CINCO DE MAYO STARTS HERE: 

...with LOS LOBOS: "I Got Loaded" (with an added snippet of "Turn On Your Lovelight") from their fabulous first full-lengther, How Will the Wolf Survive? "Don't Worry Baby," "Evangeline," "Our Last Night," and "A Matter of Time" were on that album, too.

PEE WEE HERMAN: "Tequila." Obvs.

HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS: Rare video of "A Taste of Honey" from 1967.

CHEAP TRICK brings you the Mariachi mash-up of "Surrender."

JIMMY BUFFETT: Margaritaville. Obvs.

LIZ PHAIR: "Cinco de Mayo." Obvs.

RY COODER advance streams The Prodigal Son.

SARAH LOUISE advance streams Deeper Woods.

WAJATTA advance streams Casual High Technology.

NELLY McKAY covers the late Bob Dorough's "Small Day Tomorrow."

FUTURE ISLANDS shares "Calliope."

CELINE DION... and Deadpool.

THE HOUSEMARTINS: It's "Happy Hour" again.

NEKO CASE talks to Pitchfork about her new LP, her house fire, feminism, etc.

LIZ PHAIR is not your feminist spokesmodel.

ABBA "hit me like a revelation, the way others find truth in a Charlie Kaufman movie or a 9/11 conspiracy theory."

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Four Seasons' falsetto-laden doo-wop nugget "Sherry."

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include Bad Samaritan, which is currently scoring 60 percent on the ol' Tomatomter; the reimagining of Overboard, currently scoring xx percent; and Tully, scoring 91 percent.

BILL COSBY and ROMAN POLANSKI have been expelled from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

MEGHAN MARKLE, contra some reports, will have both of her parents with her at her royal wedding to Prince Harry in almost two weeks.

CHARLIE ROSE's misconduct was far more widespead than previously known.

RIC OCASEK & PAULINA PORIZKOVA are separated after 28 years together.

RYAN REYNOLDS struggles with anxiety.

TIM ALLEN's Last Man Standing is returning on Fox.

RHIANNA talks to Vogue about Drake, turning 30, keeping it real, etc.

KANGAROOS hopped up on carrots are attacking tourists Down Under.

THE DOGNAPPING of Kid Boots Ace.

WHY DID THE DUCKLINGS CROSS THE ROAD? It was a life-or-death matter.

A SPIDER with the face of a happy old man.

CRAZY HORSE joined NEIL YOUNG in Fresno, their first joint in four years.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features new tracks from Dirty Projectors, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Shannon & The Clams, Jessica Risker, and more.

BRAIDS shares "Collarbones" and "Burdock & Dandelion."

RAY DAVIES shares "Our Country."

BEACH HOUSE shares "Black Car."

WILD PINK sahes "Lake Erie."

PARQUET COURTS shares a video for "Mardi Gras Beads."

TANYA DONNELLY surveyed her favorite albums at The Quietus.

JABO STARKS, a drummer steeped in blues whose steady groove became the backbone for many of James Brown's hits (incl “Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine,” “Super Bad” and “The Payback”), died on Tuesday at his home in Mobile, Ala. He was 79.

QUESTLOVE can't seem to stop adding hyphens to his job title.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Tommy Roe's proto-bubblegum hookfest "Sheila."

ANIMAL HOUSE: An Oral History, From Richard Pryor to a Real Melee.

KHLOE KARDASHIAN may be staying in Cleveland.

CATE BLANCHETT talks about Harvey Weinstein, Woody Allen and more.

THE OFFICE: Jenna Fischer finally reveals what Pam said to Michael during their airport goodbye.

MINDY KALING & RICHARD CURTIS are bringing a Four Weddings and a Funeral anthology to Hulu.

ROGER CORMAN sold off his film library in an “incredible win-win” deal that will allow him to make more films in China.

BORDER AGENTS came across an abandoned tiger cub.

A VETERINARIAN pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. charges that he turned puppies into drug couriers for a Colombian trafficking ring by stitching packets of liquid heroin into their bodies.

UNITED AIRLINES will resume shipping pets, but with some breeds barred.

HUMPBACK WHALES are having a baby boom off Antarctica.

THE SMITHEREENS: "Behind The Wall Of Sleep" Live on TheTube, 1987.

