THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE WHO! I featured some 70s stuff a few weeks back, but this is some rare TV footage from the 60s. I am not giving details because lawyers are on the move (which is another reason to revisit The Who so soon).  Part One includes "Daddy Rolling Stone," "It's Not True," and "Bald Headed Woman."  Part Two includes "The Kids Are Alright," "Substitute" and "My Generation," when the kids in the studio finally get to dance.

MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle talks to the Arizona Star about what's keeping him up at night, as well as his new collaboartion with Kaki King.  He and King both talk to the North Country Times about their EP, which started with a note Darnielle scrawled on a dressing room wall.  That sort of thing does not surprise me; I once saw a note the yong Fresh fellows left for Mojo Nixon on a dressing room wall in Iowa City.

THE 25 CHEESIEST HITS OF THE '70s, according to Y!Music, with streaming audio for each.

SONIC YOUTH: Their big Fourth of July show in NYC's Battery Park is finally streaming in full via WFMU.

FRIGHTENED RABBIT: Scott and Grant Hutchinson talk to Glide about growing up together and adding members to the band.

BONO will be working pro bono for the NYT. The company is losing readers and revenues so quickly that free is all they can afford.

LUCINDA WILLIAMS talks to Rolling Stone about finding a good man and getting her joy back.

CMJ MUSIC MARATHON: Jon Pareles of the NYT reports from showcases booked by music bloggers.

TEARS FOR FEARS' "Head Over Heels" gets the literal video treatment, following in the footsteps of A-ha's "Take On Me."

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Oasis, Sir Paul's dance music, Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby and more are streaming in the latest edition of the long-running NPR series.

WHAT MAKES A HIT as record sales decline year after year?

STEPHEN MALKMUS talks to JAM! about the changes in his band, his sound and his songwriting on his latest LP.

96 ST. MARK'S PLACE: How does the building on the cover of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti look today?

ROY HARPER: Jimmy Page wrote a song about him. Paul and Linda McCartney sang back up for him. And now, after decades of languishing as "the longest running underground act in the world", Roy Harper is reissuing his entire catalog to a world that may just finally be ready for him.

CHINESE DEMOCRACY: Here's how to get your free can of Dr. Pepper.

CUTOUT BIN: From William Shatner & Joe Jackson to Baby Huey, from Tom Jones to Locksley, from Sylvia to The Sonics, from Bishop Allen to the Ohio Plyers to the Icicle Works, , plus more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds can be jukeboxed or streamed separately via the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are High School Musical 3, which is currently scoring 67 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Saw V, unsurprisingly unscreened for critics; Pride & Glory, scoring 34 percent, and a 3-D reissue of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.  I'll go out on a limb and predict HSM3 as the big winner come Monday.

MADONNA & GUY RITCHIE: She has offered him an additional £5million to dictate his access rights to their three children. But he reportedly is "in pieces" or in a "rage" after seeing a photo of his son Rocco in a T-shirt supporting Alex Rodriguez's New York Yankees baseball team.

LINDSAY LOHAN is now being cut out of Ugly Betty episodes already filmed, with more details of diva behavior bubbling up on Page Six.

BRADGELINA: Jolie claims she may stop making movies and marry Pitt.

HEATHER MILLS has blown nearly £10million of her £24.3million divorce settlement in only seven months.

MANDY MOORE & DJ AM are back together, reunited by his near-death in a fiery plane crash.

JEN & JOHN: Aniston would like Mayer to keep his mouth shut and stop blogging about his personal life.

JESSICA BIEL talks to Marie Claire about the paparazzi coverage of her relationship with Justin Timberlake.

WATCHMEN director Zack Snyder and cast members unveiled an extended trailer at the Scream Awards 2008.

MAD MEN creator Matt Weiner answers questions from Variety readers ahead of the season two finale this Sunday.

MAD MONSTER PARTY: PopMatters essays the creepy 1969 Rankin-Bass classic.

ANNE HATHAWAY's ex-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri was sentenced in Manhattan federal court Thursday to 4½ years in prison.

DAVID HASSELHOFF: A new videogame will let you pummel the Hoff to the strains of the Culture Club classic "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me." Video at the link.

PAKISTAN plans to arm tens of thousands of anti-Taliban tribal fighters in its western border region in hopes -- shared by the US military -- that the nascent militias can replicate the tribal "Awakening" movement that proved decisive in the battle against al-Qaeda in Iraq. Meanwhile, after a one week lull in attacks inside Pakistan's tribal areas, US unmanned Predator aircraft struck a compound run by the powerful, al Qaeda-linked Haqqani family in North Waziristan.

IRAQ: US forces hand over responsibility for security in the "triangle of death" to Iraqi forces.

WHEN HUMMINGBIRDS ATTACK: Let's go to the video.

HIPPIE APES make love... and war.

INDIA'S LONE GORILLA cannot gate a date anywhere.  Maybe if he moved out of Mysore?

A GIANT SPIDER eats a bird on camera.

A BAR-TAILED GODWIT flies from Alaska to New Zealand without stopping. Let's go to the video.