DUMPTRUCK: "Back Where I Belong."

DEERHOOF is streaming Love-Lore, a 35-minute, 43-song, live-in-the-studio covers medley album.  The tracklist is here.

DEHD plays virtually for The Current.

THE XX's Romy shares "Lifetime."

BAT FOR LASHES covers The Carpenters' "We’ve Only Just Begun."

SHARON VAN ETTEN covers Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt."

HELEN REDDY, who  charted 20 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart in her lifetime, including three No. 1s: the Grammy Award-winning “I Am Woman” (which she co-wrote with Ray Burton), “Delta Dawn” and “Angie Baby,” died Tuesday. The hitmaker was 78 years old.

ANGEL OLSEN: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.

NEW ORDER's Gillian Gilbert on Power, Corruption & Lies.

THE TOP 40 DEBUT LP OPENERS, according to Paste.

THE NUMBER ONES Bonus Tracks looks at R.E.M.'s 2008 rocker "Supernatural Superserious," the band's final Hot 100 hit.

THE LION KING is getting a sequel, with Barry Jenkins set to direct.

BORAT 2 will be at Amazon Prime before Election Day.

MEGHAN McCAIN and her husband Ben Domenech welcome a baby girl.

SHANNON DOHERTY is not signing off just yet.

JENNIFER ANISTON revealed that she once contemplated quitting acting. 

ZENDAYA is in talks to star in a Ronnie Spector biopic.

THE CRAFT: LEGACY has a trailer online.

ARKANSAS HUNTERS bag the longest alligator in state history.

A CASSOWARY named Princess Salem enjoyed cantaloupe and watermelon at the Denver Zoo.

A MOOSE relocated out of Denver made the 30-mile trip back to the city.

THE RAMONES get almost three hours of discussion and analysis on Political Beats with guest Christian Schneider.

BRIGHT EYES plays a Tiny Desk Concert from Home.

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT virtually visits The Current.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle shares all 18 seconds of “Bomb-Ass Teacup.”

LAURA VEIRS shares “Another Space And Time.”

IDLES: The defiant Bristol punks answer the critics, rail against "class war" and talk up their explosive third album.

NOEL GALLAGHER wants better pop stars.

AC/DC tease something.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at USA For Africa's self-congratualtory celebrity-singalong travesty "We Are The World."

MEGXIT: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle deny they're starring in a Netflix show.

JOAQUIN PHOENIX & ROONEY MARA welcome their first child together, a son named River.

AMANDA SEYFRIED and husband Thomas Sadoski have welcomed their second child, a baby boy.

CHADWICK BOSEMAN donated some of his salary to his “21 Bridges” co-star Sienna Miller.

THE THREE BODY PROBLEM, helmed by "Game of Thrones" producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, is already controversial.

BOX OFFICE NUMBERS aren't just business jargon.

COP ROCK: Bad thirty years ago, bad now?

TOM HARDY as JAMES BOND? The pros and cons.

CURIOUS PENGUINS: This colony of little penguins in Australia get up close and personal with a GoPro camera. 

A BABY GIANT PANDA gets an examination. Here's more.

HITCHCOCK in 17 seconds.

THE TEMPTATIONS: "Psychedelic Shack." That's where it's at.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Sufjan Stevens, Pillow Queens, Sylvan Esso, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has A Certain Ratio, Mint Field, Róisín Murphy, and more.

THE WAR & TREATY play World Cafe.

BEETHOVEN's "Ode to Joy" isn't getting a better video than this.  One imagines one of the Gruber Brothers pulling off a heist behind the scenes.

FLEET FOXES' Robin Pecknold opens up about his mental health struggles during the pandemic and making a new album alone.

WILL BUTLER examines his family history - and American history - on his new LP.

FLEETWOOD MAC's "Dreams" exploded on social media.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Phil Collins'drowning-in-despair ballad "One More Night."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE? Tenet threepeats with 3.4MM on a 26 percent drop for a domestic total of 41.2MM and 283.2MM worldwide. The New Mutants placed again, with 1.1MM on a 31 percent drop and 19.4MM total.  Unhinged showed again with 1MM and a 17.1MM total. (The Empire Strikes Back checks in at fifth.)

EMMA STONE has in fact married Dave McCary.

MEGXIT: Meghan Markle reportedly has serious ambitions to run for president.Also Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's comments urging Americans to vote were a “violation” of their deal to leave the royal family, prompting talks about whether to strip the couple of their titles, according to a report.

KIT HARRINGTON & ROSE LESLIE are parents-to-be.

VIN DIESEL drops a video for "Feel Like I Do."

NICK FURY is getting a Disney+ series.

