TEMPLES visited The Current for a chat and mini-set.

VALERIE JUNE also visited The Current for a chat and mini-set.

CAROLINE SPENCE streams and talks about Spades & Roses..

SOLANGE and MICHAEL McDONALD played "What A Fool Believes" at Okeechobee Fest.

SHARON VAN ETTEN over the 1962 Skeeter Davis country-pop classic "The End Of The World" for The Man In The High Castle.

THE SHINS are "Painting a Hole" ahead of Heartworms.

TOTO: "Hold the Line." Guilty pleasure.

ROD STEWART offered his “deepest apologies” after he was filmed appearing to re-enact an ISIS-style beheading.

A RONNIE JAMES DIO HOLOGRAM is set to tour the world, fronting the Dio Disciples.

AMERICANA FEST celebrates non- Americans, but there's more than one America, amirite?

ESSENTIAL PSYCHEDELIC SOUL SONGS, compiled by Brooklyn Vegan.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Logan went berserker atop the chart with 85.3MM, well ahead of studio projections of 60MM.  As March premieres go, Logan comes in behind only Batman v Superman, The Hunger Games, and Alice In Wonderland.  Given a production budget just under 100MM, this will be a big winner, as Wolverine plays big in international markets.  Get Out places with 26.1MM on a 22 percent drop, much less than the 55-60 percent drops for horror films or even the 35-40 percent drops for critical darlings. The Shack showed with 16.1MM; this faith-based movie attracted some known actors and will likely do pretty well against a 20MM budget.  The LEGO Batman Movie takes the fourth slot with 11.7MM on a 39 percent drop that seems a bit large considering the lack of competition for family films at the moment.  Before I Fall rounds out the Top Five with 4.9MM against a 5MM production budget.

NATALIE PORTMAN and her husband Benjamin Millepied have welcomed their second child together.

EMMA WATSON is confused about the backlash to her Vanity Fair photoshoot.

BEAUTY & THE BEAST: Russian officials are coming under pressure to check if Disney's new film breaches the country's law against “gay propaganda”.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER fired The Apprentice.

JARED LETO is circling a Tron reboot.

HOW A MINOR CHARACTER IN TAXI DRIVER Influenced One of the Most Iconic Scenes in Pulp Fiction.

TOMMY PAGE, a pop star whose song “I'll Be Your Everything” went to No. 1 in 1990 and who later became a record company executive, publisher of Billboard magazine and a vice president at Pandora, has died.  He was 46.

IRAQ: Twelve people from the embattled city of Mosul, including a 2-month-old baby, have been treated for suspected exposure to a blistering chemical agent, medics said Saturday, as Islamic State militants strike back at government-held neighborhoods while trying to hold off advancing government forces.

IRAN reported the first successful experiment carried out by its aerial defense system S-300 received from Russia.

TEN TURKEYS try to confer a tenth life on a dead cat using their secret ritual.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: There is a subreddit named Insightful Squirrel Men.

TWO CROCODILES were stolen from a mobile zoo in Sydney.

SPIDERS engage in deadly, kinky, marathon sex.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

....wtih THE PRETENDERS! Circa 1981, via one of Pate's two fab drummers, Jon Hahn.  Your setlist includes "The Wait," "The Adultress," "Message of Love/Louie Louie," "Talk of the Town," "English Roses," "Birds of Paradise," "Kid," "Stop Your Sobbing," "Private Life," "Day After Day," "Jealous Dogs, " Up the Neck," "Tattooed Love Boys," "Bad Boys Get Spanked," "Precious," and "Brass In Pocket/MysteryAchievement."

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF advance streams The Navigator.

VALERIE JUNE advance streams The Order of Time.

MARTY STUART advance streams Way Out West.

JAY SOM advance streams Everybody Works.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features new tracks from Land of Talk, Juana Molina, Ride and more in the latest edition.

PETER BJORN & JOHN share "Stuck," a bonus track from the deluxe edition of Breakin' Point.

LAURA MARLING shares “Nothing, Not Nearly,” ahead of Semper Femina.

THE DISTRICTS share "Ordinary Day."

THE POLICE want to get "Next To You."

LOU REED's personal archives are headed to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

NEW ORDER: Peter Hook talked to VICE about his book Substance: Inside New Order.

BECK talked to the New York Times about his upcoming album.

THE BIG LEBOWSKI: A history of the soundrack.

NOW SHOWING:This weekend's wide releases include Logan, which is currently scoring 93 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; The Shack, which was not advance screened; and Before I Fall, scoring 67 percent.

LOGAN: Uproxx talks to director James Mangold.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES has a new trailer online.

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR is set to become the most expensive movie ever made.

KONG: SKULL ISLAND's early reviews are pretty good.

FRIENDS: Lisa Kudrow revealed their secret reunion.

SHIRLEY MacLAINE felt her younger brother Warren Beatty's pain during Sunday's big Oscar flub.

