THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with GARAGE ROCK! It's the time of year when I bring out The Standells - "Dirty Water/ Why Pick On Me", but I couldn't stop there. Let's have a baker's dozen of Nuggets, like Music Machine - "Talk Talk"; Blues Magoos - "We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet"; The Knickerbockers - "Lies"; The Outsiders - "Time Won't Let Me"; Count Five - "Psychotic Reaction"; The Seeds - "Pushin' Too Hard"; 13th Floor Elevators - "You're Gonna Miss Me"; Love - "My Little Red Book"; The Leaves - "Hey Joe"; Electric Prunes - "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night," the Crazy World of Arthur Brown - "Fire" and The Nazz- "Open My Eyes."

THE PERNICE BROTHERS stream Who Will You Believe.

ISOBEL CAMPBELL shares “Everything Falls Apart” (Not a Husker Du cover).

MICHAEL HUTCHENCE: Hear the posthumous "One Way."

CLOUD NOTHINGS shares "Silence."

NINE INCH NAILS has plans for... almost everything?

MADONNA moves to dismiss the lawsuit about her late concert starts.

KISS have sold their music rights and their name, image, and likeness for a deal estimated to be worth around 300MM.

DUNE 3 is in development.And DENIS VILLENUEVE is looking at Nuclear War: A Scenario as a future project.

CHRISTIAN BALE: First look at Frankenstein's Monster in The Bride.

ANNA PAQUIN has been dealing with undisclosed health issues that have left her with mobility issues.

THE HOUSE OF MOUSE: Shareholders backed Chief Executive Bob Iger and other company directors on Wednesday, defeating a campaign by activist investors who argued the storied entertainment giant had underperformed in the streaming-television era.

BRANGELINA: Angelina Jolie alleges, via lawyers in a new court filing, that ex Brad Pitt was abusive toward her prior to the 2016 plane incident that led her to filing for divorce. A friend of Pitt says it's a litigation tactic.

OLIVIA WILDE & MARGOT ROBBIE want to team up on a comic book movie.

THE ABYSS: Why Did It Flop?

A DOG and SEA LION play fetch on the beach.

A KINGFISHER, freed from a frozen railing.

A SHARK, freed from a rope.

THE BIRDS: Right Ouuta Hitchcock.

DAVID BOWIE plays "Young Americans" for Cavett, looking and sounding too much acquainted with the Thin White Duke.

A. SAVAGE shares The Loft Sessions.

PET SHOP BOYS shares "Dancing Star."

IRON & WINE shares "Anyone's Game."

LES SAVVY FAV shares "Limo Scene."

VAMPIRE WEEKEND Ditch "Smartass Stuff" and Ask the Big Questions.

ELBOW Stay Guerilla.

THE 100 GREATED BASSISTS, according to Consequence of Sound.

THE MATRIX 5 is in development, with “The Martian” screenwriter Drew Goddard writing and  directing.

THE FANTASTIC FOUR has its (female) Silver Surfer.

BAMBI: THE RECKONING has a teaser trailer online.

ANNA TAYLOR-JOY confirmed she secretly got married to her partner Malcolm McRae in New Orleans in 2022.

KIRSTEN DUNST Confronts ‘Civil War' Hysteria, Hollywood Pay Gaps and the Media Dividing America.

ALAN RITCHSON's backstory may be crazier than Reacher.

JULIA STILES, Twenty-five years after "10 Things I Hate About You."

GODZILLA, Like You've Never Seen Him.

A DOG IN TAIWAN gave advance warning of the earthquake.

HANGING OUT with the Lions.

A CRAB really motors underwater.

SHOCKING BLUE: She's your "Venus."

SOUL GLO plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

NEIL YOUNG: An alternate version of On The Beach.

OLD 97s share "Somebody."

BEACHWOOD SPARKS return after 12 years with "Torn in Two."

JENNY LEWIS joins SWAMP DOGG on "Count The Days."

METAL MACHINE MUZAK: A ambient reimagining of the infamous Lou Reed project.

AN OPEN LETTER from over 200 artists condems the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to infringe upon and devalue the rights of artists.

