JAY & THE AMERICANS "Come a Little Bit Closer" on Thursday.

AEON STATION plays KEXP.

ADA LEE plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

WYNONNA & WAXAHATCHEE teamed up on “Other Side.”

MOMMY shares "Lucky."

FANNY: The all-female 70s rock band is the subject of a new documentary.

KAREN DALTON and The Overlooked Heroines of '60s Folk.

DEF LEPPARD's Joe Elliot expounded onthe band’s history, from their funniest lyrics to their riskiest endeavors.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Janet Jackson's beautiful, elegiac house track "Together Again."

TOP GUN: MAVERICK is projected to be Tom Cruise's biggest weekend evah.

JOHNNY DEPP was grilled by Amber Heard's lawyers.

JENNIFER COOLIDGE & NATASHA LYONNE reunited in a Vanity Fair interview.

ELVIS: Austin Butler has entered the building.

BEAST: Idris Elba vs a Lion in a new trailer.

BENNIFER: Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are closer to walking down the aisle than you might think.

SETH GREEN lost four NFTs in a recent phishing scam – including one image from the Bored Ape Yacht Club series that he had been intending to base a new TV show around.

SPEED RACER is headed to a live-action series on AppleTV+.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

A DISNEY-ESQUE true-life adventure.

WAIT FOR IT... I've seen it before but everyone should.

FREE: "All Right Now." Wouldn't be Summer without it.

THE DIP plays World Cafe.

PAVEMENT plays their first show in 12 years.

AMANDA SHIRES shares "Hawk For The Dove."

SHEARWATER shares “Laguna Seca.”

TONY MOLINA shares “The Last Time” (not a Stones cover).

RADIOHEAD: Ed O’Brien reflects on 25 years of OK Computer.

THE SEX PISTOLS: The disbanded punks are celebrating the Jubilee, but a reunion looks unlikely.

THE TOP 10 CRAIG FINN SOLO SONGS, according to Paste.

ADDICTED TO STREAMING: A decade under the influence of music algorithms.

AEROSMITH's Steven Tyler checks into rehab again.

TOM CRUISE RUNS. Is He Any Good At It? ALSO: Cruise terrifies James Corden in a fighter jet. ALSO: The cast of Top Gun: Maverick explains what it took to become on-screen pilots.

AMBER HEARD rested her defense Tuesday morning in the defamation case brought by Johnny Depp.

THE GRAY MAN, with Ryan Golsing and Chris Evans, has a trailer online.

BAD BOYS 4 is still in development following reports that it had been halted due to Will Smith’s slapping incident at the Oscars.

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE: David Cronenberg's latest polarizes the Canne Film Festival.

MELANIE LYNSKEY, profiled at Vulture.

GUY FIERI, Elder Statesman of Flavortown.

A PUPPY improvises a Slip n' Slide.

A DOGGO navigates the stairs oddly.

I DON'T KNOW who's more startled.

THE RASPBERRIES crush "Go All The Way" and "I Wanna Be With You" for Twofer Tuesday.

PRINCE: His career from 1992-2016 gets three hours of analysis and discussion on Political Beats.

DEL McCOURY visits World Cafe.

PR0NO FOR PYROS, Reunited.

NIGHTLANDS: The War On Drugs side project shares "No Kiss For The Lonely."

SUEDE returns with “She Still Leads Me On.”

SUPERCRUSH shares "Perfect Smile."

SHARON VAN ETTEN: "I don't share 99 percent of my music: sometimes it's too dark."

JULIEN BAKER, on her songwriting journey and touring with a full band.

CRAIG FINN Returns to the Scene.

MOONAGE DAYDREAM, an estate-approved Bowie movie, has a teaser trailer online.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Savage Garden's weightless adult contemporary bubblegum jam "Truly Madly Deeply."

THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER has a trailer online.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 7 officially released that trailer.

TOP GUN 2: Tom Cruise's Last Stand?

AQUAMAN was the big topic at the Depp-Heard trial yesterday.

STRANGER THINGS: Season 4 has a final trailer online.

ELVIS: Baz Luhrmann's joint has a second trailer.

CHRIS PRATT & KATHERINE SCHWARZENEGGER welcomed their second child.

MORGAN FREEMAN: Banned from Russia.

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN, on revisiting Vader.

TIME's 100 Most Influential People.

COLIN CANTWELL, the concept artist who designed iconic Star Wars spacecraft, including the X-wing Starfighter, TIE fighter and Death Star, died Saturday at his Colorado home. He was 90.

A SEAGULL STOLE A PIZZA? Too good to check.

