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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with BLIND FAITH! Live at London's Hyde Park in June 1969. After an introduction and brief segments about supergroup members Steve Winwood, Rick Grech, Ginger Baker, and Eric Clapton, your set list includes:"Well All Right", "Sea of Joy","Sleeping in the Ground", "Under My Thumb", "Can't Find My Way Home", "Do What You Like", "In the Presence of the Lord", "Means to an End", and "Had to Cry Today".

ARCADE FIRE, Live in New Orleans, including three new songs.

WET LEG, Live on a Porch from the Isle of Wight.

CAMERA OBSCURA shares "Making Money."

SONIC YOUTH released a recording of their 1989 show in Kyiv to benefit Ukrainian relief.

MARK MOTHERSBAUGH talks Devo and scoring videogames, TV, and movies.

KURT VILE talks voicing cartoon squirrels, collaborating with peers and heroes alike, ando getting a parade thrown for him in his hometown of Philly.

JEFF TWEEDY talks Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

INTRICATE SYMPHONIES: An Interview With Spiritualized.

MEGXIT: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have finally visited Queen Elizabeth II together for the first time in more than two years.

JOHNNY DEPP & AMBER HEARD engaged in “mutual abuse,” according to a therapist testifying in Depp's defamation claim.  The jury also heard disturbing text messages, including one in which Depp allegedly said he hoped Heard's body was rotting in the trunk of a Honda Civic. 

THANDIWE NEWTON exits the new Magic Mike film, reportedly after a bust-up with Channing Tatum about the Oscars slap, which the actress denies..

DISCOVERY is exploring an overhaul of DC Entertainment.

HACKS: Season 2 has a trailer online.

DAVID CRONENBERG's CRIMES OF THE FUTURE has a teaser trailer online.

FRANK LANGELLA has been fired from “The Fall of the House of Usher” Netflix series following a misconduct investigation into an allegation of sexual harassment.

TOP GUN: MAVERICK shot as much film as the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

A CAT, and a metronome.

A DOGGO, making fetch happen.

HELLO, MY NAME IS INGO MONTOYA. You killed my father, prepare to die.

FOR THE LAST TIME, we play over here.

SIMON & GARFUNKEL count the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike.

BRITTANY DAVIS plays a Tiny Desk Concert from Home.

FOLK IMPLOSION streams the Feel It If You Feel It EP, their first since 2000.

BELLE & SEBASTIAN share "Young and Stupid."

GUIDED BY VOICES shares "Alex Bell."

THE FOUR TOPS, BONNIE RAITT, JOURNEY and WU-TANG CLAN are among those getting archived in the Library of Congress. 

JIMMY PAGE is working on "multiple projects," but turned down Ozzy.

BILLY BRAGG, on The Million Things That Never Happened.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Mariah Carey's breezy "Always Be My Baby."

THE NORTHMAN has a trailer online. Director Robert Eggers had a difficult time making it.

AL PACINO started dating a 28-year-old during the pandemic.

CUBA GOODING JR pleaded guilty to forcibly touching a woman at a New York nightclub in 2018.

EMMA MACKIE joins the cast of Barbie, and not hard to see why.

VIOLA DAVIS, Inside Out.

MARK WAHLBERG has a prop from Boogie Nights. Yes, that one.

GROOMING A HUMAN's HAIR is hard work.

AN UNEXPECTED Eviction.

GENTLE GRAY WHALES in Baha.

JON PRATT: Pate's frontman returns with "Anywhere But Gone" and "A False Note."

PRINCE's career through Around the World in a Day gets almost four hours of discussion and analysis on Political Beats with guest Eli Lake.

3RD SECRET: Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil, and Pearl Jam/Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron are streaming an album.

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS return with "Welcome 2 Club XIII."

BUILT TO SPILL returns with "Gonna Lose."

INTERPOL shares “Something Changed.”

DESTROYER: Dan Bejar tours his discography at Bandcamp.

MARAH: For All We Know, We're Dreaming.

THE LINDA LINDAS, interviewed by Kathleen Hanna.

ELVIS PRESLEY's back catalog has been sold to Universal Music Publishing Group.

GILBERT GOTTFRIED, the comedian who gave voice to the parrot in the hit Disney animated feature “Aladdin” and the duck in commercials for Aflac insurance — and whose manic, loudmouthed and highly original stand-up routines mixed old-fashioned borscht-belt shtick with cringeworthy vulgarity — died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 67. The tributes roll in.  BONUS: Career highlights.

