THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with SQUEEZE!  Some of you whippersnappers may never heard of Difford, Tilbrook & Co., who previously reeled of stellar string of pop gems, including "Take Me I'm Yours", "Cool for Cats", "Up the Junction", "Goodbye Girl,"  "Another Nail in My Heart", "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)", "If I Didn't Love You", and the one most people know -- even if they don't know it's Squeeze -- "Tempted", which features transient member Paul Carrack on vox and keys.  Fun fact: Carrack was also responsible for the classic, "How Long" as a member of Ace.

LOW CUT CONNIE advance streams Dirty Pictures (Part 2).

BOMBINO advance streams Deran.

MARY LATTIMORE advance streams Hundreds of Days.

KELLY WILLIS advance streams Back Being Blue.

BRENT COBB advance streams Providence Canyon.

THE UNTOUCHABLES: "I Spy For the FBI."

TWILIGHT OF THE GODS: Steven Hyden's book contains this excerpt about good “bad” records, like the Rolling Stones' Black and Blue.

RYLEY WALKER gets an in-depth profile at Stereogum.

FORTY YEARS LATER: Was 1978 The Greatest Year In Music?

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Steve Lawrence's creepy and terrible "Go Away Little Girl."

FRIGHTENED RABBIT: Scott Hutchison may have been found, and it looks bad.

NOW SHOWING: Ths weekend's wide releases are Life of the Party, which is currently scoring 25 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and Breaking In, which is scoring 37 percent.

R KELLY is getting scrubbed from Spotify's company-made playlists.

GEORGINA CHAPMAN has broken her silence about sexual assault, harassment and misconduct allegations against her estranged husband, Harvey Weinstein.

GRETA GERWIG allegedly caught Amy Schumer’s romantic comedy I Feel Pretty and someone live-tweeted it.

RICK MORANIS will appear in Netflix's upcoming SCTV reunion, An Afternoon With SCTV, after all.

ROMAN POLANSKI thinks the ongoing MeToo reckoning is “total hypocrisy.” Hey, come over here and say that.

RICK AND MORTY gets a ginormous 70-episode renewal order.

THE PREDATOR has a teaser trailer online.

AN ALBERTA ZOO was charged after a bear from the facility was taken through a Dairy Queen drive-thru in a pickup truck and fed ice cream through the vehicle's window.

A FLAMING RABBIT ignited a wildfire in Saskatchewan.

A GOAT will be your caddy in Oregon.

THE WOMBAT MATING BITE may help the species survive, scientists say.

THE TEMPTATIONS gallop through "I Can't Get Next to You" live on TOTP.

OKKERVIL RIVER (or Will Scheff anyway) played a Stereogum Session.

STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS get a mini-documentary.

GORDI plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

FRIGHTENED RABBIT's Scott Hutchison has been reported missing.

STEVE EARLE on Songwriting Secrets and Why He's Been Married Seven Times.

FOO FIGHTERS face an eight-year-old drummer.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Tornados' strange sci-fi instrumental "Telstar."

ANNETTE BENING has joined the cast of Captain Marvel.

IRON MAN's suit was stolen. For realsies.

TAYLOR SWIFT & KATY PERRY have buried the hatchet.Or maybe not.

MIRANDA KERR gave birth on Monday to a little boy.

CHRIS BROWN was just sued by a woman who claims she was raped at his house by one of his friends.

JUSTIN THEROUX and EMMA STONE left Rihanna's 2018 Met Gala after-party together.

ROSE McGOWAN takes her MeToo show on the road.

JORDAN PEELE announced plans for his next film.

ROBIN WILLIAMS: Inside His Final Days.

ANNE V. COATES, the five-time Academy Award-nominated film editor who won an Oscar for her work on the 1962 classic Lawrence of Arabia and most recently cut Fifty Shades of Grey, has died. She was 92.

NOAA conducted a deep-sea expedition in the Gulf of Mexico and came back with this jaw-dropping footage.

HARBOR SEAL that made mostly wrong Super Bowl picks dies. The NYP does not even let up in an obit for a seal.

NAP EYES covers Lucinda Williams, Neil Young, and the Feelies for a Lagniappe Session.

SIGUR ROS shares the first volume of their "endless" ambient-music mixtape, Liminal.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from Childish Gambino, Car Seat Headrest, LUMP, and more.

LATE BLOOMER shares "Heaven."

MIKE MYERS belts out "BBC," Austin Powers-style, with Mac DeMarco, Weyes Blood, and others.

FATHER JOHN MISTY brings "Mr. Tillman" to Jimmy Fallon.

JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON: An Oral History.

LAURA VEIRS talks to Drowned In Sound about touring mothers, her love of vinyl, and how she keeps things fresh in the studio.

THE 25 BEST TEENAGE FANCLUB SONGS, according to PopMatters.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the falsetto yowls of the Four Seasons' "Big Girls Don't Cry."

BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC, is actually happening, some 29 years after the duo's first excellent adventure.

STAR WARS: Alden Ehrenreich has confirmed he signed on for a trilogy of Han Solo adventures. Now Ron Howard also says more Solo is possible.

