999: "Homicide." You better believe it.

THE RED CLAY STRAYS plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

GUIDED BY VOICES shares “Elfin Flower With Knees.”

JEFFREY LEWIS shares the NSFW “Sometimes Life Hits You.”

THE JESUS LIZARD shares "Westside." It's a story.

THE SONGWRITERS' HALL OF FAME announced their class of 2025.

UB40 have said they wouldn’t reunite with their former frontman Ali Campbell for “all the money in the world.”

BILLY CORGAN & BILL BURR: Half-brothers?

STING has a mystery illness.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, on the future of Dr. Strange, and more.

MICKEY 17 has a new trailer online.

ROBERT EGGERS is folowing up Nosferatu with Werwulf.

JON BERNTHAL joins the cast of Christopher Nolan's take on The Odyssey.

JUSTIN BALDONI & BLAKE LIVELY duel over outtakes from It Ends With Us.

MEGXIT: Inside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Big Business Ambitions, 5 Years Later.

JUDI DENCH revealed recently that she can no longer go outside on her own, due to the deterioration of her eyesight.

CHRISTOPHER WALKEN wants Less Cowbell.

DUDE saves a grateful deer.

A KANGAROO, hanging out on the porch.

NOT ONE SHARK ATTACK, but two.

THE MAMAS & PAPAS lip-synced "California Dreaming" really well o­n Hullaballoo, but not showing you the go-go dancers, who are worth the wait.

ENGLISH TEACHER plays KEXP.

FACS shares "You Future."

COURTING shares "After You."

GARTH HUDSON, organist for and the last surviving member of The Band, one of the most resonant and influential rock groups of the 1960s and ’70s, died on Tuesday in Woodstock, N.Y. He was 87.  Here's the Stereogum obit. Known for Band tracks like "Chest Fever," later played on songs like Camper Van Beethoven's "Borderline," and "Interlude," as well as Neko Case's "John Saw That Number."  Here's a substantial tribute from Wilco's Jeff Tweedy.  And here's 2 hours and 46 minutes on The Band via Political Beats and the late, great Terry Teachout.

IRON MAIDEN's Bruce Dickinson, fencing.

TOTO's Steve Lukather says things got weird with Weezer.

BOB KUBAN, a drummer and bandleader whose group Bob Kuban and the In-Men had a mid-’60s Top 15 hit with “The Cheater,” died January 20 in his sleep of stroke complications. He was 84.

RYAN GOSLING is in negotiations to topline the Star Wars feature project that will be directed by Deadpool & Wolverine filmmaker Shawn Levy.

LAURA DERN posted a tribute to director David Lynch on what would have been his 79th birthday.

THE RAZZIE AWARDS nominations went to these folks, fwiw.

ROBERT PATTINSON nearly lost hope in the future of the film and his career as an actor after the COVID-19 pandemic and the joint actors and writers strikes.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING almost gave someone a heart attack.

JAMES CAMERON warned fans that the forthcoming Avatar: Fire And Ash might not be what they “signed up for.”

NETFLIX added 19 million subscribers in its fourth quarter — a new record for the company, surpassing even COVID-era highs.

JULES FEIFFER, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who also wrote occasionally for the stage and screen,  including Mike Nichols’ film “Carnal Knowledge” and Robert Altman’s “Popeye,” died on Jan. 17 at his home in upstate New York. He was 95.

A PACK OF DOGGOS with good door manners.

A STRAY PUP, sliding with the kids.

COWS jumping off a boat to go grazing.

RICHARD THOMPSON: The culmination of 1000 Years Of Popular Music.

PHANTOGRAM plays WFUV.

ACCESSORY, the solo project of Dehd's Jason Balla, shares "Chain Link."

FRIKO are learning how to bring people together.

CHAPPELL ROAN: "I'd be more successful if I wore a muzzle."

MUSICARES' Grateful Dead tribute firms up its roster.

