THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with GARAGE ROCK! It's the time of year when I bring out The Standells - "Dirty Water/ Why Pick On Me", but I couldn't stop there. Let's have a baker's dozen of Nuggets, like Music Machine - "Talk Talk"; Blues Magoos - "We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet"; The Knickerbockers - "Lies"; The Outsiders - "Time Won't Let Me"; Count Five - "Psychotic Reaction"; The Seeds - "Pushin' Too Hard"; 13th Floor Elevators - "You're Gonna Miss Me"; Love - "My Little Red Book"; The Leaves - "Hey Joe"; Electric Prunes - "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night," the Crazy World of Arthur Brown - "Fire" and The Nazz- "Open My Eyes."

CLIPPING's Tiny Desk Concert features tiny desks.

SUFJAN STEVENS is streaming the entire first volume of Convocations.

SONGS ABOUT PLAYING GUITAR: A playlist.

PRINCE: Hear the posthumous title track to Welcome 2 America.

ALAN VEGA: Hear the postumous "Filthy."

MERRY CLAYTON, legendary backup singer, talks about her new LP, recorded after a car accident took her legs.

ANNE BEATTS, who wrote for “Saturday Night Live” from its beginning in 1975 until 1980, a raucous, innovative period that established the show as a central feature of the American cultural landscape, died on Wednesday at her home in West Hollywood, Calif. She was 74.

WARNERS likely will premiere its biggest films in theatres ahead of streaming next year.

NETFLIX has emerged the winner of a nearly two-year auction for the exclusive U.S. rights to stream Sony Pictures’ theatrical releases in the first pay TV window starting with the studio’s 2022 slate.

DMX has not regained any brain function nearly a week after his overdose, and the family may soon be faced with a tormenting decision.

ROBERT DE NIRO almost starred in Big instead of Tom Hanks. And it would have been darker, obvsly.

THE SONS OF SAM: Did the serial killer act alone?

JUSTICE LEAGUE screenwriter Chrs Terrio airs his grievances.

HOLLYWOOD is flirting with Non-Fungible Tokens.

WALTER OLKEWICZ,  the familiar character actor who played the bartender and croupier Jacques Renault on the original Twin Peaks and an oil refinery worker on Grace Under Fire, has died. He was 72.

JAMES HAMPTON, best known for his roles in “F Troop,” “Teen Wolf” and “The Longest Yard,” for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination, died Wednesday due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 84.

A DOG's first reaction to Darth Vader.

WHEN YOUR PET gets underfoot.

A BELUGA, playing with a seagull.

A CAT gets fountain service.