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.

TELEKINESIS visits KEXP.

MAC DeMARCO visits KEXP.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED offers 31 Bittersweet Bops For Summer's End.

CHRISSIE HYNDE covers The Kinks' "No Return."

VETIVER shares "To Who Knows Where."

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.

LET'S DANCE: Nile Rodgers takes us behind the scenes of the Bowie hit.

TY SEGALL on Going Guitar-Less, Performing Multi-Night Residencies.

BEN FOLDS on "Brick," William Shatner and hitting rock bottom.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Johnnie Taylor's P-Funk-adjacent soul jam "Disco Lady," which is not actually a disco song.

NOW SHOWING: Labor Day is usually one of the worst box office weekends of the year, so it's no surprise that Saaho, whichwas not screened for critics, is this weekend's sole wide release. Opening near-wide are Don't Let Go, scoring 52 percent on the ol' Tomatometer, and Bennett's War, which was not screened for critics.

TERMINATOR: DARK FATE has an official trailer.

MATTHEW McCONNAUGHEY has been appointed as a professor of practice at the Moody College of Communication.

CHRISTIAN SLATER and his wife of five years, Brittany, just welcomed their first child together.

BRAD PITT calls Ad Astra a personal film that to some extent deals with the modern concept of masculinity.

THE FLASH will be directed by Andy Muschietti (IT Chapter Two).

ALEX TREBEK is back at work taping the new season of "Jeopardy!," five months after being diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

JOHN TRAVOLTA: What Happened?

PEANUTS: Charles Schulz's kid characters are precocious and cruel. They're also among the most compelling in children's literature.

KIDS ARE GREAT... but have you ever had an apple?

THIS DOG CONVERSATION is an old classic, but still funny.

CATS, walking the beach.

A NEW SPECIES OF BLOOD-SUCKING LEECH, with up to 59 teeth, was found in Washington DC. Obviously.

DR. HOOK & THE MEDICINE SHOW: "Cover of the Rolling Stone." A fairly deranged live version.

BOBBY RUSH visits the Paste Studio.

IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE is visited by World Cafe.

PETE YORN visits Soundcheck.

PATTY GRIFFIN and COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS sing "Ruby’s Arms” and "Downtown Train," respectively, on a Tom Waits tribute LP.

PINEGROVE shares their "Moment."

TEGAN & SARA share a video for “I’ll Be Back Someday.”

LANA DEL REY talks to the New York Times about Kanye, Trump, Moby, Billie, Jack, Taylor, Ariana and living like an “Instagram baddie/YouTube vlogger.”

THE TOP TEN JEFF BUCKLEY SONGS, according to Paste.

THE BEST SONGS OF 1999, according to Paste.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Four Seasons' unholy-catchy doo-wop/disco crossbreed "December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)."

JOKER issues its final trailer.

THE LAUNDROMAT, from Steven Soderbergh, has a trailer online.

LESLIE JONES will host a reboot of Supermarket Sweep.

PETE DAVIDSON is now dating Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood's Margaret Qualley.

JOHN STAMOS is profiled in GQ.

THE DARK CRYSTAL: Jason Isaacs makes the case that it could actually be a relaxing binge-watch if one settles into the series with the right outlook.

COMEDY IN THE '90s, Part 2: The Year Jim Carrey Arrived.

JOEL SCHUMACHER's interview with Vulture is better than several of his movies.

AN ANGRY RHINO flips a car at a German safari park.

THE QUETZALCOATLUS is one of the largest flying known flying animals of all time.

AN OTTER instructs on how to be petted.

‘NO EXCESSIVE BARKING': A Chevy Chase dog park divides the rich and powerful .

SHOCKING BLUE: She's your "Venus."

FILTHY FRIENDS visit KEXP.

EZRA FURMAN visits KEXP.

SERATONES visit WFUV Live.

!!! shares a video for "Couldn't Have Known."

IGGY POP on his long career, the future, and swimming in Miami.

NEIL YOUNG's Lonely Quest to Save Music.

NEAL CASAL, of The Cardinals, the Chris Robinson brotherhood, and others has died at age 50.

THE NUMBER ONES  looks at "Love Machine (Part 1)," the sex-robot disco novelty that the Miracles made without Smokey Robinson.

LESLIE JONES will not be returning to SNL, but Kate McKinnon will.

EVA LONGORIA  has landed the directing job for Flamin' Hot, the biopic about Richard Montanez who created the spicy Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

VIOLA DAVIS  is set to portray Michelle Obama in First Ladies, a one-hour White House drama that has been put on fast-track development at Showtime.

JEFFREY EPSTEIN  epitomized the larger transactional nature of fin de siècle New York society-the sociopath who proved the rule.

