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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with HARRY NILSSON! He would have celebrated a birthday yesterday, so let's revisit the BBC's "The Music of Nilsson from 1971, including a mashup of "Mr. Richland's Favorite Song" and "One," "Gotta Get Up," a medley of "Walk Right Back," "Cathy's Clown" and "Let The Good Times Roll," and really moving take on "Life Line." Then there are two videos from The Point!  -- "Think About Your Troubles" and "Are You Sleeping" -- sandwiching "Joy." The set concludes with "Without Her," "Coconut" and "1941."

CARLOS SANTANA visits the World Cafe.

ST PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES, Live at The Palace.

LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS visit Morning Becomes Eclectic.

JULIEN BAKER's Record Store Day Single, "Red Door" and "Conversation Piece," are online.

KAREN O & DANGER MOUSE cover Lou Reed's "Perfect Day."

CHRIS HEMSWORTH does the Johny Cash version of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" as Fat Thor.

AEROSMITH: "Train Kept A-Rollin'" At least until Midnight.

CRAIG FINN talks to The Current about his "Carveresque" solo work, and the Minnesota Twins.

DRAG CITY: 30 masterpieces for 30 years.

BEN FOLDS' first known recording was found by a crate digger.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at John Lennon's "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night," the only Lennon solo single that hit No. 1 while Lennon was still alive. 

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's new wide releases are Men in Black International, which is currently scoring 27 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and the third Shaft, which is scoring 37 percent. Late Night expands wide at 82 percent.

JESSICA BIEL lobbied against a California state bill that would limit medical exemptions from vaccinations without approval from a state public-health officer. Biel posted on Instagram Thursday morning that she supports children getting vaccinated and she also supports families having the "right to make educated medical decisions for their children alongside their physicians."

BRYAN SINGER agreed to pay 150K to resolve allegations that he raped a 17-year-old boy in 2003.

JUSTIN BIEBER wasn't serious about taking on Tom Cruise in a fight, or maybe he's simply changed his mind ... because he says Tom would beat him.

CHERNOBYL was a big hit for HBO.

DOCTOR SLEEP: The sequel to The Shining has a trailer online.

A RACCOON, Born to be Wild.

A DOG with fainting goat syndrome.

A GATOR takes part in a gender reveal, because Florida.

TWO RANDY KOOKABURAS, ending with a bang, are believed to have caused a widespread power outage to more than 1000 customers in Perth’s northern suburbs.

CARL DOUGLAS, with the classic "Kung Fu Fighting."

FOXING plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

HAYES CARLL visits World Cafe.

THE QUIET TEMPLE covers Band of Gypsys and Coltrane for a Lagniappe Session.

PURPLE MOUNTAINS shares a video for "Darkness And Cold."

THE DAY THE MUSIC BURNED: Universal Music Group have now released a statement disputing (but not really rebutting) some of the NYT story’s claims. Meanwhile, musicians reacted.

DINOSAUR JR is holding a rock camp this summer.

THE 50 BEST ALBUMS of 2019 (So Far), according to Stereogum.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Bachman-Turner Overdrive's gloriously stupid classic rock anthem "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet."

KEANU REEVES Had No Idea About the Internet's Obsession with Him: 'That's Wacky.'

GAME OF THRONES: Sophie Turner didn’t tell her parents she was auditioning.

CHRIS PRATT & KATHERINE SCHWARZENEGGER are looking to breed.

CUBA GOODING JR will turn himself into NYPD and will be arrested for allegedly groping a woman — but on camera he insists he did nothing wrong.

BRAD PITT has been wearing the same outfit all week.

GHOSTBUSTERS: Jason Reitman reveals the inspiration for his new film.

MARTIN SCORSESE is best known for gangster sagas and epic tales, but his documentaries are among his best work.

KNEEL BEFORE ZACK: This is the story of #ReleaseTheSnyderCut, the most bizarre sustained fan campaign in modern superhero-movie history.

A WOLF EEL can bite and poison you even after the head is detached from the body.

AN ORCA swims with a pod of dolphins.

KAREN, you call this a prison?

RADIOHEAD officially released 18 hours of demos and outtakes recorded during the band's OK Computer sessions, after the tapes were reportedly stolen and leaked online.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: New tracks from Joan Shelley, Haybaby, Seratones and more.

THE BIRD & THE BEE cover Van Halen's "Ain't Talkin' Bout Love." Oh My!

BOB MOULD covers the Buzzcocks’ “I Don’t Mind.”

DREAM SYNDICATE shares “Bullet Holes.”

HISS GOLDEN MESSNGER shares a video for "I Need A Teacher."

THE DAY THE MUSIC BURNED: It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business - and almost nobody knew. This is the story of the 2008 Universal fire.

MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS get about two hours of discussion and analysis in a Very Special Episode of Political Beats.

BOB DYLAN: How Rolling Thunder revved round America.

NICK CAVE gives fans songwriting advice and shares new lyrics.

