FUNKADELIC: "I Got a Thing" on Upbeat in 1970.

JAMES SUPERCAVE plays a mini-concert for World Cafe.

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD shares "Field of Vision."

FONTAINES DC shares "Here's The Thing."

RICHARD THOMPSON: What's Left To Lose.

PRINCE recorded and deleted a version of Michal Jackson's "Bad," which was originally intended to be a duet.

AEROSMITH: Footage and setlist from the final show.

THE MTV VMA nominations went to these folks. Congrats!

ARE POP HITS becoming less melodic? (Spoiler: Yes; the counter-argument here is really a different issue altogether.)

DAISY RIDLEY has Grave's disease.

BENIFER are considering next steps as their summer winds down.

TOM CRUISE dating rumors squashed.

JENNA ORTEGA settles into fame.

EUGENE & DAN LEVY may host the Emmys.

SCRUBS could stage a reunion in the next year.

THE BEST SOUNDTRACKED TV SHOWS, according to NME.

CHARLES CYPHERS, known for his role as Sheriff Leigh Brackett in the “Halloween” franchise, died from a brief illness at 85.

JAY KANTER, a legendary film producer and former Hollywood agent to stars like Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe, is dead at 97.

A SERVICE DOGGO enjoys the big slide.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

MAN RESCUES DOGGO from a coyote.

TOM JONES sung "It's Not Unusual" and "If He Should Ever Leave You" on Canadian Idol, which opened with some great archival footage.

FEIST visits World Cafe.

WEEN is streamin an expanded version of Chocolate And Cheese.

WOLFGANG PRESS returns after 29 years with "Sad Surfer."

TOAD THE WET SPROCKET covers REM's "Driver 8," with Robin Wilson of Gin Blossoms and Matt Scannell of Vertical Horizon.

ST VINCENT: The 10 Songs That Changed Her Life.

REO SPEEDWAGON salutes AEROSMITH.

THE RUNAWAYS' Jackie Fox created a board game.

ROUGH TRADE suspended their much-criticized new scheme for selling vinyl.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Justin Bieber's first chart-topper, the burbling trop-house redemption song "What Do You Mean?"

DAVID LYNCH has been diagnosed with emphysema and can no longer “leave the house” due to fears of getting COVID. But he's not retiring.

SHAWN LEVY unpacks Deadpool & Wolverine, with many spoilers.

ALIKI McDOWELL (Billions) was arrested and charged with murder.

BENIFER aren't speaking and it's making it difficult to hammer out a divorce agreement.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON will end with Season 4.

JOHN WICK is spawning a post-Episode 4 TV series.

TOM CRUISE may have a 25-year-old girlfriend.

A TORTOISE, enjoying watermelon.

AN OWL was a ringbearer at a wedding. It did not go perfectly.

UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY can get tricky. 

LEMON PIPERS: "Green Tambourine."

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Jack White, Why?, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has X, Chrystabell & David Lynch, and more.

MARK LANEGAN: Hear the full-band version of "Heard a Train."

SNAIL MAIL covers the Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight."

THE KILLERS covered Material Issue's "Very First Lie" at Lolla.

AEROSMITH have once again canceled their farewell tour and have decided to retire from the road.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Deadpool & Wolverine repeats atop the chart with 97MM on a 54 percent drop, the 8th best second weekend ever.  Twisters places with a 22.6MM third weekend.  M. Night Shyamalan's Trap shows with 15.6MM.

HARRISON FORD, on being an idiot for money.

BEN AFFLECK to play Hulk Hogan?

THE SIMPSONS: How the Planet of the Apes musical came to be.

ZAC EFRON was hospitalized after being found in distress in a swimming pool.

JUSTIN TIMEBERLAKE's DWI case isn't going well.

MATT DAMON & CASEY AFFLECT talk about The Instigators.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

DUDE vs SEA LION, fighting over a fish.

AN OCTOPUS, disguised as Squidward.