THE JOGGER who attracts squirrels.

CATS love boxes, not paper bags.

DAVID BOWIE: "Modern Love." from the Summer of 1983.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Craig Finn, Porridge Radio, Cola, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has The Clash, Poster Paints, Weird Nightmare and more.

SPIRAL STAIRS shares  "Pressure Drop [End of the Hurricane]."

LOU BARLOW & COMPANY share “Only Fading” and “Sacrifice.”

MICK JAGGER, on Harry Styles.

JOHN PEEL's personal records and memorabilia is being auctioned, including rare items from John & Yoko, Nirvana, Joy Division, Bowie and more.

BOB NEUWIRTH,  a painter, recording artist and songwriter who also had an impact as a member of Bob Dylan’s inner circle and as a conduit for two of Janis Joplin’s best-known songs, died on Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 82.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the one-off cultural phenomenon of Elton John's "Candle In The Wind 1997."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness threepeats atop the chart with another 31.6MM on a 51 percent drop and looks to top out at 950MM worldwide, which would rank 11th in the MCU, but the second biggest Hollywood movie of the pandemic.  Downton Abbey: A New Era places with a 16MM debut, which is significantly lower than the first movie in this series, yet probably pretty good considering it appeals to an older demo that has been reluctant to return to theaters post-pandemic.  The Bad Guys shows with 6.1MM on a leggy 13 percent drop.  Below the fold, Everything Everywhere All at Once came in sixth with 3.MM on a leggy 6 percent drop, which was enough to make it A24's top earner of all-time with 52.3MM domestic to date.

KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN & TRAVIS BARKER are renting an Italian castle for their wedding.

THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING, with Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, has a trailer online.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 7's trailer leaked online, but it seems to be scrubbed now.

KATE McKINNON, PETE DAVIDSON , AIDY BRYANT, and KYLE MOONEY are leaving SNL.

SAM NEILL & LAURA DERN reflect on the age difference in their Jurassic Park romance.

DAVE CHAPPELLE opened for JOHN MULANEY in Ohio.

GLEN POWELL is likely to be in demand after Top Gun: Maverick.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

IF YOU SEE HIM, it's too late.

A GOOSE on a motorcycle.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with POWER POP! A few of these may be known generally, like Cheap Trick's "Way of the World" and Nick Lowe's "Cruel to Be Kind"... and some well-known to fans of the genre, like Dwight Twilley's "I'm On Fire," Shoes "Too Late," The Records' "Starry Eyes," the Flamin' Groovies' "Shake Some Action" and the Plimsouls'  "A Million Miles Away" (seen here in a rare live slot).  Others are well-known to longtime Pate fans, like the Three O'Clock's "Her Head's Revolving" or Let's Active's "Waters Part."  BONUS: Bram Tchaikovsky playing "Girl Of My Dreams" and "Lady From the USA", live.

PARQUET COURTS plays KEXP.

THE NINETIES: NPR compiles a... 30-song playlist? That's a big dropoff from its prior playlists. Just saying.

ANGEL OLSEN shares "Through The Fires."

FOUR TET shares "Looking At Your Pager."

GANG OF YOUTHS play "Forbearance" on Kimmel.

THE HOODOO GURUS: Somehow I missed David Fulkner talking to Magnet.

VANGELIS,  the electronic-music pioneer who won an Oscar for “Chariots of Fire” and composed such other landmark film scores as “Blade Runner,” died Tuesday, the Athens News Agency reported. He was 79. Greek media reports say he died in a French hospital while being treated for COVID-19.

RHIANNA and A$AP Rocky are officially parents ... welcoming a baby boy to the world.

SOUTH PARK: THE STREAMING WARS has a trailer online.

JOHNNY DEPP was “drunk a lot of the time,” Ellen Barkin told a Virginia courtroom today of her Fear and Loathing in Last Vegas co-star.

DAREDEVIL is getting a new series at D+. Rumors have Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio returning.

THE WONDER TWINS have been deactivated.

MARGOT ROBBIE is going to try to refresh the Ocean’s Eleven franchise.

ARMIE HAMMER's alleged sexual assault scandals, alongside other controversies in his family history, are set to be detailed in a new true-crime special.

THE ALGORITHM Is A Lie.

WHAT HAPPENED to Comedy in Hollywood?

JOHN AYLWARD, an actor best known for his portrayals of Dr. Donald Anspaugh on ER and former DNC chairman Barry Goodwin on The West Wing, died this week at his home in Seattle.  He was 75.

DOGGO nails the long shot.

A CAPYBARA, riding a tortoise.

ROUND AND ROUND, what goes around comes around...