LED ZEPPELIN: The "Stairway to Heaven" lawsuit will be reviewed by the full Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Stevie Wonder's Jackson 5 collab "You Haven't Done Nothin'"

FROZEN 2 has a trailer online.

GAME OF THRONES: Richard Madden was “thankful” to be killed off.

LEE DANIELS on the afterlife of Empire, the limits of woke culture— and why Precious was really a comedy. 

NICOLE KIDMAN on love, grief, religion, eating insects and backpacking with cats.

ROBIN GIVENS denies having an affair with Brad Pitt.

SAMUEL L. JACKSON explains the secret of his 40-year marriage.

QUENTIN TARANTINO's Star Trek movie might actually happen.

ROASTING A YAK with your SUV.

A CAT faces the tide.

A ZOMBIE SNAKE found in NC can play dead.

URGE OVERKILL: Their killer '93 single "Sister Havana" and their even more famous cover of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" are your Twofer Tuesday.

SESAME STREET plays a Tiny Desk Concert. Yes, really.

BARONESS advance streams the 70s-influenced hard rock of  Gold & Grey.

BOOGARINS cover My Bloody Valentine, the Velvets, and the Kinks for a Lagniappe Session.

BAT FOR LASHES shares "Kids In The Dark."

THE RACONTEURS share "Bored and Razed."

PHIL COLLINS & MIKE RUTHERFORD reunite for the first time in 12 years on "Follow You Follow Me."

HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH is a “Great American Rock Band (Yes, Really)”?

RICHARD HAWLEY talks rock, politics and "nobheads in London" with NME.

THE BEST 25 ALBUMS of 2019 (So Far), according to Paste.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Dionne Warwick & the Spinners' Philly soul team-up "Then Came You."

JUSTIN BIEBER challenges TOM CRUISE to a fight in the UFC Octogon.

DANIEL CRAIG is still in a boot following his Bond 25 injury.

RHIANNA is profiled by the revived Interview magazine.

GHOSTBUSTERS: Jason Reitman releases some lost footage from the original.

GAME OF THRONES is returning to the San Diego Comic-Con -- or possibly Paramus.

KEANU REEVES movies, ranked by Uproxx.

A POLAR BEAR kills amd eats a live duck in front of shocked zoo visitors, because zoos are not supposed to teach you what animals are like.

TEN DUCKLINGS, feasting on mealworms, because that's the food chain.

A CAT, when the tide rollis in.

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

THE NATIONAL visited the World Cafe.

NORAH JONES visited World Cafe.

NEW RELEASES: Richard Hawley, Doug Tuttle, and Nicole Yun are among the new LP's available to stream. Digging Tuttle in particular.

FATHER JOHN MISTY debuted a  new song on tour.

BLEACHED shares a video for "Kiss You Goodbye."

ELVIS COSTELLO has been named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to music; he has mixed feelings about it.

THE FLAMING LIPS' Wayne Coyne and his wife Katy have announced the birth of their first child together.

THE BEST ALBUMS of 2019 (So Far), according to NME.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Billy Preston's wacky romp "Nothing From Nothing," the first song ever performed on NBC's Saturday Night.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Secret Life of Pets 2 tops the chart with 47.1MM, which is... pretty terrible when you consider the original mademore than twice as much in its opening weekend. The studio wisely held the budget to 80MM (the original cost 75MM), so this will make money, but it has to be a huge disappointment. And yet, people may not notice because it's probably not as bad as X-Men: Dark Phoenix places with 33MM, which is far worse than the 54MM opening of the first X-Men flick in 2000 -- and this one has a 200MM price tag. They should have seen the writing on the wall with Apocalypse, and also realized this installment (which is not well-reviewed) would pay for how mediocre the last one was. We can only hope that Kevin Feige can figure out a way do this properly in the MCU, now that the Mouse owns the Fox. Aladdin takes the fourth slot with 24.5MM on a 43 percent slide, which the Mouse will definitely take after the Dumbo scare. Last week's chart champ, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, rounds out the Top Five with 15.5MM on a 68 percent drop, which is bad but similar to the fall -off from the 2014 reboot.

CHRIS PRATT & KATHERINE SCHWARZENEGGER got married at the San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, California, on Saturday.

DAPHNE ZUNIGA wed her longtime beau David Mleczko.

DENNIS QUAID is dating 26-year-old University of Texas student Laura Savoie.

SIGOURNEY WEAVER confirmed that she will be appearing in Jason Reitman's upcoming version of Ghostbusters.

GWYNETH PALTROW had no idea she was in Spider-Man: Homecoming.

KEANU REEVES will be featured in the Cyberpunk 2077 videogame.

ENTERTAIMENT WEEKLY is going monthly — but keeping its name.

NINE KITTENS, trying to follow the ball.

"MUSIC can heal the wounds that medicine cannot touch." (Dr. Debasish Mridha)

SOMETIMES you pet the cat, sometimes the cat pets you.

"BUT I WANT THIS ONE."