BLAKE BABIES' fab cover of the Grass Roots' "Temptation Eyes."  Saw 'em open for Game Theory, many moons ago.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to MGMT, Hurray For The Riff Raff, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Mary Timony, Real Estate, Stereolab‘s Laetitia Sadier, and more.

PAUL WELLER shares “Soul Wandering.”

THE LIBERTINES: Pete Doherty says he was "healthier when he was on heroin."

MGMT: "Every so often we do something that's accidentally on trend."

YARD ACT: James Smith's cultural highlights.

IAN "TICH" AMEY, the lead guitarist of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich, has died at 79.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Bob Marley: One Love repeats atop the chart with 13.5MM on a 53 percent drop. Demon Slayer places with an 11.6MM debut.  The faith-based Ordinary Angels shows with a 6.5MM debut.  Another slow wee, perhaps the last for a while.

THE SAG AWARDS went to these folks.  Congrats. (A pretty CW selection all told.)

THE SPIRIT AWARDS went to these folks. Congrats.

COYOTE v ACME's fate is uncertain as the WB takes a 115MM tax writedown.

WERNER HERZOG, on the ‘Barbenheimer’ phenomenon.

SCHINDLER'S LIST: An Oral History.

OFFICE SPACE Turns 25.

GLADIATOR 2's budget has ballooned to 300MM.

RICHARD RUSHFIELD's Hollywood Field Guide.

FOUR GOLDENS and a baby.

TRAMPOLINE MAKERS find their target demo.

CATS & DOGS, living together.

FLACO,  the Eurasian eagle owl discovered missing from the Central Park Zoo after his exhibit was vandalized just over a year ago, is dead after an apparent collision with a building on West 89th Street in Manhattan.