THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE GO-GOs!  They made history as the first all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts. Kind of a hard band to place seasonally. Their debut, Beauty and the Beat, which yielded hits like "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got the Beat," as well as great album cuts like "This Town," "Lust to Love," "Tonite" and "How Much More," came out in late Summer 1981, iirc, and "Lips" was climbing the charts that Fall, so I mentally place the band in this time of year. And it's still warm enough that the title track to the too-quick sophomore album, "Vacation," -- or their cover of the Capitols' "Cool Jerk" -- doesn't sound too out of place. "Get Up and Go" was also a single from that LP, but it didn't make the Top 40.  The band would chart twice more -- in 1984, with "Head Over Heels" and "Turn to You" -- before splitting and the near-inevitable reunion tours.

THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN gets over three hours of discussion and analysis on Political Beats with Peter Suderman.

DUCKS LTD plays KEXP.

THE CURE returns with "Alone."

JULIEN BAKER debuts "High In The Basement" in Chicago.

LANA DEL REY looks set to marry her boyfriend, Jeremy Dufrene.

HALSEY was hospitalized after a seizure.

BALLERINA: The John Wick spinoff has a trailer online.

ALAN TUDYK has a secret role in James Gunn's Superman.

ACTORS, DIRECTORS & SNL FOLK pick their favorite SNL sketches.

KATE WINSLET, on her kids' reactions to her films.

AMC's CEO, on refinancing and offering 140 flavors.

WHY TV EXECS are already freaking out over 2029.

WHICH DIRECTORS had the best four-film run?

CAPYBARAS Crossing.

AN ORANGUTAN, babysitting tiger cubs.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

FISHING FOR SALMON? Gonna need a bigger boat...

THE PSYCHEDLIC FURS broke through with this video for "Love My Way" on the MTV.

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS, Live in in Oberhausen, Germany. 

SUSANNA HOFFS shares a cover of Shawn Colvin’s “I Don’t Know Why,” and  “Under A Cloud,” from The Lost Record.

PRIMAL SCREAM shares “Ready to Go Home” and “The Centre Cannot Hold.”

NEIL YOUNG played 1977's "Hey Babe" live for the first time.

ALAN SPARHAWK shares "Heaven."

BEACH BUNNY shares "Clueless."

LIQUID MIKE shares "Crop Circles."

DAVID GILMOUR, with further thoughts on Roger Waters.

THOM YORKE is bringing Radiohead to Shakespeare.

DIDDY reportedly isn't eating in jail because he fears poisoning.

BILL HADER is developing another HBO series.

HALLE BERRY said that being a Black woman means she doesn’t have the “luxury” of being able to “just sit and field Oscar buzz movies.”

JENNIFER ANISTON was swatted — a growing prank targeting many in Hollywood.

SAIORISE RONAN is profiled at the L.A. Times.

MANDY MOORE & TAYLOR GOLDSMITH welcomed a third child.

LILY COLLINS, on Phil Collins and Genesis.

A DOGGO in the volleyball rotation.

CAMELS come running for their favorite treat.

A WILD BOAR requests belly skritches.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

A RACCOON, trying to catch bubbles.

DUMPTRUCK: "Back Where I Belong."

JAMIE XX visits World Cafe.

NICK LOWE talked about his career, songwriting, and his new LP on a special episode of Political Beats.

JULIEN BAKER debuted "Middle Children" in Chicago.

LAURA MARLING shares "Child Of Mine."

REAL ESTATE covers Elton John's "Daniel."

JOHNNY CASH is honored with a bronze statue in the US Capitol.

REBECCA BLACK is still traumatized by Friday, Friday...

FREDDIE SALEM, who played guitar and sang for The Outlaws in the late 1970s and ’80s, has died of cancer. He was 70.

BRIAN DePALMA, on Body Double and the current state of cinema.

BRETT FAVRE reveals he's been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

DIDDY's music streams jumped after his arrest on sex and racketeering charges. And he faces another sex abuse lawsuit.

JARED HARRIS will not be following his father by playing Dumbledore in the forthcoming Harry Potter TV series.

JAMES CAMERON joins the board of the company that developed the Stable Diffusion text-to-image generative AI model. 

WB/DISCOVERY is going to use AI to caption its content.

REBEL RIDGE: The making of a global Netflix hit.

LOST's Nine Biggest Loose Ends.

THE LAST BULL ON THE LAM was captured in Massachusetts.

BABY GOAT vs CAPYBARA: Who You Got?

A GIANT ELEPHANT emptying a bucket in 4 seconds.

THE MOODY BLUES "Ride My Seesaw" for Twofer "Tuesday Afternoon."

THE NATIONAL shares four tracks from an upoming live LP.

NEIL YOUNG busted out Harvest Moon classics at Farm Aid.

CELEBRITY SIGHTING streams They’re Just Like Us.

CYNDI LAUPER joined KATY PERRY for "Time After Time" in Rio.

JANET JACKSON's apology for her comments about presidential candidate Kamala Harris was unauthorized.

JOURNEY's current singer has put his membership up for a fan vote.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Desiigner's one big hit, the Kanye-boosted, Future-esque energy bomb "Panda."

THUNDERBOLTS has a trailer online.

GLADIATOR II has a trailer online.

KYLE CHANDLER will star in HBO's Green Lantern series.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS, with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. Presumably no semaphore flags.

BENNIFER met jointly with a high-powered divorce atorney, possible a mediation.

THE ROYALS: Kate made her first public appearance since chemotherapy.

FRIENDS has inspired a game show.

GOTHAM PD: What might have been.

BULLS escape a rodeo in Massachusetts.

WHAT KNID OF DOG is that?

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A sheep with four horns.

THE TEMPTATIONS: "Psychedelic Shack." That's where it's at.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Thurston Moore, Jamie xx, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Galaxie 500,The WAEVE, and more.

BOB MOULD joined MILITARIE GUN for Husker Du's "Makes No Sense At All."

THE NATIONAL covers Echo & The Bunnymen‘s "Bring On The Dancing Horses" with The War On Drugs‘ Adam Granduciel.

CHRIS MARTIN sang new Coldplay at a karaoke night in Vegas.

ST VINCENT shares "Hombre Roto. (Broken Man)."

JANE'S ADDICTION: Perry Farrell's wife claims he's scheduled appointments with an ENT doctor and a neurologist.

BILLY CORGAN, on the alien appeal of New Order.

JAMIE XX gives a track-by-track tour of the new LP.

RIDE bassist Steve Queralt reports from the road.

MORRISSEY fired his management after Johnny Marr's management refuted the singer's lastes claims agains Marr.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice remains atop the chart with 26MM on a 49 percent drop, upsetting Transformers One, which placed with a 25MM debut.  That's a disappointment for the Transformers franchise, but probably a predictable one.  Speak No Evil showed with 5.9MM on a 48 percent drop.

SNL TURNS 50, and Lorne Michaels ain't leaving.

OLIVIA MUNN & JOHN MULLANEY welcomed a second child.

SUCCESSION: News organizations petition to make the Murdochs' court battle public.

THE TOP 30 "FRIENDS" EPISODES, according to Variety.

BATMAN VILLAINS, ranked by NME.

KATHRYN CROSBY, the actor, singer and widow of Bing Crosby, died Friday evening of natural causes. She was 90.

BOJI THE DOG makes his late owner's commute every day in Instanbul.

A PICNIC Down Under.

THAT'S NO CHICKEN, that's a vulture.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

BEAR vs WATER TANK: Who You Got?