THE PIPETTES: "Your Kisses are Wasted On Me." Before it all went wrong. Sigh.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Cults, Wand, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Crack Cloud, Robber Robber, and more.

KATE PIERSON shares "Evil Love."

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE cancelled more live shows as frontman Josh Homme remains under “medical care”.

PINK FLOYD's Nick Mason wants to use AI to create new songs.

SINEAD O'CONNOR's cause of death has been revealed.

ROD STEWART faces his mortality.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Deadpool & Wolverine shatters all sorts of records with a 205MM debut, the eighth-highest opening of all-time.  Twisters places with 35.3MM on a 57 percent drop, obviously affected by the superheroes in town. Despicable Me 4 shows with 14.2MM on a 42 percent drop. Here are those records.  Below the fold, Longlegs becomes A24s highest-grossing film, surpassing Parasite.

ROBERT DOWNEY JR is returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Doctor Doom in a new “Avengers” movie titled “Avengers: Doomsday,” which will be directed by Joe and Anthony Russo in their own return to Marvel.

HARRISON FORD wanted a piece of the MCU.

THE PENGUIN has another trailer online.

CREATURE COMMANDOS has a trailer online.

BENNIFER: Affleck has purchased a new multi-million dollar L.A. estate.

JAMES WOODS kept quiet about being an executive producer of Oppenheimer.

SAORISE RONAN married actor Jack Lowden in a secret ceremony.

A SQUIRREL MAMA wants to show off her babies.

A GIANT PHANTOM JELLYFISH that traps its prey with 33 feet-long mouth-arms was spotted off California coast.

A MERGANSER, running on water.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

with MUSIC TELEVISION!  The cable phenom debuted on this weekend in 1981. The first four hours included The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," while the rest of the first day included Pat Benatar's cover of "You Better Run," Rod Stewart's "She Won't Dance With Me," The Who's "You Better You Bet," PH.D's ""Little Susie's On The Up," Cliff Richard's "We Don't Talk Anymore," The Pretenders' "Brass In Pocket", Todd Rundgren's "Time Heals", REO Speedwagon's "Take It On The Run," Styx's "Rockin' The Paradise", and many more.  BONUS: Stereogum ranks the debut videos.

LINDA & TEDDY THOMPSON visit WFUV.

IRON & WINE plays at The Current.

STING shared his synthy demo for “Every Breath You Take.”

THURSTON MOORE, 66, shares "New In Town."

KELLEY STOLZ shares "About Time."

THE 2024 MERCURY PRIZE Shortlist is out.

GARDEN STATE: An oral history of the soundtrack.

KAOS, ft Jeff Goldblum as Zeus, has a trailer online.

KEANU REEVES got choked up over The Matrix at 25.

MARVEL's Kevin Feige on how he first envisioned his professional life in Hollywood, what he most enjoys in his job and whether he sees himself running Marvel for the rest of his career.

REBECCA FERGUSON joins CILLIAN MURPHY in the Peaky Blinders movie.

ALICIA VIKANDER & MICHAEL FASSBENDER welcome a second child.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN is hospitalized with Covid and double pneumonia.

LAURA DERN says she was forced to drop out of college after landing the role of Sandy Williams in David Lynch’s 1986 film Blue Velvet.

GEORGE LAZENBY has retired from acting at the age of 84.

DEER open the market door and bow for food in Nara, Japan.

PIGS vs BEAR: Who You Got?

A PUPPER realizes they're going to the dog park.

ADAM & THE ANTS: "Dog Eat Dog." Gonna look real good (yeah, right).

PRINCE: 40 Years of Purple Rain.

A STRANGE TRIBUTE TO TAYLOR SWIFT, ft the Runaways’ Cherie Currie, Dead Boys, Samantha Cole, Missing Persons,and more.

GREEN DAY's "Corvette Summer" video features Mark Hamill.

THE PIXIES shares "Chicken."

PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE shares "Wish You Well."

BLACK SABBATH's Geezer Butler opened up about his past battle with depression.

JOHN MAYALL, the linchpin of the British blues scene who gave a platform to some of the 20th century’s greatest rock musicians including Eric Clapton and members of Fleetwood Mac, has died aged 90.

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, ft Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, has a trailer online.

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE opens with 82 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, but some of the big outlets have mixed reviews.

MARVEL's Kevin Feige, on whether Tony Stark or Steve Rogers might return to the MCU.

ANGELINA JOLIE & BRAD PITT will both debut in two new films at this year’s Venice Film Festival.

MEGXIT: Prince Harry's mission to hold tabloids accountable differs from the approach taken by the royal family.

BAD MONKEY, ft Vince Vaughn, has a trailer online.

THE SECRET BATTLE for the Future of the Murdoch Empire.

AN A DOGGO shall lead them.

A SWAN on the green.

A CAT, cleaned by a deer.

ELO: Because I "Can't Get It Out Of My Head."

PAUL WELLER visits World Cafe.

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS shares “Long Dark Night.”

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD shares “Hog Calling Contest.”

SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE shares “Something’s Ending” and “I’ve Been Evil.”

ANDRE 3000, on why a lot of rappers sound the same.

KATY PERRY's latest album bombs.

JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX has a trailer online. There's an easter egg in the closed captions.

KEANU REEVES thinks about death a lot now.

TWISTERS: Spot the flying cow.

GLEN POWELL has a date for Top Gun 3.

EUPHORIA: Tragedy and Trauma Inside TV's Buzziest Show.

THE GLASS HALF-FULL VIEW of the Disney ‘Star Wars' Era.

THE BEST MOVIES OF 2024 (So Far), according to The Ringer.

FEED A FOX, he will bring his friends.

AN ANGRY WHALE, off the coast of Portsmouth, NH.

WHEN TWO FRIENDS MEET after a long absence.

THE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, cranking out "I Don't Let The Little Things Get Me Down" and "Rock & Roll Pest Control" raw for Twofer Tuesday.

PERFUME GENIUS shares "All Around Me Now" and "Sweeter" for Twofer Tuesday.

PAUL WELLER played a surprise performance outside a small chip shop in West London.

MICHAEL STIPE talks up Limbo District.

KIM GORDON, not a fan of TAYLOR SWIFT.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at a sneaky, unexpected summer jam: Felix Jaehn's tropical house remix of Omi)'s reggae tune "Cheerleader."

DUKE FAKIR, the last surviving founding member of rock n’ roll / soul / R&B / pop icons The Four Tops, died Monday at his home in Detroit of heart failure. He was 88.

JERRY FULLER, the songwriter and producer whose stellar career included such hits as "Travelin' Man" for Ricky Nelson, "Young Girl" for Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, "Show and Tell" for Al Wilson and "Little Green Apples" for O.C. Smith, has died. He was 85.

JERRY MILLER, guitarist and founding member of ’60s San Francisco scene psych-rock greats Moby Grape, died on Sunday at age 81.

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE took a note from Madonna.

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER is hooking its cast ahead of a planned release next summer.

PETE DAVIDSON, on the one drug he can't quit.

REBEL MOON: The director's cut has a trailer online.

ANDREW GARFIELD's girlfriend is a witch.

ROB REINER, on Albert Brooks, the Spinal Tap sequel, and more.

SHARON STONE will play the villain in Nobody 2.

BRENDAN FRASER will play Ike in a D-Day movie.

APPLE TV+ currently generates fewer views per month than Netflix does in a day.

A COW, crashing a wedding.

TOUR de Donkey.

AN ELEPHANT says goodbye to his terminally ill caretaker.