THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with HUSKER DU!  Live from London's Camden Palace in 1985. Your setlist includes: "New Day Rising"; "It's Not Funny Anymore"; "Everything Falls Apart"; "Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill"; "I Apologize"; "If I Told You"; "Folklore"; "Terms of Psychic Warfare"; "Powerline"; "Books About UFOs"; "Chartered Trips"; "Diane"; "Celebrated Summer"; "Every Everything"; "Makes No Sense at All"; "Pink Turns to Blue"; "Ticket to Ride"; "Reoccurring Dreams/Dreams Reoccurring"; "Eight Miles High"; and "Love Is All Around".

ST VINCENT visits World Cafe.

VILLAGERS play KEXP.

SOUL BLIND streams their Third Chain EP.

NOTHING covers the Delfonics' 1968 soul classic "La La Means I Love You."

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS share "Earthlings."

DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 covers Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'."

CHURCH GIRLS share "Basement."

BILLY IDOL talks about bits and pieces from across his career — from his early days following the Sex Pistols to sharing a stage with Miley Cyrus just a few months ago.

DENIS VILLENEUVE, on the MCU, and why big-budget movies are still relevant when they’re coming from master storytellers.

JEOPARDY will go with Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings for the rest of the year.

MARILYN MANSON's rape accuser just had her lawsuit against the shock rocker tossed out of court.

OSCAR ISSAC's Interesting Decade: Ten years of minor triumphs and a few big misses.

MARTIN SHORT's Life As a Sketch-Comedy God.

NICOLAS CAGE will not see Nicolas Cage play Nicolas Cage.

JANE POWELL, who made her screen debut with W.C. Fields, danced with Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding, was one of seven brides for seven brothers in the classic 1954 film musical, sang “Buttons and Bows” at President Harry S. Truman’s Inaugural Ball and was a bridesmaid at the first of Elizabeth Taylor’s weddings, died of natural causes Thursday at her home in Wilton, Connecticut. She was 92.

A DOGGO sneaks a dip.

EVENTUALLY, they all come to Mommy.

A TIBETIAN MASTIFF is big.

THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS are "Standing Next to Me."

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features Neffy, My Morning Jacket, and More.

THE WAR ON DRUGS shares "I Don't Live Here Anymore," ft Lucius.

SNAIL MAIL shares "Valentine."

CHVRCHES covers Gerard McMann's “Cry Little Sister,” the theme from the 1987 classic The Lost Boys. 

ROLLING STONE'S 500 GREATEST SONGS, remade for 2021.  There are reasons to raise an eyebrow.

NICK LOWE joins Transmissions to revisit The Convincer and more.

SOUL ASYLUM's Dave Pirner talks to The Current about Prince covering one of his songs, and more.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Sinead O'Connor's classic rendition of the Prince-written "Nothing Compares 2 U." (It's a 10.)

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN reportedly requested creative control, a 100-day theatrical window, a 100MM budget, 20 percent of first dollar gross, and a blackout period where the studio wouldn't release another movie for thee weeks before and after the release of his next movie.

R KELLY's sexual abuse trial enters its fourth week.

ALLISON MACK (Smallville) checks into prison for her role in the Nxvim sex cult case.

WEST SIDE STORY: Steven Spielberg's take has a trailer online.

THE BODYGUARD, but without Whitney Houston.

JORDANA BREWSTER is engaged to her boyfriend, and businessman Mason Morfit.

HELEN MIRREN is set to host a four-part Harry Potter trivia competition in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

A GOAT & ROOSTER save a chicken from a hawk.

FLYING among the geese.

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN: Dog vs Man.

THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN: Because there's "Something In The Air." It's all happening.

UNCIVILIZED covers Chico Hamilton for a Lagniappe Session.

THE TINY DESK CONTEST has a winner.

JASON ISBELL covers R.E.M.'s "Driver 8."

ST VINCENT shares the title track to "The Nowhere Inn" soundtrack.

NICK LOWE revisits career higlights from these past five decades — all the way from his younger days, to snarking on David Bowie, to the days where Johnny Cash was his father-in-law, and beyond.

TODD RUNDGREN won't attend his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, but may perform remotely.

ALANIS MORISSETTE is unhappy with the Jagged documentary.

