SIMON & GARFUNKEL tackle "Late In the Evening" in Central Park, circa 1981, iirc.

JAPANESE BREAKFAST plays KCRW.

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD shares "Grow Wings and Fly."

MAJOR MURPHY shares "Touch Grass."

JAMIE LIDELL shares "The Center."

PRETTY BITTER shares "Thrill Eater."

TUNE-YARDS shares “How Big is the Rainbow.”

THE SWELL SEASON shares “Factory Street Bells.”

OASIS' manager says there is no new album.

MADONNA enlists Deadpool's Shawn Levy to help tell her story at Netflix.

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS frontman Anthony Kiedis has launched his own brand of “concert-friendly” coffee.

NICK CAVE, on about being mistaken for Nicolas Cage.

TOM CRUISE previewed some of the “never been done” stunts in “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.”

SIMON PEGG, on being rescued by Mission: Impossible.

DIDDY's so-called “freak-offs” were described at length during his sex trafficking and racketeering trial in New York on Tuesday by Cassie Ventura, his ex-girlfriend.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN's legal team resumed their questioning of Kaja Sokola, one of the convicted movie mogul’s accusers, on Tuesday during his retrial in Manhattan.

GERARD DEPARDIEU was found guilty of sexually assaulting two women during a film shoot in 2021 and given an 18-month suspended prison sentence.

SEAN PENN defends WOODY ALLEN.

SALMA HAYEK is the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.

ANDOR: Tony Gilroy and Diego Luna talk about the end.

ALISON BRIE & DAVE FRANCO have been hit with a copyright infringement suit over “Together,” their independent horror film.

ROBERT BENTON, a three-time Oscar-winning director and screenwriter who helmed the 1979 best picture Oscar winner “Kramer vs. Kramer” as well as such films as “The Late Show,” “Places in the Heart” and “Nobody’s Fool” and collaborated on the screenplay for “Bonnie and Clyde,” died Sunday in Manhattan. He was 92.

LIONS vs RHINOS: Who You Got?

CATS & DOGS, living together...

THERE'S SWIMMING UPSTREAM and then there's this.

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE play "It Must Be Summer" unpluggedy.

BETH GIBBONS plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

ALAN SPARHAWK & TRAMPLED BY TURTLES share "Not Broken."

DOLLAR STORE shares "Tik Tok."

JILL SOBULE: See her posthumous video for "Underdog Victorious."

PATRICK WOLF shares "Jupiter."

DARYL HALL is finally taking a stand against yacht rock.

STEVE ALBINI's estate has launched a sale of memorabilia from his archive.

DEAD & CO. will play 60th "anniversary" shows this Summer in Golden Gate Park.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus' "Old Town Road," a strange novelty that became an out-of-nowhere cultural phenomenon.

TOM CRUISE, filming himself jumping out of a plane, as Tom does.

DIDDY's sex trafficking trial escalated on Monday afternoon as Daniel Phillip, a 41-year-old male escort, was called to the witness stand.

MICHAEL JORDAN will contribute to NBC's NBA coverage.

JAMIE LEE CURTIS went straight to the top at Meta seeking to have the company remove an AI-generated commercial that featured her likeness.

JUDE LAW & ANDREW GARFIELD, as Sigfried & Roy.

CANNES will be enforcing its dress code this year.

BARBERSHOP is headed to the small screen.

SPIDER-NOIR: First Look.

SAMUEL FRENCH, a Texan actor known for his role as undercover FBI agent CJ Robinson in “Killers of the Flower Moon,” died in Waco, Texas following a years-long battle with cancer. He was 45.

THERE ARE TWO Types of Doggos.

DOGGOS old and new.

TALK to the hand.

WE FIVE: Because "You Were On My Mind," natch.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Murray Attaway (Guadalcanal Diary ), I'm With Her, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Peter Murphy, Joe Goddard, and more.

ELBOW shares "Sober."

MATT POND PA covers Cocteau Twins’ "Heaven or Las Vegas ."

GARBAGE shares "Get Out My Face."

LORD HURON shares "Looking Back."

JOHNNY RODRIGUEZ, the chart-topping Hispanic country music star and “That’s the Way Love Goes” singer, has died. He was 73. 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Thunderbolts* repeats atop the chart with 33MM on a 55 percent drop that's a little worse than projected but okay by recent MCU standards.  Sinners places with 21.1MM on another leggy 36 percent drop and crosses 200MM domestic so far.  A Minecraft Movie shows with 8MM on a 42 percent drop, legging out without family competition.

TOM CRUISE, in a rare interview, comments on Nicole Kidman, Val Kilmer, and more. And still more.

TOM HARDY on masculinity, Spider-Man rumors, and more.

DAVID MAMET revisits his storied career, including telling DeNiro to GFH.

