BO DONALDSON & THE HEYWOODS: "Billy, Don't Be a Hero," from the Summer of '74. Workin' the Elvis jumpuit look.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Geese, Cory Hanson and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Lloyd Cole, Martin Frawley, and more.

RICK ASTLEY, singing and drumming AC/DC at Glastonbury.

GWEN STEFANI reurns with "True Babe."

THE HAZMATS share "Skewed View."

BOB DYLAN covers the Grateful Dead's "Stella Blue."

LIZ PHAIR: Exile in Guyville at 30.

YOUR FAVORITE BAND IS REUNITING, for more than one reason.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Usher's last chart-topper, the clumsy dance-pop embarrassment "OMG."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: In a Summer upset, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse swings back atop the chart with 19.3MM and over 300MM total.  Pixar's Elemental places with 18.5MM on a mere 39 percentdrop (albeit from one of the worst Pixar openings).  The real story may be that The Flash shows with 15.3MM on a disastrous 72 percent drop from an almost equally disastrous debut.  It barely edged out No Hard Feelings, which opened with 15.1MM.  Elsewhere, Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City made 9MM, a record for the director.

SPIDER-VERSE's Artists Say Working on the Sequel Was ‘Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts.'

JON HAMM wed his “Mad Men” co-star Anna Osceola on Saturday at Anderson Canyon in Big Sur, Calif. — where they filmed the show's 2015 series finale.

VANNA WHITE wants a _ _ _ _ _.

THE BEST MOVIES of 2023 (So Far), according to Uproxx.

FREDERICK FORREST, the resilient character actor best remembered for his performance as the high-strung Chef Hicks in Apocalypse Now, has died. He was 86. 

ADAM RICH died of an accidental Fentanyl overdose, his autopsy reveals.

GOAT, victory dancing.

A CAT, entertaning a cat.

TUCKING IN Your Horse.

FLOOF Like the Wind.

...with THREE DOG NIGHT! Once again, I'm enjoying the guilty pleasure of "Eli's Coming" with fellow fans of the late, lamented SportsNight. That, along with memories of The Service's cover of "Shambala" led me to compile a few more, including "Mama Told Me Not to Come," "Joy To The World," "One," "Liar," and "Celebrate."

DEERHOOF plays KEXP.

LIZ PHAIR shared a previously unreleased studio recording of "Miss Lucy."

JARVIS COCKER & RICHARD HAWLEY play "Asteroid City."

BECK & PHOENIX team up for "Odyssey."

JOHN GRANT covers Nick Drake’s “The Day Is Done.”

ISLANDS shares "Life’s a Joke."

BEACH FOSSILS talk Michael Jordan, Brian Eno, and thinking too much about tattoos.

DOUGLAS McCOMBS: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.

LE TIGRE: JD Sampson talks up the reunion.

THE NUMBER ONES on rap's fabled blog era, the Bruno Mars origin story, and B.o.B.'s "Nothin' On You."

JAMES MANGOLD on Indy 5 and why he could use a Scotch right now.

TAYLOR SHERIDAN: Hollywood's most prolific hitmaker does what he wants.

NICK OFFERMAN, on escaping Ron Swanson, his love for the UK and the 'Last Of Us.'

ZACHERY TY BRYAN went from Home Improvement to a Bitcoin fortune, to allegations of domestic violence and fraud.

JAMES CAMERON responded to the Titan submersible disaster.

DUMB MONEY has a trailer online.

THE BEANIE BUBBLE has a trailer online.

PRISCILLA: Sofia Coppola's take on the Elvis marriage has a trailer online and anger from the King's estate.

A DOGGO, when the kiddie pool is being filled.

A CAT, a treat, a door handle.

BEAVERS fighting (or dancing) at roadside.

POP MUSIC: Let's hear M talk about it.

THE WATSON TWINS visit World Cafe.

HURRY shares "Beggin For You."

M WARD & FIRST AID KIT share "too young to die."

JENNY LEWIS covers Girls' "Lust For Life."

WHO IS SHE? shares "Movie Pass."

JASON ISBELL, Rebuilt.

ROD STEWART is not retiring.

STEVEN SPIELBERG, MARTIN SCORSESE & PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON organized an emergency call to David Zaslav to advocate for saving Turner Classic Movies.

JAMES MANGOLD, on Indiana Jones, Spielberg, Swamp Thing, and more.

KEVIN COSTER's wife is seeking 248K in monthly child support.

3 BODY PROBLEM has a teaser trailer online.

ELEMENTAL: What does a Pixar bomb mean?

ANG LEE's HULK: The Most Truthful Approach to Comic Book Cinema?

NO HARD FEELINGS: Early reviews like Jennifer Lawrence. (The Tomatometer is at 63 percent.)

A BEAR That Looked Like a Raccoon and Had a Dangerous Appetite.

A DOG, stuck in an iron fence until the rescuers showed up.

A DOGGO, telling the pups to stay inside.

THE MUSIC EXPLOSION: "Little Bit O'Soul."

ROSE CITY BAND plays KEXP.

BOYGENIUS covers Dan Reeder’s “Stay Down, Man.”

THE SMILE shares "Bending Hectic."

SLOWDIVE returns with "kisses."

GEESE shares "I See Myself."

THE 25 BEST ALBUMS of 2023 (So Far), according to Paste.

JONATHAN MAJORS is going to trial in August, about two months before Loki Season Two debuts.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 7's early buzz is hot. More here.

CHRISTOPER NOLAN says people who have seen Oppenheimer "leave the movie absolutely devastated. They can't speak."

WES ANDERSON does not need your Wes Anderson memes.  And he's uncomfortable about ScarJo's nude scene in Asteroid City.

SEX & THE CITY had a near-death experience in Season Three.

ANG LEE, on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Hulk.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE, Interviewed by CAMERON DIAZ.

A DIK DIK, hanging out with a giraffe.

DOGGOS, making fetch happen.

WE HAVE a hostage situaton.

GARY WRIGHT will always be known as the "Dreamweaver," but add "Love is Alive" (with More Cowbell) and you have Twofer Tuesday.

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE: Josh Homme visits World Cafe.

BOB DYLAN covers Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic.”

THE PRETENDERS shares "I Think About You Daily," with strings arranged by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood.

MY BLOODY VALENTINE's Kevin Shields shares new music.

HOW MARTIN AMIS laid the blueprint for Britpop.

LOW: Alan Sparhawk shared some of his favorite ’90s songs at The Current.

TH BEST SONGS of 2023 (So Far), according to Paste.

ZACK SNYDER shares a BTS video for Rebel Moon.

KRAVEN THE HUNTER has a red band trailer online.

WHY SARAH JESSICA PARKER Keeps Playing Carrie Bradshaw.

TOM CRUISE continues to boost the theatrical experience.

METROPOLIS Sam Esmail’s years-in-the making adaptation of Fritz Lang’s classic 1927 sci-fi film has permanently shut down.

EXTRACTION is getting a threequel.

QUENTIN TARANTINO describes his next protagonist as "Travis Bickle if he were a film critic."

DOGGO Swim Day.

A CAT discovers a Sugar Glider.

CATS & DOGS, living together...