THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with BLIND FAITH! Live at London's Hyde Park in June 1969. After an introduction and brief segments about supergroup members Steve Winwood, Rick Grech, Ginger Baker, and Eric Clapton, your set list includes:"Well All Right", "Sea of Joy","Sleeping in the Ground", "Under My Thumb", "Can't Find My Way Home", "Do What You Like", "In the Presence of the Lord", "Means to an End", and "Had to Cry Today".

KING TUFF plays KEXP.

BOYGENUS rolled out their new material at the Fox Theater in Pomona ahead of their Coachella set this weekend.

KING KRULE shares "Seaforth."

NATION OF LANGUAGE shares “Weak In Your Light.”

SAM BUSH, EMMYLOU HARRIS, and MARGO PRICE covered Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released.”

BOB DYLAN covered the Grateful Dead’s “Truckin’.”

ROBBIE FULKS, profiled at Variety.

YO LA TENGO: Ira Kaplan discussed creating setlists with The Current.

EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL, on Their Peculiar Journey Through Pop and Their Comeback.

MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY & WOODY HARRELSON may be actual brothers.

DRAKE BELL was lost and found.

THE ROYALS have no interest in talking to Harry beyond basic greetings.

WARNER BROS stock dropped five percent after announcing the Max plan.

TIME's 100 Most Influential People.

MINKA KELLY, on performing at peep shows at age 17.

CANNE FILM FESTIVAL: The 2023 lineup.

BARRY Changed Bill Hader's Life. Now It's About to End.

MARY QUANT, the British designer who revolutionized fashion and epitomized the style of the Swinging Sixties, the mother of the miniskirt, died on Thursday at her home in Surrey, in southern England. She was 93.

A DOGGO tale.

WHEN MOM picks out your winter jacket.

18000 DAIRY COWS died in a fire on a Texas farm.

STEELY DAN turn in a spirited "Reelin' in the Years" on the Midnight Special.  Fagen reportedly hated this performance, which appears in Almost Famous.

SAMIA plays KEXP.

PHOEBE BRIDGERS joins THE NATIONAL on "Your Mind Is Not Your Friend."

SPEEDY ORTIZ returns with "Scabs."

R.E.M. talks about the 40th anniversary of Murmur.

THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH, profiled at Paste.

FATHER JOHN MISTY is doing a Scott Walker tribute concert.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Leona Lewis' big-feelings ballad "Bleeding Love."

HARRY POTTER will be coming to Max as a 10-year project.

DEADPOOL 3: Morena Baccarin and Stefan Kapicic will return as Vanessa and Colossus.

CREATURE COMMANDOS: The James Gunn-led DCU will start with an animation starring Frank Grillo.

THE CONTINENTAL finally has a trailer online.

THE ROYALS: Prince Harry will attend the coronation of his father, Meghan not so much.

JAMIE FOXX suffered a "medical emergency" Tuesday morning and is recovering in the hospital.

BRAD PITT and the Bizarre Charity Mess That's Left Katrina Victims Stranded Again.

THE PENGUIN has a teaser trailer online.

BLADE: Mia Goth is joining Mahershala Ali in the MCU.

RUPERT MURDOCH made JERRY HALL agree not to give story ideas to Succession.

TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY has a trailer online.

GAME OF THRONES will have another spinoff based on Tales of Dunk And Egg.

THE SYMPATHIZER, with Robert Downey Jr in multiple roles, has a teaser online.

YELLOWJACKETS and the limits of 90s nostalgia.

SANCTUARY, a psychological thriller with Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott, has a trailer online.

A FOX, out for a stroll.

TWO ELEPHANTS, navigating a step down.

NEW YORK CITY hires a Rat Czar.

SIMON & GARFUNKEL count the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike.

YO LA TENGO plays KEXP.

ANGEL OLSEN shares "Forever Means."

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD shares "Penge."

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS shares a remixed and remastered version of “Puttin’ People On The Moon,” from a reissue of The Dirty South.

KAISER CHIEFS share "Jealousy."

THE HOLD STEADY's Craig Finn on revolution tourists, desperate characters and exploitation.

FEIST talks to Vulture about her new album.

THE FEELIES' Brenda Sauter: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.

CAROLINE POLACHEK, profiled at Pitchfork.

PATRICK WOLF, on surviving addiction, bankruptcy and a hit and run.

PEDRO PACAL tells Esquire about how Sarah Paulson helped his career, and more.

AMANDA BYNES has been released from a mental hospital more than 3 weeks after she was first admitted for treatment.

