THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with XTC! Live on Rockpalast, February 10, 1982. Your setlist includes: "Respectable Street" (still one of my faves), "Towers of London," "Runaways," "Jason and the Argonauts," "Burning With Optimism's Flames," "Snowman," "Ball And Chain," "Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)," "No Thugs In Our House" (another fave), "Senses Working Overtime" (ditto), "Making Plans For Nigel," "Living Through Another Cuba," "Generals and Majors," "Real By Reel," and "Life Begins At The Hop."

ANDREW BIRD plays virtually for The Current.

BEN GIBBARD did a home session of all Beatles covers.

NEIL YOUNG posted a new Fireside Session featuring performances of "After The Goldrush," "One Of These Days," "Distant Camera," and more. And he posted the tracklist and release date for the legendary shelved album Homegrown.

NATION OF LANGUAGE's “The Wall & I” is very 80s synth-rock.

PAUL WELLER shares "Village."

CROWDED HOSUE plays "Don't Dream It's Over" from home.

SIR PAUL McCARTNEY: "Birthday."

BLONDIE: Debbie Harry, Chris Stein And Clem Burke talk to American Songwriter about the 40th anniversary of Autoamerican.

AXL ROSE is beefing with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

HILLARD "SWEET PEA" ATKINSON, session singer and Was (Not Was) vocalist passed away of a heart attack at 73.

MILLIE SMALL, who sang "My Boy Lollipop," and helped launch Islad Records, has died at 73.

JOHN ERHARDT,  who played guitar with both A** Ponys and Wussy, died earlier this week.

BRIAN ANTHONY HOWE, who followed Paul Rodgers in Bad Company, has died of cardiac arrest at 66.

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN wants "Tenet" to be the spark that cinemas are counting on to ignite a moviegoing revival in the U.S. and beyond.

MEGXIT: Meghan and Harry are living in an 18MM Beverly Hills mansion owned by Tyler Perry.

COMMUNITY's cast -- including Donald Glover -- is reuniting for a charity table read.

RUPERT GRINT and Georgia Groome announced that their baby girl has arrived.

ELON MUSK & GRIMES may have given their baby a name not accpted in California.

DAVID HARBOUR & LILY ALLEN spark engagement rumors.

FLORENCE PUGH is profiled by Elle.

KRISTIN CAVALLARI claims she's divorcng Jay Cutler for laziness.

WOODY HARRELSON, JOHN GOODMAN & PETE DAVISON are playing The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: Macaulay Culkin will have crazy, erotic sex with Kathy Bates.

GAME OF THRONES: The Mountain deadlifted a world record 1104 pounds.

WAYNE'S WORLD: Still excellent.

THIS DOGGO is not making fetch happen.

PRAYING MANTIS vs MURDER HORNET: Who You Got?

A SOUTH CAROLINA WOMAN was killed by an alligator before she could do the owner's nails.

GYPSY MOTHS threaten Washington state.

THE TEMPTATIONS gallop through "I Can't Get Next to You" live on TOTP.

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley play virtually for The Current.

WAXAHATCHEE guests on World Cafe.

MARISSA NADLER covers Metallica, Townes Van Zandt, Dylan, and King Crimson.

CASS McCOMBS shares "The Wine of Lebanon."

THE FLAMING LIPS cover George Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today."

FIONA APPLE's bassist and co-producer Sebastian Steinberg discussed the making of Fetch the Bolt Cutters.

THE TOP 10 STAR WARS REFERENCES in music.

GUNS 'N' ROSES is partnering on a children's book.

FLORIAN SCHNEIDER,co-founder and keyboardist of the influential German electronic music group Kraftwerk, has died at the age of 73.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Kim Carnes' gravelly, twinkly synth-rock sigh "Bette Davis Eyes."

WHAT HAPPENED TO VAL KILMER? He's Just Starting to Figure It Out.

CARA DELEVINGNE & ASHLEY BENSON are going their separate ways after nearly two years.

CHRIS PRATT's TV return will stream on Amazon.

ADELE shows off her dramatic new look.

NBC NEWS didn't just kill Ronan Farrow's expose of Harvey Weinstein.

CAREY MULLIGAN has a hack for navigating life without makeup.

A SAN ANTONIO MOVIE CHAIN Reopens Early, Attracts 3000 Customers on First Weekend.

NATURE Is Healing.

A BABY ELEPHANT chases a doggo.

GARTER SNAKES don't socially distance.

DISCHORD RECORDS, home to Minor Threat, Fugazi, and more, are streaming their entire catalog.

VIC CHESNUTT, backed by Lambchop, live on Sessions at West 54th, circa 1998.

THE HOLD STEADY is busting out live albums like Live in San Francisco 8​-​4​-​18.

WILCO: I Am Trying To Break Your Heart is streaming for free.

WIRE shares “The Art of Persistence.”

TANYA DONELLY shares “Here Comes Your Man.”

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS share "Quarantine Together."

