THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with HUSKER DU!  Live from London's Camden Palace in 1985. Your setlist includes: "New Day Rising"; "It's Not Funny Anymore"; "Everything Falls Apart"; "Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill"; "I Apologize"; "If I Told You"; "Folklore"; "Terms of Psychic Warfare"; "Powerline"; "Books About UFOs"; "Chartered Trips"; "Diane"; "Celebrated Summer"; "Every Everything"; "Makes No Sense at All"; "Pink Turns to Blue"; "Ticket to Ride"; "Reoccurring Dreams/Dreams Reoccurring"; "Eight Miles High"; and "Love Is All Around".

ST VINCENT visits World Cafe.

VILLAGERS play KEXP.

SOUL BLIND streams their Third Chain EP.

NOTHING covers the Delfonics' 1968 soul classic "La La Means I Love You."

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS share "Earthlings."

DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 covers Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'."

CHURCH GIRLS share "Basement."

BILLY IDOL talks about bits and pieces from across his career — from his early days following the Sex Pistols to sharing a stage with Miley Cyrus just a few months ago.

DENIS VILLENEUVE, on the MCU, and why big-budget movies are still relevant when they’re coming from master storytellers.

JEOPARDY will go with Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings for the rest of the year.

MARILYN MANSON's rape accuser just had her lawsuit against the shock rocker tossed out of court.

OSCAR ISSAC's Interesting Decade: Ten years of minor triumphs and a few big misses.

MARTIN SHORT's Life As a Sketch-Comedy God.

NICOLAS CAGE will not see Nicolas Cage play Nicolas Cage.

JANE POWELL, who made her screen debut with W.C. Fields, danced with Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding, was one of seven brides for seven brothers in the classic 1954 film musical, sang “Buttons and Bows” at President Harry S. Truman’s Inaugural Ball and was a bridesmaid at the first of Elizabeth Taylor’s weddings, died of natural causes Thursday at her home in Wilton, Connecticut. She was 92.

A DOGGO sneaks a dip.

EVENTUALLY, they all come to Mommy.

A TIBETIAN MASTIFF is big.