THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with NEIL YOUNG!  Live on the Beeb, circa '71. Your setlist includes: "Out on the Weekend," "Old Man," "Journey Thru the Past," "Heart of Gold," "Don't Let It Bring You Down," "A Man Needs A Maid," "Love in Mind," and "Dance, Dance, Dance."

LOW, Live at the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul, Minn.

PEDRO THE LION plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

KT TUNSTALL stops by the World Cafe.

AZUSA advance streams Heavy Yoke.

PANDA BEAR shares "Dolphin."

THE VOGUES: It's a "Five O'Clock World" on Friday.

JEFF TWEEDY on Addiction, Anxiety and A Ghost Is Born.

1993: The Greatest Year In Music? (spoiler: No.)

THE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME nominees are announced.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Doors' immortally horny "Hello, I Love You."

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include Dr. Seuss' The Grinch, which is currently scoring 60 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; The Girl in the Spider's Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story, currently scoring 47 percent; and Overlord, scoring 85 percent. Amazon's Beautiful Boy makes it to 777 big screens, scoring 69 percent.

STAR WARS: Diego Luna will reprise his role as rebel spy Cassian Andor in a TV prequel show to Rogue One.

TOM HIDDLESTON will officially return as Loki in a small-screen series about the shapeshifter, Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger confirmed Thursday.

MEG RYAN confirms her engagement to John Mellencamp.

BEN AFFLECK & JENNIFER GARNER are officially divorced.

NICOLE KIDMAN breaks her silence about her two adopted children with Tom Cruise.

ADRIANA LIMA is hanging up her Victoria's Secret Angel wings after 20 years.

THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA heads to HBO.

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA Turns 10: Streep, Hathaway, and Blunt speak.

A MALE PENGUIN COUPLE welcomes a Gentoo chick.

AN EMU & DONKEY, living together... mass hysteria!

A DOG-FACED BAT is a very good boy… with wings.

ZOOKEEPER accused in murder-for-hire plot also accused of killing tigers, selling cubs.