WE FIVE were on my mind when I woke up this morning, introduced by no less than Fred Astaire.

JEFF "SKUNK" BAXTER: The most interesting man in music?

THE LUMINEERS play World Cafe.

MODERN ENGLISH's late night TV debut. Yes, really.

THE BEST OF SEPTEMBER 2022, per Bill's Indie Basement.

R.E.M.: Automatic for the People turns 30. Get Off My Lawn.

TAME IMPALA's Lonerism turns 10. Get Off My Lawn.

LORETTA LYNN chronicled women's lives, from the new freedoms to defiant songs of survival.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Usher's smoothly anguished "U Got It Bad."

JAMES BOND: Dr. No turned 60. The AV Club ranks 'em all. Bond producer Michael G. Wilson has ruled out the possibility of a younger 007, claiming the next actor will likely be in their thirties.

ALEC BALDWIN and Rust Movie Productions LLC have reached a settlement with the estate of slain cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

CHRISTIAN BALE Keeps Trying to Quit Hollywood.

THE ROYALS: King Charles III is expected to be crowned on June 3 next year in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey.

GISELE took a ring off it.

HILARY SWANK is expecting twins.

NICOLAS CAGE was never paid for his Oscar-winning role in Leaving Las Vegas.

WILL SMITH: Will Oscars voters consider nominating him next year?

VIOLENT NIGHT has a trailer online.

DOGUE: A restaurant in SF offering a 75-dollar tasting menu for dogs.

A HOLE IN ONE, Down Under.

LITTLE BOY BECKLEY meets his new family.

THE JAGS: "Back of My Hand," from TOTP and the "Where Are They Now?" file.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Titus Andronicus, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Björk, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Lambchop, Pixies, Melody's Echo Chamber, and more.

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE are back with "Love Earth" ahead of a Rick Rubin-produced LP.

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM returns with "new body rhumba."

SNAIL MAIL, SOCCER MOMMY, SAD13 & ALICIA BOGNANNO cover Pavement's "Grounded."

PAVEMENT plays "AT&T" for the first time in 12 years.

TOM WAITS released a live take on "Lost in the Harbor."

LORETTA LYNN, the country singer whose plucky songs and inspiring life story made her one of the most beloved American musical performers of her generation, died on Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. She was 90.

THE BEST BEACH BOYS COVERS, according to Cover Me.

JASON ISBELL talked about the experience he and his wife, acclaimed artist Amanda Shires, had with a recent health scare.

ALVVAYS talks to NME.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at J-lo's "I'm Real" and Mary J. Blige's "Family Affair."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Smile topped the chart wiith 22MM. Don't Worry Darling placed with 7.3MM on a 62 percent plunge (oof). The Woman King showed with 7MM on a 36 percent drop.

TOM BRADY & GISELE have lawyered up, reportedly.

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER has a new trailer online, so you'll want to know about Namor.

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, reuniting Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, has a trailer online.

MARVEL is ackshually making a Werewolf by Night movie directed by movie music master Michael Giacchino.

FRASER: The sequel is headed to Paramount+.

SCOOBY-DOO: Velma is out.

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA puts his fortune on the line for Megalopolis.

NOSFERATU is getting a remake from director Robert Eggers.

BARK IN THE PARK: Catch It!

CAMOUFLAGE LEVEL = 100 percent.

IT'S A CLOWN CAR of Kittens.

THE LONG WEEKEND STARTS HERE (and probably ends Tuesday):

...with THE GO-GOs!  They made history as the first all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts. Kind of a hard band to place seasonally. Their debut, Beauty and the Beat, which yielded hits like "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got the Beat," as well as great album cuts like "This Town," "Lust to Love," "Tonite" and "How Much More," came out in late Summer 1981, iirc, and "Lips" was climbing the charts that Fall, so I mentally place the band in this time of year. And it's still warm enough that the title track to the too-quick sophomore album, "Vacation," -- or their cover of the Capitols' "Cool Jerk" -- doesn't sound too out of place. "Get Up and Go" was also a single from that LP, but it didn't make the Top 40.  The band would chart twice more -- in 1984, with "Head Over Heels" and "Turn to You" -- before splitting and the near-inevitable reunion tours.

WILLIE NELSON: The latter part of this legendary career gets over three hours of discussion and analysis on Political Beats. 

WET LEG plays KEXP.

BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN shares “Someone To Weep For Me.”

THE 150 BEST ALBUMS of the 1990s, according to Pitchfork.

THE B-52s debut album, reconsidered.

