THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with JOHN HUGHES! The sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, buds, wasteoids, dweebies and dickheads, they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude. The writer/director behind Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, National Lampoon's Vacation movies, Home Alone, Planes, Trains & Automobiles and many more died Aug 6, 2009.  Hughes masterfully married music to movies, so I pay video tribute to him today, starting (of course) with "Don't You Forget About Me" by Simple Minds from The Breakfast Club (the drumming o­n this song is impeccable), and Karla DeVito's "We Are Not Alone," along with the Ramones playing "Blitzkrieg Bop" (from National Lampoon's Vacation), David Bowie's "Young Americans" and The Vapors o­ne-hit wonder, "Turning Japanese" and Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell" (all from Sixteen Candles, which opens to a clip of veteran WLS DJs Larry Lujack and Tommy Edwards), Van Halen's cover of "(Oh) Pretty Woman" and General Public's "Tenderness" (both from Weird Science), the Psychedelic Furs re-recorded title track from Pretty In Pink, which also featured Jon Cryer lip-synching to Otis Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness" (that last clip is a blistering live take from the 1967 Stax tour -- and excellent, btw), The Smiths' "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" (a Hughes perennial; here, the Dream Academy cover from FBDO), and OMD's "If You Leave," plus two more from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, "Danke Schoen" and "Twist and Shout" (which was shot o­n Dearborn and Randolph Streets in Chicago, with International Polka Queen Vlasta atop the float, though Cameron and Sloane were in front of the Post Office down the street), plus Yello's unforgettable-no-matter-how-you-try "Oh, Yeah." Videos are scarce for Some Kind of Wonderful, but I found Flesh for Lulu's "I Go Crazy" and the March Violets' take on the Stones' "Miss Amanda Jones."

OF MONTREAL advance streams Innocence Reaches.

BLIND PILOT advance streams And Then Like Lions.

HOCKEY DAD advance streams Boronia.

KELSEY WALDON  advance streams I've Got A Way.

CREAM syncs "I Feel Free" at the Beat Club.

RADIOHEAD's Johnny Greenwood talks to Bob Boilen about A Moon Shaped Pool, his lifelong affair with the recorder, and Deep Purple.

THE ENGLISH BEAT: Ranking Roger picks the punk, ska and reggae tracks that influenced him and the sound of his band.

THE 2016 MERCURY PRIZE shortlist nominations are out.

THE SHAGGS' Philosophy of the World is getting a deluxe reissue.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are Suicide Squad, which is currently scoring 27 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; amd Nine Lives, which was not screened for critics.

STAR WARS: Several insiders say Tony Gilroy, an uncredited writer on Disney's upcoming spinoff Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, has been empowered to take the lead on postproduction for the Dec. 16 release, even as director Gareth Edwards remains involved in the project.

ORLANDO BLOOM, naked on a paddleboard with a non-naked Katy Perry.

DREW BARRYMORE and Will Kopelman are officially divorced. 

THE BIG LEBOWSKI's David Huddleston (the "real" Lebowski) died Tuesday at 85.

SEINFELD: The 9/11 Spec Script.

DUNKIRK, the next movie from Christopher Nolan, has a teaser trailer.

TURKEY: A court in Istanbul has issued an arrest warrant for US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen over Turkey's recent failed coup, media reports say.

THIS CAT needs a naptime talk.

A GOOSE attacked an Ottawa cyclist.

SEA OTTERS were wrongly accused of causing a 41000-acre wildfire to flare out of control.

AN OWL defied police with an act of civil disobedience in the Thames Valley.

KATY GOODMAN & GRETA MORGAN continue their great choice of covers with Buzzcocks'  “Ever Fallen In Love.”

RYAN ADAMS played a short acoustic set at Morning Becomes Eclectic.

SHAWN COLVIN & STEVE EARLE hit the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

THE STAVES performed at The Forum for The Current.

STEVEN TYLER & STONE TEMPLE PILOTS did a country version of "Janie's Got A Gun."

OF MONTREAL drops “Let’s Relate" ahead of Innocence Reaches.

THE ALBUM LEAF shares “Lost In The Fog" ahead of Between Waves.

CRAIG BELL (Rocket From the Tombs) shares "Let It Go" ahead of his solo LP, aka Darwin Layne.

LAURA VEIRS talks to Greg Kot about case/lang/veirs.