DJANGO DJANGO visits Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

LORD HURON stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set,

I'M WITH HER performs at the Virginia Street Church.

REMEMBER SPORTS shares "The 1 Bad Man."

KACEY MUSGRAVES shares a video for "Space Cowboy."

DAVID BYRNE made a "Pop Music" playlist: "In my world, certain people look down their noses at pop music. I believe they consider it inauthentic, pandering, manufactured and lacking any intention other than being a “hit”. Much of that is true, but of course there are many exceptions—great songs that speak to their times and also become hits."

WHEN CRITICS COULD KILL: Most musicians still don’t want to talk about it.

GIBSON GUITARS files for bankruptcy protection.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Little Eva's "The Loco-Motion," a dance-craze smash and an example of music-business exploitation.

ANT-MAN & THE WASP has a trailer online.

MIRANDA LAMBERT's new boyfriend Evan Felker blindsided his estranged wife Staci Nelson with his sudden divorce filing in mid-February.

KANYE WEST told the TMZ newsroom why he believes slavery is a choice and why he decided to sport his Make America Great Again hat.

AVICII committed suicide with broken glass he used to cut himself.

BLAC CHYNA is pregnant with her 18-year-old rapper boyfriend YBN Almighty Jay's baby, a source tells Page Six.

MARTIN SCORSESE criticized aggregator websites Rotten Tomatoes and CinemaScore — and railed against “the devaluation of cinema itself” — at the Turner Classic Movies film festival.

FLYING DOLPHIN takes out standing paddleboarder.

BOSTON RESEARCHERS have reversed aging in mice and that discovery could set the stage for similar results in humans.

PELICANS crash a graduation ceremony in Cali.

A MASSIVE GATOR was caught after crossing a highway in Texas.

MARK KOZELEK is streaming a new self-titled LP.

SUPERCHUNK plays the World Cafe.

BEDOUINE plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

THE NATIONAL debuted a new song, "Light Years" at their Homecoming Festival.

YO LA TENGO: James McNew talks DIY through their biggest influences, old and new.

SUEDE's Brett Anderson takes NME inside their new LP.

ABBA announce that they have reunited to record two new songs, 35 years after their last single.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Bobby Vinton's fluffy pop simper "Roses Are Red (My Love)."

ASHLEY JUDD is suing Harvey Weinstein, saying he derailed her career after she rejected his sexual advances.

R. KELLY: A group of women of color within the Time's Up movement are joining a call for the music industry to cut their ties tothe  R&B singer.

CLAIRE FOY is reportedly to receive £200,000 in back pay for her leading role in The Crown after it was revealed she was paid less than her male co-star. 

SETH ROGEN gets a little serios with Vulture... and stands by James Franco.

MEGAN FOX: Taking conspiracy theoies to TV?

LARRY HARVEY, the Man Behind Burning Man, Is Dead at 70.

PIZZA RAT is back!

A BEAR was found sleeping in a tree in Paramus, NJ.

SNOOTY DOG OWNERS privatized a public NYC dog park without the city's knowledge and have made more than 80K off the fees.

THE WORLD'S OLDEST KNOWN SPIDER dies at 43 after a quiet life underground.

NEVERTHELESS, the one-armed typist has this as I heal up:

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Avengers: Infinity War dethroned Star Wars: The Force Awakens as the biggest movie debut of all time, with an estimated 250MM domestic.  Even rival studios estimate it at 248MM, which was still enough for the record.  But wait, there's more.  The MCU crescendo took in another 380MM in foreign markets; the combined 630MM blows away the prior gobal record of 543MM set by The Fate of the Furious. And Infinity War has yet to open in Russia and China.  A Quiet Place places with 10.7MM on a 49 percent drop, which is impressive in light of everything you just read; 148MM to date against a 17MM budget is hella ROI.  I Feel Pretty shows with 8.1MM on a 49 percent drop, but at least creeps up on its 32MM production budget.  Rampage takes the fourth slot with 7.1MM on a 65 percent drop, taking a big hit from the MCU.  An Black Panther rounds out the Top Five with 4.4MM on an 11 percent drop, actually climbing from eighth last week.It's a fair agument that the Black Panther phenomenon teed up this week's record-shattering receipts.

 OK, I should have more tomorrow.