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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with OTIS REDDING!  Otis and the Bar-Kays crank up the energy to 11 for a Ready Steady Go special, crashing through "Satisfaction,"  "My Girl" and "Respect," then "Shake" morphing into "Land of a Thousand Dances" performed by Otis, Eric Burdon and Chris Farlowe.  BONUS: from the same special, Eric Burdon covers "Hold On, I'm Coming," while Chris Farlowe covers "It's a Man's World."

MARGO PRICE, Live at Rockwood Music Hall.

LEE FIELDS plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

BILLY JOEL covers a bit of Warren Zevon's "Lawyers, Guns And Money" at Madison Square Garden.

JOHN VANDERSLICE shares “Crystals 26.”

MARSHALL CRENSHAW talks about reissuing Marshall Crenshaw, reclaiming the rights to his music, making cameos in La Bamba and Peggy Sue Got Married, feeling “shocked” by S Club 7’s cover of “Someday, Someway,” and much more.

THE VAPORS' Dave Fenton on the band's hit "Turning Japanese."

JARED MATTSON: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.

BRUCE WILLIS has received a cruel diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia.

MACHINE GUN KELLY's guitarist Sophie Lloyd has responded to rumors claiming she's the reason behind the singer's alleged split from Megan Fox.

FLORENCE PUGH may have a new man in her life.

M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN just inked a huge deal with Warners... and weirdly the stories don't mention how on the outs he was for a number of years. Don't call it a comeback.

MARVEL: Kevin Fiege suggests the D+ series will be slowing down to avoid superhero fatigue.

THE MANDALORIAN shares a baby Yoda clip.

LOVE & DEATH, starring Elizabeth Olsen, has a trailer online.

JOHN WICK 4 has a final trailer online.

THE HOUSE OF MOUSE: Is Bob Iger the Hidden Hand Behind Disney and China's Relationship Warming?

STEVEN SPIELBERG & JOHN WILLIAMS, talking about their long partnership in movies.

RELAX, I've got this.

WINDY DAY, fuzzy doggos.

SNAKES can hear you scream.

FATHER JOHN MISTY, Live at the Palace Theater in St. Paul.

SILVERSUN PICKUPS visits World Cafe.

BEN FOLDS returns with “Winslow Gardens.”

AMANDA SHIRES & JASON ISBELL play "Hawk For The Dove" on Fallon.

LANA DEL REY, Interviewed by BILLIE EILISH.

ANDY SCHAUF, on his new album of love songs that are supposed to sound a little creepy.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Justin Timberlake's brittle, mechanistic cocaine-disco statement-song "SexyBack."

RAQUEL WELCH, the voluptuous movie actress who became the 1960s’ first major American sex symbol and maintained that image for a half-century in show business, died on Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 82.  You can choose the Variety, THR, or Deadline obits too.

VANITY FAIR's annual Hollywood issue is online.

ALEC BALDWIN will resume filming Rust after being charged with involuntary manslaughter.

MEGAN FOX & MACHINE GUN KELLY were spotted leaving marriage counseling separately, reportedly.

ROBIN WRIGHT & SEAN PENN are not back together.

SPIKE LEE, on race riots, Malcolm X, and awards.

LUCKY HANK, starring Bob Odenkirk, has a trailer online.

EXTRAPOLATIONS, starring Meryl Streep, has a trailer online.

A ZEBRA, entering the house.

DOG Vlog.

WHEN THREE SNAKES fall through the ceiling.

ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS don't want to go to "Chelsea."

20 BURT BACHARACH COVERS by indie artists.

FEIST shares three new songs.

LANA DEL REY shares "A & W."

DRY CLEANING shares "Swampy" and "Sombre Two."

BEABADOOOBEE shares "Glue Song."

DE LA SOUL's Trugoy the Dove, remembered at Pitchfork.

GIRL SCOUT, profiled at Paste.

STEVEN SPIELBERG tells TOM CRUISE he saved Hollywood's ass.  Cruise was the center of attention at the Oscars luncheon.

ANT-MAN: QUANTUMANIA's early reviews are not entirely sold on it.

DEADPOOL 3 welcomes The Crown‘s Emma Corrin as the movie’s villain.

JON FAVREAU, on Mando, Elf, and more.

IDRIS ELBA says he’s going to stick with being the tormented detective John Luther — not James Bond.

CATE BLANCHETT says there is a danger that society will be “destined to repeat” its mistakes if we continue to follow cancel culture.

