TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS: "Here Comes My Girl."

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Loma, Nathaniel Rateliff, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Guided By Voices, The Folk Implosion, Redd Kross, and more.

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE stream Early Daze.

PATTI SMITH covers Lana Del Rey's "Summertime Sadness."

NORMAN COOK (Fatboy Slim) joined PAUL HEATON at Glastonbury for The Housemartin's "Happy Hour."

BLIND MELON's Reger Stevens joined GOOSE on "No Rain."

OPTIONS shares “Had My Share.”

THE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS returned to NYC after 23 years.

CHRISSIE HYNDE praises Taylor Swift.

THE NUMBER ONES on "Blank Space," Taylor Swift's greatest meta-mode moment.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Inside Out 2 threepeats atop the chart with a strong 57.4MM, crossing a billion dollars worldwide. But A Quiet Place: Day One showed with 53MM, a high for the franchise.  Kevin Costner's Horizon showed with 11MM, and probably does not gett better from there.

MARTIN MULL, the comic musician and actor who started with 1970s TV series “Fernwood 2 Night” and went on to appear as Colonel Mustard in “Clue” and on “Arrested Development” and “Roseanne,” died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 80.  Pretty sure I still have “Sex and Violins” on vinyl.

DENIS VILLENUEVE has scheduled a film for the end of 2026, probably Dune 3.

EDDIE MURPHY is ready to look back.

BANDO STONE & THE NEW WORLD, from Donald Glover, has a trailer online.

MEGXIT: Prince Harry is getting a the Pat Tillman ESPY?

RUSSELL CROWE played an acoustic set at Glastonbury.

SMALL DOG, big slide.

A COW enjoys a sprinkler.

A PIT BULL waits at the Ice Cream Truck.

A MACAQUE and a kitten.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE...

...with the wicked, wicked WILSON PICKETT, live from Germany, circa 1968. This disappeared from the Tube, but I've managed to find almost all of it reposted there or elsewhere.  His band warms up the crowd with the instrumental "Soulfinger," but Pickett electrifies from the moment he enters for "Everybody Needs Somebody" and doesn't let up through "Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won't Do)," "Mustang Sally" and "Stagger Lee." He cranks it back into top gear for "Funky Broadway," during which people dancing in front of the stage start turning up o­nstage (And why not? This rawks almost as hard as The Who's cover of "Shakin' All Over").  The tumultuous finale of "Land of 1000 Dances" from amid the crowd remains missing, but this other "Land of 1000 Dances" from 1966 is almost as wild, and in color to boot. Raw and riveting; if this can't put you in a weekend state of mind, probably nothing can.

ROBYN HITCHCOCK has your playlist for 1967.

EDDIE VEDDER covers The English Beat's "Save It For Later."

SUUNS shares "Doreen."

WINNETKA BOWLING LEAGUE shares "This Is Life."

ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS: How a shop girl got to sing with David Bowie.

KINKY FRIEDMAN, the tongue-in-cheek humorist and alt-country musician of the Texas Jewboys, has died at 79.

PARAMOUNT's cost-cutting nukes the websites of MTV News and Comedy Central.

FLIGHT RISK, with Mel Gibson directing Mark Wahlberg, has a trailer online.

MAXXXINE is getting really mixed early buzz.

FKA TWIGS & SHIA LaBEOUF's assault lawsuit gets even more beef.

THE BEAR: Every song in Season 3.

MICHAEL JACKSON was over 500MM in debt when he died.

DONALD SUTHERLAND's Defining Roles.

THE HANDS IN Puppy Challenge.

A DOGGO tries the recliner.

A CAPSIZED TURTLE is rescued on the beach.

ROGER McGUINN performs "King of the Hill" -- a song about "Papa" John Phillips -- for Carson.

BRITTNEY SPENCER plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

LONGPLAYER (Mikey Long of Drugdealer) shares “My Dreams of You” and “Find Your Way.”

JD McPHERSON shares “Sunshine Getaway.”

BAD MOVES shares "Hallelujah."  Not that one.

DARYL HALL, dishing on his estrangement from John Oates.

VAN MORRISON is digging into his vault.

SXSW drops its U.S. Army sponsorship.

THE TOP 10 DEBUT LPs of 2024 (So Far), according to NME.

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: Kevin Feige confirms it's a period piece, and implies its in a parallel universe to the MCU.

MARVEL STUDIOS is headed back to Comic-Con.

HERE has a trailer online.

LISA KUDROW is rewatching Friends because of Matthew Perry.

JEREMY ALLEN WHITE is going to try singing as Bruce Springsteen.

AL MICHAELS' voice will be produced with AI at the Summer Olympics.

THE BEST MOVIES of 2024 (So Far), according to Uproxx.

SNL: The First 25 Seasons, By The Numbers.

SPENCER MILLIGAN, best known from The Land of the Lost, passed at 86.

BILL COBBS, a veteran character actor with almost 200 credits, from The Bodyguard to That Thing You Do, has died at 90.

FLATULENT COWS & PIGS face taxation in Denmark.

THAT MONKEY will kick your a**.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

THE NASHVILLE TEENS, with a stompin' cover of "Tobacco Road."

SLEATER-KINNEY plays KCRW.

X shares "Big Black X" ahead of their final LP.

BRIGHT EYES shares "Bells And Whistles."

KIM GORDON shares "ECRP."

TREY ANASTASIO, on the Best and Weirdest of Phish.

CRAZY TOWN frontman Shifty Shellshock's sudden death is under investigation.

GENA ROWLANDS, like her character in The Notebook, has dementia. 

PARAMOUNT is slashing its budget by 500MM.

CATHERINE O'HARA, LILY GLADSTONE, JESSICA ALBA and more join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

MATTHEW PERRY: Law enforcement thinks multiple people should be charged in his death.

THIS FORMER GAME SHOW HOST is the subject of new Forever stamps.

JEREMY RENNER doesn’t “have the energy” to take on more demanding roles as he continues his recovery from his near-fatal snow plow accident.

ROBERT ZEMECKIS's new movie spans decades, but the camera doesn't move.

RED ONE, ft Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans, has a trailer online.

GREEN LANTERNS, greenlit at HBO.

DREA DE MATEO, on joining OnlyFans.

A TUB of Baby Crocs.

A DOGGO, getting adopted.

A DOGGO brings a wasps' nest as a gift.

THE KINKS: "Last of the Steam Powered Trains" and "Picture Book," circa 1969, from the album The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, for Twofer Tuesday.

IRON & WINE: Sam Beam visits World Cafe.

JARVIS COCKER joined THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN on "Just Like Honey" in Italy.

MJ LENDERMAN shares "She's Leaving You."

NIGHT MOVES covers Colin Blunstone's "Caroline Goodbye."

EFFED UP shares "Another Day."

DAVE GROHL & TAYLOR SWIFT, beefing on the lowdown.

YO GABBA GABBA! is getting a reboot on AppleTV+. 

NOSFERATU, Robert Eggers’ new horror film starring Lily-Rose Depp and Bill Skarsgard, has a teaser online.

BEN AFFLECK went off on paparazzi who ambushed him late outside J-Lo's house.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON is excited about joining the Jurassic World franchise.

ANDOR: Will Ben Mendelson reappear in Season 2?

WHEEL OF FORTUNE: Trouble in Post-Sajak Paradise?

CHARO makes a rare public appearance.

CHINATOWN: The 70s classic that explains the 20s?

FINDING NEMO: The live-action version.

FRENCH BULLDOGS, wallowing in freshly-cut grass.

EVEN A POLICE DOG wants belly rubs.

A SHARK and its posse.