TAIKA WATITI may appear in The Suicide Squad between directing jobs.

THE KING has a teaser trailer online. 

THE IRISHMAN: Martin Scorsese's latest will get a 27-day theatrical window before the film makes its Netflix debut November 27... but that's not good enough for the big theater chains.

A SNEAKY, HUNGRY BEAR, stealing a dog food delivery box from a Pennsylvania family's porch.

WILL LARS Eat It?

WRESTLEMANIA, but with cats.

FLORIDA FISH & WILDLIFE offers a youth python hunting program.

CROWDED HOUSE, which hit the Top Ten twice in 1987 with "Don't Dream It's Over" and "Something So Strong," are your Twofer Tuesday.

ARCTIC MONKEYS and Wild Child play Austin City Limits.

SONIC SEA GIRLS are visited by World Cafe.

JOHN HIATT, on the King Biscuit Flower Hour, circa 1987.

MARK LANEGAN shares a “Night Flight to Kabul.”

LANA DEL REY shrares a NSFW twofer ahead of her NSFW-titled LP.

ELVIS COSTELLO's later works get another three hours of discussion and analysis on Political Beats with guest Anthony Fisher of Insider.

BILLIE HOLIDAY got a series of features on NPR.

BAT FOR LASHES' Natasha Khan evealed how a series of classic 80's movies influenced the themes and sound on her latest album.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Rhythm Heritage's "Theme From 'S.W.A.T.'" and at the strange history of TV-show themes on the pop charts.

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER has a teaser online.

EDDIE MURPHY is returning to host SNL.

TAYLOR SWIFT is the highest-paid woman in music, per Forbes.

THE MTV VMAs went to these folks.

ANGELINA JOLIE ugly cried when dropping her son off at college, as one does.

MILEY CYRUS and Kaitlynn Carter making it official?

NATHAN FILLION will be starring in James Gunn's The Suicide Squad.

THE SIMPSONS: Apu stays in the picture.

ROSARIO DAWSON solves murders and pets giraffes in the Briarpatch trailer.

LUCY IN THE SKY, starring Natalie Portman, has a trailer online.

CAT vs PUPPERS: Who You Got?

A DOG SURVIVED after being found with her muzzle taped shut and throat cut.

THE DOG is one of the world's most destructive mammals. Good luck with that, Washington Post.

SHE THOUGHT SHE HAD WATER IN HER EAR. It was a venomous brown recluse spider.

EVERCLEAR: "A.M. Radio." Because my brother's Pinto said so.

SPOON plays the Forest Hills Stadium.

SUNFLOWER BEAN plays the Forest Hills Stadium.

WAND visits KEXP.

CHROMATICS share a video covering Jackson C. Frank’s “Dialogue (I Want to Be Alone).”

THE TRADITIONAL ALBUM CYCLE has broken down; is it a good thing?

JAY SOM embraces the power of change.

THE PAIN of Losing a Local Record Store.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Paul Simon's unabashedly silly breakup classic, "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Angel Has Fallen lands atop the chart with 21MM against a budget reported anywhere between 40-80MM; if it's the latter, the overseas grossses will again have to make up the difference. Good Boys places with 11.8MM on a 45 percent drop which is probably solid for an R-rated comedy.  Overcomer shows with 8.2MM against a 5MM budget, which has to be a win for the faith-based drama.  The Lion King takes the fourth slot with another 8.2MM on a 34 percent drop as it crosses the 500MM mark domestically.  Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw rounds out the Top Five with 8.1MM and 147MM domestic, but the real story -- per usual with this franchise -- is the overseas total of 441.2MM.

THE MANDALORIAN has a trailer online.

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER has a poster now and a sizzle reel coming as early as today.

EWAN McGREGOR confirmed that he will be reprising the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi for a Disney Plus series.

KIT HARRINGTON is joining the cast of The Eternals as Dane Whitman, also known as the Black Knight.

SPIDER-MAN: Tom Holland seems resigned to a divorce from the MCU, but Jon Favreau holds out hope of a reunion.

CRUELLA de VIL: Your first look at Emma Stone in the 101 Dalmatians prequel.

EL CAMINO: A BREAKING BAD MOVIE has a teaser trailer online.

TAYLOR SWIFT downplays her association with Harvey Weinstein, telling the The Guardian she would "get a vibe" from the ex-movie mogul.

JUST A BOBCAT FAMILY playing in the front yard.

MR. B, a/k/a BeeJay the chunky (bob)cat, was not happy with his TV slot.

LADY & THE TRAMP stars Monte and Rose walked the red carpet at D23.

A MATADOR gored in the crotch by a furious bull is left grimacing in agony.