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LEMON PIPERS: "Green Tambourine."
BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Trashcan Sinatras, The Durutti Column, Shearwater, and more.
WOLF ALICE covers The Roches' "Hammond Song."
SEASICK STEVE shares "Bootstraps."
CLUB 8 shares "The Sweetness of Honey."
LOS BITCHOS shares "Hang Up (Pt 2)."
BILLY STRINGS shares "Mill Town Flood."
BOGLE shares "Letter."
TOM WAITS shares "The Fly."
PATTI SMITH met with the Pope.
MODEST MOUSE's guitarist exits a tour amid sexual misconduct allegations.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Spider-Man: Brand New Day dominates the chart with 335MM, just a couple of million short of Avengers: Endgame for the best opening weekend ever in North America. The Odyssey places with 51MM on a leggy 43 percent drop with 395.5MM domestic so far. Toy Story 5 shows with 6.3MM on a 38 percent drop. It's the biggest total weekend box office evah.
THE INVITE is a now-rare Summer comedy hit.
BARBIE: The sequel has hit a snag over paying Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
PARAMOUNT wants a quick antitrust trial for its merger with Warners, as delays may cost 7MM daily.
VIN DIESEL is happy with the final Fast and Furious script.
INDE NAVARETTE wants in on the X-Men franchise. SAMARA WEAVING is set to play Emma Frost.
MAHERSHALA ALI calls out Marvel for botching the Blade reboot.
VINCENT PASTORE,the Bronx-born actor who portrayed Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero, the mob informant who winds up sleeping with the fishes, quite literally, on The Sopranos, has died. He was 80.
THE GOAT and the Goldens.
A PUP enjoys the surfboard.
A FISHERMAN records the Fisherbear.
JIMOTHY's dad may have been spotted in Seattle.