THE ROYALS: King Charles has simply been left “tired and furious” by the continuing disobedience of his family, including disgraced Prince Andrew.

JOHNNY DEPP & AMBER HEARD are in much different places one year after the big defamation trial began.

THE MARVELS has a trailer online.

MILLIE BOBBIE BROWN is engaged to Jon Bon Jovi's son.

HILARY SWANK gives birth to twins at 48.

MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY didn't have his seatbelt on when the Lufthansa flight he was onboard dropped 4000 feet in March.

WARNER BROS plans a new streaming service that brings together classic HBO series like "The Sopranos" and "Succession" with Discovery series like "Dr. Pimple Popper" and "Fixer Upper."

A DOGGO, on a treadmill, sort of.

A BIRD takes shelter from a hailstorm.

DUCK vs TIGER: Who you got?

YO LA TENGO are captured playing the bouncy "Mr. Tough" and "I Feel Like Going Home" at The Current.  And that, my friends, is Twofer Tuesday.

SHARON VAN ETTEN, Live at Surly Festival Field in Minneapolis, 2022.

BRAVE COMBO visits World Cafe (or vice versa).

BONNY DOON shared "Let There Be Music."

THE LINDA LINDAS shared "Too Many Things."

THE HOLD STEADY's Craig Finn discussed the new album with FLOOD.

THE WHO is unlikely to ever tour North America again, according to Roger.

WEDNESDAY's Karly Hartzman talked songwriting with Vulture.

LASSE WELLANDER, ABBA’s longterm guitarist has died at the age of 70.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Usher & Jeezy's horny exhibitionist anthem "Love In This Club."

STAR WARS: VISIONS, Vol. 2 has a trailer online, including Aardman animation's take on the galaxy far, far away.

PETER PAN & WENDY has a trailer online.

KIM KARDASHIAN joins “American Horror Story.”

KEANU REEVES & JONAH HILL are teaming up for a dark Hollywood story.

CHRIS ROCK's brother has claimed that Will Smith didn’t reach out to Rock after the viral Oscars slap, contrary to reports.

STRANGER THINGS is getting an animated spinoff.

JAMES CROMWELL rescued a pig and named it Babe, because obvsly.

AL JAFFEE,  a cartoonist who folded in when the trend in magazine publishing was to fold out, thereby creating one of Mad magazine’s most recognizable and enduring features, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 102.

CAT vs MANTIS: Who you got?

CATS & DOGS, living together...

CATS & DOGS, living together...

INDIA'S TIGERS Bounce Back.

THE PRIMITONS play "Seeing Is Believing" at an in-store appearance from 1985.  Proof positive that the Internet makes the "Where Are They Now?" file bottomless.  Background at Trouser Press.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Wednesday, Blondshell and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Mudhoney, FACS, and more.

ROBYN HITCHCOCK shares three instrumentals.

JASON ISBELL shares "They Wait."

PETER GABRIEL shares "i/o."

J MASCIS: 10 albums that changed his life.

THE BEST ALBUMS of 2023 (So Far), according to Vulture.

SUSANNA HOFFS, by the book.

IAN BAIRNSON, who played guitar on Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" and performed with the Alan Parsons Project, has died at 69.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Flo Rida & T-Pain's blockbuster club-rap earworm "Low."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Super Mario Bros.crushes it with 146.3MM over three days and 204.6MM in the five days since it opened; it will set the worldwide record for an animated debut.  You wouldn't have to scroll too many weeks back to find me writing that the studios were leaving money on the table by not putting family films in theaters.  Air and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves virtually tie at approximately 14.5MM; the latter dropped 61 percent in its sophomore frame.

TAYLOR SWIFT and Joe Alwyn have called it quits; album to follow.

MEGAN FOX & MACHINE GUN KELLY are back together.

INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY has a trailer online.

STAR WARS: Daisy Ridley will be returning for another movie.

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 director Chad Stahelski on raising the bar.

AMANDA BYNES is still in a mental hospital.

TIMOTHEE CHALAMET will sing in the Bob Dylan biopic.

JAY-Z is now the last rapper on the Forbes Billionaire List 2023 after Kanye West fell off the list following his departure from Adidas.

MICHAEL LERNER, a veteran character actor who received an Oscar nomination for his performance as an overbearing studio head in the 1991 film “Barton Fink,” has died, his nephew, actor Sam Lerner, announced in a post on social media. He was 81.

HOW THE LONDON ZOO marked Easter.

JUST GET IN THE WATER, will you?

A GOLDEN, but dirty dawg.