ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS don't want to go to "Chelsea."

20 BURT BACHARACH COVERS by indie artists.

FEIST shares three new songs.

LANA DEL REY shares "A & W."

DRY CLEANING shares "Swampy" and "Sombre Two."

BEABADOOOBEE shares "Glue Song."

DE LA SOUL's Trugoy the Dove, remembered at Pitchfork.

GIRL SCOUT, profiled at Paste.

STEVEN SPIELBERG tells TOM CRUISE he saved Hollywood's ass.  Cruise was the center of attention at the Oscars luncheon.

ANT-MAN: QUANTUMANIA's early reviews are not entirely sold on it.

DEADPOOL 3 welcomes The Crown‘s Emma Corrin as the movie’s villain.

JON FAVREAU, on Mando, Elf, and more.

IDRIS ELBA says he’s going to stick with being the tormented detective John Luther — not James Bond.

CATE BLANCHETT says there is a danger that society will be “destined to repeat” its mistakes if we continue to follow cancel culture.

PHARRELL WILLIAMS, creative director of Louis Vuitton menswear.

JESSICA SIMPSON shared a snap of herself crouching down on the set of an outdoor photo shoot and peeing in the grass.

FLACO: The escaped owl went on a sequence of long flights to explore and hunt new territory in Central Park.

THEY CAME BACK with a warrant.

ARCTIC SQUIRRELS may hold the key to helping astronauts survive on long missions.

CUPID, DRAW BACK YOUR BOW:

... with VALENTINE'S DAY: I've never been a big Valentine's Day guy, but I have always liked The Replacements' "Valentine" and Elvis Costello's cover of "My Funny Valentine."  Beyond that, my thoughts typically drift to the Velvet Underground's "I'll Be Your Mirror," The Beatles' "In My Life," and the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows." I think it's probably very difficult to write a straight-ahead, universal love song, and these three are great.

NICK CAVE, Live at Los Angeles’ Fonda Theatre, February 21, 2013. For a limited time only.

BURT BACHARACH, Live at the Walt Disney Conert Hall.

THE LEMON TWIGS share “Any Time Of Day.”

ANDY SCHAUF gives a track-by-track tour of his new album.

PINK FLOYD: "When One of Your Favorite Artists Is a Complete Asshat."

THE NUMBER ONES ooks at Fergie's weird, twisty rise and at "London Bridge," her chart-topping chirp-shout debut solo single.

THE OPPOSING VIEW:  Ever Fallen In Love? Love Stinks. Love Hurts. Love Will Tear Us Apart. Only Love Can Break Your Heart. And don't forget to give me back my black t-shirt (nsfw)

THE 100 BEST LOVE SONGS, according to The Telegraph.

THE TOP 50 LOVE SONGS, as measured by Billboard.

VH-1's 40 Awesomely Bad Love Songs.

THE WORST LOVE SONGS, according to faculty members of the University of St. Thomas’ Music Department.

NINE SONGS ABOUT SEEING YOUR EX MAKING OUT, courtesy of The A.V. Club. A hardy perennial.

BRITNEY SPEARS took to Instagram to address rumors that she is unwell.

RYAN REYNOLDS & BLAKE LIVELY have welcomed their fourth child.

PLANE is getting a sequel called Ship.

BATGIRL: Leslie Grace thinks the film was releaseable.

MICHAEL B. JORDAN's Biggest Fight Is With Himself.

DOGGOS, enjoying a balloon.

AN OWL, with catlike behavior.

FLACO, the Eurasian Eagle-Owl escaped from the zoo, appears to have eaten in Central Park. There were concerns about his ability to hunt.

JOHN HIATT: It's been a "Slow Turning."

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Yo La Tengo, Andy Schauf, Tennis, Paramore, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Quasi, the Golden Dregs, CIVIC, and more.

THE HOLD STEADY shares "Sixers."

BECK shares "Thinking About You."

BURT BACHARACH's Distinctive Melodic Voice.

JON WURSTER is leaving Superchunk.

QUASI, profiled at SPIN.

U2: Vegas, Baby!

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Nelly Furtado's unlikely and supremely successful career left turn, the Timbaland-assisted club jam "Promiscuous."

DE LA SOUL's David Jolicoeur, who helped expand the stylistic vocabulary of hip-hop in the late 1980s and early ’90s with eclectic samples and offbeat humor, died on Sunday. He was 54. 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Magic Mike’s Last Dance tops the chart with an 8.2MM debut, and the studio hopes to get a Valentine's Day bump this week. Avatar 2 places with6.6MM on a 39 percent drop.  The 25th anniversary re-release of Titanic shows with 6.4MM.

