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EDDIE COCHRAN: "Summertime Blues." Ain't no cure for 'em.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Pulp, Turnstile, and more. 

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Lifeguard, Jens Lekman, and more.

DAVID BYRNE joined OLIVIA ROGRIGO at GovBall for "Burning Down The House." 

"PSYCHO KILLER" finally gets an official video, ft. Saoirse Ronan. 

PAUL McCARTNEY joined BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN in Liverpool for some Beatles tunes.

NAPALM DEATH & THURSTON MOORE cover The Ramones' "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue." 

PULP: Jarvis Cocker on gym life, aging and sexuality, and more. 

BILLIE EILISH and Nat Wolff have taken their rumored romance public. 

R.E.M. songs, ranked by David C. Lowery. 

MATTHEW SWEET has a health update after his stroke.  

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Lilo & Stitch threepeated atop the chart with 32.5MM on a 47 percent drop.  Ballerina placed with a disappointing 25MM debut.  Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning showed with 15MM on a 47 percent drop.

JARED LETO has been accused of sexual misconduct by nine women, allegations representatives for the singer have denied. 

THE TONY AWARDS went to these folks. 

THE LOST BUS has a trailer online. 

BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD, on being a messed up kid. 

THE GOONIES at 40: Where are they now? 

MEET THE PARENTS at 25: Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro reunite, tease a fourth script. 

AMERICAN PSYCHO director Mary Harron is surprised by the film's staying power.

PIPPA SCOTT, who played one of abducted daughters alongside Natalie Wood in John Ford’s The Searchers and the secretary of Rosalind Russell’s title character in Auntie Mame, has died. She was 90. 

CAT vs BEAR: Who You Got? 

BEES take on a hornet. 

MAMA SWAN teaches her babies to ring for treats. 

PUPPERS have a baseball fight. 

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with POWER POP (REDUX)! For whatever reason, I have considered Summer the ideal season for gems like Badfinger's "No Matter What" (which Pate covered on occasion) and "Baby Blue", and even Todd Rundgren's "I Saw the Light" and Cheap Trick's "I Want You to Want Me."  Ditto for more obscure tracks like The Rubinoos "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" (see also their vintage cover of "Please Please Me"), Off Broadway's "Stay In Time" and "Full Moon Turn My Head Around," and Pezband's "Baby It's Cold Outside" and "Close Your Eyes."

PATTERSON HOOD visits World Cafe. 

GINA BIRCH shares "Doom Monger." 

GWENNO shares "Y Gath." A long way from the Pipettes. 

THE STARTING LINE shares "Sense of Humor." 

PURITY RING returns with "many lives + part ii." 

MATT BERNINGER, on the cosmic connection between sad dads and teenaged girls, and more. 

MICKY DOLENZ was nearly cast as Fonzie on Happy Days. 

RIDLEY SCOTT is done with Alien. 

JIMMY FALLON did not anticipate people disliking him after he became famous.

DIDDY TRIAL: A woman testified that during their three year relationship, 90 percent of their time together was during drug-fueled, days-long “freak-offs” where she was coerced into performing sex acts with male sex workers. 

TOM CRUISE set a Guinness World Record. 

SETH ROGEN & JASON SEGEL relive 27 years of friendship. 

HALLE BERRY & VAN HUNT may get around to marriage soon. 

HUGH JACKMAN & RYAN REYNOLDS bought a pro sailing club. 

TOM FELTON: Malfoy once more. 

SAMUEL L. JACKSON may star in a Tulsa King spin-off. 

WES ANDERSON could not land Jodie Foster. 

AMC finally caved in to pre-movie advertising. 

ENZO STAIOLA, best known for playing, at the age of 9 years old, the sad-faced son Bruno Ricci in Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 Neo-realist masterpiece Ladri di Biciclette (Bicycle Thieves), has died. He was 85. 

THE DOG helped preserve the illusion. 

DOGGO or Dervish? 

A FRIENDLY CHEETAH wants pets from a wildlife photographer. 

EVEN A POLICE DOG wants pets. 

AEROSMITH: "Train Kept A-Rollin'" At least until Midnight.

BEN KWELLER visits World Cafe. 

TURNSTILE played "Dull" and "I Care" for Fallon.

FREDDIE COSMOS shares "Pressed Flower." 

ALLO DARLIN' shares "Cologne." 

HAND HABITS shares "Wheel Of Change." 

IVY shares "Say You Will," incl. the late Adam Schlessinger. 

A-HA's frontman, Morten Harket, has been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease.  

THE CARS' artist royalties were bought by Primary Wave, which already bought Ric Ocasek's publishing catalog.  

WICKED: FOR GOOD has a trailer online. 

