ROBBIE ROBERTSON, who led the Canadian-American group the Band to rock prominence in the 1970s and worked extensively with Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, has died. He was 80. Here's the Rolling Stone obit, with embeds of “The Weight,” “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” “Up on Cripple Creek,” and more.  Here's The Band's last performance, a cover of Marvin Gaye’s “Baby Don’t You Do It,” from The Last Waltz.  Here's a tribute from Scorsese, with more from musicians spanning the decades.  BONUS: Here's the almost 3-hour Political Beats discussion of The Band with the late, great Terry Teachout.

NICK LOWE: Speaking of Political Beats, here's 3 and 1/2 hours on the Jesus of Cool, with a fair amount of Brinsley Schwartz, Dave Edmunds, Rockpile, and Elvis Costello along the way.

A BACK-TO-SCHOOL PLAYLIST from Largehearted Boy.

TEENAGE FANCLUB shares "Back to the Light."

LANA DEL REY covers Tammy Wynette’s "Stand By Your Man."

JOLIE HOLLAND shares "Haunted Mountain."

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

SIXTO RODRIGUEZ, a Detroit musician whose songs, full of protest and stark imagery from the urban streets, failed to find an American audience in the early 1970s but resonated in Australia and especially South Africa, leading to a late-career resurgence captured in the Oscar-winning documentary “Searching for Sugar Man” in 2012, died on Tuesday. He was 81.

JAMIE REID, the artist and graphic designer whose collage work for the Sex Pistols was a central pillar of the punk aesthetic, has died aged 76.

BARBIE: The political philosophy of this summer's blockbuster.

BARBENHEIMER: There are no lessons.

THE CONTINENTAL has a trailer online.

SYDNEY SWEENEY: Madame Web is keeping her cool.

BARSTOOL was sold to Dave Portnoy for a dollar, after he sold it for 550MM.

ROBERT SWAN, whose credits include such films as Hoosiers, Rudy, The Untouchables and The Babe, has died at 78.

A BORDER COLLIE, calculating its next move.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

LARGE ISRAELI SNAKE dies after trying to eat a porcupine.

GOATS: “They’re not yoga goats. They’re just blue-collar, hard-working, clearing goats.”