NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Viagra Boys, Laura Veirs, Katy J Pearson, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Pavement's Spiral Stairs, former Klaxons frontman James Righton, Mush, and more.

THE MARS VOLTA shares "Graveyard Love."

OF MONTREAL shares “Blab Sabbath Lathe of Maiden.”

SHARON VAN ETTEN, profiled at BOMB.

LAURA VEIRS discusses 10 influences on her new album.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Ricky Martin's hammily energetic "Livin' La Vida Loca."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Thor: Love and Thunder tops the chart with an estimated 143MM, though its B+ CinemaScore raises questions about its legs going forward.  Minions: The Rise of Gru places with 45.6MM on a 57 percent drop — which is the same second weekend hold as 2015’s Minions. Top Gun: Maverick shows with 15.5MM on a 40 percent drop as it closes in on 600MM domestic.

TONY SIRICO, the actor best known for playing the eccentric gangster Paulie Walnuts on the hit HBO series “The Sopranos,” died on Friday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 79.  Alan Sepinwall essays the man and his most famous role. Lorraine Bracco and Michael Imperioli were among "The Sopranos" stars who paid tribute to their castmate.

LARRY STORCH, who played a memorable television oddball on the 1960s sitcom "F Troop" and for years carried a secret in his personal life that was odd in an entirely different way, died on Friday at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 99.

L.Q. JONES, a veteran character actor whose career spanned seven decades, died Saturday of natural causes at his home in the Hollywood Hills. He was 94 years old. He also produced, directed and wrote the 1975 feature “A Boy and His Dog,” which is adapted from Harlan Ellison’s novella of the same name.

LENNY VON DOHLEN, star of Twin Peaks and Electric Dreams, has died. He was 64.

KIRSTEN DUNST & JESSE PLEMMONS finally got hitched.

FLORENCE PUGH tells off men critiquing her see-through gown.

LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER has a teaser online.

GEORGE R.R. MARTIN says his forthcoming novel 'The Winds of Winter' will be 'quite different' from the final seasons of 'Game of Thrones.'

DAVE CHAPPELLE described students critical of his material as "instruments of oppression" in a new Netflix special.

HOLLYWOOD WON'T BUDGE for Chinese censors anymore. Here's what changed.

A YOUNG ARCTIC FOX checks out a nature photographer.

WHEN YOU CAN'T stand the sight of yourself.

A PELICAN, trying to eat a capybara.