
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. DARLENE LOVE advance streams Introducing Darlene Love. TELEKINESIS advance streams Ad Infinitum. GLEN HANSARD advance streams Didn't He Ramble. BATTLES advance streams La Di Da Di. SHELF LIFE advance streams Everyone Make Happy. 
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: As summer wanes, let's roll John Darnielle's take on "The Boys Are Back In Town." THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN: Jim Reid reflects on Psychocandy over at Under The Radar. (Thx, Frank Yang.) STEELY DAN talks to the WSJ about the making of "Deacon Blues." DURAN DURAN talk to The Guardian about being snubbed by Dylan, riding rutting elephants in Sri Lanka and wearing pink trousers. KEITH RICHARDS, Lord of the Undead, gave his daughters permission to snort his ashes. 
NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include The Visit, which is currently scoring 64 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; plus The Perfect Guy and 90 Minutes in Heaven, neither of which was screened for critics. GRACE JONES slays Rhianna, Miley Cyrus, and Lady Gaga in her autobiography. BEN AFFLECK changed his phone number to ditch the nanny? Too good to check. BRITNEY SPEARS beat out JENNIFER LOPEZ for first choice of Vegas concert dates. ROBERT PATTINSON & FKA TWIGS: Marriage rumors. THE BIG BANG THEORY: Penny and Leonard's Wedding Photos. 9/11: The first five minutes of CNN coverage. I came out of the shower, saw the second plane hit on NBC, and knew had had to contact my boss, whose daughter lived in NYC. There is still a lot of crazy stuff going on around the country and the world as a result, so consider taking a moment to watch and remember. AL QAEDA: Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian doctor who replaced Osama bin Laden as the head of al Qaeda four years ago, in a new audio message accused ISIS top leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of “sedition” and insisted the Iraqi terrorist recluse was not the leader of all Muslims and militant jihad as “caliph” of the Islamic State, as al-Baghdadi had claimed 14 months ago in a Mosul mosque. RUSSIA's new air base in Syria has the US scrambling.
BERTIE: The Fastsest Tortoise in the World. GIANT MOTHS invade Britain to party. THE SWARM kills a golfer in Michigan. A DEPRESSED ORPHAN WOMBAT finds comfort with teddy bears.
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