DEE-LITE finds that "Groove Is In the Heart," with a little help from Bootsy Collins and Q-Tip.

WAR:  Lonnie Jordan joins Sound Opinions to discuss The World Is a Ghetto.

CHERRY GLAZERR shares "Soft Like a Flower."

THE DRUMS shares "Better."

BONNY DOON reflect on their early influences and share a selection of Folkways recordings that have inspired them, from Elizabeth Cotten to Lucinda Williams.

THE BEST MUSIC of 2023 (So Far), according to Pitchfork.

THE ALTERNATIVE NUMBER ONES looks at Big Audio Dynamite, the band that Mick Jones started after getting kicked out of the Clash, and at "Just Play Music!," their attempt at a funky complaint record.

DISCO DEMOLITION NIGHT: Yesterday was the anniversary of Disco Demolition Night, a promo event occurring during a scheduled twi-nite doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers that would prove to be the most ill-conceived promotional idea since the infamous "Ten Cent Beer Night" in Cleveland in 1974. It's now the subject of a book and this oral history at Chicago magazine.  Though some think it had to do with racism, homophobia, etc., the event had much more to do with the fact that Chicago radio station WDAI forced out morning host Steve Dahl o­n Chirstmas Eve 1978, to switch to a disco format. A man who is cashiered wearing a Santa suit tends to carry a grudge. (Indeed, authentic Disco, as it had originated in predominantly black and gay clubs, had already died commercially -- but the genre later found its way onto the Top 40 in the wake of Saturday Night Fever as a trendy white phenomenon; Dahl's critics might consider whether that phase was a cultural apporpriation.) A few months later Dahl re-surfaced at WLUP with "Do You Think I'm Disco?" -- a parody of Rod Stewart's "Do You Think I'm Sexy?" with lyrics that targeted yuppie narcissism and materialism. He also did a bit where he pretended to blow-up disco records, which Mike Veeck, the son of Sox owner (and legendary showman) Bill Veeck, thought could be turned into a promotion in which admission was 98 cents (because WLUP was FM 98) for anyone who brought a disco record to be blown up between the two games. It was far more successful and less controllable than either Dahl or Veeck imagined, with young people storming the park to enter, creating a fog of marijuana smoke in the stands, sailing records like frisbees, throwing firecrackers and ultimately storming the diamond after the scheduled demolition had concluded and Dahl was en route to the announcer's booth for the second game. Footage of the event from from stellamasters, along with the aftermath at FuzzyMemories and this compilation of local news coverage from the night is pretty darned good, with cameos from Bill Kurtis and Greg Gumbel.  BONUS: White Sox organist Nancy Foust has the program of how it was supposed to go.

OPPENHEIMER's early buzz is hot.

BARBIE will show in the Philippines, with light censorship.

HOLLYWOOD BIGWIGS want to let the striking writers go broke.

SAG-AFTRA agreed to federal mediation of negotiations with the studios.

THE EMMYS nominations are out.

SUPERMAN: LEGACY adds Barry's Anthony Carrigan.

TOM CRUISE still wants to make a movie in outer space.

ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL is a first-time dad at 55.

A SEA OTTER steals surfboards in Santa Cruz.

A BLACK SWAN, feeding the fish.

CATS & DOGS, living together.