ED SHEERHAN will have to face a jury trial over whether or not he stole bits of “Thinking Out Loud” from Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.”

THE SMITHS: Mike Joyce discussed recording Strangeways Here We Come album with the BBC.

TREVOR NOAH is leaving the Daily Show and dating Dua Lipa.

QUEEN ELIZABETH's cause of death has been revealed.

MEGXIT: Harry and Megan are desperate to edit the Netflix show and memoir following the Queen's death.

ARMOR WARS: Marvel's Don Cheadle vehicle is shifting from a TV series to a movie.

BRUCE WILLIS returns to the screen via a deepfake.

STARS AT NOON has a steamy trailer online.

BONES AND ALL has a trailer online.

RETURN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: The reboots get another sequel.

AROOS: Join In.

THAT is not a cat.

THIS might be my week.

A CAT... and a rooster?

THE PSYCHEDLIC FURS broke through with this video for "Love My Way" on the MTV.  And before they did, I saw them play a junior college with Richard Butler wearing a tux that it looked like he hadn't removed for the entire tour.

BEABADOOBIE visits World Cafe.

TAYLOR HAWKINS got another tribute concert, and there's plenty of videos.

LUCY DACUS covers Carole King’s classics “Home Again” and “It’s Too Late.”

ARCHERS OF LOAF return after 24 years with "Aimee."

NATION OF LANGUAGE shares "From the Hill."

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN sounds like he's relaesing an album of Soul covers.

DAVID BOWIE: A new box set will incude a previously unreleased version of “Kooks,” which was recorded by Bowie and guitarist Mick Ronson for BBC Radio in September 1971.

ROXY MUSIC's Phil Manzanera has spoken to NME about the band’s ongoing reunion tour, as well as the chances of new music and the rumours of them appearing at Glastonbury next year.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Destiny's Child's "Bootylicious" and Alicia Keys' "Fallin."

COOLIO, whose 90s  music was a staple on radio, a favorite on MTV, and included the hit “Gangsta’s Paradise,” has died at the age of 59.  BONUS: How Stevie Wonder, Michelle Pfeiffer and "Weird Al" Yankovic played a role in his ubiquitous mega-hit.

KATIE COURIC has breast cancer.

HUGH JACKMAN is coming out of retirement as Wolverine in the upcoming Deadpool 3.

BLADE: The Marvel reboot loses its director.

STAR TREK: The fourth of the reboot movies has been removed from Paramount's release schedule. The news comes a month after director Matt Shakman exited the project.

MEGXIT: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been “demoted” on the Royal family’s website to bottom billing alongside the Duke of York.

TOM BRADY & GISELE are living separately in Miami.

ELIZABETH BANKS regrets the marketing of the Charlie’s Angels reboot.

AND JUST LIKE THAT, John Corbett's returning to the Sex and the City universe. 

SO, a Horse Walks Into a Bar...

CATS & DOGS, living together.

THE NEW CASHIER has catlike reflexes.

A BULLDOG onboard a plane wandered over and had diarrhea all over a Florida man.

DUMPTRUCK: "Back Where I Belong."

JEFF TWEEDY joins NORAH JONES for a podcast including “Jesus, Etc.,” “Save It For Me,” “Sunken Treasure,” “Muzzle Of Bees,” and the Tweedy co-written Jones song “I’m Alive.”

TEGAN & SARA share “I Can’t Grow Up.”

FANKIE COSMOS shares "F.O.O.F."

MARTHA shares "Hope Gets Harder."

THE 250 BEST SONGS of the 1990s, according to Pitchfork. Why are they doing this again?

LEONARD COHEN: A posthumous short story.

PETER HOOK, on his legacy.

PODOLA: Podcast companies are buying millions of listens through auto-playing episodes populated in free mobile games.

HOW ELIZABETH OLSEN Struck Marvel Magic. Will Wanda Return?

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER is going to be long.

TOM HANKS thinks he's made four "pretty good" movies, but he didn't name them.

TOM CRUISE started to pull away from Scientology while filming the intense Stanley Kubrick film “Eyes Wide Shut” with then-wife Nicole Kidman in 1997, according to the new book “A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology.” But you know how the story ended.

ARMIE HAMMER's ex allegedly leaked damaging stories about him to the press months before their divorce.

SHAKIRA faces a trial on charges of tax fraud.

ANTHONY BOURDAIN's Last, Painful Days.

A DOGGO knows the shell game.

A CASSOWARY, checking out a phone.

MAISY waits every day for her 90-year old friend.