FUN BOY THREE play "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "Summertime" for Twofer Tuesday. I suppose I should remind the young'uns that singer Terry Hall co-wrote "Lips."

THE LONE BELLOW plays the Newport Folk Fest.

DARLINGSIDE plays the Newport Folk Fest.

M WARD plays the Mountain Stage.

ERIC BACHMANN shares “Jaded Lover, Shady Drifter.”

BRYAN ADAMS joined TAYLOR SWIFT in the most ambitious crossover event of 2018.

BOB DYLAN (1961-67) gets almost three hours of discussion and analysis in Part 1 of a three-part Political Beats, with The Daily Beast's Andrew Kirell.

COURTNEY BARNETT talks to the Creative Independent about songwriting, finding a work/life balance, and overcoming creative anxiety.

FOREIGNER: They're getting the band back together.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Four Tops' desperately catchy "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)."

BEYONCE reveals she is 'descended from a slaveowner.'

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: Dave Bautista has said that he is ready to leave the franchise if James Gunn's script isn't used.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN says emails show he had a "consensual intimate friendship" with one of his rape accusers.

ROBERT REDFORD is retiring from acting.

KELLY CLARKSON is filming a pilot for a syndicated daytime talk show.

ONE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD: Here's your first look at Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate.

CATFIGHT: Bring It.

AN ESCAPED GOAT has been on the lam in Hackettstown for over a year.

GOATPOCALYPSE: Rental goats escaped and swarmed an Idaho neighborhood.

A BABY BLACK RHINO will melt your heart.

NEVERTHELESS, I HAVE SOME THINGS:

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Mission: Impossible - Fallout repeats atop the chart with 35MM on a mere 43 percent drop, less of a drop than Rogue Nation in its second frame.It's on track to be the franchise's biggest domestic grosser.  Christopher Robin placed with 25MM, which means it needs to be a little leggy to make bank against a reported 75MM budget; in the dog days, it could happen. The Spy Who Dumped Me shows with12.4MM against a 40MM budget and likely disappoints in its big screen run.  Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! takes the fourth slot with 9MMon a 40 percent drop; it's currently outrunning the original, but the size of the drops suggests it will wind up short of the first one. The Equalizer 2 rounds out the Top Five with another 8.8MM on a 37 percent drop; it may match the original's 101.5MM domestic.

ANGELINA JOLIE denies splitting with her lawyer as the legal battle with Brad Pitt "enters a new phase."

PATRICK STEWART will reprise his Next Generation role as Jean-Luc Picard more than two decades after the syndicated favorite wrapped its run.

DEMI LOVATO wants to focus on sobriety and almost certainly rehab. 

HAYDEN PANETIERRE & WAYNE KLITCHKO  have chosen to end their engagement and break up.

ELLE FANNING & MAX MINGHELLA: Dating rumors.

THE FACTS OF LIFE: A reboot is in the works with help from Leonardo DiCaprio and Jessica Biel.Meanwhile, Charlotte Rae, who endeared herself to a generation of TV fans as the affable Mrs. Garrett on the long-running NBC sitcom, died Sunday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 92.

THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB WAS DROPPED ON HIROSHIMA on this date in 1945. The act that ushered in the nuclear age, but also helped end World War II, still stokes controversy. Three men involved in the attack o­n Hiroshima share their memories with the BBC. Film showing the effects of the attack was classified for decades, as were the complete (unredacted) "Magic" military intercepts, which tend to show Japan was not about to surrender. Those interested in a relatively neutral view of the events leading to the bombing could do worse than 1995's Hiroshima, a joint Canadian-Japanese production for Showtime.  Hard to find tho.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with JOHN HUGHES! The sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, buds, wasteoids, dweebies and dickheads, they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude. The writer/director behind Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, National Lampoon's Vacation movies, Home Alone, Planes, Trains & Automobiles and many more died Aug 6, 2009.  Hughes masterfully married music to movies, so I pay video tribute to him today, starting (of course) with "Don't You Forget About Me" by Simple Minds from The Breakfast Club (the drumming o­n this song is impeccable), and Karla DeVito's "We Are Not Alone," along with the Ramones playing "Blitzkrieg Bop" (from National Lampoon's Vacation), David Bowie's "Young Americans" and The Vapors o­ne-hit wonder, "Turning Japanese" and Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell" (all from Sixteen Candles, which opens to a clip of veteran WLS DJs Larry Lujack and Tommy Edwards), Van Halen's cover of "(Oh) Pretty Woman" and General Public's "Tenderness" (both from Weird Science), the Psychedelic Furs re-recorded title track from Pretty In Pink, which also featured Jon Cryer lip-synching to Otis Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness" (that last clip is a blistering live take from the 1967 Stax tour -- and excellent, btw), The Smiths' "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" (a Hughes perennial; here, the Dream Academy cover from FBDO), and OMD's "If You Leave," plus two more from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, "Danke Schoen" and "Twist and Shout" (which was shot o­n Dearborn and Randolph Streets in Chicago, with International Polka Queen Vlasta atop the float, though Cameron and Sloane were in front of the Post Office down the street), plus Yello's unforgettable-no-matter-how-you-try "Oh, Yeah." Videos are scarce for Some Kind of Wonderful, but I found Flesh for Lulu's "I Go Crazy" and the March Violets' take on the Stones' "Miss Amanda Jones."