AC/DC: has admitted the band’s future is uncertain.

PYLON's surviving members talk to SPIN about their last hurrah.

THE RED KRAYOLA will celebrate their 50th anniversary with a two-night stand in NYC this fall.

OZZY OSBOURNE is currently undergoing "intense therapy" for sex addiction. His ex-mistress talks to People.

SUICIDE SQUAD's Secret Drama: Rushed Production, Competing Cuts, High Anxiety.

BLAKE SHELTON & GWEN STEFANI: Could wedding bells be ringing soon for the cute couple?

FANTASTIC BEASTS & WHERE TO FIND THEM already has a sequel in the works, with J.K. Rowling writing the script and David Yates directing.

CLINT & SCOTT EASTWOOD do their first joint interview with Esquire.

SHANNEN DOHERTY says her dog was the first to detect her breast cancer. It happens.

TURKEY: All segments of society — Islamists, secular people, liberals, nationalists — seem to have come together on the conspiracy theory that the United States was somehow wrapped up in the failed coup, either directly or simply because the man widely suspected to be the leader of the conspiracy, the Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, lives in self-exile in the United States.

HAULING GOATS with your Lamboughini.

GOATS and SHEEP: Magnificent Portraits.

MAN vs DANCING FLAMINGO: Who You Got?

HEDGEHOGS busted in Bavaria for noisy sex. Dinsdale!

PSYCHIC ILLS drops a video for "Baby."

IGGY POP pays a 2-hour radio tribute to David Bowie.

DOGBRETH advance streams Second Home.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from Regina Spektor, Blind Pilot, Gordi, and more highlight the latest episode.

CASS McCOMBS shares “Medusa’s Outhouse” ahead of Mangy Love.

THE GO-GOS play "Vacation" and "We Got the Beat" for Kimmel and Twofer Wednesday.  Also, Jane Wiedlin talks to Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino about the Go-Gos' farewell tour, and how they ended up owning the same house.

THE POSIES are profiled by Magnet.

THE NATIONAL: Matt Berninger tells NME the new LP has "weird, math-y, electronic-y stuff."

TWIN SHADOW will perform Prince's Purple Rain next month at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

ALICIA VIKANDER is cover profiled by Vanity Fair. 

ELLIE KEMPER and her husband Michael Koman have welcomed their first child.

SUICIDE SQUAD: The early reviews are not encouraging.

KESHA dismissed a California lawsuit alleging producer Dr Luke sexually and emotionally abused her. A similar case will remain in play in New York, however.

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY will predate the Kirk/Spock timeline(s).

THE ISLAMIC STATE: NBC News has exclusively obtained a map showing the global expansion of the terror group, part of a classified briefing document received by the White House dated "August 2016" and prepared by the National Counterterrorism Center. It shows a stunning three-fold increase in the number of places around the globe where ISIS is operating.

SYRIA: Activists have released a video purporting to show civilians suffering from chlorine gas exposure.

A FIN WHALE surprises a tourist.

MONKEYS have reportedly stolen confidential military documents at the Terendak Camp in Malacca.

BRITAIN's OLDEST DOG dies after an attack by a terrier.

NEARLY 100 DOMESTICATED DUCKS that officials say were illegally released in New Jersey are expected to be available for adoption early next week.

ROCKIN' 1000 covers David Bowie's "Rebel Rebel," which was also an early Pate staple.

PETER BJORN & JOHN visited World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

HEALTH & BEAUTY advance streams No Scare.

LUCY DACUS played a Tiny Desk Concert.

LED ZEPPELIN shares a previously unreleased 1971 take on "Communication Breakdown" from the upcoming The Complete BBC Sessions.

WARPAINT shares a "New Song" ahead of Heads Up.

EX-CULT shares "Summer of Fear."

MUSIC TELEVISION turned 35 yesterday. The first 10 minutes included The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," while the rest of the first day included Pat Benatar's cover of "You Better Run," Rod Stewart's "She Won't Dance With Me," The Who's "You Better You Bet," PH.D's ""Little Susie's On The Up," Cliff Richard's "We Don't Talk Anymore," The Pretenders' "Brass In Pocket", Todd Rundgren's "Time Heals", REO Speedwagon's "Take It On The Run," Styx's "Rockin' The Paradise", and many more. A couple of years back, Gawker did 30 years in 3 minutes.

