
CINCO DE MAYO STARTS HERE: 
...with LOS LOBOS: "I Got Loaded" (with an added snippet of "Turn On Your Lovelight") from their fabulous first full-lengther, How Will the Wolf Survive? "Don't Worry Baby," "Evangeline," "Our Last Night," and "A Matter of Time" were on that album, too. PEE WEE HERMAN: "Tequila." Obvsly. HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS: Rare video of "A Taste of Honey" from 1967. CHEAP TRICK brings you the Mariachi mash-up of "Surrender." JIMMY BUFFETT: Margaritaville. Obvs. 
LIZ PHAIR: "Cinco de Mayo." Obvsly. NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Car Seat Headrest, Blondshell, and more. BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has The Raveonettes, Jenny Hval, and more. RIP VAN WINKLE: Robert Pollard's new side project shares "By The Water." R.E.M. share a remix of "Radio Free Europe" for RFE/RL's 75th anniversary. JULIEN BAKER & TORRES cancel Spring tour dates for health reasons. HOW TICKETMASTER swallowed the live entertainment scene. STEVEN TYLER & JOE PERRY reunited at a charity gig; Tyler will be at Black Sabbath's farewell show. WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Thunderbolts* tops the chart with 76MM, at the high end of projections (if not the sort of debut MCU movies once made). Sinners places with 33MM on another leggy drop of only 26 percent; it could pass Captain America: Brave New World as the second biggest movie of the year... at least until Summer really gets started on Memorial Day weekend. A Minecraft Movie shows with 13.7MM on a 40 percent drop as it approaches 400MM total domestic. KEANU REEVES & SANDRA BULLOCK are reuniting to star in a new feature film. LORNE MICHAELS' would ban Chris Farley from SNL for weeks as part of his efforts efforts to rehab the comedian. RYAN REYNOLDS is writing a treatment for a Deadpool/X-Men movie. HARVEY WEINSTEIN's accuser stormed out of the courtroom in tears after brutal questioning by his lawyer. UNHOLY TRINITY, ft Pierce Brosnan and samuel L. Jackson, has a trailer online. THE TOP MOVIE STARS aren't all that young anymore. BLUE'S CLUES: Steve Burns remembers his small paychecks. CHARLEY SCALIES, who portrayed the stevedore and union guy Thomas “Horseface” Pakusa on the second season of The Wire and Tony’s high school football coach in a dream sequence on The Sopranos, has died. He was 84. RUTH BUZZI, who shot to nationwide fame as one of the stars of the 1960s TV comedy variety series Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-in, died May 1 from complications from Alzheimer’s disease at her home near Mingus, Texas. She was 88. CATS meeting Babies. DOGS with Babies. A BIRD, eating fish in a cartoon manner. A MOOSE, cooling off in someone's yard.
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