THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE GO-GOs!  They made history as the first all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts. Kind of a hard band to place seasonally. Their debut, Beauty and the Beat, which yielded hits like "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got the Beat," as well as great album cuts like "This Town," "Lust to Love," "Tonite" and "How Much More," came out in late Summer 1981, iirc, and "Lips" was climbing the charts that Fall, so I mentally place the band in this time of year. And it's still warm enough that the title track to the too-quick sophomore album, "Vacation," -- or their cover of the Capitols' "Cool Jerk" -- doesn't sound too out of place. "Get Up and Go" was also a single from that LP, but it didn't make the Top 40.  The band would chart twice more -- in 1984, with "Head Over Heels" and "Turn to You" -- before splitting and the near-inevitable reunion tours.

JAWBOX visits KEXP.

PRIESTS visits KEXP.

BRITTANY HOWARD visits World Cafe.

ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA returns with "From Out of Nowhere."

CHARLI XCX & JIMMY FALLON (playing Dave Gahan) mash up  Depeche Mode's "Just Can't Get Enough" with Icona Pop's "I Love It"... and it works.

THE REPLACEMENTS: How their biggest failure predicted the future of indie rock.

R.E.M.'s Monster Is Still Trying to Reach You, If You'll Let It In.

ROCK STARS ARE NOT OUR FRIENDS: The wild story of CREEM magazine.

ROBERT FRIPP spars with David Bowie's estate.

SUGAR, SUGAR: How did a bubblegum pop tune by a fictional cartoon band become the top song of the year in 1969?

ABOMINABLE is this weekend's sole wide movie release, currently scoring 78 percent on the ol' Tomatometer.

THE IRISHMAN: Martin Scorsese's upcoming epic has a trailer online.

STAR WARS:  Marvel boss Kevin Feige is reportedly set to lend his talents to the franchise.

KEANU REEVES says he's "absolutely" excited about The Matrix 4 script.

JASON BATEMAN and RYAN REYNOLDS are in talks for a Clue movie.

JENNIFER LOPEZ & SHAKIRA will be performing during the Super Bowl halftime show.

JENNA FISCHER & ANGELA KINSEY are doing a podcast about The Office.

NALA, an autism service dog, got to meet her hero and they became the best of friends.

A ROUND OF APPLAUSE for this doggo?

A BOBCAT celebrates a birthday.

A WALRUS defending her cubs sank a Russian Navy boat in the Arctic Ocean.