CINCO DE MAYO STARTS HERE:
…with LOS LOBOS: "I Got Loaded" (with an added snippet of "Turn On Your Lovelight") from their fabulous first full-lengther, How Will the Wolf Survive? "Don't Worry Baby," "Evangeline," "Our Last Night," and "A Matter of Time" were on that album, too.
PEE WEE HERMAN: "Tequila." Obvs.
HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS: Rare video of "A Taste of Honey" from 1967.
CHEAP TRICK brings you the Mariachi mash-up of "Surrender."
JIMMY BUFFETT: Margaritaville. Obvs.
LIZ PHAIR: "Cinco de Mayo." Obvs.
THE ALABAMA SHAKES, interviewed by Drive-By Trucker Patterson Hood.
THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN: Jim Reid talks to Stereogum about making Psychocandy, and why a 30th anniversary tour isn’t just about nostalgia.
HAS STREAMING Stifled the Music Industry?
THE 50 GREATEST GUITAR SOLOS, according to NME.
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS let Annie Leibovitz take some behind-the-scenes shots for Vanity Fair. BONUS: Captain Phasma. DOUBLE BONUS: The 2nd Star Wars anthology movie, due in 2018, will be a Boba Fett origin story.
JOSS WHEDON quit Twitter (again) after taking flak over the portrayal of Balck Widow in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
TIGER WOODS & LINDSEY VONN are dunzo after three years.
MADONNA regrets kissing Drake, making it unanimous.
CHRIS BROWN is accused of brawling with another guy early Monday morning during a basketball game.
KRISTIN CAVALLARI talks to Us Weekly about life with Chicago Bears QB Jay Cutler, whom I affectionately like to call "Jerkface."
DANIELLE WATTS (Django Unchained), who accused Los Angeles police of racial profiling when they investigated a report she was having sex with her boyfriend in a parked car has been ordered to apologize to officers as part of a plea deal.
NIGEL TERRY, known for his roles in The Lion in Winter, Excalibur and Caravaggio, died of emphysema aged 69.
IRAN: Leading Persian Gulf states want major new weapons systems and security guarantees from the White House in exchange for backing a nuclear agreement with Iran, according to U.S. and Arab officials.
UNITED STATES intelligence agencies badly misjudged al-Qaeda’s ability to take advantage of political turmoil in the Middle East and regain strength across the region after Osama bin Laden was killed, according to a new book by the CIA’s former deputy director.
YEMEN: The Saudi-led military coalition fighting a rebel group in Yemen has in the past few weeks used widely-banned cluster munitions supplied by the United States, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Sunday.
TUCKER Takes the Stairs.
EAST COAST STARFISH may survive a zombie plague.
A BLACK LABRADOR named Caroline freaked out during a trip to the grocery store and caused her North Carolina owner to crash their truck into a swimming pool.
A GRIEVING MAMA CAT who lost her kittens adopted a litter.