THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:
… with POWER POP (REDUX)! For whatever reason, I have considered Summer the ideal season for gems like Badfinger's "No Matter What" (which Pate covered on occasion) and "Baby Blue", and even Todd Rundgren's "I Saw the Light" and Cheap Trick's "I Want You to Want Me." Ditto for more obscure tracks like The Rubinoos "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" (see also their vintage cover of "Please Please Me"), Off Broadway's "Stay In Time" and "Full Moon Turn My Head Around," and Pezband's "Baby It's Cold Outside" and "Close Your Eyes."
RATBOYS plays KEXP.
PRINCE's estate shares "Stone" ahead of Timeless, an LP of unreleased material spanning his career.
NOUVELLE VAGUE covers Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence."
THE MARY WALLOPERS shares "Crowns of England."
SMIRK shares "Abide."
EMMA RUTH RUNDLE shares "Powerless."
DEATH CAB: Ben Gibbard, on creativity, success, divorce and the new album.
CLIVE DAVIS is back home and on the mend after spending the past week hospitalized.
THE ODYSSEY is officially rated "R" and is likely the most expensive film ever with that rating. And ticket sales pushed online platforms to the limit.
SCARY MOVIE 2026: Scary Tomatometer.
SONY invests in an AI copyright protection business.
TAYLOR SWIFT is worth Two Billion, according to Forbes.
THE 100 MOST WATCHED TV SERIES of 2025-2026, across broadcast, cable, and streaming.
JASON STAHAM STOLE MY BIKE will feature Jason Staham in the title role.
VINCE VAUGHN, on his history with EA Sports, esp. Madden.
MAX KLEVEN, the Norwegian-born stunt performer, stunt coordinator and second-unit director with credits including Our Man Flint, Rollerball, The Deep and the Back to the Future trilogy, has died. He was 92.
MARJANE SATRAPI, the French-Iranian graphic novelist, artist and film director whose landmark animated feature Persepolis earned a Cannes Jury Prize and an Oscar nomination and made her one of the most distinctive voices in world cinema, has died. She was 56.
ADOPTABLE SENIOR DOGS are being cat-tested.
DOGGO convinces a newly adopted dog to play.
A TURTLE, reacting to underwater TV.