS covers Taylor Swift and Dinosaur Jr on a new EP.

SOCCER MOMMY covers The Cars' "Drive."

SUPERCHUNK covers The Go-Gos' "Can't Stop the World."

GUIDED BY VOICES shares "Haircut Sphinx."

SONIC YOUTH: Brooklyn Vegan surveys all 16 studio albums.

TALKING HEADS drummer Chris Frantz has said it "would be nice" if the iconic New York band reunited.

THE BEST ALBUMS of 2020 (So Far), according to Vulture.

DAVID JOHANSEN will b the subject of a Scorsese documentary.

THANDIE NEWTON discusses working with Tom Cruise and much, much more.

JOHNNY DEPP's libel case has denials of spousal abuse and admissions of drug abuse, supplying his13-year-old daughter with maijuana, and the claim that ex Amber Heard may have pooped the bed.

HALLE BERRY issued an apology for considering a role as a transgender man in an upcoming film.

MEGXIT: Prince William and Prince Harry have taken another step in the ongoing split of their charitable efforts.

CHARLIZE THERON, on 'The Old Guard' and Her Heartbreak Over the Furiosa Prequel.

COMEDY CENTRAL is getting a makeover?

BIG BOY is getting replaced by a girl?

ONE FOR EVERYBODY, in every size.

PENGUINS can fire their poop over four feet. The More You Know. Swoosh.

THE WATER TIGER BEETLE, which can slurp up fish and fully grown bullfrogs was found at a Montana national park, officials say.