NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to the Besnard Lakes, Arlo Parks, Goat Girl,  Langhorne Slim, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Notwist, Lilys, The Reds, Pinks & Purples, and more.

THE HOLD STEADY shares "Spices."

NEIL YOUNG is releasing another “lost” album, Johnny’s Island (1982).

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON quietly retires.

HILTON VALENTINE, original guitarist for The Animals, died on Friday at age 77. No cause of death was given.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Billy Vera & The Beaters's "At This Moment," a live retro-soul ballad that took a long, strange route to the top.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE?  The Little Things tops the chart with 4.6MM, the best debut for an R-rated pic during the pandemic.  Croods: A New Age places with 1.8MM on a 2 percent rise.  Wonder Woman 1984 shows with 1.3MM on a 17 percent drop.

AMC THEATERS: Saved by Reddit?

MEGXIT: Harry and Meghan secretly erased her first names from son Archie's birth papers. 

LILY JAMES continues to be bombarded with abuse by online trolls months after she was pictured kissing her co-star Dominic West in Rome.

ALPACAS: Nom nom nom.

SHEEP HERDING Skills.

TAMING the Lion.