TUCK ME IN: Terror in one minute.

SYRIA: A senior official of Al Qaeda was killed on Sunday in Syria by a United States drone strike, an American official said on Wednesday.

IRAN is likely to go on an international shopping spree for surface warships, submarines and anti-ship missiles after the expiration in 2020 of a United Nations resolution prohibiting it from acquiring sophisticated weapons, according to the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence.

YEMEN: The United States conducted 20 airstrikes against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen, including targets in the Abyan, Shabwa and Baydha regions.

THE TALLEST FEMALE DOG in the World.

A BLACK BEAR was accidentally dropped from a helicopter and killed in Thailand.

A PINK PUPPY and her brother were rescued in Wildomar, California.

A CROCODILE SHARK washed up on a UK beach, baffling experts.

THE DANDY WARHOLS drop a video for "Thick Girls Knock Me Out (Richard Starkey)".

WHY? advance streams Moh Lhean, their first new album in five years.

ELLIOT SMITH: Five Excellent Legal Bootlegs.

THE AUSTIN 100: NPR Music's annual mix marking the SXSW Music Festival.

THE DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

CRAIG FINN shares "Preludes" ahead of We All Want The Same Things.

WIRE shares "Diamonds In Cups" ahead of Silver/Lead.

THURSTON MOORE shares "Cease Fire" as a single.

BIG WALNUTS YONDER: Minutemen bassist Mike Watt, Wilco guitarist Nels Cline, Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier, and Nick Reinhart of Tera Melos share “Raise The Drawbridges?”

JENS LEKMAN is tentatively turning the color back up on the world, having found a new way to feature in his own story.

JOHN K. SAMSON talks Punk, Dylan, and more at the Indepenedent.

ANTLERS frontman Peter Silberman talked to Paste about his solo album.

THE 60 BEST DANCE FLOOR CLASSICS, according to Paste.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 has a new trailer online.

ALIEN: COVENANT has a trailer online.

AQUAMAN had a few secs of vfx test footage leak online.

KATY PERRY and ORLANDO BLOOM are taking a break.

BRANGELEXIT: Amid Brad Pitt's bitter divorce from Angelina Jolie, he has “been texting” with ex-wife Jennifer Aniston.

THE BIG BANG THEORY: Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch are seeking contract parity.

JESSICA CHASTAIN was told by a director that she talks too much about "women stuff."

ANSON MOUNT and IWAN RHEON join the cast of Marvel's Inhumans series.

RUSSIA and CHINA vetoed a UN resolution to impose sanctions on Syria over the alleged use of chemical weapons.

SIBERIAN TIGERS take down a drone.

COW: A Kanabec County sheriff’s deputy was out looking for a cow reportedly in the roadway outside Mora, Minn., late Monday when he hit the cow with his squad car.

A WILD PANDA stepped out of character to kill and eat a goat in China.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Brockport, NY's annual Squirrel Slam, a decade-old fund-raising event, has drawn the ire of animal lovers and environmentalists.

Seriously, taking a day off because there isn't even low-grade gossip.  I'll be back tomorrow.

THE LEMON TWIGS played "I Wanna Prove To You" on Colbert.

CLOUD NOTHINGS stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

TIFT MERRITT performed at the WNYC Soundcheck studio.

MIDDLE CHILDREN is streaming their debut, Earth Angel.

I WANT CANDY from The Strangeloves and a super-charged Bow Wow Wow for Twofer Tuesday.

FOXYGEN talks about piecing their new LP together on All Things Considered.

BLITZEN TRAPPER announces the production of Wild & Reckless, a musical written and to be performed by the band in their hometown of Portland, Oregon.

MATMOS talks to Pitchfork about the zen majesty of doing laundry and why they decided to base their new record on the sounds of their own washing machine.

RADIOHEAD's MOST DEPRESSING SONG: It's Science.

THE OSCARS' Best Picture mix-up may be the result of an accountant taking and tweeting pics of Emma Stone.  And that wasn't the only mixup on the show.

THE OSCARS also continued the telecast's recent downward ratings trend, as I would expect when you don't nominate popular films like Gravity, The Wolf of Wall Street, American Sniper, and so on.

JOSH HARTNETT & TAMSIN EGERTON are expecting their second child.

DOUBT: The midseason show starring Katherine Heigl and Laverne Cox has been pulled from the schedule after two episodes. Ouch.

KONG: SKULL ISLAND drops its final trailer.

VERA FARMIGA joins the cast of Godzilla: King of Monsters.

HIGH NOON: The classic American film that almost got shot down.

WALLY the CORGI loves his snow maze.

ISIS jihadists turned a puppy into a suicide bomber, but there's a happy ending.

FURRY FRIENDS ROCKIN' RESCUE is helping dogs abandoned by Dakota Access Pipeline protesters.

MICROBES in a glittering cave are revived after 10000 years. What could possibly go wrong?