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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE YARDBIRDS! Live circa 1967, featuring someone the announcer calls "Timmy Page."  Your setlist inlcudes "Shapes of Things," "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago," "Over Under Sideways Down," and "I'm a Man."

WIRE advance streams Nocturnal Koreans.

ADAM GREEN advance streams Aladdin. (NSFW).

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT advance streams Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets.

JOSH KELLEY advance streams New Lane Road.

TONY JOE WHITE drops “The Middle of Nowhere" ahead of Rain Crow.

THE UNTOUCHABLES: "I Spy For the FBI."

THE GUITARISTS OF DAVID BOWIE: Guitar Player's tribute includes old and new material from Tony Visconti, Mick Ronson, Carlos Alomar, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Adrian Belew and many more (except Robert Fripp, sadly).

JASON & THE SCORCHERS are the latest of The Guardian's Cult Heroes.

THE PIXIES: Ten of Their Best.

TWELVE GREAT SONGS With Just Three Chords...tho none of these featured in Pate's infamous Three-Chord Medley (which tended to include "Wild Thing," "Hang On Sloopy," "Louie, Louie," "My Best Friend's Girl," "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," and "Summer Nights," among others).

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include The Jungle Book, which is currently scoring 93 percent on the ol'Tomatometer; Barbershop: The Next Cut, currently scoring 88 percent; and Criminal, scoring 14 percent.

BLAKE LIVELY & RYAN REYNOLDS are expecting their second child.

EVA MENDES & RYAN GOSLING are expecting their second child.

KELLY CLARKSON and her husband, music manager Brandon Blackstock, have welcomed their second child.

ELLIE KEMPER is pregnant and expecting her first child with her husband, Michael Koman.

TAYLOR SWIFT nabs Vogue's cover story.

GWEN STEFANI got a big break in her divorce, thanks to Gavin Rossdale, because we've learned he's now on record with the judge walking away from millions of dollars to which he's legally entitled.

KATY PERRY & ORLANDO BLOOM were caught canoodling at a cancer immunoterapy launch event.

MEGAN FOX & BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN, estranged but expectant parents, are renting a house together.

SELENA GOMEZ talks to GQ about David O. Russell, lupus, creepy dudes, and more.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH will voice The Grinch.

JAMES CAMERON now threatens to make four Avatar sequels.

DICK TRACY may get a sequel after more than 25 years.

AMC may allow trexting in some theaters, because civilization isn't declining fast wnough already. UPDATE: AMC retreats.

YEMEN: Witnesses say attack helicopters from a Saudi-led coalition struck al-Qaida militants in southern Yemen, where the group has exploited the conflict between Shiite Houthi rebels and government forces to expand.

THE ISLAMIC STATE: Battlefield successes enjoyed by Western-backed forces in Iraq and Syria have done little to stop the expansion of the terrorists to Europe, North Africa and Afghanistan.

IMPATIENT PUPS honk the horn to get their owner's attention.

A TEAM OF SNIFFER DOGS set up at a British airport at a cost of 1.25 million pounds ($1.7 million) have proved adept at discovering small amounts of cheese and sausages but not so good at finding smuggled drugs, a report said on Thursday.

CAN BEAVERS make California wet again? What say you, Det. Drebin?

A LARGE RABBIT named Dolly Parton who disappeared from a Salt Lake County farm has suddenly reappeared.

MITSKI drops a video for "Your Best American Girl" ahead of Puberty 2.

GUIDED BY VOICES (to really Robert Pollard) advance streams Please Be Honest.

EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS advance stream PersonA, their first since the sudden departure of founding member Jade Castrinos.

PARQUET COURTS play a mini-set for the Rough Trade Sessions series.

YOUTH IN BLOOM drop the demo for “Feed My Dreams” before reissuing The Shell EP.

FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS covered "Suspicious Minds" beautifully before hitting it big. 

BONO told the US Senate to send Amy Schumer, Chris Rock and Sacha Baron Cohen to fight ISIS.

THE BLACK KEYS regret inducting Steve Miller into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

YOUR SONG CHANGED MY LIFE is a new book by NPR's Bob Boilen. For example, Michael Stipe talked about Patti Smith's "Birdland."

STEVE EARLE: The Other Side of Merle Haggard.

DOCTOR STRANGE dropped a trailer online.