JOE MONTANA and his wife, Jennifer, faced down a would-be kidnapper at their Malibu home this weekend.

PHIL HARTMAN, remembered by Stephen Root.

JAMES CAAN talks "Brian's Song" after the death of Gale Sayers.

BILL MURRAY responds to the Doobie Bros' legal demand.

EVERYTHING DAVID FINCHER, including commercials and music videos, ranked by The Ringer.

A RAT that sniffed out 39 land mines and 28 explosives in Cambodia gets a medal.

KANGAROOS dispute the bill.

A CRAB makes a quick escape.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with THE BYRDS! To everything there is a season, and when the leaves start turning, my thoughts turn to this rare live threefer of "Turn! Turn! Turn!", "Bells of Rhymney" and "Mr. Tambourine Man", introduced by... David McCallum? There are more screaming girls, plus go-go dancers when they hit Shivaree for "All I Really Want to Do" and "Feel A Whole Lot Better."  There are even more dancers when they cover "Not Fade Away" for Shindig! on June 23, 1965, while I'm pretty sure that's Ed Wynn introducing "Chimes of Freedom."

THE B-52s' Fred Schneider has a quarantine playlist.

FROM THE EDGE OF AMERICA: Lonnie Holley and Richard Swift.

BRANDY CLARK plays a Tiny Desk Concert from Home.

SARAH JAROSZ visits with World Cafe.

THE SHINS: Hear two versions of a new song, "The Great Divide."

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN has "Ghosts."

KURT VILE & JOHN PRINE: "How Lucky."

THE UNRIGHTEOUS BROTHERS bring the country to "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" and "Unchained Melody."

THURSTRON MOORE talks to Stereogum about Bernie Sanders, black metal, 'Gilmore Girls,' Steve Albini, and more.

BOB MOULD: “Unfortunately, this record seems perfectly timed.”

THE DOOBIE BROTHERS issue a legal demand to... Bill Murray.

W.S. "FLUKE" HOLLAND, who played drums for Johnny Cash and on early Carl Perkins staples like "Blue Suede Shoes," died Wednesday at 85.

COUSTEAU: "The Last Good Day of the Year." Or close to it.

MANDY MOORE and her husband Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes) are expecting their first child together, a son.

ZAYN MALIK & GIGI HADID welcome a baby girl.

REBEL WILSON debuted her new beau Jacob Busch on her Instagram page.

BAFTA revamps its entire voting and membership organization for film awards.

J.K. ROWLING's critics haven't read her books. I'm shocked.

RYAN REYNOLDS & ROB McELHENNEY want to own part of a British soccer club.

JENNIFER ANISTON was not Friends' first choice for Rachel?

DAVID FINCHER's Lost Projects.

LOBSTAHMAN saves the seagull that rode on his bow for 15 years.

A GOOD DOGGO, very excited to go on a walk.

A SPIDER, eating a bird.

O'JAYS: "Backstabbers."

BEST COAST plays for KEXP.

REAL ESTATE visits with World Cafe.

RON GALLO visits with The Current.

PYLON: Hear 1979's "Modern Day Fashion Woman."

MATT BERNINGER shares "One More Second."

THE TOP 100 TOM PETTY SONGS, ranked by Steven Hyden.

CHRIS HILLMAN talks about his iconic work with the Byrds, surfing, John Coltrane and lots more.

BANDCAMP is disrupting the music industry.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at REO Speedwagon's anthemic, proudly wussy power ballad "Can't Fight This Feeling."

BLACK WIDOW is getting pushed back to May 7, 2021, delaying the MCU by a full year now.  

JORDAN PEELE is said to have played a prominent role in the decision to delay Candyman's release from Oct. 23 to next year, worried about encouraging consumers to gather in an enclosed, indoor cinema.

VARIETY, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, ROLLING STONE and VIBE are becoming a joint venture dubbed PMRC (which is pretty funny to people of a certain age).

NBC UNIVERSAL is downgrading its emphasis on its cable channels like Bravo, E!, USA and Syfy, and focusing on streaming.

TIME'S 100 Most Influential People.

JUSTICE LEAGUE: Zach Snyder is planning to shoot new scenes for HBO after all, with Cavill, Affleck, Gadot, and Fisher returning.

DOLLY PARTON talks tattoos.

TRUTH SEEKERS, an Amazon paranormal comedy starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, has a trailer online.

GALE SAYERS, the Chicago Bears legend has died after a lengthy battle with dementia. He was 77 years old.

THREE DOGS, ONE CAT: Who You Got?

A MOOSE, walking, no... running on the water.

THE HORSE ridden down the Dan Ryan Expressway by Chicago's "Dreadhead Cowboy" was critically injured in the ride and may need to be euthanized.