OFF BROADWAY: "Stay In Time" and "Full Moon Turn My Head Around," for Twofer Tuesday. More power pop for the summer.
NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Florry, Stereolab, and more.
BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has The Go-Betweens‘ Robert Forster, Sparks, and more.
ST VINCENT (re-)shares "Tiempos Violentos."
CHRISTINE & THE QUEENS shares "Catching Feelings."
NEIL YOUNG & THE CHROME HEARS shares “Talkin to the Trees.”
SAINT ETIENNE shares "Glad."
FREDDIE MERCURY had a secret daughter?
FEARGAL SHARKEY received a prostate cancer diagnosis after seeing his doctor for a sore throat.
BILLY JOEL is committed to making a full recovery after a brain disorder diagnosis.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Lilo & Stitch tops the chart with 180MM. Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning places with 77MM, a series-best debut. Final Destination: Bloodlines shows with 24MM. All pointing to a 4.2 billion summer.
TOP GUN 3 writer Christopher McQuarrie says the story is in the bag.
TOM CRUISE is very serious about a Les Grossman movie.
MISSIONS: IMPOSSIBLE, Ranked.
KENAN THOMPSON teases big changes at SNL.
ROSAMUND PIKE recalls a mugging.
THE WHEEL OF TIME is canceled.
THE HANDMAID'S TALE: An oral history.
THE 50 BEST DYSTOPIAN MOVIES, according to Paste.
PHIL ROBERTSON, the patriarch of TV’s “Duck Dynasty” reality show, has died. He was 79.
MARA CORDAY, who was menaced by a huge hairy spider in the cult horror film Tarantula and appeared in several films thanks to Clint Eastwood, whom she called a “godsend,” has died. She was 95.
THE PORCH PIRATE is a pooch.
A CAT brings flowers to its owner's bed (and seems to know it's being watched).
SAVING GOOSE EGGS from a snake.