THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with GARAGE ROCK! It's the time of year when I bring out The Standells - "Dirty Water/ Why Pick On Me", but I couldn't stop there. Let's have a baker's dozen of Nuggets, like Music Machine - "Talk Talk"; Blues Magoos - "We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet"; The Knickerbockers - "Lies"; The Outsiders - "Time Won't Let Me"; Count Five - "Psychotic Reaction"; The Seeds - "Pushin' Too Hard"; 13th Floor Elevators - "You're Gonna Miss Me"; Love - "My Little Red Book"; The Leaves - "Hey Joe"; Electric Prunes - "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night," the Crazy World of Arthur Brown - "Fire" and The Nazz- "Open My Eyes."

COLIN MELOY of the Decemberists, Live at Home.

VALERIE JUNE played a virtual session for The Current.

THE STROKES are streaming The New Abnormal.  

KENNY ROGERS got tributes from Dolly Parton, Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires, and Michael McDonald on CMT.

REMEMBER, NPR can hook you up with streaming concerts.

CHARLY BLISS' Eva Hendricks, paying tribute to the late Adam Schlesinger by posting her cover of the Fountains Of Wayne nugget "Hey Julie."

MARISA ANDERSON & TARA JANE O'NEIL cover Gene Clark and Cole Porter.

PHOEBE BRIDGERS shares "Kyoto."

JASON ISBELL wrote a tribute to John Prine.

THE 20 BEST STROKES SONGS, according to Paste.

RADIOHEAD'S Ed O'Brien: 'Humanity has only really learned from disaster.'

WALL OF VOODOO, reconsidered on Morning Edition.

BORIS JOHNSON has been moved out of intensive care but remains in hospital, Downing Street has said.

MORT DRUCKER, a longtime contributor to Mad magazine known for his caricatures of actors, politicians and other celebrities, died on Thursday at his home in Woodbury, N.Y. He was 91.

SNL returns with original content tomorrow night.

THE BATMAN director Matt Reeves discusses his vision.

THE BEST MOVIE SONGS of All Time?

BACK TO THE FUTURE TOO: Remade as 88 scenes shot in quarantine.

SOME SPORTS ARE SLOWER, more about the strategy.

CHEETAH CUB CAM, streaming live from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.

WELLINGTON THE PENGUIN visits the giant lake sturgeon at the Shedd.

GOOD BOYS gotta workout during the lockdown too.