THE MOODY BLUES hit the charts with "Go Now" before going psychedelic.

SHARON VAN ETTEN performs a MicroShow at the Warming House in Minneapolis, an intimate 40-seat listening room.

FRAGILE ROCK brings emo puppets to the Tiny Desk Family Hour at SXSW.

LOW CUT CONNIE performs at The Current Day Party in Austin during SXSW.

FRANKIE COSMOS shares "February" and "In The World."

MORRISSEY covers Jobriath's "Morning Starship," with help from Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste.

LEON BRIDGES performs "If It Feels Good" on The Late Late Show.

FAYE WEBSTER impressively recreates the pedal steel and horn-laden sound of 1970s Southern R & B.

IGGY POP is fine with being called the Godfather of Punk.

ROGER DALTREY says Brexit won’t affect British musicians.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Stevie Wonder's eternally funky monster-jam "Superstition."

LORI LAUGHLIN's daughter blames Mom for screwing up her business deals.

EMMA ROBERTS and Evan Peters have ended their engagement, and now the actress is dating Garrett Hedlund.

STRANGER THINGS has a Season Three trailer online.

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN has now found his female lead for his next film, tapping Elizabeth Debicki to co-star with John David Washington. Robert Pattinson has also joined the cast.

BILL & TED 3: The buzz has reached the New York Times. It's going into production this summer and is planned for a summer 2020 release.

GAME OF THRONES challenges fans to find six Iron Thrones secreted around the world.

QUENTIN TARANTINO'S Once Upon A Time In Hollywood has a teaser trailer online.And they released a poster featuring Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate, as I predicted.

NICOLAS CAGE's new film follows a Jiu Jitsu fighter who every six years must face off against an alien invader.

PUPPERS and the Imperial March.

SLIDING A BABY SHARK back into the sea.

THAT COW ON THE LAM IN NYC will escape slaughter. A lamb and a got also made recemt breakouts. Animal control said that was an unusually large number of escapes.

CAT CANNIBALISM: U.S. government scientists bought hundreds of dogs and cats from "Asian meat markets" and conducted experiments that included feeding their remains to healthy lab cats for needless research, according to a disturbing watchdog report.

JIMMY WEBB, one of America's master songwriters, plays "Elvis and Me" on Steve Dahl's 1991 NYE PPV event.

CHERRY GLAZERR performs at Barracuda in Austin, as part of The Current Day Party during SXSW.

BAD BAD HATS also performs at The Current Day Party.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED recaps the highlights of SXSW.

THE DREAM SYNDICATE shares "Put Some Miles On."

HOW DICK DALE Changed the Sound of Rock Guitar.

ROGERS & HAMMERSTEIN are getting 90 percent of songwriting royalties on Ariana Grande's "7 Rings."

PRIESTS talk to Pitchfork about nearly breaking up, defying expectations, and the questionable characters that populate their surprising new album.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Carly Simon's subliminal gutshot "You're So Vain."

TOY STORY 4 has a trailer online.

ALLISON MACK is in plea negotiations over sex-slave cult charges.

LORI LAUGHLIN's daughter allegedly didn't even fill out her own application to USC.

GAME OF THRONES: Kit Harrington talks about his journey and life after Jon Snow.

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN's next film has a star, even if we know nothing about the movie yet.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME's trailers may be misleading.

APOLLO 11: Inside the making of the acclaimed documentary.

THE DOG is the most amazing athlete here.

A COW ran loose on the Major Deegan Expressway near Yankee Stadium Tuesday morning.

ANOTHER COW ran away from Indiana police and hid out at Chik-Fil-A (ironically).

A LYNX captured in Michigan had been attacking geese.

THE FEELIES: The Jonathan Demme-directed "Away" and a live take on "Deep Fascination" for Twofer Tuesday.

EX HEX advance streams It's Real.

JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE performs at The Current Day Party during the SXSW music festival.

AMANDA PLAMER plays three songs in a creek bed at SXSW.

AVEY TARE shares a psychedelic equestrian video for his new song "HORS_."

JENNY LEWIS waas profiled by the L.A. Times.

THE BREEDERS' Kim Deal talks about their fifth album, Pixies and touring with Nirvana.

ANDRE WILLIAMS, the R & B singer whose speak-sing style earned him the title "The Godfather Of Rap" and whose career was revitalized by interest from garage rockers like Jon Spencer and the Gories, has died at 82.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Billy Paul's Philly soul infidelity anthem "Me And Mrs. Jones."

WARNER BROS. chairman and CEO Kevin Tsujihara is exiting his role after text messages between the executive and Charlotte Kirk revealed that Tsujihara said that he would push for auditions for the actress amid an apparent sexual relationship that he was having with her.

GAME OF THRONES: Oscar-nominated Miranda Richardson has joined the ensemble cast of the prequel pilot.

THE CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA, PART 2 has a trailer online.

QUENTIN TARANTINO's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood dropped a poster that does not feature Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate.

BLACK WIDOW: Florence Pugh is in talks to join Scarlett Johansson’s standalone superhero film.

THE FUTURE OF STREAMING is... the cable bundle?

A TINY PIG has the biggest heart.

