THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

....wtih THE PRETENDERS! Circa 1981, via one of Pate's two fab drummers, Jon Hahn.  Your setlist includes "The Wait," "The Adultress," "Message of Love/Louie Louie," "Talk of the Town," "English Roses," "Birds of Paradise," "Kid," "Stop Your Sobbing," "Private Life," "Day After Day," "Jealous Dogs, " Up the Neck," "Tattooed Love Boys," "Bad Boys Get Spanked," "Precious," and "Brass In Pocket/MysteryAchievement."

WASHED OUT plays KEXP.

TINA TURNER: Hear the previously unreleased "Hot For You Baby."

MITSKI joins TAMINO for "Sanctuary."

AEROSMITH will reunite for a Grammys shindig.

MOGWAI's Stuart Braithwaite on The Bad Fire.

BARRY GOLDBERG,  a blues-rock keyboard player whose work with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band led to playing with Bob Dylan in the 1960s, including the notorious 1965 Newport Folk Festival concert dramatized in “A Complete Unknown,” died Wednesday at 83.

...AND THE OSCAR NOMINATIONS went to these folks. Congrats!  There were snubs and surprises.

ANORA: How Sean Baker landed four Oscar noms for one movie.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD is tracking for an 90MM+ opening.

ROBERT EGGERS will also be directing... a sequel to Labyrinth?

LEONARDO DiCAPRIO & MARTIN SCORSESE look to be reteaming for The Devil in the White City?

OCEANS 14: David Leitch is in taks to direct.

ROBERT PATTINSON: Still taking crap over Twilight. 

WIILEM DAFOE, interviewed man-on-the street style by someone who didn't know him.

A GOLDEN Slumbers.

REEF SHARK vs FISH: Who You Got?

RESCUING a Horseshoe Crab.

999: "Homicide." You better believe it.

THE RED CLAY STRAYS plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

GUIDED BY VOICES shares “Elfin Flower With Knees.”

JEFFREY LEWIS shares the NSFW “Sometimes Life Hits You.”

THE JESUS LIZARD shares "Westside." It's a story.

THE SONGWRITERS' HALL OF FAME announced their class of 2025.

UB40 have said they wouldn’t reunite with their former frontman Ali Campbell for “all the money in the world.”

BILLY CORGAN & BILL BURR: Half-brothers?

STING has a mystery illness.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, on the future of Dr. Strange, and more.

MICKEY 17 has a new trailer online.

ROBERT EGGERS is folowing up Nosferatu with Werwulf.

JON BERNTHAL joins the cast of Christopher Nolan's take on The Odyssey.

JUSTIN BALDONI & BLAKE LIVELY duel over outtakes from It Ends With Us.

MEGXIT: Inside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Big Business Ambitions, 5 Years Later.

JUDI DENCH revealed recently that she can no longer go outside on her own, due to the deterioration of her eyesight.

CHRISTOPHER WALKEN wants Less Cowbell.

DUDE saves a grateful deer.

A KANGAROO, hanging out on the porch.

NOT ONE SHARK ATTACK, but two.

THE MAMAS & PAPAS lip-synced "California Dreaming" really well o­n Hullaballoo, but not showing you the go-go dancers, who are worth the wait.

ENGLISH TEACHER plays KEXP.

FACS shares "You Future."

COURTING shares "After You."

GARTH HUDSON, organist for and the last surviving member of The Band, one of the most resonant and influential rock groups of the 1960s and ’70s, died on Tuesday in Woodstock, N.Y. He was 87.  Here's the Stereogum obit. Known for Band tracks like "Chest Fever," later played on songs like Camper Van Beethoven's "Borderline," and "Interlude," as well as Neko Case's "John Saw That Number."  Here's a substantial tribute from Wilco's Jeff Tweedy.  And here's 2 hours and 46 minutes on The Band via Political Beats and the late, great Terry Teachout.

IRON MAIDEN's Bruce Dickinson, fencing.

TOTO's Steve Lukather says things got weird with Weezer.

BOB KUBAN, a drummer and bandleader whose group Bob Kuban and the In-Men had a mid-’60s Top 15 hit with “The Cheater,” died January 20 in his sleep of stroke complications. He was 84.

RYAN GOSLING is in negotiations to topline the Star Wars feature project that will be directed by Deadpool & Wolverine filmmaker Shawn Levy.

LAURA DERN posted a tribute to director David Lynch on what would have been his 79th birthday.

THE RAZZIE AWARDS nominations went to these folks, fwiw.

ROBERT PATTINSON nearly lost hope in the future of the film and his career as an actor after the COVID-19 pandemic and the joint actors and writers strikes.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING almost gave someone a heart attack.

JAMES CAMERON warned fans that the forthcoming Avatar: Fire And Ash might not be what they “signed up for.”

NETFLIX added 19 million subscribers in its fourth quarter — a new record for the company, surpassing even COVID-era highs.

JULES FEIFFER, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who also wrote occasionally for the stage and screen,  including Mike Nichols’ film “Carnal Knowledge” and Robert Altman’s “Popeye,” died on Jan. 17 at his home in upstate New York. He was 95.

A PACK OF DOGGOS with good door manners.

A STRAY PUP, sliding with the kids.

COWS jumping off a boat to go grazing.

RICHARD THOMPSON: The culmination of 1000 Years Of Popular Music.

PHANTOGRAM plays WFUV.

ACCESSORY, the solo project of Dehd's Jason Balla, shares "Chain Link."

FRIKO are learning how to bring people together.

CHAPPELL ROAN: "I'd be more successful if I wore a muzzle."

MUSICARES' Grateful Dead tribute firms up its roster.

JOHN SYKES, a veteran hard-rock guitarist who was a member of Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy and the Tygers of Pan Tang, has died. He had battled cancer for several years; he was 65.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Camila Cabello and Young Thug's ultra-catchy pop hybrid "Havana."

THE BRUTALIST director Brady Corbet responded to stories about the use of AI on the actors' Hungarian dialogue.

HENRY CAVILL welcomed his first child with his girlfriend, Hollywood executive Natalie Viscuso.

ROBERT DOWNEY JR, on his short stint on SNL.

PAUL SCHRADER asked ChatGPT to come up with ideas for films.

ANACONDA: Thandiwe Newton and Steve Zahn join the cast.

IN DREAMS, David Lynch Walked With Us.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

A SEA OTTER repaid the rescuer of his partner.

LEADING? Or being chased?

U2: "Pride" and "MLK." Crushingly obvious. Have a dream.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Mac Miller, Blue Lake, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has The Weather Station, Ex-Vöid,and more.

MUMFORD & SONS returns with "Rushmere."

OK GO returns with "A Stone Only Rolls Downhill."

NEIL YOUNG shares"big change is coming."

NO DOUBT is reuiniting for FireAid.

MARK MOTHERSBAUGH maks a million annually from the Ridiculousness theme song alone.

DION: A vintage performance of "Abraham, Martin & John."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: On a slow holiday weekend, Mufasa remains atop the chart with 15.5MM; One of Them Days places with 14MM; and Wolf Man (which many thought might top the chart) shows with 12MM.

THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS announced its nominees for the 39th annual ASC Awards.  Congrats.

CAMERON DIAZ: Done with rom-coms.

FRASIER is looking for a new home.

RAMI MALEK still feels like an outsider.

DAME JOAN PLOWRIGHT, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95.

DAVID LYNCH's 90s TV commercials.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

A WILD FOX, enjoying the banjo.

BISON HEIFERS are turned out to their forever home.