PHARRELL WILLIAMS, creative director of Louis Vuitton menswear.

JESSICA SIMPSON shared a snap of herself crouching down on the set of an outdoor photo shoot and peeing in the grass.

FLACO: The escaped owl went on a sequence of long flights to explore and hunt new territory in Central Park.

THEY CAME BACK with a warrant.

ARCTIC SQUIRRELS may hold the key to helping astronauts survive on long missions.

CUPID, DRAW BACK YOUR BOW:

... with VALENTINE'S DAY: I've never been a big Valentine's Day guy, but I have always liked The Replacements' "Valentine" and Elvis Costello's cover of "My Funny Valentine."  Beyond that, my thoughts typically drift to the Velvet Underground's "I'll Be Your Mirror," The Beatles' "In My Life," and the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows." I think it's probably very difficult to write a straight-ahead, universal love song, and these three are great.

NICK CAVE, Live at Los Angeles’ Fonda Theatre, February 21, 2013. For a limited time only.

BURT BACHARACH, Live at the Walt Disney Conert Hall.

THE LEMON TWIGS share “Any Time Of Day.”

ANDY SCHAUF gives a track-by-track tour of his new album.

PINK FLOYD: "When One of Your Favorite Artists Is a Complete Asshat."

THE NUMBER ONES ooks at Fergie's weird, twisty rise and at "London Bridge," her chart-topping chirp-shout debut solo single.

THE OPPOSING VIEW:  Ever Fallen In Love? Love Stinks. Love Hurts. Love Will Tear Us Apart. Only Love Can Break Your Heart. And don't forget to give me back my black t-shirt (nsfw)

THE 100 BEST LOVE SONGS, according to The Telegraph.

THE TOP 50 LOVE SONGS, as measured by Billboard.

VH-1's 40 Awesomely Bad Love Songs.

THE WORST LOVE SONGS, according to faculty members of the University of St. Thomas’ Music Department.

NINE SONGS ABOUT SEEING YOUR EX MAKING OUT, courtesy of The A.V. Club. A hardy perennial.

BRITNEY SPEARS took to Instagram to address rumors that she is unwell.

RYAN REYNOLDS & BLAKE LIVELY have welcomed their fourth child.

PLANE is getting a sequel called Ship.

BATGIRL: Leslie Grace thinks the film was releaseable.

MICHAEL B. JORDAN's Biggest Fight Is With Himself.

DOGGOS, enjoying a balloon.

AN OWL, with catlike behavior.

FLACO, the Eurasian Eagle-Owl escaped from the zoo, appears to have eaten in Central Park. There were concerns about his ability to hunt.

JOHN HIATT: It's been a "Slow Turning."

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Yo La Tengo, Andy Schauf, Tennis, Paramore, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Quasi, the Golden Dregs, CIVIC, and more.

THE HOLD STEADY shares "Sixers."

BECK shares "Thinking About You."

BURT BACHARACH's Distinctive Melodic Voice.

JON WURSTER is leaving Superchunk.

QUASI, profiled at SPIN.

U2: Vegas, Baby!

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Nelly Furtado's unlikely and supremely successful career left turn, the Timbaland-assisted club jam "Promiscuous."

DE LA SOUL's David Jolicoeur, who helped expand the stylistic vocabulary of hip-hop in the late 1980s and early ’90s with eclectic samples and offbeat humor, died on Sunday. He was 54. 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Magic Mike’s Last Dance tops the chart with an 8.2MM debut, and the studio hopes to get a Valentine's Day bump this week. Avatar 2 places with6.6MM on a 39 percent drop.  The 25th anniversary re-release of Titanic shows with 6.4MM.

WHY RHIANNA won't get paid for the Big Game halftime show.

BRITNEY SPEARS' husband responds to the story about a planned intervention; it'a a non-denial denial.

FAST X has a trailer online.

THE FLASH has a trailer online.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL 3 has a trailer online.

VIN DIESEL & DAVID TWOHY are reuniting for Riddick: Furya.

WARREN BEATTY played Dick Tracy again, on TCM.

CHARLES BARKLEY: Coming to CNN?

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Happy birthday to the 16th President of the United States. Even if you saw the Spielberg biopic, here are two things you may not have known about Honest Abe: (1) he was an early adopter of the telegraph; and (2) he once sported a punky haircut.

BEST SKATEBOARD DOG video evah?

AN OTTER, snacking.

A DOGGO enjoying the piano.

EXCUSE ME, you're not finished.