AMANDA PALMER announced her breakup to the world — and, apparently, to Neil Gaiman himself — in a post on her Patreon.

TORI AMOS talks to Vanity Fair about her memoir.

PERFUME GENIUS: "I'm constantly demanding a big feeling."

X's JOHN DOE talks about the surprise reunion.

TOM CRUISE and Elon Musk's Space X are working on a project with NASA that would be the first narrative feature film - an action adventure - to be shot in outer space.

ELON MUSK & GRIMES named their newborn son X Æ A-12.

NBC NEWS is apparently under investigation over allegations of sexual harassment, retaliation and gender discrimination.

NBC NEWS chairman Andrew Lack was forced out Monday as part of a broader reorganization. 

JUDI DENCH ain't goin' nowhere.

BRITNEY SPEARS hoped to start a family with her boyfriend of three years, Sam Asghari, but her conservatorship got in the way. 

INMATE # 1: The Rise of Danny Trejo has a trailer online.

YESTERDAY's balance sheets prove Hollywood accounting is alive and well.

SAM LLOYD, a longtime television and film actor who appeared in the television shows "Scrubs" and "Desperate Housewives," died on Thursday at the Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 56.

JAPANESE BEES vs MURDER HORNETS: Who You Got?

NATURE RETURNS to the city again.

I FEEL THE NEED, the need for speed.

LOUISIANA POLICE search for an "aggressive chicken," who happens to be male.

CINCO DE MAYO STARTS HERE: 

...with LOS LOBOS: "I Got Loaded" (with an added snippet of "Turn On Your Lovelight") from their fabulous first full-lengther, How Will the Wolf Survive? "Don't Worry Baby," "Evangeline," "Our Last Night," and "A Matter of Time" were on that album, too.

PEE WEE HERMAN: "Tequila." Obvs.

HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS: Rare video of "A Taste of Honey" from 1967.

CHEAP TRICK brings you the Mariachi mash-up of "Surrender."

JIMMY BUFFETT: Margaritaville. Obvs.

LIZ PHAIR: "Cinco de Mayo." Obvs.

THOM YORKE debuted “Plasticine Figures” on Fallon.

THE STRANGLERS' keyboardist Dave Greenfield has died at 71 from coronavirus.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle is profiled by The Atlantic.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN is selling a 1981 live set for charity.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Sheena Easton's big, brassy breakout "Morning Train (Nine To Five)," possibly the first hit song ever to owe its success to reality TV.

NICOLAS CAGE is set to star in a scripted series centered on Joe Exotic, the subject of the Netflix docuseries “Tiger King."

TWILIGHT author Stephenie Meyer is making her return with Midnight Sun, the much-anticipated companion novel to the franchise. 

KRISTIN CAVALLARI & JAY CUTLER reach a temporary joint custody agreement.

AMANDA BYNES is not pregnant, nearly two months after she announced that she was expecting a child with fiancé Paul Michael.

TAIKA WAITITI will direct and co-write a new Star Wars feature film for theatrical release.

STAR WARS: The one thing every hardore fan must read.

A MONKEY, on a motorcycle, stealing a toddler.

A KANGAROO, demanding a belly scratch.

AN OTTER, introducing itself to a deer family.

BEING A FULL-FIGURED MODEL is harder than it looks.

THE KINKS are "The Village Green Preservation Society." God bless 'em.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Car Seat Headrest, Deerhoof, Diet Cig, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT will point you to Pure X, Happyness, Dummy, and more.

THE DECEMBERISTS' Colin Meloy covers Bruce Springsteen, Neutral Milk Hotel, Joanna Newsom and more.

MOGWAI drops ZeroZeroZero.

ARCHERS OF LOAF covers the Rolling Stones' "Street Fighting Man."

LUCY DACUS covers Yo La Tengo's "Tom Courtneay."

THURSTON MOORE shares "May Daze."

SHARON VAN ETTEN joins FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE on "Hackensack" for charity and the late Adam Schlesinger.

GENE SIMMONS has taken some time to educate his fans on the importance of wearing face masks to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

CONCERTS can resume in (parts of) Missouri.

THE BEST FOLK-ISH SONGS of 2020 (So Far) according to Paste.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Daryl Hall & John Oates' early-'80s yuppie-pop comeback single "Kiss On My List."

JOE PANTOLIANO is recovering from a car crash.

MEGHAN MARKLE loses a ouple of claims against British tabloids.

BEN AFFLECK & ANA DE ARMAS make it official on Instagram.

DAKOTA JOHNSON & APPLE MARTIN break down on the road. Don't sleep on the photo captions.

JAMES CORDEN is paying the salaries of about 60 furloughed staffers.  Trevor Noah is doing something similar.

PARKS & REC: The reunion is online, icymi.

MURDER HORNETS arrive in America, because 2020.

A COW finishes shopping in Oesterreich.

PRICKLES THE SHEEP was shorn for the first time after going missing more than seven years ago.

GOLF COURSES may be opening, but no one told the turkey.

THE GARDEN EELS need to video chat.