URGE OVERKILL: Their killer '93 single "Sister Havana" and their even more famous cover of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" are your Twofer Tuesday.

SHARON VAN ETTEN visits World Cafe.

SCRUNCHIES, Live at the Hideaway.

THE CHARLATANS' Tim Burgess shares "Typical Music."

REAL ESTATE's Martin Courtney shares "Sailboat."

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley spoke to Vulture about the band's early days, their favorite Jason Isbell contribution, and making people mad.

ANDREW BIRD, on his creative process and being inspired by Joan Didion.

QUEEN will be releasing a single with the late Freddie Mercury.

PAUL VANCE, the songwriter responsible for the infamous 1960 chart-topper "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," has died at 92.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Next's "Too Close," a great R & B song about a boner.

TOP GUN 2 soared even higher than estimated in its second weekend of release.

DEADPOOL 3 will not be Disneyfied.

VIGGO MORTENSEN & LEA SEYDOUX: Why They Loved Working With David Cronenberg On Crimes of the Future. 

MEGXIT: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle invited Prince William, Kate Middleton and their children to Lilibet's first birthday party as an olive branch — but the family did not attend.

NEVE CAMPBELL is exiting the Scream franchise.

TED LASSO will conclude with Season 3.

JON HAMM, JUNO TEMPLE & JENNIFER JASON LEIGH will star in Season 6 of Fargo.

WEDNESDAY ADDAMS has a trailer online.

THE SANDMAN has a trailer online.

A COW ON THE LAM IN OKC was roped down by actual cowboys on horseback.

A PARAGLIDER meets a black vulture.

BIG CATS are still cats.

THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS broke through with this video for "Love My Way" on the MTV.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Andrew Bird, Angel Olsen, Drive-By Truckers, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Horsegirl, the Land Trust benefit, the Umbrellas, and more.

KATE BUSH: Thanks to Stranger Things, "Running Up That Hill" has entered the rare category of returning to radio.  And she's pretty jazzed about it.

ST VINCENT covers Lipps Inc.'s 1980 disco classic "Funkytown."

PHOENIX returns with "Alpha Zulu."

ANGEL OLSEN discusses the Big Time.

UK SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVALS have been forced to close as the cost of living crisis hits home.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at K-Ci & JoJo's wailed-out R & B ballad "All My Life."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Top Gun: Maverick easily repeated atop the chart with 86MM on a 32 percent drop that's the leggiest evah for a wide release that opened to over 100MM; the 291.6MM  domestic haul to date is also the best for a Tom Cruise movie evah --more than the total domestic run of any Tom Cruise movie evah (that's right: those Mission: Impossible movies aren't even close).  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness places with 9.25MM on a 43 percent drop (worldwide, it's the 2nd-biggest movie of the pandemic era and the 10th biggest MCU flick). And the Bob’s Burgers Movie shows with4.5MM on a 63 percent drop. Below the fold, the internet tricked Sony into re-issuing Morbius, and it bombed a second time.

TOP GUN: The original is at the top of the streaming charts.

DAVID CRONENBERG, on Crimes of the Future, death, microplastics, the end of the world, and therapy.

QUEEN ELIZABETH II appeared as a hologram in her carriage during her jubilee celebrations.

MICHAEL B. JORDAN and Lori Harvey have called it quits.

SHAKIRA and her partner Gerard Piqué are taking time apart.

FANTASTIC FOUR: Kevin Feige wants a name director to bring them into the MCU. Third time's a charm?

BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO THE UNIVERSE has a trailer online.

ALAN CUMMING's missing co-star chimp was found alive after his owner faked his death as part of a longstanding battle with PETA.

SEA TURTLE vs TIGER SHARK: Who You Got?

CAT outsmarts pupper.

TWO HORSES, rockin' out.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with HARRY NILSSON! Let's revisit the BBC's "The Music of Nilsson from 1971, including a mashup of "Mr. Richland's Favorite Song" and "One," "Gotta Get Up," a medley of "Walk Right Back," "Cathy's Clown" and "Let The Good Times Roll," and really moving take on "Life Line." Then there are two videos from The Point!  -- "Think About Your Troubles" and "Are You Sleeping" -- sandwiching "Joy." The set concludes with "Without Her," "Coconut" and "1941."

PEDRO THE LION plays KEXP.

MIKE CAMPBELL & THE DIRTY KNOBS, Live at Rockwood Music Hall.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS share "Training Montage."

SHE & HIM do a slighly bluesy cover of the Beach Boys' "Wouldn't It Be Nice."

ALISON KRAUSS & ROBERT PLANT tackle "Rock and Roll" for the first time.