STRANGER THINGS: Season 4 has a trailer online.

DOCTOR STRANGE 2 is getting the maximum security approach to spoilers.

RHIANNA, on pregnancy, in Vogue.

FANTASTIC BEASTS: Some of Dumbledore's secrets will stay that way in China.

MAISIE WILLIAMS, after Game of Thrones.

METHOD ACTING: An Excuse For Bad Behavior?

WELL, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions.

THOUGHT THIS WAS A KANGAROO for a second.

OWLS: Basically cats with wings.

PIGEONS: More than rats with wings.

SOUL ASYLUM dip into their back catalog for the classic "Never Really Been" at the Northern Lights Theater; Milwaukee, WI.  Throw in a cover of Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" and you have Twofer Tuesday.

WET LEG, Live at First Ave.

THE LINDA LINDAS play a Tiny Desk Concert.

KING KHAN & THE BBQ SHOW shares "Going Down." And it's even more of a throwback than usual.

FLOCK OF DIMES shares "Go With Good."

SHARON VAN ETTEN is an Institution Now.

DESTROYER: Dan Bejar, looking back to his past and forward to what might come next.

CHICAGO's YOUNG INDIE SCENE, surveyed by Bandcamp.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Celine Dion's big, dramatic movie ballad "Because You Loved Me."

BRITNEY SPEARS announced that she is pregnant with her third child, her first with fiancé Sam Asghari.

SENIOR YEAR has a trailer online.

WILL FERRELL will join Margot Robbie in Barbie.

SEAN PENN considered taking up arms against Russia.

DAVID LYNCH is likely debuting a surprise film at Cannes.

MICHAEL BAY discusses the disapearing American Dream, his explosive visual style, the woman who changed his life, and why he "100 percent" would work with Will Smith again.

PAUL VERHOEVEN says someone has to take a stand against Hollywood's new puritans.

MARTIN SCORSESE's MOVIES Are Funnier Than Most Modern Comedies.

DUCKS surfing artificial rapids.

A SAND BUBBLER CRAB builds a beach home in a jiffy.

LEMURS will rock you.

THE WAPO SQUIRREL PHOTO CONTEST reaches an unusual conclusion.

THE PRIMITONS play "Seeing Is Believing" at an in-store appearance from 1985.  Proof positive that the Internet makes the "Where Are They Now?" file bottomless.  Background at Trouser Press.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Father John Misty, Wet Leg, the Linda Lindas, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Orville Peck, Kae Tempest, Mick Trouble, and more.

WILCO: Live in New Haven, Sept. 16, 2000.

SHARON VAN ETTEN does a mini-cover of Bowie's "Starman" for a Netflix doc on Elon Musk.

JACK WHITE proposed to his girlfriend and then married her during a Detroit concert.

CAMP COPE: Helped by the pandemic?

CHRIS BAILEY, the lead singer of legendary Australian band the Saints, has died at 65.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Mariah Carey & BoyzIIMen's "One Sweet Day," the ballad that topped the Hot 100 for a record-shattering 16 weeks.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 tops the chart with a startling 71MM, more than the original's debut during a pre-pandemic holiday weekend. Morbius places with 10.2MM on an unsurpising 74 percent nosedive.  The Lost City shows with 9.1MM on a leggy 38 percent drop.  Michael Bay's Ambulance may need one with an 8.7MM fourth-place debut.Below the fold, Everything Everywhere All at Once took in 6MM in its first wide weekend.

BENNIFER Are Engaged. Again.

THE SLAPPENING: Chris Rock won't talk about Will Smth until he gets paid.

BRIE LARSON joins Fast and Furious 10.

AMBER HEARD sounds off ahead of her defmation trial on claims brought by Johnny Depp. 

SAM ELLIOTT apologizes for his criticism of The Power of the Dog.

NICOLAS CAGE did a Reddit AMA. All good, but here are some highlights.

BETTER CALL SAUL:  Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will guest star in the final season of the “Breaking Bad” spinoff.

KATHLEEN TURNER Made the Modern Femme Fatale.

TEARS & TERROR: The Disturbing Final Years of Mickey Rooney.

AT&T'S WarnerMedia Era Ends: How Culture Clashes, Massive Debt and Donald Trump Doomed the Merger.

TH CAT CHALLENGE, several rounds.

TRAINING A DOGGO with Selfies.

STAY CALM, blend in.

ONE FOR YOU, One For Me.