THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with BURT BACHARACH! The debonair pop composer, arranger, conductor, record producer and occasional singer whose hit songs in the 1960s distilled that decade’s mood of romantic optimism, died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94.  His musical legacy is massive, having co-written “(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance,” "Baby, It's You," “What the World Needs Now Is Love,” “The Look of Love,” “What’s New Pussycat?,”  “Walk On By,” “I Say a Little Prayer,” “This Guy’s in Love With You,” “(They Long to Be) Close to You,” “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do),” and even "Always Something There To Remind Me,"just to name a few.  The Stereogum obit has comments from Dionne Warwick. The Guardian has a medley of Bacharach playing the hits. We shall not see his like again.

DEPECHE MODE returns with "Ghosts Again."

MARGO PRICE & SHARON VAN ETTEN duet on "Radio" for the Late Show.

DAS KOOLIES: Former Super Furry Animals share “The Condemned.”

ROGER DALTREY, on the Who and the Keith Moon biopic he's written.

ROGER WATERS is re-recording Dark Side of the Moon (clearly not due to the original's quality). And Russia wants him to speak at the UN.

THE EDGE, on Television as an inspiration for U2.

BLACK SABBATH, but in a ballet.

GRAHAM NASH remembers DAVID CROSBY at AARP.

BRITNEY SPEARS' family and friends were in talks to host an intervention for the pop star.

PAUL RUDD: Inside the stupendous rise of Hollywood's favorite everyman.

IDRIS ELBA is profiled at Esquire.

SPIDER-MAN NOIR: A live-action series is in the works at Amazon (but probably without Nicolas Cage).

THE ROYALS: An expert claims Harry and Meghan would be less visible if they attend King Charles' coronation.

PAINT, with Owen Wilson playing Bob Ross, has a teaser online.

STRAYS, a talking dog revenge flick, has a NSFW trailer online.

SECURITY TO AISLE 7... no rush.

SORRY I MISSED YOUR CALL, the frogs had my phone again.

I DO MY LITTLE TURN on the catwalk.

A DOGGO was rescued after more than 60 hours underneath the rubble in Turkey.

PAUL COLLINS & PETER CASE, formerly of The Nerves, play "Hanging On The Telephone" in-store.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features Yo La Tengo, Nanna, and more.

INDIGO GIRLS play a Tiny Desk Concert.

THE NO ONES (incl. Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey) bring the Bangles’ Debbi Peterson along for “Phil Ochs Is Dead.”

BARTEES STRANGE shares "Tisched Off" and "Keekee'in."

THE STOOGES' Raw Power at 50.

MORRISSEY said that he’s starting to think that his former label Capitol Records is intentionally “sabotaging” his new album.

SCREAMING FEMALES, profiled at SPIN. 

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Taylor Hicks, the man who broke the 'American Idol' machine, and at his bellowing coronation song "Do I Make You Proud," the last 'Idol'-generated single to top the Hot 100.

HARRISON FORD: "I Know Who the F*** I Am."

ANT-MAN director Peyton Reed on completing the trilogy, setting up a new phase of the MCU, and MODOK.

EVANGELINE LILLY says JEREMY RENNER is still using a wheelchair as he recovers from being run over by a snowplow on New Year’s Day.

WARNER BROS. plans to keep Discovery+ as a stand-alone streaming service.

MATT SHAKMAN, on directing Fantastic Four instead of Star Trek 4.

ELIJAH WOOD is unhappy with AMC's new ticket pricing plan.

CATE BLANCHETT performances to watch befre the Oscars.

COCAINE BEAR director Elizabeth Banks on risking her career.

TOY STORY, FROZEN, and ZOOTOPIA are all getting sequels.

HAMSTERS reinvent the wheel.

A CAT hits a jackpot.

THE BIGGEST PENGUIN EVER was a monster bird.

SAM COOKE & JACKIE WILSON unexpectedly meet up on "Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha."

SILVERSUN PICKUPS visits World Cafe.

R & B MUSIC in the 1970s.

SHARON VAN ETTEN shares an unseen video for "Serpents."

PURLING HISS shares "Baby."

PINK FLOYD: David Gilmour (and his wife, author Polly Samson) went off on Roger Waters.

YO LA TENGO's Ira Kaplan, on the new album, their Hanukkah residencies, re-creating The Onion's Yo La Tengo article at The Onion's holiday party, playing Bobby Knight Ranger on 'Parks & Rec,' and much more.

BELLE & SEBASTIAN: Stuart Murdoch on parenthood, cancelling the tour, and more.

JOHN CALE, on embracing pop and the avant-garde.