THE ROLLING STONES play "Out of Time" live for the first time.

ANGEL OLSEN, on Grief, Coming Out, and Making a Country Album.

CRAIG FINN is launching a podcast.

DAVE SMITH, who created the Prophet-5 synthesizer and pioneered the use of MIDI, has died at 72.

AMBER HEARD's lawyer said she will appeal the verdict, and will not be able to pay the 10.4 million in damages the jury awarded to ex-husband Johnny Depp.

FURIOSA: George Miller is bummed he couldn't get Tilda Swinton into his new ‘Mad Max' prequel.

KIM KARDASHIAN & PETE DAVIDSON: A true romance story, with acronyms.

SARAH JESSICA PARKER finally unloads on Kim Catrall.

THE WIRE: David Simon and Ed Burns discussed why it has only become more relevant - and why it would never be made today.

BETTY WHITE's former home sold for over 10MM.

THE SHORT-LIVED REIGN of MTV's Best Kiss Award.

DANCE like nobody's watching.

TWO PUPPERS, one doggy door.

OCTOPUS... Kites?

MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle choreographs Ace of Base's "The Sign." (Language warning) A perennial fave.

!!! (Chk Chk Chk) plays KEXP.

LUCIUS visits World Cafe.

NATION OF LANGUAGE covers The Replacements' 1984 classic "Androgynous."

CAT POWER covers the Rolling Stones' "You Got the Silver."

PHOEBE BRIDGERS shares "Sidelines."

YEAH YEAH YEAHS return with “Spitting Off the Edge of the World” (ft Perfume Genius).

BEABADOOBEE shares "Lovesong."

THE SEX PISTOLS: John Lydon thinks Her Majesty is a pretty nice girl, actually. BONUS: Consequence of Sound fact-checks FX's new show about the band.  DOUBLE BONUS: The Queen in pop, from Slowthai to the Smiths to Blur.

CRAIG FINN is profiled at American Songwriter.

JD McPHERSON talks about playing with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Will Smith's "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It," the moment that a Hollywood titan returned to rap as a spare-time activity and still wound up with a huge hit. BONUS: There's going to be a Number Ones book spun off from the series.

JOHNNY DEPP won his defamation trial against AMBER HEARD, with a 10.4MM verdict, though Heard won 2MM in her counter-suit. The ratings were big.

JADA PINKETT SMITH addressed husband Will Smith's infamous Oscar-night slap incident.

THE MENU, ft Anna Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult, has a teaser trailer online.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: The Suicide Squad breakout Daniela Melchior will have a small role in Vol. 3.

TOP GUN: MAVERICK is another piece of evidence that Hollywood really doesn't need to rely on China. 

NETFLIX wants to focus on making bigger movies, making better movies, and releasing fewer than it previously did.

WARNER BROS: Toby Emmerich is exiting his post as the studio's Picture Group chairman.

A MOUNTAIN LION made an unexpected visit to a classroom at Pescadero High School Wednesday morning. 

WHERE did the ball go?

ZERO Fluffs Given.

THE MAIN INGREDIENT: "Everybody Plays the Fool." Sometimes.

THE NATIONAL plays three new songs in Paris.

DEHD plays KEXP.

DAWES shares "Comes In Waves."

DREAM SYNDICATE shares "Every Time You Come Around."

WILL BUTLER shares "A Stranger's House" and "Nearer To Thee."

BETH ORTON shares "Weather Alive."

ROXY MUSIC invented the 1980s with Avalon?

MIGHTY MAX WEINBERG, on returning to the E Street Band, and his Jersey roots.

TERRY ALLEN: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Usher's first chart-topper, the space-age sex jam "Nice & Slow." (somehow skipped this one earlier.)

STRANGER THINGS 4 breaks Netflix records, though those metrics may matter more to the company than people trying to compare audiences.

PINOCCHIO: The Disney live-action remake has a teaser trailer online.

CARY FUKUNAGA: According to Rolling Stone, sources who worked with the director on various films, TV series, and commercials over the past six years describe him as using his sets as an opportunity to meet younger women and openly pursue multiple female cast and crew members at once during production.

KEVIN SPACEY said he is “confident” he can prove his innocence against sexual assault allegations brought by three men.

TOM CRUISE: Hollywood's Last Great Movie Star?

QUENTIN TARANTINO announced a new film history book that will see him exploring and analyzing iconic films from the ‘70s.

RAY LIOTTA Made ‘Goodfellas' As Much As It Made Him.

FLORIDA GATOR Steals Ball From Golfer After Hitting The Green.

LAMB SCRITCHES bring tail wags.

CAT and Butterfly.

CATS & DOGS, sleeping together...