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.

THE RECORD COMPANY plays The Current.

BONNIE COSBY streams her debut EP, Virginiana.

THE ROLLING STONES share a cover of the Chi-Lites' "Troubles A' Comin'."

ELTON JOHN & STEVIE WONDER (and Kanye West's Sunday Service Choir) share "Finish Line."

ANGEL OLSEN performs "Lark" live in Chicago for Pitchfork Music Festival 2021.

STURGILL SIMPSON ruptured his vocal cords.

MICK JAGGER, Live at the Thirsty Beaver. And no one noticed.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON and the House of Mouse settled her lawsuit over the streaming release of Black Widow, and it sounds like she got a multi-picture deal.

NO TIME TO DIE: Early reviews.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, Daniel Craig discovers the meme.

VENOM: NO TIME TO DIE has split the critics.

TOM HARDY can stare through the screen and into your soul.

MALCOLM McDOWELL talks 50 years of A Clockwork Orange.

QUENTIN TARANTINO, on becoming a novelist and, you know, feet.

THE SOPRANOS: Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching It?

SHAKIRA and her son were accosted by two wild boars, which reportedly made off with her handbag.

DOGGO Dance-Off.

DOGS & CAT, living together...

A SQUIRREL hits the court.