PILOT works their "Magic" on TOTP.

NEW RELEASES; Paste will point you to the Front Bottoms, Chris Farren, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Ride, Annie Hart of Au Revoir Simone, and more.

THE PRICE OF POP FANDOM: Concerts become increasingly unaffordable. They are "more like a summer vacation: something you plan for, save for and splurge on, chasing the promise of a lifelong transcendent memory."

12 GREAT Pee-Wee Herman Musical Moments.

THE O.C. Made Indie Mainstream.

JOHN GOSLING, former keyboardist for The Kinks, has died at the age of 75.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Barbie threepeats atop the chart with 53M domestic as it nears a billion worldwide. The Meg 2 places with 30MM.  Oppenheimer shows with 28.7MM as it closes in on 500MM worldwide.  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is fourth with a 28MM debut, with a 42MM haul since Wednesday against a 70MM budget. Talk To Me, with a 42 percent drop, is setting up to be one of A24's biggest grossers ever.

BARBIE has no sequel in sight.

ELEMENTAL has weathered the storm?

WARNER BROS claims it has saved 100MM during the strikes.

JAMIE FOXX apologized to the Jewish community after being accused of anti-Semitism.

BILL COSBY faces another sexual assault claim.

THE WARRIORS is Lin-Manuel Miranda's next musical adaptation.

MATTHEW BRODERICK comes to terms with his legacy being Ferris Bueller.

RISKY BUSINESS at 40: The Movie that Made Tom Cruise ‘Tom Cruise.'

MARK MARGOLIS, the prolific actor whose simmering air of menace as the fearsome former drug lord Hector Salamanca in “Breaking Bad” transformed the innocent ding of a bellhop bell into a harbinger of doom, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 83.

MONKEYS, testing out the frog.

A DUDE sleeps with six dogs, four cats, and a pig.

A FAMILY OF DUCKS, shopping at the record store.