THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with CHEAP TRICK, live at ChicagoFest '81! Can you honestly tell me you forgot? Forgot the magnetism of Robin Zander, or the charisma of Rick Nielsen? Your set list includes: "Stop This Game," Hello There," "I Want You to Want Me," "On Top of the World," "Reach Out," "Baby Loves to Rock," "Gonna Raise Hell," "Dream Police," "Ain't That a Shame," "Surrender," "Just Got Back," "Day Tripper" and "Goodnight." You can access the individual songs from the link, or let the whole thing roll.

PHOEBE BRIDGERS and NATHANIEL RATELIEFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS both played sets for Red Rocks Unpaused.

ANDY SHAUF plays KEXP.

THE KINKS, Live on Beat Club, 1972.

GOAT RODEO plays a Tiny Desk Concert from Home.

HOT CHIP covers the Velvet Underground’s “Candy Says.”

THE DECEMBERISTS' Colin Meloy shares “Slint, Spiderland.”

THE EELS share "Who You Say You Are."

ANGEL OLSEN Knows What Song Should Be Played At Her Funeral.

ST VINCENT: Annie Clark talks about her new Words + Music audiobook.

IAN MITCHELL, who played bass with Scottish glam/glitter hitmakers Bay City Rollers, has died at age 62.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at John Waite's heart-wrecked power ballad "Missing You."

FIRST CLASS: "Beach Baby" may fall into that category of summer song Oliver Wang once described "tinged with fragility and marked by melancholy."  It's even more true of the long version, with those French Horns and choral vocals in the c-section.

THE ROCK has the virus.

STAR WARS: John Boyega thinks his character was marginalized based on race.

MEGXIT: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have founded a yet-to-be-named production company and signed a multiyear deal with Netflix, which will pay them to make documentaries, docu-series, feature films, scripted shows and children's programming.

MULAN won't cost extra for Disney+ subscribers who wait until December.

ADELE was accused of cultural appropriation.

TIGER KING's Carole Baskin joins Dancing With the Stars.

CAROL BURNETT has been granted temporary guardianship of her grandson.

ANTHONY RAMOS, interviewed by BRADLEY COOPER.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 7 has hired two ships from Norwegian cruise line Hurtigruten to house crew in one place, with the intention of shielding them from any possible COVID-19 infection.

HAUNTED MANSION is getting a reboot.

GET OFF MY PLANE: The movies of the presidencies of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton were defined by a tug-of-war between hailing the commander in chief's authority and downright questioning it.

CAT vs PIGEON: Who You Got?

RELATABLE GATOR, or Most Relatable Gator?

THE COAST GUARD had to fire on a shark approaching their crew.

CATTLE RUSTLERS arrested for stealing police cow.