JOHN SYKES, a veteran hard-rock guitarist who was a member of Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy and the Tygers of Pan Tang, has died. He had battled cancer for several years; he was 65.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Camila Cabello and Young Thug's ultra-catchy pop hybrid "Havana."

THE BRUTALIST director Brady Corbet responded to stories about the use of AI on the actors' Hungarian dialogue.

HENRY CAVILL welcomed his first child with his girlfriend, Hollywood executive Natalie Viscuso.

ROBERT DOWNEY JR, on his short stint on SNL.

PAUL SCHRADER asked ChatGPT to come up with ideas for films.

ANACONDA: Thandiwe Newton and Steve Zahn join the cast.

IN DREAMS, David Lynch Walked With Us.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

A SEA OTTER repaid the rescuer of his partner.

LEADING? Or being chased?

U2: "Pride" and "MLK." Crushingly obvious. Have a dream.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Mac Miller, Blue Lake, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has The Weather Station, Ex-Vöid,and more.

MUMFORD & SONS returns with "Rushmere."

OK GO returns with "A Stone Only Rolls Downhill."

NEIL YOUNG shares"big change is coming."

NO DOUBT is reuiniting for FireAid.

MARK MOTHERSBAUGH maks a million annually from the Ridiculousness theme song alone.

DION: A vintage performance of "Abraham, Martin & John."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: On a slow holiday weekend, Mufasa remains atop the chart with 15.5MM; One of Them Days places with 14MM; and Wolf Man (which many thought might top the chart) shows with 12MM.

THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS announced its nominees for the 39th annual ASC Awards.  Congrats.

CAMERON DIAZ: Done with rom-coms.

FRASIER is looking for a new home.

RAMI MALEK still feels like an outsider.

DAME JOAN PLOWRIGHT, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95.

DAVID LYNCH's 90s TV commercials.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

A WILD FOX, enjoying the banjo.

BISON HEIFERS are turned out to their forever home.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with NEIL DIAMOND! There are two types of people, you know.  But here's Neil on the Beeb in 1971.  Your set list: "Sweet Caroline," "Solitary Man," "Cracklin' Rosie," "Done Too Soon," "A Modern Day Version Of Love," "He Aint' Heavy (He's My Brother)," "Holly Holy," and "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show."  And "I Am I Said" is back the Tube right now.

FRANK BLACK played rare tracks to kick off his Teenager Of The Year anniversary tour.

LUCY DACUS played her new song "Ankles" on Fallon.

BERNARD BUTLER, NORMAN BLAKE & JOHN GRANT share "Bring An End."

NELS CLINE shares "The 23."

PORRIDGE RADIO is winding down but shares "Don’t Want To Dance" from their final EP.

NEKO CASE Has Sung Hard Truths. Now She's Telling Hers in a Memoir.

FIREAID's lineup seems star-studded.

DEAD BOYS announced their new singer.

DAVID LYNCH, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive" and network television with "Twin Peaks," has died. He was 78.  tributes poured in from Kyle MacLachlan, Naomi Watts, Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and more from the world of film (including Mel Brooks), and from a broad swath of the alt-music community.  Bill Ryan essays his filmography and what it is to be "Lynchian."  Pitchfork essayed his musical legacy.  And here he is on World Cafe.

JUSTIN BALDONI sues BLAKE LIVELY & RYAN REYNOLDS for defamation and extortion.

THE MONKEY has a trailer online.

RILEY KEOUGH, on her mother Lisa Marie Presley's marriage to Michael Jackson.

MR. BEAST's "Beast Games" breaks records at Amazon Prime Video.

MEL GIBSON, SYLVESTER STALLONE & JON VOIGHT are Donald Trump's special envoys to Hollywood.

BOB UECKER, who parlayed six laughable seasons as a light-hitting catcher into a second career in comedy highlighted by hilarious turns in the Major League movies, on The Tonight Show and in beer commercials, died Thursday. He was 90.

GREYHOUNDS do love to run like the wind.

MORE LIKE a Merry-Goat-Round.

HE ACTIVATED the peacock.