THE PIPETTES: "Your Kisses are Wasted On Me." Before it all went wrong. Sigh.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Georgia, Bethany Cosentino, and more...

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has The Clientele, Bush Tetras, and more...

THE MUPPETS' ANIMAL joined MY MORNING JACKET at the Newport Folk Festival.

JASON ISBELL joins RHIANNON GIDDENS on "Yet To Be."

THE DECENDENTS: Milo had a mild heart attack, but is expected to make a full recovery.

BUSH TETRAS discuss the influences behind the first LP in 11 years.

JOHN LYDON warns of the dangers of AI.

TAYLOR SWIFT, causing an earthquake.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: It's a record last weekend of July at the cineplex.  Barbie repeats atop the chart with an estimated 93MM on a mere 43 percent drop, the best second weekend Warner Bros. has ever seen.  Oppenheimer places with 46MM on a mere 44 percent drop, the first R-rated move to gross over 10MM for 10 days straight.  Haunted Mansion likely shows with a 42MM debut.  Below the fold, note that Sound of Freedom is outgrossing the latest Mission: Imppossible domestically.  The laest from Tom Cruise is also lagging Indiana Jones 5 at this point in their respective runs, though that's likely because M:I 7 opened on a Wednesday instead of a Friday.

SAW X has a trailer online.

TNMT early reviews are solid.

PLASTIC SURGERY is booming during the Hollywood strike.

THE EMMYS are postponed.

KEVIN COSTNER's wife is moving out.

TINA FEY could take over SNL when Lorne Michaels retires.

DONALD & STEVEN GLOVER are writing the Lando Calrissian series for D+.

NICOLAS CAGE, on his cameo in The Flash, turning 60, and more.

THIS MISSION: IMPAWSIBLE might be my favorite.

CORGI Gone Wild.

MEANWHILE, during a downpour in the Japanese city of Nara...

A MANATEE dies from a sexual encounter with his brother.