MEGAN FOX has no plans to drop her divorce, despite her pregnancy by estranged husband Brian Austin Green.

KIRSTEN DUNST & GARRETT HEDLUND have split and ended their four-year romantic relationship.

CHARLIE SHEEN's ex Brooke Mueller is claiming he owes her 89K in back child support.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE & CHRIS PRATT pitched Passengers to theater owners.

BILL & TED continue a slow march toward a threequel.

BATMAN: A Ben Affleck standalone moves forward.

RUSSIAN ATTACK PLANES buzzed a US Destroyer. There's video.

IRAQ: As U.S.-led offensives push back the Islamic State in Iraq, concern is growing among U.S. and U.N. officials that efforts to stabilize liberated areas are lagging, creating conditions that could help the militants endure as an underground network.

A BEAR chased an unknowing snowboarder in Japan.

INKY THE OCTOPUS escaped his tank at New Zealand’s National Aquarium, crawled across the floor and escaped via a pipe to the ocean.

A RSPCA inspector was sent to investigate reports of frogs being ‘cruelly' kept at a tourist attraction - but found an amphibian orgy instead.

SALMON caught near Seattle are full of cocaine and anti-depressants.  Can't blame 'em.

THE DANDY WARHOLS share a video for "You Are Killing Me," ft Factory veteran Joe Dallesandro. (NSFW)

MAYER HAWTHORNE played World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.

PALEHOUND plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

FIELD MUSIC stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

LEAPLING drops the languid, yet power-popping "Hey, Sister" ahead of Suspended Animation.

KAREN MEAT, from Iowa, drops “On The Couch,” the title track to their debut EP.

HOT CHOCOLATE: "You Sexy Thing." Believe in miracles?

BOB MOULD was interviewed by DAVID CROSS for Magnet.

LED ZEPPELIN faces trial on the claim they plagiarized "Stairway to Heaven" from Spirit's "Taurus."  It's not the first such case against the band, though The Guardian argues they transformed other blues and folk tunes.

FATHER JOHN MISTY discusses seeing Taylor Swift on acid, Ryan Adams' "grotesque stunt."

CATE LE BON: How Cardiff’s finest found a California state of mind.

MEGAN FOX debuted an unmistakable baby bump at CinemaCon in Las Vegas Monday night. May be postponing that divorce now, eh?

LINDSAY LOHAN may or may not be engaged to her Russian business heir boyfriend.

DAVID GEST, entertainer, producer, reality television star, and the ex-husband of Liza Minnelli, died in a London hotel aged 62, a statement from his friend says.

SARAH CHALKE is expecting her second child with her fiancé.

CHARLIZE THERON is not planning to adopt more kids.

DORA THE EXPLORER: Vaping in the Girl's Room?

JOE PESCI told LOUIS C.K. that he's not funny. Not funny how?

STEPHEN HAWKING and Yuri Milnerplan plan to launch hundreds, possibly thousands of tiny space probes for extraterrestrial life.

NORTH KOREA may be preparing for an unprecedented launch of a mobile ballistic missile which could potentially hit portions of the U.S., CNN has learned.

HOW GERMANY Has Resisted the Influence of ISIS.

SYRIA's truce is on the verge of collapse, as rebels prepare for a regime offensive against Aleppo.

WHEN THAT CATFISH turns out to be a gator. 

INFERTILE MICE were made fertile again with 3-D printed ovaries.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A massive militant was spotted on a FL golf course. Where's Carl Spackler when you need him?

A DEADLY OCTOPUS was found inside a tennis ball in Australia.

SONNY & THE SUNSETS drop a video for “Well But Strangely Hung Man”.

HAR MAR SUPERSTAR advance streams Best Summer Ever, which alternately mines 80's synth-tinged pop and 90s lo-fi.

SULK advance streams No Illusions.

SUUNS advance streams Hold/Still.

CAR SEAT HEADREST drops “Fill In The Blank” ahead of Teens Of Denial.

THE WALKER BOTHERS: let's have early hits like "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)" and "Make It Easy On Yourself" for Twofer Tuesday.

THE BEACH BOYS: The 50th anniversary of Pet Sounds, discussed by Ronnie Spector,

SLOAN looks back on the 20th anniversary of One Chord to Another.