CHARLIE THOMAS, who recorded memorable songs like “There Goes My Baby” and “Under the Boardwalk” with the Drifters, the silken-voiced R&B group that had a long string of hits from 1959 to 1964 and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Fame, died on Jan. 31 at his home in Bowie, Md. He was 85.

LEONARDO DiCAPRIO's new girlfriend is not a 19 year old?

RICK & MORTY: Inside the Implosion of Justin Roiland's Animation Empire.

PAUL RUDD advises CHRIS EVANS on being Sexiest Man Alive.

ANT-MAN & THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA has mostly solid early buzz.

BRENDAN FRASER slams the Golden Globes.

MARIA MENOUNOS and husband Keven Undergaro are expecting their first baby.

YOU PEOPLE ends with a CGI kiss.

THE MOST PIRATED MOVIES of 2022.

FAWLTY TOWERS: A reboot is in development.

YOU and your bestie.

FLACO: Concern is growing by the hour over the fate of an escaped owl from the Central Park Zoo in New York City.

ARTISTIC dog tracks.

THE BOOMTOWN RATS: Let's roll out "Rat Trap" and "Someone's Looking At You" for Twofer Tuesday.

PAVEMENT, on Austin City Limits.

SOUND OPINIONS: Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot, on the albums that define Chicago.

PETER GABRIEL shares "The Court."

THE ALBUM LEAF & BAT FOR LASHES team up for "Near."

FLEETWOOD MAC: Probably as dead as Christine McVie.

ROBERT FORSTER talks to Paste.

TOM VERLAINE, essayed at PopMatters.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Shakira and Wyclef's reggaeton-adjacent summertime smash "Hips Don't Lie."

YELLOWSTONE may end as we know it, and Matthew McConaughey may be in a spinoff.

MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY is voicing Elvis Presley in an upcoming Netflix animated spy series called 'Agent Elvis.'

BEN AFFLECK was everyone watching the Grammys.

HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART 2 has a full trailer online.

WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP: The Hulu reboot has a trailer online.

STRANGER THINGS: Finn Wolfhard has said that he’s been asking Winona Ryder about her past relationships with famous musicians.

WINNIE THE POOH: BLOOD AND HONEY already has grossed almost a million in Mexico.

IN KNOW WHAT YOU DID Next Summer?

KEANU REEVES, being Keanu Reeves.

THE PROBLEM FOR THEATERS? Maybe it's just a supply issue.

TWO DOGS, One Apple Tree.

A DOGGO was rescued after living with wolves.

WHEN YOU RIDE ON AN EEL so that you're not its meal, that's a moray.

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD covers "People Get Ready."

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Robert Forster, The Men, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has The WAEVE, The Go! Team, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and more.

THE DAMNED returns with "The Invisible Man."

TROPICAL F*** STORM did a 17-minute cover of Jimi Hendrix's "1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)."

THE GRAMMYS wen to these folks. Congrats to Wet Leg and more. Nirvana, the Supremes, and more got lifetime achievement awards.

GARY GLITTER has been freed from prison after serving half his 16-year jail term for attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one of having sex with a girl under 13.

RICHARD HAWLEY, hanging out down at the pub.

TOURING VISAS may increase in price by 250 percent.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Chamillionaire & Krayzie Bone)'s "Ridin'," a protest song so improbably catchy that it became a meme.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: There's a new champion at the cineplex: Knock at the Cabin tops the chart with 14.2MM.  80 for Brady, which has a discount ticket plan, placed with 12.5MM. Avatar 2 shows with 10.8MM on a 32 percent drop.

ARMIE HAMMER granted his first interview since a sex abuse scandal imploded his life, Hollywood career and marriage.

BEN AFFLECK & MATT DAMON, together again, with a big push from Amazon.

LEAVING NEVERLAND's director dumps on the planned Michael Jackson biopic.

GLADIATOR 2 gets a release date.

SETH ROGEN suspects Superbad was the last good high-school movie.

EUPHORIA's Chloe Cherry was cahrged with the alleged shoplifting of a 28-dollar blouse.

THE ENDLESS SEINFELD, almost entirely generated by algorithms, has been streamng since mid-December.And now has been suspended for at least 14 days.

MELINDA DILLON, who received supporting Oscar nominations for her turns in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Absence of Malice and portrayed the doting mom in the holiday perennial A Christmas Story, died Jan. 9. She was 83. 

AWWW, YEAHHHH.... that's the spot.

HIDE & SEEK TIP: Don't get cocky.

MALE DROMEDARY CAMELS have an organ called a dulla in their throat.

A EURASIAN EAGLE OWL escaped the Central Park Zoo and is on the loose in NYC.