THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with ARETHA FRANKLIN, Live in Stockholm, 1968! The "Lady Soul" concert was broadcast on Swedish TV, including: "There's No Business Like Show Business," "Come Back To Me," "Satisfaction," "Don't Let Me Lose This Dream," "Soul Serenade," "Night Life," "Baby I Love You," "Groovin,'" "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," "Come Back Baby," "Dr Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business)," "Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby)" "I  Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)," "Chain Of Fools," and "Respect."

NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS are surprise streaming Carnage.

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD is streaming L.W.

RICK ASTLEY is covering R.E.M., the Strokes, and more on TikTok.

SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE shares "The Server Is Immersed." 

PAUL McCARTNEY is set to publish The Lyrics, a two-volume, 900-plus page “self-portrait in 154 songs.”

MOGWAI: Album By Album.

BLONDIE have shared details of a new graphic novel the band are set to appear in.

THE NUMBER ONES on the rise of Latin freestyle, the extremely New York origin stories of Lisa Lisa and Full Force, and "Head To Toe."

LADY GAGA's dog walker was shot and her two French bulldogs, Koji and Gustav, were stolen Wednesday night in Hollywood.

ARMY OF THE DEAD has a trailer online.

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD has a teaser trailer online.

EMMA WATSON isn't retiring from acting - despite what you may have heard online.

BRITNEY SPEARS: An attorney for her father Jamie claimed on Thursday that his conservatoriship "saved" the singer's life in a bombshell interview.

GWYNETH PALTROW's covid treatment suggestion was criticized by a senior leader of the UK's National Health Service.

JOHN MULLANEY is out of rehab after two months and doing well in outpatient sober care.

ACTOR ROUNDTABLE: Ben Affleck, Sacha Baron Cohen, Delroy Lindo, Gary Oldman, John David Washington and Steven Yeun do the THR awards season tradition.

ABRAHAM RIESMAN on the Rise and Fall of Stan Lee.

ROWLF: The Best Muppet?

THE PUPPERS: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

THE IMPERIAL MARCH of the Corgi Empire.

ADJUSTABLE MEERKAT, equipped with advanced auto leveling control. 

DEAN & BRITTA: Today just seemed good for "Words You Used to Say."

JULIEN BAKER plays for The Current.

THE BLACK ROOTS OF ROCK & ROLL, Part 4.

MENAHAN STREET BAND shares "Devil's Respite."

WOLF ALICE shares “The Last Man On Earth.”

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN pleaded guilty Wednesday to drinking shots of tequila at Sandy Hook federal park last year, but had two other charges of drunken and reckless driving charges dropped because his blood alcohol content was found to be well below the legal limit.

ALAN VEGA's lost album Mutator surfaces.

DAFT PUNK: Experts examine their legacy.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Lisa Lisa And Cult Jam 's euphoric Latin freestyle banger "Head To Toe."

FRASIER Revivial Greenlit: Kelsey Grammer will revise his iconic role in the comedy, which has been several years in the making.

PARAMOUNT+ also greenlit shows based on Love Story, Fatal Attraction, Flashdance, The Italian Job and The Parallax View.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 7 and A QUIET PLACE 2 will hit streaming sevices 45 days after their theatrical release dates.

SPIDER-MAN 3 has a title.

KATHARINE McPHEE & DAVID FOSTER welcomed their frst child, a son.

MEGXIT:  Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will speak about their estrangement from the royal family during their March 7 interview with Oprah Winfrey.

GARTH BROOKS says TRISHA YEARWOOD has tested positive for coronavirus.

LOCAL DOGS hail a stick library.

A SHEEP, saved from 77 pounds of matted fleece.

THIS PUPPER is a metalhead.

THE FOUR TOPS: Levi Stubbs works up a sweat on live French TV, belting out a supercharged "I'll Be There."

THE HOLD STEADY plays for The Current.

R.L. BURNSIDE, Brotherhood Sportsmen's Lodge, Como, Mississippi, September 28, 1974.

KURT VILE joins DINOSAUR JR on "I Ran Away."

AXL ROSE meets Scooby-Doo.

TINA, a new documentary based on the life and career of Tina Turner, has a trailer online.

GERARD DEPARDIEU is under formal investigation in France for alleged rape and sexual assault.

MARA WILSON, former child actress, on "The Lies Hollywood Tells About Little Girls" like Britney Spears.

MARGARET QUALLEY supports FKA TWIGS after separating from Shia LaBeouf last month.