THE 100 GREATEST ALTERNATIVE SINGLES OF THE 90s, according to PopMatters.

SHARON JONES guested on NPR's "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!"

FEATHER CUTS & PLATFORMS: The return of Glam Rock?

THE STROKES: Pitchfork revisits Is This It?, 15 years later.

SPLASH is getting a remake with Channing Tatum and Jillian Bell, for some reason.

SHANNEN DOHERTY has some devastating news about her battle with breast cancer.

JOSH GROBAN & KAT DENNINGS decided to call it quits this summer, after almost two years of dating.

MICHAEL DOUGLAS' son Cameron has been released from prison after nearly seven years behind bars.

GISELE BUNDCHEN will be faux-assaulted at the Olympics.

SENIOR ACTRESSES Are the New Box-Office Powerhouses.

DOGS left in a car crashed it into a Walmart.

PET BUNNY BANDITS: Is there anything lower? (Yes, but c'mon.)

A MYSTERIOUS BLOB on the ocean floor could be a newly-discovered species.

DONKEYS produce the most expensive cheese.

TEENAGE FANCLUB shares a video for the Byrdsy "I'm In Love."

LOU REED got a two-part tribute at Lincoln Center from Laurie Anderson, Lucinda Williams, David Johansen, Mark Kozelek, Don Fleming, Lee renaldo, Steve Shelley, Yo La Tengo, Jon Spencer and more.

ELVIS COSTELLO and special guests played the Newport Folk Festival.

BLOWOUT advance streams No Beer, No Dad.

JEFF THE BRTHERHOOD shares "Idiot" ahead of Zone.

TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS: "Here Comes My Girl."

THE DESCENDENTS' Milo Aukerman shares the soundtrack of his life with Pitchfork.

PRINCE: A Minnesota judge overseeing Prince’s estate narrowed down the wide pool of potential heirs for the late superstar’s fortune on Friday, ruling out nearly 30 claimants while ordering genetic testing for six purported family members.

MINOR VICTORIES: Rachel Goswell and Stuart Braithwaite tell Drowned In Sound you haven't heard the last of their side project.

A SONG FOR YOU: 10 Tracks Written About Ex-Bandmates.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Jason Bourne easily topped the chart with 60MM, the highest-opening installment of the franchise and exceeding tracking estimates by eight figures.  Star Trek Beyond placed with 24MM on a 60 percent drop that's more like the old Trek films than this reboot series; it now looks like this edition will also lose money on the big screen, especially given the modest overseas biz so far.  Bad Moms shows with 23.4MM, well ahead of tracking estimates and ahead of its 20MM production budget; this is on a par with the opening for Bridesmaids and We're The Millers, so good word-of-mouth could give this some legs. The Secret Life of Pets takes the fourth slot with 18.2MM as it closes in on 300MM domestic (and likely 500MM overseas by the end of its run). Lights Out rounds out the Top Five with 10.8MM on a 50 percent drop; that's pretty common for the genre and still terrific against a 4.9MM production budget.  Below the fold, the Ghostbusters reboot is in seventh and in serious trouble as it struggles past the 100MM mark against a 144MM budget.  In contrast, Nerve checks in at eighth with 15MM since its Wednesday opening, much less worrisome against a 20MM budget. 

GAME OF THRONES will end after Season Eight.

LINDSAY LOHAN is not pregnant and "on a break" from her boyfriend, according to a pal.

THE AVENGERS may have the Infinity War in one movie of the next two planned.

MERYL STREEP  is in talks to join Emily Blunt and Lin Manuel-Miranda in Disney's Mary Poppins Returns.

MIRANDA LAMBERT got emotional during a concert when singing a song she cowrote with ex-husband Blake Shelton.

TURKEY: The Turkish government ordered the closing of more than 100 media outlets, including newspapers, publishing companies and television channels, as part of a sweeping crackdown following a failed military coup this month. Turkey's president has said he wants to close the nation's military academies and put the spy agency and the military chief of staff under his own control.

AN AGGRESSIVE BEAVER has been attacking swimmers and pets at a popular Port Alberni swimming hole this summer. 

A SHETLAND PONY went into a bar, did a bit of a minesweep, got drunk, and had to be coaxed out using pub snacks.

ONE PET GOLDFISH is illegal in Switzerland.