THE KINKS: "Last of the Steam Powered Trains" and "Picture Book," circa 1969, from the album The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, for Twofer Tuesday.

IRON & WINE: Sam Beam visits World Cafe.

JARVIS COCKER joined THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN on "Just Like Honey" in Italy.

MJ LENDERMAN shares "She's Leaving You."

NIGHT MOVES covers Colin Blunstone's "Caroline Goodbye."

EFFED UP shares "Another Day."

DAVE GROHL & TAYLOR SWIFT, beefing on the lowdown.

YO GABBA GABBA! is getting a reboot on AppleTV+. 

NOSFERATU, Robert Eggers’ new horror film starring Lily-Rose Depp and Bill Skarsgard, has a teaser online.

BEN AFFLECK went off on paparazzi who ambushed him late outside J-Lo's house.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON is excited about joining the Jurassic World franchise.

ANDOR: Will Ben Mendelson reappear in Season 2?

WHEEL OF FORTUNE: Trouble in Post-Sajak Paradise?

CHARO makes a rare public appearance.

CHINATOWN: The 70s classic that explains the 20s?

FINDING NEMO: The live-action version.

FRENCH BULLDOGS, wallowing in freshly-cut grass.

EVEN A POLICE DOG wants belly rubs.

A SHARK and its posse.

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 O., Been Stellar, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Rich Ruth, Wild Yaks, and more.

GOOSE: The jam band that just might persuade you to love a jam band.

THE DECEMBERISTS play CBS’ Saturday Sessions.

MAXWELL STERN shares “You Deserve A Great Love.”

WILLIE NELSON dropped out of the Outlaw Music Festival on doctor's orders.

THE FLAMING LIPS' The Soft Bulletin Turns 25.

LINDA THOMPSON: As a singer-songwriter, what do you do when you are robbed of your voice?

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Inside Out 2 repeats atop the chart with an estimated 100MM on a 35 percent drop, the 7th best second weekend ever.  Bad Boys 4 places with 18.7MM on a 44 percent drop.  And The Bikeriders somewhat surprisingly shows with a 10MM debut.

DONALD SUTHERLAND Was Some Kind of Movie Star.

TOM CRUISE was among the stars shaking it off at Taylor Swift's London gig, but director Christopher McQuarrie was the real highlight.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH is "very much looking forward to Avengers next year, which is cooking up a storm."

JONATHAN MAJORS landed his first film role since being convicted of domestic assault in 2023.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE is starring in a Real Housewives-inspired murder mystery.

SEAN PENN denies hitting Madonna with a baseball bat in a new interview. And she has backed him in the past.

THOMAS BRODIE-SANGSTER married TALLULAH RILEY.

CATS & DOGS, living together... sort of.

A FROG catches a ride on a python.

A HUSKY, and an Owl.

AN ELEPHANT, tickling a baby.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...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."

DEHD plays WFUV.

KING KRULE surprised released an EP called Shhhhhhh!

STEVE WYNN shares "Make It Right."

LAETITIA SADIER joins THURSTON MOORE on “Sans Limites.”

LESS THAN JAKE returns with "Broken Words."

SOMETHING CORPORATE returns with "Death Grip."

PAVEMENT shares the lost 1992 video for "Summer Babe."

THE KINKS' Dave Davies will get his Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame trophy back after it turned up for auction on eBay.

DONALD SUTHERLAND, the beloved actor who starred in scores of films from The Dirty Dozen, MASH and Klute to Don’t Look Now  and Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Animal House and Ordinary People to Pride & Prejudice and The Hunger Games franchise and won an Emmy for Citizen X, died Thursday in Miami after a long illness. He was 88.  The tributes pour in.

KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: The 4K edition features a full-length alternative cut of the film that, through split-screen presentation, shows the final film side by side with a version showing unfinished visual effects to highlight the actors' performances under the CGI.

THE PENGUIN has a trailer online.

BLADE's Trip Through Development Hell.

ST ELMO'S FIRE may get a sequel with the original cast.

INTIMACY COORDINATORS should get an Oscar?

EVANS EVANS, best known for her role in  “Bonnie and Clyde,” has died at age 91. 

DODGEBALL: An Oral History.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

A RHINO does not let the sleeping dog lie.

MAN & DOGGO, skateboarding in NYC.

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

MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

LAURIE ANDERSON returns with "Road to Mandalay."

LIAM GALLAGER always saves a seat for Noel at his concerts.

QUEEN's billion-dollar deal with Sony is confirmed.

JOHN CALE's Favorite Music.

JAMES CHANCE, the No Wave icon who served as the saxophonist and singer of the Contortions and Teenage Jesus And The Jerks, has died at 71.

JON HAMM, on wrestling with Don Draper's demons, and more.

MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY & GLEN POWELL Interview each other.

PARAMOUNT: Inside the failed merger talks.

JENIFER LOPEZ, sans BEN AFFLECK in Italy.

NELLY & ASHANTI have been secretly married for months.

SPACEBALLS 2 is in development, and better be called "The Search For More Money."

INSIDE OUT is spinning off a TV show about the Dream studio.

GLADIATOR 2 is hyped as having some of the “biggest action sequences ever put on film.”

A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS has begun filming.

LETHAL WEAPON 5 is still happening, according to Mel Gibson.

MOOSE vs GRIZZLY: Who You Got?

BLURRED LINES, but with a pigeon.

THE DOG brought a friend.

A RESCUE...Fish blossoms.

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

HEALTH plays KEXP.

BOB MOULD shares "Breathing Room."

TRACE MOUNTAINS covers Matthew Sweet's "Sick Of Myself."

MAVIS STAPLES shares "Worthy."

PAUL McCARTNEY's Top 80 Songs, according to Variety for his birthday. Ang greviously wrong in at least one respect.

HUEY LEWIS's musical is closing after two months on Broadway.

JOHN CALE, on hip-hop, Wales, the Velvet Underground, Nick Drake, Nico, Brian Eno, and more.

MICHAEL McDONALD: The Captain of Yacht Rock.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE was busted for DUI by a cop too young to know who he was.

WILLIE MAYS, the spirited center fielder whose brilliance at the plate, in the field and on the basepaths for the Giants led many to call him the greatest all-around player in baseball history, died on Tuesday. He was 93.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON: Ratings for the Season 2 premiere were down from last season's finale, though still solid.

EVERYONE HATES CHRIS is returning as an animated series.

A REAL PAIN has a teaser trailer online.

JOHN MULLANEY, on how Everybody’s in LA came together and his plans for future hosting gigs.

BEN AFFLECK & MATT. DAMON. are attached to star in the thriller RIP, with Joe Carnahan writing and directing.

WILL SMITH is already looking to the future as he is attached to star in Sony's Resistor.

JAWS forever changed the blockbuster, and may have lessons for the future.

THE SOPRANOS had a family reunion.

THE 10 BEST FILMS of 2024 (So Far), according to The Hollywood Reporter.

THE 10 BEST TV SHOWS of 2024 (So Far), according to The Hollywood Reporter.

ANOUK AIMEE, the sophisticated French beauty who graced the films of Federico Fellini, Jacques Demy, Sidney Lumet, Bernardo Bertolucci and Claude Lelouch, has died. She was 92. 

A DEER plays peek-a-boo.

A HERON saves a fish.

A CAT enjoying some love from deer.