THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with CHEAP TRICK, live at ChicagoFest '81! Can you honestly tell me you forgot? Forgot the magnetism of Robin Zander, or the charisma of Rick Nielsen? Your set list includes: "Stop This Game," Hello There," "I Want You to Want Me," "On Top of the World," "Reach Out," "Baby Loves to Rock," "Gonna Raise Hell," "Dream Police," "Ain't That a Shame," "Surrender," "Just Got Back," "Day Tripper" and "Goodnight." You can access the individual songs from the link, or let the whole thing roll.

LOW advance streams Ones and Sixes. 

BEN FOLDS advance streams So There. 

GARY CLARK, JR advance streams The Story of Sonny Boy Slim. 

SHEMEKIA COPELAND advance streams Outskirts of Love.

FIRST CLASS: "Beach Baby" may fall into that category of summer song Oliver Wang once described "tinged with fragility and marked by melancholy."  It's even more true of the long version, with those French Horns and choral vocals in the c-section...

KEITH RICHARDS, Lord of the Undead, tells the NYDN he's not a big fan of rap, The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Metallica... 

THEY DIDN'T WRITE THAT? Hits you may not have known were covers, Part One and Part Two.

LOU REED: Ten Of His Best.

THE MOST TIMELESS SONGS, as measured by Spotify, which means you won't find The Beatles. Some fun and horrifying interactive graphics.

NOW SHOWING: The Labor Day weekend is usually the deadest of the year, but your wide releases are: A Walk In The Woods, which opened Wednesday scoring 49 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and The Transporter Refueled, which is scoring 19 percent.

KRIS & CAITLIN JENNER are finally meeting face-to-face. 

AMANDA PETERSON (Can't Buy Me Love) died from an accidental overdose of a deadly combination of drugs.

TOM HARDY and Charlotte Riley are expecting their first child. 

SIENNA MILLER's scenes in Black Mass have been cut. 

TORI SPELLING claims she got third-degree burns at Benihana's. 

EMMA THOMPSON talks to Vulture about feminism, ageism, Donald Trump, and teapots.

SWEDEN's 200-year-old posture of military neutrality has been eroding amid European integration, and a perceived new threat from Russia has politicians now talking about abandoning it altogether and joining NATO. 

CHINA: Five Chinese naval ships are currently positioned in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, US officials confirm. It is believed to be the first time Chinese military vessels have been seen operating in the area.

IRAN's Supreme Leader said on Thursday he favored a parliamentary vote on its nuclear deal reached with world powers and called for sanctions against Tehran to be lifted completely rather than suspended. Ali Larijani, Iran's parliament speaker, told reporters in New York on Thursday that Iranian lawmakers would likely debate the accord more heatedly than in the U.S. Congress, where Republicans have sought to kill the deal.

A GIANT BUG terrifies a news reporter.

AN AGGRESSIVE DONKEY was captured in Mt Juliet, TN.

DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE CHICKENS: Fowl play at San Francisco's Bay Bridge.

A HERO CAT takes a bullet for a baby.

MARIN COURTNEY (Real Estate) drops "Northern Highway" ahead of Many Moons. 

THE MEKONS stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set. 

CRAIG FINN played a mini-set at KUTX. 

CAYUCAS also played a mini-set at KUTX. 

JAMES McMURTRY? Also on KUTX. 

BATTLES drops "FF Bada" ahead of La Di Da Di. 

GARY PUCKETT & THE UNION GAP with the in-retrospect-remarkably-creepy "Young Girl."

WILCO's Jeff Twedy and Nels Cline took part in a Reddit AMA. 

YO LA TENGO: The Aquarium Drunkard interview. 

WHY DOES MUSIC GIVE US THE CHILLS? The Guardian investigates. 

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS is headed to Broadway with help from David Bowie, Tyler and Perry, Cyndi Lauper, TMBG and more. 

TOM BRADY & GISELLE BUNDCHEN reportedly have marital woes. 

AVRIL LEVIGNE & CHAD KROEGER are separating after two years of marriage. 

DANIEL CRAIG talks James Bond at Esquire UK. 

TAYLOR SWIFT is under fire because her new video glamorizes colonialism. 