NORM MACDONALD, whose laconic delivery of sharp and incisive observations made him one of Saturday Night Live‘s most influential and beloved cast members, died Tuesday after a nine-year private battle with cancer. He was 61. Macdonald, btw, mocked the idea of "losing the battle" to cancer.  Watch him tell the legendary "moth joke."  Hear the monologue from when he hosted SNL after being fired for continuing to tell OJ Simpson jokes that annoyed an NBC exec and Simpson friend Don Ohlmeyer.  And check out the Conan segment where he was second chair to Courtney Thorne-Smith.  Or his explanation of Bill Cosby to Serry Seinfeld.  Or his roast of Bob Saget, where he decided to read jokes out of an old book for retirement parties. He was a singular talent who always committed to the joke.

BRITNEY SPEARS is taking a break from social media.

AMANDA BYNES' conservatorship remains open day-to-day.

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN is taking his Manhattan Project to Universal.

TIM ROTH, on She-Hulk and more.

DRIVE set the tone for a dcade of 80s nostalgia.

A DOG & BIRD enjoy the view.

DOG & CAT, living together...

AT LEAST 13 GORILLAS have tested positive for COVID-19 at the Atlanta Zoo.

CHRISTONE "KINGFISH" INGRAM plays World Cafe at Home.

COURTNET BARRETT shares "Before You Gotta Go."

KACEY MUSGRAVES wrote the album 'Golden Hour' when she was falling in love. When that love started to fade, she wrote another.

STEVE GUNN remembered musician Michael Chapman at Aquarium Drunkard.

GEORGE WEIN, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, is dead at age 95.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the late Tommy Page's New Kids On The Block collaboration "I'll Be Your Everything."

BRITNEY SPEARS and Sam Asghari are engaged after nearly five years of dating.

KATE HUDSON is engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Danny Fujikawa, after nearly five years together.

JEFF BRIDGES says his lymphoma is in remission, and he is feeling better after battling Covid-19, which made "cancer look like a piece of cake."

HAWKEYE has a trailer online.

TED LASSO's stars and writers are getting a big payday from Apple.

DOCTOR WHO actress Tanya Fear has been found after being reported missing in L.A.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 7: Accomplished.

THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS: Why now? Grief.

CAT & DOG, living together...

A PUPPER invades a cricket match.

A KITTEN watches the US Open finals.

A DUDE rescues... a cobra?

REDBONE: "Come and Get Your Love."

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Kacey Musgraves, Low, Sleigh Bells and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has St. Etienne, Amyl and the Sniffers, The Jazz Butcher, and more.

THE REPLACEMENTS share a video for "Shutup."

BIG THIEF debuted "Dragon" at Pitchfork Music Fest.

LANA DEL REY quits social media.

MICHAEL CHAPMAN, British guitar virtuoso, has died at 80.

MICK BRIDGEN, who for decades managed and directed tours for rock acts including Humble Pie, Mountain and Peter Frampton, died after an accident Sept. 5 at his hilltop home north of Santa Rosa. He was 73.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Taylor Dayne's sole chart-topper, the gooey and deluded Diane Warren ballad "Love Will Lead You Back."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings repeats atop the chart with an estimated 3-day of 35.7MM on a decent 53 percent drop, for the third-biggest second weekend for a September release after the It franchise.  The House of Mouse is so encouraged as to announce it will honor a 30- to 45-day theatrical window for the rest of the year.  Free Guy places again with 5.8MM on a leggy 35 percent drop.  The debut of Malignant shows with a likely disappoining 5.6MM.

PARAMOUNT changes CEOs. Does it presage a move to favor its streaming service?

PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE as Indiana Jones?

KIRSTEN DUNST: Don't call it a comeback?

STEVE BUSCEMI revealed that he experienced post-traumatic stress disorder after heroically helping rescue survivors in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks.

CLINT EASTWOOD, 91, throws a punch and rides a horse in his new movie. And he's not ready to quit.

HOW A FAKE BRITISH ACCENT Took Hollywood by Storm.

LOOPER: How the 2012 time-travel thriller rewrote the future of Chinese-American co-productions.

A CAT clinging to a balcony is rescued in dramatic fashion at a college football game.

THE MOST POPULAR DOG Names in NYC.

CONGRESSWOMAN ELEANOR NORTON HOLMES denied responsibility for letting loose six zebras that have been on the run in Maryland.