KIRSTEN DUNST welcomed her first child with fiancé Jesse Plemons over the weekend.

RICK MORANIS will reprise his role as Spaceballs villain Dark Helmet in this Wednesday’s episode of The Goldbergs.

MEET ANDY MITCHELL, the Hollywood newcomer who’s poised to take over Weinstein Co.

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT: The cast is not happy with the expanded and "recut" fourth season of the Netflix comedy. 

BOBCAT KITTENS, mistaken for domestic kittens, 3 people injured.

THE SWARM: Man drives 40 miles with 3000 bees loose in his truck cab.

RED DEER, with virtually no predators, are grazing a Scottish reserve’s replanting effort to death. Send in the wolves, the reserve’s owner says.

A DOG casually crashes a weather forecast.

THE GO-GOS: "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got the Beat" for Twofer Tuesday.

DR DOG plays the Palace.

YOURS ARE THE ONLY EARS stream Knock Hard.

JADE BIRD stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic.

PAUL McCARTNEY: "Birthday."

WILCO gets over two hours of discussion on Political Beats with guest Kevin Madden.

STOP MAKING SENSE: The Greatest Concert Film Of All-Time?

THE CARS: The Story Behind "My Best Friend's Girl."

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Crystals' Phil Spector-produced girl-group classic "He's A Rebel"

BILL COSBY has been stripped of multiple Kennedy Center honors.

JEFFREY TAMBOR, in his first interview since facing accusations of inappropriate behavior on set.

JOHNNY DEPP attacked a location manager on the set of his upcoming film, LAbyrinth, multiple sources told Page Six.

TAYLOR SWIFT's personal record ticket sales didn't stop an unprecedented move on resales.

ELON MUSK and GRIMES are dating, reportedly.

THE GODFATHER is not up for a remake. Yet.

THE KARATE KID: An Oral History.

AN OTTER, dunking with authority.

FIREFIGHTERS REVIVE A KITTEN using an oxygen mask after a fire broke out at a home in Palm Bay, Florida.

ORPHAN ELEPHANTS rush home from bush school to have their evening milk bottles.

MAN MAULED TO DEATH BY BEAR while taking selfie with it.

THE KINKS are "The Village Green Preservation Society." God bless 'em.

RYAN ADAMS covered Exile on Main Street in N'awlins. Here's some.

TRAMPLED BY TURTLES plays the Palace.

DARLINGSIDE plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE shares "Hunger."

LORD HURON dressed up to play "Wait By The River" for Seth Myers.

TONY KIDMAN, of the Dils and Rank & File, died Friday after a recent battle with cancer. He was 63.

BOB DYLAN launches his own brand of whiskey.

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCESTRA's opens up to Aquarium Drunkard about his own self-doubt in the creative process, the role of pop music in his life, and the unlikely role Salvador Dali played in one of the records key moments.

FYF FEST is canceled due to poor ticket sales.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the immortal graveyard smash "Monster Mash."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Avengers: Infinity War easily repeats atop the chart with 112.5MM on a 56 percent drop -- the first film to repeat on the first weekend of May since 1994.  It's currently lagging The Force Awakens domestically, but is the fastest film to crack a billion worldwide.  Where it ends up is a bit of a guess; there's no real competition again next weekend, but then you get Deadpool 2, then Solo at month's end.  Overboard surprisingly places with 14.8MM... or perhaps not so surprising because beyond Anna Faris, there's Eugenio Derbez, who has had under-the-radar success in smaller films tageted at Latino-American audiences. A Quiet Place shows with 7.6MM on a 31 percent drop in a very leggy run for the genre and a likely 10X return on the production budget.  I Feel Pretty takes the fourth slot with 4.9MM on a 40 percent drop, which suggests Amy Schumer will at least outgross her last one.  Rampage rounds out the Top Five with 4.6MMon a 36 percent drop; it may not crack 100MM domestic, but it's doing three times as well overseas.

JEFFREY TAMBOR will appear in the new season of Arrested Development despite recent sexual harassment allegations that resulted in him being dropped from Amazon's Transparent.

R KELLY: Three more women say they were abused by in new reports published by BuzzFeed News and the Washington Post.

KHLOE HARDASHIAN may have buried the hatchet after Tristan Thompson's cheating scandal.

KRISTIN DAVIS adopted a second child.

MEGHAN MARKLE's royal wedding dress ran 135K.

JADA PINKETT SMITH  is moving on from her surprising 17-year feud with Gabrielle Union. 

ALLISON MACK — who is facing criminal charges for her alleged connection to controversial self-help group Nxivm — got married to Battlestar Galactica actress Nicki Clyne, federal prosecutors said in court transcripts obtained by People.

A FORMER JUNKYARD DOG finally found a family and her true personality.

THOSANDS OF SWEDES celebrate the Spring "cow release."

FILMMAKER killed by giraffe.

FLORIDA WOMAN wakes up with a flying cockroach in her ear.  Khaaaaaaaannnn!!!!