THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE...

...with ROCKPILE, a band that featured old pals Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds cranking out the rootsy pub rock. Let's start with "Teacher, Teacher" and "I Knew the Bride," along with this clip of "Heart," featuring Billy Bremner, which is odd at the start.  And here's the band rolling through Lowe's "So It Goes," and "Heart of the City," plus a cover of Elvis Costello's and "Girls Talk," which many associate more with Edmunds.

WILL SCHEFF plays World Cafe.

ST VINCENT & THE ROOTS cover Portishead's "Glory Box."

DEPECHE MODE shares “My Cosmos Is Mine.”

ROSE CITY BAND shares "Slow Burn."

GENESIS: Mike Rutherford shares a health update on Phil Collins.

SEX PISTOLS bassist Glen Matlock has weighed in on the idea of the punk band doing an ‘ABBA Voyage' style hologram show with late member Sid Vicious.

TALKING HEADS: "True Stories" (the movie), assessed at Aquarium Drunkard.

ROBERT BLAKE, the Emmy award-winning performer who went from acclaim for his acting to notoriety when he was tried and acquitted of murdering his wife, died Thursday at age 89.

THE HOUSE OF MOUSE: Yellow flags on new Star Wars movies and MCU sequels.

MICHELLE YEOH deleted an Instagram post about the Oscars race for Best Actress, which referred to fellow nominee Cate Blanchett and potentially violated the rules..

RUSSIA beat TOM CRUISE to making a movie in space.

THE ROYALS: Buckingham Palace is expecting Harry and Meghan to attend King Charles III's coronation.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, now with moar dragons.

MICHAEL SHANNON, on his new comedy-drama "A Little White Lie, and bringing back General Zod.

DONNIE YEN faces backlash for his support of the Chinese government.

BOB ODENKIRK is remaking the cult classic, "The Room."

SHARON STONE says "Basic Instinct" cost her custody of her oldest son.

NO HARD FEELINGS, starring Jennifer Lawrence, has a red band trailer online.

BERT I. GORDON, he professed king of the monster movies whose B pictures featured giant rats, giant spiders, giant grasshoppers, giant chickens, a colossal man and 30-foot teenagers laying waste to everything in sight, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 100.

DOGS allowed to bark again at Toronto dog park.

BEIJING was warned to use umbrellas after a rainstorm of worms.

COCAINE WILDCAT captured in Ohio neighborhood.