LIZ COOPER & THE STAMPEDE advance streams Window Flowers.

THE WAR AND TREATY advance streams Healing Tide.

JASON EADY advance streams I Travel On.

TOM MORELLO shares two songs from his upcoming solo project.

CREAM syncs "I Feel Free" at the Beat Club.

STRAWBERRY FIELDS will re-open as a tourist attraction for Beatles fans.

THE TRAGICALLY HIP: Why were they so beloved in the Great White North?

JAY-Z IS THE ROLLING STONES: A Dad Rock-To-Dad Rap Conversion Guide.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda" and the beginning of Brian Wilson's full-time studio-auteur era.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include Disney's Christopher Robin, which is currently scoring 56 percent on the ol Tomatometer; The Darkest Minds, which is currently scorning 15 percent; The Spy Who Dumped Me, scoring 40 percent; and Death of a Nation, which was not advance screened for critics.

JAMES GUNN is unlikely to be rehired by Disney.

CHARLIE SHEEN  is having a "dire financial crisis," and has "less than 10 million to his name."

MEGHAN MARKLE: Being kept at a distance from the press?

REBECCA FERGUSON, hot off Mission: Impossible Fallout,is being set for a plum role in the Men in Black spinoff.

DOG & RACOON, sleeping together... mass hysteria!

A FLORIDA MAN who took an alligator into a store on a beer run is arrested.

THREE PEOPLE were taken to the hospital Monday night after a single car rollover accident caused by a spider. 

A RARE BLUE CRAB was caught in Virginia.

COURTNEY BARNETT stops by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

AMANDA SHIRES stops by World Cafe to talk and play. 

DEL McCOURY: A bluegrass great plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

CORDOVAS bring the cosmic country on "Talk To Me."

NEKO CASE shares an insanely nsfw video for  "Curse Of The I-5 Corridor."

SEYMOUR STEIN: The Sire Records maven is profiled at The Guardian.

OPENING LINES: Got a favorite?

MUDHONEY's debut single, “Touch Me I’m Sick,” turns 30.

THE NUMBER ONES: looks at the Beatles' pop masterpiece "Ticket To Ride."

CHARLIZE THERON, NICOLE KIDMAN & MARGOT ROBBie will appear in the untitled movie about the women of Fox News.

THE TERMINATOR reboot has a first look photo and it's testing my Mackenzie Davis fandom.

DAVID HASSELHOFF married model Hayley Roberts in Italy.

JENNIFER ANISTON is profiled by InStyle because it's August and you need that evergreen content to cover vacation time.

KATIE HOLMES & JAMIE FOXX decide to promote their romance after five years, for some reason.

JOHNNY DEPP claims Amber Heard punched him in the face for being late to her party.

ALF is in the early stages of a reboot.

CAT RESCUED FROM TREE Attacks.

RAW CENTIPEDES: Don't eat them. The More You Know. Swoosh.

OBESE TOURISTS cripple donkeys on a Greek island.

STOLEN LEMUR found in a hotel with a note.

HORSE FEATHERS plays a mini-set at KEXP.

FANTASTIC NEGRITO plays the Newport Folk Fest.

CORNELIA MURR covers Nina Simone, Patsy Cline, and more for a Lagniappe Session.

SPIRITUALIZED shares "Here It Comes (The Road) Let's Go."

ANNA CALVI shares "Hunter," the title track from her upcoming album.

SHANNEN MOSER shares "Arizona (I Wanna Be Your Man)."

METRIC is "Dressed to Suppress" in a new video.

PAUL McCARTNEY likely misremembers co-writing "In My Life," according to a new study.

STEPPENWOLF: The Making of "Born to Be Wild."

NICO's story is much bigger than the Velvet Underground. Susanna Nicchiarelli is here to tell it.

THE NUMBER ONES enters the Herman's Hermits era with a look at "Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter."

VENOM shres a second trailer that leaves me wondering.

TOM CRUISE: Avatar of American greatness? Also, Judd Apatow claims Seth Rogen explained internet pr0n to Cruise.

ALAN ALDA has Parkinson's disease.

JENNIFER LOPEZ denies engagement rumors.

MILA KUNIS talks about  her husband Ashton Kutcher's previous marriage to Demi Moore.

MARC MARON may join Joaquin Phoenix's Joker flick.

,ILLIE BOBBY BROWN & JACOB SARTORIUS are dunzo.

24 may be getting a prequel series.

THE 100 BEST TV EPISODES OF THE CENTURY, according to The Ringer, with some very hot takes and odd snubs.

THE BEST WAY to make this pitbull feel better.

CATS & DOGS, rescued from a hot car in Manhattan.

SCIENTISTS have discovered a rare dolphin-whale hybrid off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii.

A GRIEVING ORCA carries her dead calf for three days.