THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

....wtih THE PRETENDERS! Circa 1981, via one of Pate's two fab drummers, Jon Hahn.  Your setlist includes "The Wait," "The Adultress," "Message of Love/Louie Louie," "Talk of the Town," "English Roses," "Birds of Paradise," "Kid," "Stop Your Sobbing," "Private Life," "Day After Day," "Jealous Dogs, " Up the Neck," "Tattooed Love Boys," "Bad Boys Get Spanked," "Precious," and "Brass In Pocket/MysteryAchievement."

LOS LOBOS plas KCRW.

MARGARET GLASPY plays KEXP.

THE SMILE shares "Friend of a Friend," directed by Paul Thoms Anderson.

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF shares "Colossus Of Roads" and "Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive)."

SHANNON & THE CLAMS shares "The Moon Is In The Wrong Place."

BLUE BENDY shares the post-punk "Come On Baby, Dig!"

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN: Jim and William Reid on sibling rivalry, singing with Shane MacGowan and famous fan Sofia Coppola.

RAMONES HEIRS clash over Netflix biopic.

DAVID LEE ROTH unloads on Wolfgang Van Halen.

MARTYRDOM apologizes for the pig's head tossed around the crowd at its show in Houston.

ROAD HOUSE: te remake has a trailer online.

PAUL GIAMATTI has a podcast.

VINCE MacMAHON: A former WWE employee claims he sexually abused her — including with sex toys that he named after wrestling stars — in a shocking new lawsuit.

ROBERT DOWNEY JR is grateful he didn't win an Oscar for Chaplin.

HALLE BERRY's already-filmed sci-fi flick has been shelved at Netflix.

ED NORTON replaces BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH as Pete Seeger in James Mangold‘s Bob Dylan movie A Complete Unknown.

LEWIS PULLMAN is Marvel’s top choice to star in Thunderbolts, and has an offer for the role vacated by Steven Yeun earlier this month.

HERBERT "COWBOY" COWARD, who as the sadistic toothless man in John Boorman’s Deliverance terrorized canoeists and audiences alike with the chilling line, “He got a real pretty mouth, ain’t he?,” has been killed in a car accident. He was 85.

A CITY HORSE touches grass.

A SENIOR WEINER DOG places last in a race but wins the crowd.

SMILE, you're on candid camera.