KNIVES OUT: Inside Hollywood's Succession Wars.

RUSSELL SIMMONS is suing the WB, alleging that the filmmakers behind On the Record defamed him by turning a blind eye to evidence disputing accusations that he sexually assaulted women in his orbit. 

DAKOTA JOHNSON & CHRIS MARTIN are dunzo again. 

BALLERINA is tracking for an okay 30MM debut. 

F1 is getting good early reactions. 

EVERYONE IS ALREADY USING AI (And Hiding It). 

IDRIS ELBA on His Dyslexia, His African Cinema Vision and Doing "a Little Bit of Everything." 

WES ANDERSON: Action-Packed? 

CARRIE FISHER advised MARK HAMILL to become one with The Force.  

A CAT, unsure about the new baby. 

WHAT Does The Cow Say? 

A MOTHER CHICKEN and her Pupper. 

CARL DOUGLAS, with the classic "Kung Fu Fighting."

TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS gets over two and a half hours of discussion and analysis on Political Beats. 

MATT BERNINGER plays "Bonnet Of Pins" for Fallon. 

CURTIS HARDING shares "True Love Can't Be Blind." 

DROPKICK MURPHYS shares “Who’ll Stand With Us?” 

BIG THIEF returns with "Incomprehensible." 

LIFEGUARD shares “Like You’ll Lose.”  

CATE LE BON shares "Heaven Is No Feeling." 

TAYLOR SWIFT's early album streams soar on Spotify after she reclaimed the master recordings. 

HEART reported that two irreplaceable instruments were stolen from the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City ahead of their tour launch.  

SCARLETT JOHANSSON, on pitching Spielberg to star in a Jurassic movie. 

BLAKE LIVELY vs JUSTIN BALDONI: Her claims of intentional infliction of emotional distress have been withdrawn, avoiding production of her medical records.

VIN DIESEL got four employment discrimination claims against him dismissed, but still faces allegations of sexual battery and wrongful termination brought by a former assistant. 

ANDOR cost 650MM, according to Tony Gilroy. 

MICHAEL B. JORDAN Did The Impossible. 

28 YEARS LATER: The new trilogy won't see Cillian Murphy right away. 

CLINT EASTWOOD exposed that recent "interview" from Austria as kinda fake. 

ARNOLD & PATRICK SCHWARZENEGGER on nepo babies, nude scenes, and stardom. 

MARTY McFLY's guitar is missing. 

MIA SARA (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) stepped out for a rare red carpet appearance at the Los Angeles premiere of her first movie in a decade.

SETH ROGEN, on the misconceptions about studio heads. 

THE 13 COMMANDMENTS of Background Acting. 

A COCKATOO tells the dog about his day. 

AN OLD DOG still gets excited when seeing his owner. 

AN ELEPHANT raids a Thai convenience store for snacks. 

URGE OVERKILL: Their killer '93 single "Sister Havana" and their even more famous cover of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" are your Twofer Tuesday.

PULP plays Jools Holland.

PAVEMENT shares a cover of Joe Pepper's "Witchitai-To." 

MARSHALL CRENSHAW played Jill Sobule's "Jetpack" at a tribute show to the late singer-songwriter. 

AL JARDINE, NEIL YOUNG & FLEA share "My Plane Leaves Tomorrow (Au Revoir)." 

SUPERCHUNK shares "Is It Making You Feel Something?" 

ACTIVITY shares "Heavy Breathing." 

THE 50 BEST ALBUMS of 2025 (So Far), according to Stereogum. 

RICK ASTLEY: “Never Gonna Give You Up” has passed 1 billion streams on Spotify. 

THE NUMBER ONES ooks at Lizzo's "Truth Hurts," which went viral two years after its release. 

FANTASTIC FOUR: Meet the stand-in for The Thing. And director Matt Shakman reveals the comics that inspired him.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN isn't taing the stand. 

JAMES CAMERON is ready to take a break from Pandora with an adaptation of best-selling novel The Devils.  

DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE has a teaser trailer online. 

NATASHA LYONNE & RIAN JOHNSON on why Poker Face scared the suits. 

MARK HAMILL rules out more Star Wars. 

HAPPY GILMORE 2: Julie Bowen is surprised she's back. 

PRINCESS DIARIES 3 is scouting castles. 

PIERCE BROSNAN on MobLand, James Bond, and Mamma Mia. 

CARRIE: The Netflix mini-seres casts up. 

JONATHAN JOSS, an actor on “King of the Hill” who voiced John Redcorn, died in a shooting on Saturday.  He was 59.   

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, chicken-style. 

THE DOGGO wins a spot in bed. 

GERMAN SHEPHERD vs GOLDEN RETRIEVER: Spaghetti Eating Contest.