DIGGING that sleeping spot.

A CAT that went missing five years ago finally returns home.

THE BOBCAT HARVEST is up in Illinois.

BLUE SWEDE: "Hooked on a Feeling," introduced by the late Don Kirshner. Ooga-Chucka.

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS played the Great Pyramids Of Giza in Egypt. Starts about 33 minutes in.

ANDREW BIRD performs at The Current Day Party in Austin, Texas, during SXSW.

YOLA also performs at The Current Day Party in Austin, Texas, during SXSW.

JENNY LEWIS shares "Wasted Youth."

BETTER OBLIVION COMMUNITY CENTER plays "Sleepwalkin' " on The Late Late Show.

DICK DALE, the pioneer guitarist of surf rock known for his 1962 hit "Misirlou," has died age 81. His fifth single, 1961’s "Let’s Go Trippin’", is considered the first surf rock instrumental and has been credited with launching the early 1960s craze.

THE CURE'S 10 BEST, according to NME.

FRED DURST haz a jazzshow? And Lady Gaga crashed it?

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Helen Reddy's pop-feminism anthem "I Am Woman."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Captain Marvel easily repeats atop the chart with 69.3MM on a 55 percent drop; that percentage isn't uncommon for standalone origin stories in the MCU, and it's from a bigger debut than some.It could wind up grossing closer to 400MM domestic and a Billion worlwide as moviegoers gear up for Avengers: Endgame.The debut of Wonder Park places wih 16MM, a bit better than projected but still dodgy against a reported 80MM budget, though Nick is planning to make it a TV series, which may boost the home market. Five Feet Apart shows with13.1MM, again a bit better than expected and just fine against a reported 7MM budget. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World slides 36 percent to the fourth slot with 9.3MM;I'd call that drop leggy, but Tim Burton's Dumbo is coming in a couple of weeks. Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral rounds out the Top Five with 8MM; it may wind up as the second-biggest grosser in the franchise.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3 will be directed by James Gun after all. Disney cut the deal months ago, but kept it quiet.

LORI LAUGHLIN's daughter Olivia Jade skipped her first week of classes at USC and flew to Fiji while gloating about her island vacation.

PARIS JACKSON is resting at home following a hospitalization for an "accident."

FRIENDS: A reunion isn't happening, according to co-creator Marta Kauffman.

THE FLASH: Ezra Miller is taking a stab at c-writing the screenplay.

RICHARD ERDMAN, the mirthful character actor who stood out on the big screen in The Men, Cry Danger and Stalag 17 and then on the sitcom Community, has died. He was 93.

A 50-FT ANACONDA was registered in the Xingu River, Brazil.

FLORIDA MAN ARRESTED for tackling a brown pelican.

AN INSANELY MUSCULAR MONEY was spotted in Finland.

GOLDEN RETRIEVERS hit the pool.

THE ST. PATRICK'S DAY WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with JOE STRUMMER and THE POGUES!  People will be getting their drink and dance on, so enjoy Joe, Shane and the band putting a Celtic spin on "London Calling" and "I Fought The Law" for St. Patrick's Day, 1988. Follow that up with the Dropkick Murphys' videos for "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" (which you may have heard in Martin Scorsese's The Departed) and "The Wild Rover."  Round it out with an Old Grey Whistle Test of my fave Pogues song, "Sally MacLennane," and a Shamrock Shake.

AMERICAN FOOTBALL advance streams "American Football (LP3)."

NILUFER YANYA advance streams Miss Universe.

THE BETHS play for Psste ay SXSW.

THE AUSTIN 100: ALUMNI EDITION is a playlist NPR assembled of artists returning to SXSW.

BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH: The friendly stranger in the black sedan.

JOHN LENNON's resurfaced letter details his (unjustified) anger with his record label and the music industry at large over the Two Virgins album.

STELLA DONNELLY breaks down her debut record at Paste.

THE BEST LPs of 2019 (so far), according to NME.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Temptations' ambitious, tragic masterpiece "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone."

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are Wonder Park, which is currently scoring 23 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Five Feet Apart, which is scoring 42 percent. and Captive State, which was not advance screened for critics. No competition for Captain Marvel at the top of the chart.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME has a full trailer online.

LORI LAUGHLIN has been dropped by the Hallmark Channel in the wake of  the college admissions bribery scandal. Her daughter, Olivia Jade, has been dropped for her relationship with Sephora.

USC says it will deny admission to all students connected to the cheating scheme. So Laughlin''s daughters have peremptorily quit the school.

ROSARIO DAWSON confirms she's dating Sen. Cory Booker and says they're in love.

ROSIE O'DONNELL says she was sexually abused by her father.

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE: Is it Kubrick's worst movie? (spoiler: no.)

SPIELBERG vs NETFLIX: He has a point, even if he doesn't have much industry support.

PIGCASSO: The painting pig who lives at a farm sanctuary in South Africa.

DOG & COW: A love story in two parts: Part 1 and Part 2.

A GIANT WOLFDOG goes viral after being dumped at a kill shelter, rescued by a sanctuary.

A FOX IN A HENHOUSE does not turn out as you'd think.