JOHN SINCLAIR, former manager of the MC5, died Tuesday morning at age 82.

JOE FLAHERTY, a writer and performer on the influential and beloved sketch comedy series SCTV and a series regular on Freaks and Geeks, died Monday following a brief illness. He was 82.

J.K. ROWLING's tweets will not be prosecuted.

TAYLOR SWIFT becomes a billionaire.

JARED LETO hosted "Wheel of Fortune" for April Fool's Day.

ASHTON KUTCHER is reportedly expecting to be subpoenaed as part of the sex trafficking investigation into Sean "Diddy" Combs

HOW KIRSTEN DUNST outplayed Hollywood.

ROAD HOUSE: The remake has become Amazon Prime Video's biggest ever movie debut.

A RARE BLUE CRAYFISH in a creek.

KITTENS' Naptime.

ANIMALS, coming in for a hug.

SOUL ASYLUM dip into their back catalog for the classic "Never Really Been" at the Northern Lights Theater; Milwaukee, WI.  Throw in a cover of Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" and you have Twofer Tuesday.

CINDY LEE streams a triple-album, Diamond Jubilee.

WOODS streams a new surprise EP,. Five More Flowers.

THE DRUMS shares "The Impossible."

ROGER DALTREY reflected on recently turning 80, saying that “he has to be realistic” and that he is “on the way out.”

THE LIBERTINES, on being drug-free, becoming the band they are meant to be, and who’d play who in a biopic.

ELBOW's Gus Garvey, on delivering pizza to the Stone Roses.

BEYONCE gives sole credit to Dolly Parton for "Jolene."

THE NUMBER ONES looks back at Katy Perry's too-big-to-fail inspirational anthem "Roar."

J.K. ROWLING dared police to arrest her for misgendering transgender people after a new hate crime law took effect in Scotland. 

ALEX GARLAND is not planning to direct again in the foreseeable future.

SHAKIRA is critical of Barbie, sort of.

NETFLIX reworks its approach to movie-making.

WAR OF THE ROSES is being remade with Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman.

VALERIE BERTINELLI is in love.

BARBARA RUSH, who won a Golden Globe for most promising newcomer in “It Came From Outer Space” and went on to appear in “Peyton Place” and many other movies and TV shows, died Sunday.

SAVING seven baby ducks from a storm drain.

A RIVER OF DUCKS crosses a road in Vietnam.

A PIGEON gets assistance at the water fountain.

THE SMOKING POPES: "Need You Around," for a little Chicago flavor.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will pont you to Beyonce, Dent May, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has the High Llamas, Ride, and more.

ST VINCENT shares "Flea," ft. Dave Grohl on drums.

THE 25 BEST COUNTRY-SOUL ALBUMS, according to Rolling Stone.

DENT MAY's 12 favorite food songs.

2 LIVE CREW's Luther Campbell may run for Congress.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire tops the chart with a shocking 80MM debut, just short of Dune: Part Two's opening weekend.  Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire places with 15.7MM on a 65 percent skid.  Dune: Part Two shows with 11.1MM on a 37 percent drop.

LOUIS GOSSETT JR,  the tough guy with a sensitive side who won an Oscar for his portrayal of a steely sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman and an Emmy for his performance as a compassionate slave in the landmark miniseries Roots, died Friday. He was 87.

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA is screening Megalopolis, as attendees call it “baffling” with an “unflinchingly batsh*t” vision. And he's begun work on a new film.

SEAN "DIDDY" COMBS owes nearly 100 million in mortgage payments on a trio of mansions in Los Angeles and Miami that were raided by federal agents.

THE BATMAN was not plagiarized, a judge ruled.

DAVID KRUMHOLZ on Oppenheimer, Lousy Carter, 10 Things, and more.

EUPHORIA: Oh, this seems very screwed up.

HOLLYWOOD'S BEST NUDE SCENE... according to Reddit.

CHANCE PERDOMO,  an actor who starred in the television series “Gen V” and “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” has died as a result of a motorcycle accident.  He was 27.

RECUSING BABY SEALS trapped in a net.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

A SHARK swallows the video camera.

A BABY KANGAROO meets a Bearded Dragon.