PEOPLE RESCUE a Baby Elephant and the Mom.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with JOHN HUGHES! The sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, buds, wasteoids, dweebies and dickheads, they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude. The writer/director behind Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, National Lampoon's Vacation movies, Home Alone, Planes, Trains & Automobiles and many more died Aug 6, 2009.  Hughes masterfully married music to movies, so I pay video tribute to him today, starting (of course) with "Don't You Forget About Me" by Simple Minds from The Breakfast Club (the drumming o­n this song is impeccable), and Karla DeVito's "We Are Not Alone," along with the Ramones playing "Blitzkrieg Bop" (from National Lampoon's Vacation), David Bowie's "Young Americans" and The Vapors o­ne-hit wonder, "Turning Japanese" and Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell" (all from Sixteen Candles, which opens to a clip of veteran WLS DJs Larry Lujack and Tommy Edwards), Van Halen's cover of "(Oh) Pretty Woman" and General Public's "Tenderness" (both from Weird Science), the Psychedelic Furs re-recorded title track from Pretty In Pink, which also featured Jon Cryer lip-synching to Otis Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness" (that last clip is a blistering live take from the 1967 Stax tour -- and excellent, btw), The Smiths' "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" (a Hughes perennial; here, the Dream Academy cover from FBDO), and OMD's "If You Leave," plus two more from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, "Danke Schoen" and "Twist and Shout" (which was shot o­n Dearborn and Randolph Streets in Chicago, with International Polka Queen Vlasta atop the float, though Cameron and Sloane were in front of the Post Office down the street), plus Yello's unforgettable-no-matter-how-you-try "Oh, Yeah." Videos are scarce for Some Kind of Wonderful, but I found Flesh for Lulu's "I Go Crazy" and the March Violets' take on the Stones' "Miss Amanda Jones."  BONUS: Molly Ringwald's post-MeToo re-evaluation of the films that made her career.

FRIKO plays a mini-concert for World Cafe, by way of Metro.

SOCCER MOMMY shares "M."

MC5 shares “Can’t Be Found,” ft Venon Reid.

PRINCE was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

JOURNEY: Neal Schon is suing keyboardist Jonathan Cain again.

TEGAN & SARA feature in a documentary about the hacking of Tegan's files in what became a complex catfishing scheme.

TOM CRUISE is engineering an epic stunt to close out the Paris Olympics, according to TMZ.

THE ROCK's 11MM deal with the US Army did not go well.

BILL & TED are Waiting For Godot.

VINCE VAUGHN feels Hollywood executives “overthink it” when it comes to developing the types of R-rated comedies the actor is famously known for.

CARRIE UNDERWOOD is replacing Katy Perry on American Idol.

BRITNEY SPEARS is getting a biopic.

MEGXIT: Harry & Megan are interviewed for CBS, perhaps to demand their privacy again.

ORANGUTAN vs OTTERS: Who You Got?

A DOG catches a fish while his owner is away.

A BABY ELEPHANT befriends a baby Zebra.

PILOT works their "Magic" on TOTP.

MRCY plays World Cafe.

GUIDED BY VOICES shares a hi-fi version of their lo-fi classic "I Am A Scientist."

BRYAN FERRY covers Dylan's "She Belongs To Me."

FATHER JOHN MISTY shares “I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All.”

CARIBOU shares "Volume," based on M|A|R|R|S‘ smash 1987 hit “Pump Up the Volume.”

STEVEN VAN ZANDT, on the new documentary about him, and the future of the E Street Band.

JEFF PORCARO wrote two more songs with MICHAEL JACKSON: Will they ever come out of the vault?

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA was falsely accused of inappropriate behavior on the Megalopolis set, according to the supposed victim.

ALAN SILVESTRI is coming back to score those new Avengers movies.

JONATHAN MAJORS is bummed out that Marvel is turning from Kang to Doctor Doom.

HARRISON FORD, delightfully confused about the Marvel Multiverse.

THE PENGUIN's showrunner is comparing it to Scarface.

MEGXIT: Why Harry and King Charles aren't speaking.

PETE DAVIDSON checked into a facility for mental health treatment.

LISA KUDROW tells how she was fired from Frasier.

ELEPHANTS have learned how to stop trucks and steal snacks.

FLIES can accidentally twist their own heads off.

DUDE saves a raccoon from choking.