BOB MOULD talks to Louder Than War about what drives him and keeps him going. (Thx, Frank Yang)

THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE's Anton Newcombe talks to Aquarium Drunkard about recording, the music industry and…war.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR revealed a minute of new, action-packed footage (plus a foreshadowed baddie) at the MTV Movie Awards.The early buzz -- mostly from nerd media -- is very good.

STAR WARS: Daisy Ridley says she doesn't know whether Rey is a Jedi, but she struck a Skywalkerish pose on Twitter.

FANTASTIC BEASTS and WHERE TO FIND THEM: The Potterverse drops a teaser trailer online.

PHYLICIA RASHAD is not talking about Bill Cosby, m'kay?

JAKE LLOYD, who played Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, has been moved from a jail cell to a psychiatric facility.

BELGIUM: The terror cell behind bombings in Brussels had been plotting to hit France again after carrying out the Paris attacks in November, but was forced to strike closer to home as police closed in, Belgian prosecutors said on Sunday.

THE UNITED KINGDOM: The former head of Britain's Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Trevor Phillips, has admitted he "got almost everything wrong" regarding immigration in a new report, claiming Muslims are creating "nations within nations" in the West.

IRAQI forces are struggling to hold on to the little territory they’ve taken back from ISIS.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A Two-Headed Snake.

A DEAD HORSE was dumped in front of a Sylmar, Cali., home Saturday. He did n't know who they were with.

THE TIGER POPULATION roaming forests from Russia to Vietnam has gone up for the first time in more than a century.

A 120-LB GREAT DANE was rescued from a tree in Plattsmouth, FL.

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE drops a video for “Good Help (Is So Hard To Find)."

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

SPACE RAFT advance streams Rubicon.

ASHLEY SHADOW advance streams her self-titled debut.

TEGAN & SARA drop "Boyfriend" and  "U-Turn" ahead of Love You to Death.

THE LEES OF MEMORY (a Superdrag offshoot) drops “Squared Up" ahead of Unnecessary Evil.

THE CONNELLS: " '74-'45. " Read more about this Raleigh, North Carolina quintet at Trouser Press.

STEVE MILLER criticized the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame almost immediately after his induction.

PATTERSON HOOD remembers MERLE HAGGARD.

THE RAMONES: A new exhibition in Queens celebrates the history of a band that left an indelible mark on modern rock and New York City.

WOODS: How staying DIY gave them an indie ecosystem.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Boss tops the chart with 23.5MM, at the low end of Melissa McCarthy comedies. It will make money against its 29MM budget, but you do enough of these and you become Adam Sandler.  Batman v Superman places with 23.4MM, but that's an ugly 54 percent drop for a tentpole on its third weekend. And yet Justice League is set to go into production today, when the WB should have taken that rumored delay instead.  Zootopia shows with another 14.4MM, which is leggy, but The Jungle Book arrives on Friday. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 takes the fourth slot with 6.4MM; it's not as leggy as the orginal, but will still profit nicely.  The debut of Hardcore Henry rounds out the Top Five with 5.1MM. This flick was purchased by STX Entertainment for 10MM, but they sold the overseas rights for probably clsoe to that amount, so the cost here is limited to the marketing.

VINCE NEIL fights NIC CAGE after allegedly attacking a woman in Vegas.

ROB KARDASHIAN & BLAC CHYNA plan a quickie wedding.

LEO DiCAPRIO: Another day, another model?

EDGE OF TOMORROW may spawn a sequel, based on its strength in home video.

BRIAN BLESSED does a Q & A with The Guardian.

SUPERMAN: Director Richard Donner reveals how Marlon Brando wanted to play Jor-El as a "bagel," fights with his producer and how he discovered Christopher Reeve for the first-ever big-budget superhero movie.

SPIDER-MAN will get some super-cameos in 2017.

GERMANY is as underequipped, overwhelmed and vulnerable to attack from ISIS as Brussels.

SWEDEN: A 20-year-old teaching student in Stockholm is accused of planning to blow himself up.

YEMEN: One unintended consequence of the war in Yemen: Al Qaeda now runs its own mini-state, flush with funds from raiding the local central bank and levying taxes at the local port.

A SHARK skips off a surfboard.

a DOG got into his owner's ink supply. And it was a large supply.

OTHER DOGS were taught to fly a plane.

SPEEDY SPIDERS FROM HELL: They bite faster than any other arachnids.