ROSIE O'DONNELL & TATUM O'NEAL are not dating.

JANICE DICKINSON collapsed in the Big Brother house on live TV. 

BRYAN CRANSTON's transformation into LBJ is pretty remarkable. 

CATE BLANCHETT will star in a Lucille Ball biopic written by Aaron Sorkin.

DEAN JONES, whose boyish good looks and all-American manner made him Disney’s favourite young actor for such lighthearted films as That Darn Cat! and The Love Bug, died from complications resulting from Parkinson’s disease in Los Angeles on Tuesday. He was 84. Thought he was great in Other People’s Money.

SYRIA: Twelve migrants thought to be Syrian refugees were feared to have drowned off the coast of the Greek island of Kos on Wednesday after the boats carrying them sank. A number of bodies washed ashore on a beach in the Turkish resort town of Bodrum, probably connected to the disaster. Meanwhile, CIA and U.S. Special Operations forces have launched a secret campaign to hunt terrorism suspects in Syria as part of a targeted killing program that is run separately from the broader U.S. military offensive against the Islamic State, U.S. officials said.

SAUDI ARABIA is in advanced discussions with the U.S. government about buying two frigates based on a coastal warship that Lockheed Martin Corp is building for the U.S. Navy, and could reach agreement by the end of the year, according to sources familiar with the talks. My favorite part of the story is when the reporter notes this is happening "despite" the Iranian nuclear deal.

SHAKES THE CAT has a neurological disorder. But she doesn't let it stop her.

MOSCOW's LONELY ORANGUTAN will break your heart. 

STARFISH face a robot attack (designed to save the Great Barrier Reef). 

SEA SNAKE vs POISON FISH: Who you got? 

MARIN COURTNEY (Real Estate) drops "Northern Highway" ahead of Many Moons. 

THE MEKONS stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set. 

CRAIG FINN played a mini-set at KUTX. 

CAYUCAS also played a mini-set at KUTX. 

JAMES McMURTRY? Also on KUTX. 

BATTLES drops "FF Bada" ahead of La Di Da Di. 

GARY PUCKETT & THE UNION GAP with the in-retrospect-remarkably-creepy "Young Girl."

WILCO's Jeff Twedy and Nels Cline took part in a Reddit AMA. 

YO LA TENGO: The Aquarium Drunkard interview. 

WHY DOES MUSIC GIVE US THE CHILLS? The Guardian investigates. 

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS is headed to Broadway with help from David Bowie, Tyler and Perry, Cyndi Lauper, TMBG and more. 

TOM BRADY & GISELLE BUNDCHEN reportedly have marital woes. 

AVRIL LEVIGNE & CHAD KROEGER are separating after two years of marriage. 

DANIEL CRAIG talks James Bond at Esquire UK. 

TAYLOR SWIFT is under fire because her new video glamorizes colonialism. 

ROSIE O'DONNELL & TATUM O'NEAL are not dating.

JANICE DICKINSON collapsed in the Big Brother house on live TV. 

BRYAN CRANSTON's transformation into LBJ is pretty remarkable. 

CATE BLANCHETT will star in a Lucille Ball biopic written by Aaron Sorkin.

DEAN JONES, whose boyish good looks and all-American manner made him Disney’s favourite young actor for such lighthearted films as That Darn Cat! and The Love Bug, died from complications resulting from Parkinson’s disease in Los Angeles on Tuesday. He was 84. Thought he was great in Other People’s Money.

SYRIA: Twelve migrants thought to be Syrian refugees were feared to have drowned off the coast of the Greek island of Kos on Wednesday after the boats carrying them sank. A number of bodies washed ashore on a beach in the Turkish resort town of Bodrum, probably connected to the disaster. Meanwhile, CIA and U.S. Special Operations forces have launched a secret campaign to hunt terrorism suspects in Syria as part of a targeted killing program that is run separately from the broader U.S. military offensive against the Islamic State, U.S. officials said.

SAUDI ARABIA is in advanced discussions with the U.S. government about buying two frigates based on a coastal warship that Lockheed Martin Corp is building for the U.S. Navy, and could reach agreement by the end of the year, according to sources familiar with the talks. My favorite part of the story is when the reporter notes this is happening "despite" the Iranian nuclear deal.

