THE NASHVILLE TEENS, with a stompin' cover of "Tobacco Road."

NEAL FRANCIS covers Shuggie Otis' "Strawberry Letter 23" and Joe Walsh's "Collage" for a Lagniappe Session.

ASTERHOUSE plays KEXP.

GUIDED BY VOICES shares "Lizard on the Red Brick Wall."

TY SEGALL covers The Mantles' "Don't Lie."

JIM JAMES shares "Read Between (Begin Again)."

STEPHEN MALKMUS joins SUPERORGANISM on "Into The Sun."

R.E.M. is finally releasing Chronic Town on CD.

PJ HARVEY talks Elvis, aging, ugliness, and more.

THE TOP 36 LPs of 2022 (So Far), according to NPR.

HOCUS POCUS 2 has a teaser trailer online.

WINONA RYDER talks Johnny Depp, Michell Pfeiffer, and more.

CHRIS PRATT addresses his critics.

DAKOTA JOHNSON, on Family, Sexual Agency-And the "Psychotic" Making of Fifty Shades of Grey.

BILL HADER & ANNA KENDRICK have broken up.

WOODY ALLEN tells ALEC BALDWIN he may stop directing soon.

HARLEY QUINN: Season 3 has a teaser trailer online.

THE LEAST ACCURATE MUSIC BIOPICS, according to Vulture.

THAT'S THE WAY the cat likes it.

A CAT stuck in a loop.

KIASA THE ELEPHANT has learned to control her trunk.

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.

CALEXICO plays KEXP.

LOS BITCHOS visits KUTX.

PHOEBE BRIDGERS joins THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN on "Just Like Honey" at Glastonbury.

NPR's 36 Favorite Songs of 2022 (So Far).

THE GOSPEL, according to Mavis Staples.

DEPECHE MODE shared a statement about Andy Fletcher’s death.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Brandy's ballad "Have You Ever?," the last Diane Warren song ever to reach No. 1.

JOHNNY DEPP cutting a 301MM deal to return as Capt. Jack Sparrow? (Spoiler: This is "made up.")

BRITNEY SPEARS' ex-husband Jason Alexander will stay in jail for attempting to crash the pop icon's wedding.

EMMA ROBERTS joins the cast of Sony's Madame Web.

CAROL BURNETT is joining Better Call Saul.

SAM RAIMI explains that one of those surprise cameos in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness may be a one-off.

THE GOLDEN AGE of the Aging Actor.

MARY MARA, an actress who starred on TV shows like “Law & Order,” “Ray Donovan” and “NYPD Blue,” died on Sunday, her manager confirmed to Page Six. She was 61.

A SMART DOGE plays Tic Tac Treato.

A GUARD DOG meets his match.

HERDING SHEEP is a fluid business.

A GATOR killed a man on Friday after dragging him into a retention pond near Myrtle Beach, S.C.

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

NEW RELEASES: Paste will pont you to Regina Spektor, Soccer Mommy, Young Guv, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Martin Courtney, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, BOAT, Wire demos, and more.

ANGEL OLSEN covers Lucinda Williams' "Greenville."

18 TOM PETTY COVERS, courtesy of BrooklynVegan.

PRAVDA RECORDS celebrated 38 years with a fab festival, at which Pate's Jon Pratt and Mike Kelly made a cameo (you can find it on FB if you look).  The Chicago Reader also did a nice profile of the label and its founders.

SOCCER MOMMY on 'Frankenstein,' horror movies, the Roches, and more inspirations behind her new album.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at R. Kelly and Céline Dion's trash-ass duet "I'm Your Angel."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick are in a dead heat for the top slot at 30.5MM -- a surprisingly good showing for Baz Luhrmann's flick and maybe moreso when considering it played well with the older demo that's still flocking to the Top Gun sequel.  Is cinema back, baby? Jurassic World Dominion shows with 26.44MM.  Lightyear tumbles 65 percent to the fifth spot.

OBI-WAN KENOBI and the Era of Cultural Stagflation.

COULD CHRIS EVANS return to the MCU as someone other than Steve Rogers?

SHARON STONE revealed she has had nine miscarriages over the years.

THE NOTEBOOK: Behind-the-scenes secrets.

JOHN DAVIDSON: The superstar time forgot.

A BABY FOX with its head stuck in a jar gets rescued.

A HUMMINGBIRD, showing off.

A GIRAFFE removes a branch stuck on a gazelle's head.

WHITE TIGERS on the beach.

...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."

BELLE & SEBASTIAN plays KEXP.

KURT VILE plays The Current.

ALICIA KEYS & JOHNNY MARR cover the Smiths' "This Charming Man."

KACEY MUSGRAVES covers "Can't Help Falling In Love" for the 'Elvis' soundtrack.

VOXTROT shares "Kindergarten."

REGINA SPEKTOR discusses the malleability of songs, the expansiveness of process, and finding home in your work and community.

DO YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR PARENTS if You Don't Go Through Their Record Collection?

EZRA MILLER has been hosting a 25-year-old mother and her three young children at their Vermont farm, a living arrangement that worries the children’s father, as well as two others with knowledge of the situation, according to Rolling Stone.

NATHAN FILLION is sticking up for his frequent collaborator Joss Whedon.

DENISE RICHARDS joined OnlyFans just one week after her 18-year-old daughter, Sam "Sami" Sheen, made her debut on the NSFW site.

GAME OF THRONES: Emilia Clarke has confirmed that Kit Harington will reprise his role as Jon Snow in a sequel.

SPY KIDS is getting a reboot.

NETFLIX CEO Ted Sarandos doubled down on his defense of Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais and other star comedians showcased on the streamer, saying, “We’ve always been a supporter of the art.”

ANNE HATHAWAY Answers 20 Questions.

"OBI-WAN KENOBI" Embraced the Prequels... But Disney Still Doesn't Understand Them.

CATS & DOGS, living together... 

FEEDING hummingbirds.

A 54-YEAR-OLD ELEPHANT fearful of water after surviving Texas flooding allows caregivers to give her a bath for the first time.

JON PRATT: Pate's frontman covers The Service's "October House," one of my faves of theirs. Also hope to see Jon and Pate bassist Mike Kelly this weekend.

SHYBITS, Live from Berlin.

THROUGH THE SOIL II: The compilation, including Julien Baker’s cover of Billy Bragg‘s "The Milkman of Human Kindness," is at Bandcamp.

BUILT TO SPILL shares "Fool's Gold."

FIRST AID KIT shares "Angel."

BRIGHT EYES plays "Falling Out Of Love At This Volume" for Corden.

KATE BUSH gave her first interview about the 'Stranger Things' resurgence of "Running Up That Hill."

THE KILLS, profiled by SPIN.

THE "LONG TAIL" was supposed to boost alternative voices in music, movies, and books - but the exact opposite happened.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Divine's "Lately," a pretty R & B song that has disappeared from the face of the earth.

BRAD PITT opens up his dream world.

HOW NATALIE PORTMAN emerged to wield the hammer of Thor.

LYLE, LYLE, CROCODILE has a trailer online.

RUPERT MURDOCH & JERRY HALL are reportedly divorcing.

KALEY CUOCO's divorce is finalized.

TOM HANKS, on crashing weddings.

JAMES RADO, co-creator of the groundbreaking hippie musical “Hair,” has died at 90.

A FISH, kissing a dog.

DOGGOS helping clear the pool.

A GIANT STINGRAY: The world’s largest recorded freshwater fish has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia.

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