THE TEMPTATIONS: "Psychedelic Shack." That's where it's at.

NEW RELEASES: Paste points you to Andy Schauf, Ada Lea, Esperanza Spalding, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has The Connells, Public Service broadcasting, a VU tribute LP, and more.

DURAN DURAN & GIORGIO MORODER team up for "TONIGHT UNITED."

STEELY DAN: Donald Fagen talks Nabokov and Judaism.

THE WAR ON DRUGS: Adam Granduciel talks to Pitchfork about a new baby and a new album.

JAPANESE BREAKFAST: Michelle Zauner talks to The Current about scoring the video game Sable.

THE PIXIES: Trompe Le Monde turns 20.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at "Step By Step," the final big hit of the New Kids On The Block era.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Shang-Chi tops the chart for a fourth weekend with13.3MM, above expectations and now the largest grossing film of the pandemic era.  Dear Evan Hansen places with 7.5MM, which has to be considered a bomb even for the pandemic era.  Free Guy shows with 4.1MM on a 20 percent drop, still quite leggy.

WILLIAM SHATNER will become the oldest person to ever travel to space.

BRITNEY SPEARS's father hired a security firm that surveilled her and recorded audio from her bedroom, an ex-employee says in a new documentary.

ELON MUSK & GRIMES are dunzo.

MARVEL is suing the heirs of some late comic book geniuses to hold on to full control of Avengers characters including Iron Man, Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Falcon, Thor and others.

HARRY POTTER's Tom Felton is on the mend after his collapse at the Ryder Cup.

JAMES BOND will continue to debut in theaters over srteaming, or so Amazon tells producer Barbara Broccoli.

THE SANDMAN: Netflix dropped a first look.

NICOLAS CAGE, drunk and rowdy, getting kicked out of a fancy Vegas restaurant. Life imitates Art.

A DOZEN WILD BOAR on the streets of Rome.

THERE ARE two types of cats.

A GOOSE greets his human.