BLAKE LIVELY's rep issued a scathing response to Justin Baldoni’s legal team subpoenaing Taylor Swift.

AMBER HEARD had twins.

REPTILIA: How about Mikey Madison and Kirsten Dunst in the story of a dental hygienist who is seduced by a mysterious mermaid into the dark and wet underworld of Florida’s exotic animal trade?

GREG CANNOM, a makeup and prosthetics artist whose Oscar-winning work can be seen in "Mrs. Doubtfire," "Bram Stoker's Dracula," "Vice" "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," and the music video for Michael Jackson's "Thriller," has died. He was 73.

A KEA flew off with a video camera.

A DOGGO hurdles a doggo.

A HORSE has a request. 

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with POWER POP! A few of these may be known generally, like Cheap Trick's "Way of the World" and Nick Lowe's "Cruel to Be Kind"... and some well-known to fans of the genre, like Dwight Twilley's "I'm On Fire," Shoes "Too Late," The Records' "Starry Eyes," the Flamin' Groovies' "Shake Some Action" and the Plimsouls'  "A Million Miles Away" (seen here in a rare live slot).  Others are well-known to longtime Pate fans, like the Three O'Clock's "Her Head's Revolving" or Let's Active's "Waters Part."  BONUS: Bram Tchaikovsky playing "Girl Of My Dreams" and "Lady From the USA", live.

MEG BAIRD plays KEXP.

MARK PRITCHARD & THOM YORKE share “The Spirit.”

TORO Y MOI cover Broken Social Scene's “Stars and Sons.”

MIYA FOLICK & HAND HABITS cover Broken Social Scene's “Almost Crimes.”

GINA BIRCH of The Raincoats shares "Causing Trouble Again."

SMOKEY ROBINSON's called accusations of sexual assault against the Motown legend false and an attempted shakedown.

JAPANESE BREAKFAST: "I don't want to make art that everyone likes."

THE WHO are doing a farewell tour. Again. I saw the 1982 farewell tour.

THE CONJURING: LAST RITES has a teaser trailer online.

BLADE's old screenwriter offers help to a project in limbo.

DIDDY's prosecutors may have lost a key witness.

BLAKE LIVELY's lawyer confirms that the actress plans to take the stand in the upcoming Justin Baldoni trial.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN: Another accuser testifies.

BARRY KEOGHAN was nervous to meet Ringo ahead of playing him in a biopic.

THE X-MEN may recruit “Thunderbolts*” director Jake Schreier.

THE ROYALS: Prince Harry is being blackballed by the royal family because none of them trust him — or Meghan Markle, according to sources in the know.

HOW LONDON became the New Hollywood.

SHIA LeBEOUF & DAVID MAMET made a movie they're distributing themselves.

NICOLAS CAGE: "I don't think a day goes by where I'm not mistaken for Nick Cave."

JAMES FOLEY, director of films including “Glengarry Glen Ross,” “At Close Range” and “Fear,” died earlier this week of brain cancer.

THE TURTLE on a mini-skateboard is good, but the cat's reaction might be better.

A DOGGO retrieves a ball from the sea for his little brother, who is afraid of waves.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

THE UNTOUCHABLES: "I Spy For the FBI."

TORO Y MOI plays KEXP.

MATT BERNINGER shares “Inland Ocean.”

ALLO DARLIN' returns with "My Love Will Bring You Home."

FIONA APPLE shares "Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)."

AMY MILLAN shares "The Overpass."

FRANKIE COSMOS shares "B^tch Heart."

GWENNO shares "War."

SMOKEY ROBINSON was accused of sexual battery, rape and other offenses by four women in a complaint for damages filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court. He responded, sort of.

LIAM PAYNE  left behind a £24.3m fortune after dying without a will.

3 DOORS DOWN lead singer Brad Arnold has revealed he’s been diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer.

OZZY OSBOURNE said he is done with the “rock star lifestyle” ahead of Black Sabbath‘s final-ever live show this summer.

HONEY DON'T, directed by Ethan Coen, has a trailer online.

THE LONG WALK, based on a story by Richard Bachman (Stephen King), has a trailer online.

ECHO VALLEY, with Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney, has a trailer online.

FERRIS BUELLER & CAMERON FRYE, together again?

BOARDWALK EMPIRE actor Michael Pitt allegedly sexually assaulted his ex-girlfriend and later attacked her with a cement block and a chunk of wood, according to Brooklyn prosecutors and sources.

SCALETT JOHANSSON had a vision behind the camera.

SHAUN THE SHEEP is getting a threequel.

THE GOLDEN GLOBES will give an award for Best Podcast.

AMERICAN PSYCHO: The Canonization of Patrick Bateman.

FIRST RULE: Don't fall overboard.

FLAMINGOS and their escorts.

WHEN THE DOG wants a late, late snack.