THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE rip through a medley of "Everyday People" and "Dance to the Music," plus "Hot Fun in the Summertime," "Don't Call Me N*gger, Whitey," and "I Want to Take You Higher" on network TV, circa 1969.

STRAND OF OAKS stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

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

JENNY LEWIS plays WFUV Live.

WOODS features new songs at KEXP.

KING TUFF drops the gnarly title track from Black Moon Spell.

THE DRUMS drop "I Can't Pretend" ahead of Encyclopedia.

BECK & JENNY LEWIS cover Rod Stewart's "D'ya Think I'm Sexy."

THE NEW PR0NOGRAPHERS' A.C. Newman reviewstracks bridging his career at Stereogum.

HENRY ROLLINS criticized Robin Williams for killing himself, having learned nothing from Gene Simmons.

SWANS drummer Thor Harris talks about his own depression.

THE 50 BEST VIDEOS of the Decade So Far, according to Pitchfork.

CUTOUT BIN: From the Sweet to Spoon, from Alex Chilton to Led Zeppelin, from Billy Idol to the Beatles, plus the Clash, Fleshtones, Jon Auer, Nick Gilder and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases inclide: If I Stay, which is currently scoring 40 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, which is scoring 42 percent (but considerably lower with top critics); and When The Game Stands Tall, scoring 25 percent.

MARIAH CAREY & NICK CANNON separated back in May and hope to beat Jay Z & Beyonce to divorce court.

BEYONCE & JAY Z aren't splitting, according to Beyonce's mom

JENNIFER LAWRENCE & CHRIS MARTIN were caught canoodling  at the Wolffer Estate Vineyard in New York.

MEG RYAN & JOHN MELLENCAMP split recently after dating for more than three years, due to the long-distance relationship stuff. They presumably will not reunite atop the Empire State Building.

PAMELA ANDERSON & CAREY HART aren't fans of the Ice Bucket Challenge, unlike Kristen Stewart and Anna Wintour.

ISRAELI warplanes killed three top Hamas commanders in southern Gaza on Thursday.

SAUDI ARABIA has executed at least 19 people since August 4, 2014. Local news reports indicate that eight of those executed were convicted of nonviolent offenses, seven for drug smuggling and one for sorcery.

LIBYA is coming apart at the seams, not that many seem to notice.

THE ISLAMIC STATE in Iraq and Syria cannot be defeated unless the United States or its allies take on the Sunni militancy in Syria, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday afternoon. A senior American official said the Pentagon now estimated the number of fighters affiliated with ISIS to be about 17,000. Ben Rhodes, President Obama's deputy national security adviser, said the United States would not be restricted by geographic boundaries when it comes to the core mission of U.S. foreign policy which is the protection of its people.

A GROUPER swallows a shark whole. What say you, Police Chief Brody?

CITY SPIDERS get big, fat and fertile. So maybe Annie Hall was onto something.

THE MOOSE SEX CORRIDOR is getting much larger.

SEA PLANKTON has been discovered living on the outside of the International Space Station, Russian cosmonauts have claimed. We know how this turns out.