SHAKES THE CAT has a neurological disorder. But she doesn't let it stop her.

MOSCOW's LONELY ORANGUTAN will break your heart. 

STARFISH face a robot attack (designed to save the Great Barrier Reef). 

SEA SNAKE vs POISON FISH: Who you got? 

MERCURY REV asks: "Are You Ready?"

THUNDERB^TCH, led by Alabama Shakes frontwoman Brittany Howard, advance streams a self-titled debut LP.

THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA stops by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

JOAN SHELLEY advance streams Over and Even.

EARTH WIND & FIRE: The fish, the barrel, the smoking gun.

BRITT DANIEL, WILL BUTLER, MAC McCAUGHAN, MATTHEW CAWS, MARSHAL CRENSHAWand JODY STEPHENS talked songwriting and played a bit at SXSW.

BIKINI KILL: Kathleen Hanna talks Riot Grrrl with the New York Times magazine and drops the heretofore unreleased "Ocean Song."

MATT POND PA: The State of Doubt.

KERMIT THE FROG has already moved on from Miss Piggy?

JENNIGER GARNER & BEN AFFLECK are living down the street from each other.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH and wife Sophie Hunter named their son something fairly normal.

ANDREW GARFIELD: Playing Spider-Man was a no-win scenario.

IAN McKELLEN: Not really a Taylor Swift fan.

BOURNE AGAIN: Vincent Cassel is set to play the villain in the next installment of the Jason Bourne franchise starring Matt Damon. Alicia Vikander and Tommy Lee Jones are also on board for the project, and Julia Stiles is set to return as well.

STAR WARS: EPISODE VIII is already looking at a few good women.

IRANIAN nuclear chief Ali Akhbar Salehi announced Monday that the Islamic Republic is putting together a 15-year plan to enhance its nuclear capabilities following the signing of a landmark agreement with world powers last month.

A BABY GORILLA & A TODDLER play hide and seek.

ELITE SQUADS OF MONKEYS & FALCONS have been enlisted for China's WWII commemoration parade.

CHIMPS strike out in their nonhuman rights case. The revolution is coming.

FRANKENMOTHS may be deployed to protect cabbage patches in upstate New York.

DESTROYER dropped a video for "Times Square."

BLANK REALM advance streams Illegals In Heaven.

WOOLEN MEN advance stream Temporary Monument.

DJANGO DJANGO stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

ESKIMEAUX played a Tiny Desk Concert.

JANIS JOPLIN with BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY play "Summertime" and "I Need a Man to Love" -- in one of their last performances together -- for Twofer Tuesday.

CRAIG FINN talks to SPIN about his favorite songs from Lifter Puller, the Hold Steady, and his solo career.

LLOYD COLE talks to The Guardian about swapping his guitar for a synthesiser, living in the US and being an indie darling.

JOHN GRANT tells The Observer how he found redemption in Reykjavik.

BIG PINK, the house Dylan & the Band made famous, is available for rent. It's kind of peach now.

KANYE WEST announced a 2020 Presidential bid at the MTV VMAs; the White House welcomed it. Guessing the 2016 field is less excited.

NICKY MINAJ confronted MILEY CYRUS during the MTV VMAs, and it reportedly was no act.

BILL MURRAY talks about why he changed his mind to cameo in Ghostbusters 3.

EMMY ROSSUM (Shameless) and writer/director Sam Esmail became engaged over the weekend.

HALLE BERRY & OLIVIER MARTINEZ pack on the PDA among rumors of relationship dischord.

THE ISLAMIC STATE destroyed one of the most culturally significant pieces of architecture in the world.

IRAN: President Hassan Rouhani said Saturday he opposes a parliamentary vote on the landmark nuclear deal reached with world powers because terms of the agreement would turn into legal obligations if passed by lawmakers. Just in case you thoght Iran considered the deal to be binding on them.

A BIG BLUE WHALE interrupts a TV show about them.

THE BIRDS: 100 seagulls and pigeons attacked a car in Plymouth, High Anxiety-style.

DUNG BEETLES have an advanced internal GPS system that guides them at night.

A BUTTERFLY drinks a turtle's tears.