THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with LED ZEPPELIN! It was Robert Plant's birthday yesterday, so how 'bout Live at Knebworth, 1979?  Your setlist includes: 'The Song Remains the Same," "Celebration Day," "Black Dog," "Nobody's Fault But Mine," "Over the Hills & Far Away," "Misty Mountain Hop," "Since I've Been Loving You," "No Quarter (Part 2)," "Hot Dog," "Rain Song," "White Summer/Black Mountainside," "Kashmir," "Trampled Underfoot," "Sick Again," "Achilles Last Stand," "Page Solo," "In the Evening," "Stairway to Heaven," "Rock n Roll," "Whole Lotta Love (Part 2)," and "Communication Breakdown."

YO LA TENGO advance streams Stuff Like That There.

DESTROYER advance streams Poison Season.

BEACH HOUSE advance streams Depression Cherry.

ROYAL HEADACHE advance streams High.

MERCURY REV drops "The Queen of Swans."

JIM JAMES drops “Take Care Of You,”from the No Escape soundtrack.

THE LIBERTINES drops "Glasgow Coma Scale Blues" ahead of Anthems for a Doomed Youth.

CREAM syncs into "I Feel Free" on the Beat Club in 1967.

MOTORHEAD: Lemmy is profiled by the New York Observer. 

JANE'S ADDICTION: Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro break down Ritual de lo Habitual track by track. 

PIXIES guitarist Joey Santiago talked to Paste about food. 

THE 100 GREATEST SONGWRITERS, according to Rolling Stone. 

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are Hitman: Agent 47, which is currently scoring 6 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Sinister 2, which is currently scoring 5 percent; and American Ultra, currently scoring 38 percent.  So yeah, it's the second half of August.

CAITLYN JENNER may face a manslaughter charge after that deadly multi-vehicle highway crash.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE tops the latest Forbes List of Highest Paid Actresses. 

JOSH DUGGAR, of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting fame, had a paid account at Ashley Madison. 

LINDSAY LOHAN is being sued for allegedly stiffing her former driver, for things of which she likely has a hazy memory at best. 

GREECE: Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has announced he is resigning and has called an early election. 

TURKEY needs to "do more" to assist the U.S.-led international coalition fighting the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Thursday, urging America's sometimes reluctant NATO partner to take steps to participate in airstrikes and better control its border. 

IRAN: After some questioned an Associated Press strory on a nuclear inspection agreement between IRan and the IAEA, the wire service has printed the text of the agreement. Meanwhile, Britain is to reopen its embassy in Tehran, four years after it was ransacked and closed.

GUS THE MINI-PIG, having some ice cream. 

A PAIR OF KANGAROOS are on the lam in Tuscon, AZ. 

SEALS, PORPOISES & WHALES have returned to the Thames River, which had been declared biologically dead in 1957. 

A SWEDISH BEAVER knocked out power to 15K. You know the squirrels put him up to it.