TIGER WOODS was seriously injured Tuesday in a one-car accident in Southern California.

GILLIAN ANDERSON has been cast as Eleanor Roosevelt in new Showtime series The First Lady.

STAN LEE: The bitter dispute over his actual contributions to the creation of culture-dominating characters such as Spider-Man, Iron Man, and the Fantastic Four — or whether he deserves any credit at all — obscures his more important, and possibly more insidious, contribution to the culture at large.

MTV's REMOTE CONTROL: An Oral History.

A CAT, true to its nature.

HELLO, may I join?

DOG vs COW: Who You Got?

MAYONNAISE is a miracle cure for sea turtles suffering from the effects of an oil spill.

I WANT CANDY from The Strangeloves and a super-charged Bow Wow Wow for Twofer Tuesday.

BARTEES STRANGE plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

YVES JARVIS plays for KEXP.

GUIDED BY VOICES announces “a collage of rejected songs” from the last five to 10 years and release "Free Agent."

MATT BERNINGER hares "Let It Be," which is not the Beatles song.

DAFT PUNK Break Up.

THE 15 BEST REPLACEMENTS SONGS, according to PopMatters.

THE TOP 10 EARLY BILLY BRAGG SONGS, also according to PopMatters.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Atlantic Starr's "Always," quite possibly the last crossover R & B ballad of its kind.

JUSTICE LEAGUE: The Shocking, Exhilarating, Heartbreaking True Story of The Snyder Cut.

WOODY ALLEN and his wife Soon-Yi Previn claim those behind the Allen v. Farrow docuseries had “no interest in the truth” and were “surreptitiously collaborating” with the Farrows to do a “hatchet job riddled with falsehoods.”

OLIVIA MUNN had to re-learn how to care for her body after learning two years ago that she has fibromyalgia.

HARRY SHEARER will no longer voice Black character Dr. Hibbert on "The Simpsons."

THE MUPPET SHOW will carry a disclaimer for "offensive content."

THE BEST VIDEOGAME CHARACTER BRACKET, courtesy of The Ringer.

INVINCIBLE, an animated superhero from the creator of The Walking Dead has a trailer online.

A LITTLE SWAN, rescued from freezing water.

LLANDUDNO GOATS, hanging out at the local chip shop and waiting for a bus.

DOGS are mysteriously turning blue and pink in a Russian city.

MYSTERY LIFEFORMS discovered beneath Antarctica.

THE KNACK: "Frustrated."

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to The Hold Steady, Katy Kirby, Adeline Hotel, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Tindersticks, Mogwai, The Fall, and more.

THE BLACK ROOTS OF ROCK & ROLL, Part 3. Death included.

FIRST AID KIT busted out a performance of Bette Midler's “The Rose” while sitting in as the house band for a Swedish game show.

MARGO PRICE joins LORETTA LYNN on a remake of Lynn's 1971 hit "One's On The Way."

THE HOLD STEADY's Craig Finn talks to American Songwriter.

HEARTY HAR: John Fogerty's Sons Debut a Neo-Psych Album and Video.

ARAB STRAP: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.

AKRON/FAMILY's Miles Seaton dies at 41.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Kim Wilde's blippy hi-NRG cover of the Supremes classic "You Keep Me Hangin' On."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE?  Croods: A New Age tops the chart for the 5th time out of 13 weeks with 1.7MM and may become the top-grossing movie of the pandemic. The Little Things places with 1.2MM on a 39 percent drop. Judas and the Black Messiah shows with 905K on a 55 percent drop.

KIM KARDASHIAN & KANYE WEST are getting divorced, after many rumors to this effect.

MEGXIT:  The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have confirmed to Her Majesty The Queen that they will not be returning as working members of The Royal Family.

GOLDEN GLOBES voters in tumult: Members accuse Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. of self-dealing, ethical lapses. I'm shocked, shocked.

JAMES FRANCO reached a settlement with two former students who filed a lawsuit in 2019 accusing the actor and filmmaker of subjecting them to sexually exploitative auditions and film shoots at an acting and film school that he founded.

EDGAR WRIGHT is directing a "more faithful to Stephen Kin'gs book" remake of The Running Man.

CLORIS LEACHMAN died of a stroke, with COVID-19 as a factor.

CHINA's growing influence over Hollywood.

PUPPIES v ROOMBA: Who You Got?

A MAMA DUCK raises her babies in a pool.

THIS DOGGO is self-booping.

CAT & DOG, hiking together.