THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with POWER POP! A few of these may be known generally, like Cheap Trick's "Way of the World" and Nick Lowe's "Cruel to Be Kind"... and some well-known to fans of the genre, like Dwight Twilley's "I'm On Fire," Shoes "Too Late," The Records' "Starry Eyes," the Flamin' Groovies' "Shake Some Action" and the Plimsouls'  "A Million Miles Away" (seen here in a rare live slot).  Others are well-known to longtime Pate fans, like the Three O'Clock's "Her Head's Revolving" or Let's Active's "Waters Part."  BONUS: Bram Tchaikovsky playing "Girl Of My Dreams" and "Lady From the USA", live.

TY SEGALL plays KUTX.

ISLANDS shate "The End."

TENACIOUS D covers Oasis' "Champagne Supernova" in Brighton.

WE LOVE THE BEATLES: A playlist of Beatlesque pop.

TOM WAITS is doing another movie with Jim Jarmusch.

STEVE HACKETT, on leaving Genesis.

OZZY OSBOURNE would “jump at the chance” to play a final Black Sabbath show with co-founding drummer Bill Ward.

BEN AFFLECK has been staying at a home that he seems to be occupying without his wife, Jennifer Lopez.

MEGALOPOLIS: Early reviews are... not great, but make me want to see it?

VENU SPORTS will be the joint venture of Disney/ESPN, Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery to package together a sports streaming bundle.

SHOGUN may get two more seasons now.

OSCAR ISSAC, as the voice of Jesus.

SHARON STONE & LIAM NEESON come out for Kevin Spacey.

ULTRAMAN: RISING has a trailer online.

A BABY EMU, growing up with, and like, dogs.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

GONNA NEED A Bigger Boat.

SIMON & GARFUNKEL tackle "Late In the Evening" in Central Park, circa 1981, iirc.

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF, at WFUV.

LOS CAMPESINOS! returns with "Feast of Tongues." 

TV STAR shares "Ride."

LED ZEPPELIN authorized a documentary, but how sanitized will it be?

RINGO STARR admits The Beatles fought. Shocking.

PAUL WELLER, on The Beatles.

MUSIC PUBLISHERS beef with SPOTIFY.

TAME IMPALA: Kevin Parker has sold his entire catalog, both past and future, to Sony Music Publishing.

FURIOSA: Early reviews are good, but notably less entusiastic at Variety and THR.

DUNE: PROPHECY, a prequel series, has a trailer online.

WICKED has a trailer online.

MEGALOPOLIS: Can Cannes save Coppola's epic?

DAVID COPPERFIELD: A total of 16 women have accused the magician of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior spanning decades.

FANTASTIC FOUR: Natasha Lyonne is the latest star to join.

3 BODY PROBLEM was renewed by Netflix.

TIM McGRAW will be a bull rider on Netflix.

GARY OLDMAN, on Slow Horses.

HAPPY GILMORE's sequel officially moves forward.

DAISY MILLER: Is Bogdanovich’s vanity project actually a classic?

A CAT tries ice for the first time.

A LEOPARD, like any cat, likes to play ball.

A BORDER COLLIE really works for it.

MAN Saves Dog From Kangaroo.

DAVID BOWIE: "Modern Love." from the Summer of 1983.

REAL ESTATE plays KEXP.

GRAHAM NASH played at his own Carnegie Hall tribute concert.

BEACHWOOD SPARKS shares "Falling Forever."

STRAND OF OAKS shares "Future Temple."

NADA SURF returns with "In Front Of Me Now."

BONO insisted that Coldplay “are not a rock band” while defending the group from being “judged” under those rules by music fans.

LET IT BE director Michael Lindsay-Hogg has more Beatles breakup dish.

FLEA delivered a passionate and rousing speech about Denny’s.

COMCAST will allow customers to purchase subscriptions to Netflix, Apple TV Plus and Peacock “at a vastly reduced price” compared to what each service costs on its own.

MEGALOPOLIS: Some of Coppola's crew members are questioning his methods, as if they didn't know who he was.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON: Season 2 has a trailer online.

LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER has a Season 2 trailer online.

NICOLAS CAGE will once again play Spider-Man Noir, but this time in a live-action series.

MR & MRS SMITH was renewed by Amazon, but without Donald Glover and Maya Erskine?

TOMB RAIDER: Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s adaptation of video game moves ahead at Amazon.

A FROG ate a firefly.

ONE DOGGO helps another out of a Winnie the Pooh dilemma.

A BISON is on the lam north of Milwaukee.

STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK: "Incense and Peppermints" plus "Tomorrow" for Twofer Tuesday.

SHANNON & THE CLAMS plays World Cafe.

VAMPIRE WEEKEND played "Gen X Cops" and "Capricorn" on SNL.

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS: The Making of Wild God, Part 1.

DAVID SANBORN, the six time Grammy-winning alto saxophonist who played at Woodstock, composed music for the Lethal Weapon movies, played in the SNL and Late Night with David Letterman bands and worked with everyone from Stevie Wonder to David Bowie, died Sunday afternoon, May 12th, after an extended battle with prostate cancer with complications. He Was 78.

MICHAEL MacDONALD has written a memoir with Paul Reiser.

HOW STURGILL SIMPSON's Metamodern Sounds in Country Music continues to redefine what's possible in Nashville.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Pharrell's simplistic sunshine blast mega-smash "Happy."

MEGXIT: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's charity foundation has been declared delinquent and ordered to stop raising or spending money.

ANNA TAYLOR-JOY has around 30 lines of dialogue in Furiosa, and it took a toll on her.

SHOGUN, amid much speculation, is gettting a second series after all.

KEVIN COSTNER, on his new epic Western.

BARBARELLA, with Sydney Sweeney starring and Edgar Wright directing?

THE MTV MOVIE & TV AWARDS is canceled for this year.

RUSSELL CROWE is expected to return for a sequel to The Pope's Exorcist.

GEORGE CLOONEY will star as legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow in a Broadway adaptation of Good Night, and Good Luck.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

A PUP teaches a baby to crawl.

A CYCLIST encounters a curious Giraffe.

A LEOPARD thought he could eat a baboon in front of the whole troop.

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

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Dehd, Kings of Leon, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Les Savy Fav, Shannon & The Clams, and more.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN paid tribute to Shane MacGowan in Kilkenny, Ireland.

SHANNON & THE CLAMS, on how Wire, Velvet Underground and more influenced their new LP.

TALKING HEADS: How did they get here?

BEABADOOBIE: "I don't have time for death threats. I've got a mortgage to pay."

NINE SONGS that should be retired as needle drops in other media.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes tops the chart with as much as 55MM, at the top end of projections, though the B CinemaScore may be concerning.  Fall Guy places with 14.4MM on a 48 percent drop.  Challengers shows with 5MM on a 34 percent drop.

ROGER CORMAN,the legendary B-movie king who directed and produced hundreds of low-budget film, and discovered such future industry stars as Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, has died. He was 98.  Here's Jack Nicholson bursting into tears talking about him.

STEVE BUSCEMI was randomly attacked in board daylight in NYC.

MAD MAX: George Miller on feuds, fakery and Furiosa.

CHRISTOPHER LEE's untold story (including his secret war missions) is set to be revealed in an upcoming documentary film.

BRAD PITT's Formula One film may be one of the most expensive evah.

UNFROSTED: Can Netflix Create a Cult Classic?

ALBERT BROOKS: Adrienne LaFrance talks to Sonny Bunch about one of the comic geniuses of our time.

A GOAT grabs a snack, leaves on a motorbike.

A PUPPER and a Piglet.

A DOGGO and a duck.