WHY RHIANNA won't get paid for the Big Game halftime show.

BRITNEY SPEARS' husband responds to the story about a planned intervention; it'a a non-denial denial.

FAST X has a trailer online.

THE FLASH has a trailer online.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL 3 has a trailer online.

VIN DIESEL & DAVID TWOHY are reuniting for Riddick: Furya.

WARREN BEATTY played Dick Tracy again, on TCM.

CHARLES BARKLEY: Coming to CNN?

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Happy birthday to the 16th President of the United States. Even if you saw the Spielberg biopic, here are two things you may not have known about Honest Abe: (1) he was an early adopter of the telegraph; and (2) he once sported a punky haircut.

BEST SKATEBOARD DOG video evah?

AN OTTER, snacking.

A DOGGO enjoying the piano.

EXCUSE ME, you're not finished.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with BURT BACHARACH! The debonair pop composer, arranger, conductor, record producer and occasional singer whose hit songs in the 1960s distilled that decade’s mood of romantic optimism, died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94.  His musical legacy is massive, having co-written “(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance,” "Baby, It's You," “What the World Needs Now Is Love,” “The Look of Love,” “What’s New Pussycat?,”  “Walk On By,” “I Say a Little Prayer,” “This Guy’s in Love With You,” “(They Long to Be) Close to You,” “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do),” and even "Always Something There To Remind Me,"just to name a few.  The Stereogum obit has comments from Dionne Warwick. The Guardian has a medley of Bacharach playing the hits. We shall not see his like again.

DEPECHE MODE returns with "Ghosts Again."

MARGO PRICE & SHARON VAN ETTEN duet on "Radio" for the Late Show.

DAS KOOLIES: Former Super Furry Animals share “The Condemned.”

ROGER DALTREY, on the Who and the Keith Moon biopic he's written.

ROGER WATERS is re-recording Dark Side of the Moon (clearly not due to the original's quality). And Russia wants him to speak at the UN.

THE EDGE, on Television as an inspiration for U2.

BLACK SABBATH, but in a ballet.

GRAHAM NASH remembers DAVID CROSBY at AARP.

BRITNEY SPEARS' family and friends were in talks to host an intervention for the pop star.

PAUL RUDD: Inside the stupendous rise of Hollywood's favorite everyman.

IDRIS ELBA is profiled at Esquire.

SPIDER-MAN NOIR: A live-action series is in the works at Amazon (but probably without Nicolas Cage).

THE ROYALS: An expert claims Harry and Meghan would be less visible if they attend King Charles' coronation.

PAINT, with Owen Wilson playing Bob Ross, has a teaser online.

STRAYS, a talking dog revenge flick, has a NSFW trailer online.

SECURITY TO AISLE 7... no rush.

SORRY I MISSED YOUR CALL, the frogs had my phone again.

I DO MY LITTLE TURN on the catwalk.

A DOGGO was rescued after more than 60 hours underneath the rubble in Turkey.

PAUL COLLINS & PETER CASE, formerly of The Nerves, play "Hanging On The Telephone" in-store.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features Yo La Tengo, Nanna, and more.

INDIGO GIRLS play a Tiny Desk Concert.

THE NO ONES (incl. Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey) bring the Bangles’ Debbi Peterson along for “Phil Ochs Is Dead.”

BARTEES STRANGE shares "Tisched Off" and "Keekee'in."

THE STOOGES' Raw Power at 50.

MORRISSEY said that he’s starting to think that his former label Capitol Records is intentionally “sabotaging” his new album.

SCREAMING FEMALES, profiled at SPIN. 

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Taylor Hicks, the man who broke the 'American Idol' machine, and at his bellowing coronation song "Do I Make You Proud," the last 'Idol'-generated single to top the Hot 100.

HARRISON FORD: "I Know Who the F*** I Am."

ANT-MAN director Peyton Reed on completing the trilogy, setting up a new phase of the MCU, and MODOK.

EVANGELINE LILLY says JEREMY RENNER is still using a wheelchair as he recovers from being run over by a snowplow on New Year’s Day.

WARNER BROS. plans to keep Discovery+ as a stand-alone streaming service.

MATT SHAKMAN, on directing Fantastic Four instead of Star Trek 4.

ELIJAH WOOD is unhappy with AMC's new ticket pricing plan.

CATE BLANCHETT performances to watch befre the Oscars.

COCAINE BEAR director Elizabeth Banks on risking her career.

TOY STORY, FROZEN, and ZOOTOPIA are all getting sequels.

HAMSTERS reinvent the wheel.

A CAT hits a jackpot.

THE BIGGEST PENGUIN EVER was a monster bird.