THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with NEIL DIAMOND! There are two types of people, you know.  But here's Neil on the Beeb in 1971.  Your set list: "Sweet Caroline," "Solitary Man," "Cracklin' Rosie," "Done Too Soon," "A Modern Day Version Of Love," "He Aint' Heavy (He's My Brother)," "Holly Holy," and "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show."  And "I Am I Said" is back the Tube right now.

ALLAH-LAS plays KEXP.

PALEHOUND plays KEXP.

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN shares "Chemical Animal."

REAL ESTATE shares "Haunted World."

LANA DEL REY teased a new song, and some kind of promotion or collaboration with SKIMS, Kim Kardashian’s underwear brand.

MERSEY BEAUCOUP: The Beatles in Paris, 1964.

PITCHFORK's FATE: A dark omen for the future of music?

THE BAFTA AWARDS nominations went to these folks. Congrats!

YELLOWSTONE's Taylor Sheridan will adapt and direct Empire Of The Summer Moon.

MICHAEL B. JORDAN & RYAN COOGLER are reuniting on a secret genre project.

THE COEN BROS plan to collaborate again.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER was briefly detained at Munich airport on Wednesday.

BIJOU PHILLIPS left Scientology after her cobnvicted hisband, Danny Masterson, was expelled.

JASON MOMOA hopes to make a "good" movie someday.

THE WEST WING will have an announcment next week. Oh boy?

PINOCCHIO is getting the horror treatment.

JODIE FOSTER turned down the role of Princess Leia in that Star Wars movie.

SOCIETY OF THE SNOW has a trailer online.

A CAT, petting the fishes.

THE INDRI LEMUR has a weird howl.

A BIG DOG, cuddling.