THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE BANGLES!  Live in Pittsburgh, circa 1986.  Your setlist includes: 1 Let It Go; 2 Restless; 3 Walking Down Your Street; 4 James; 5 Going Down to Liverpool; 6 He's Got a Secret; 7 September Gurls; 8 If She Knew What She Wants; 9 Return Post; 10 Live; 11 In a Different Light; 12 Want You; 13 Angels Don't Fall in Love; 14 Hero Takes a Fall; 15 Manic Monday; and 16 Walk Like an Egyptian.

FRANZ FERDINAND plays KUTX.

SLANG plays KEXP.

WILD PINK & JULIEN BAKER share "Hold My Hand."

MOMMA covers the Breeders' "Divine Hammer."

RHETT MILLER shares "Go Through You." 

WHITNEY shares "County Line" and "Memory."

THE SMITHEREENS are releasing a previously unreleased album from 1993.

PUNK LIT 101: Recommended Readings.

HOW BLONDIE shattered the conventions of punk and pop.

PINK FLOYD is hoping to sell its catalog for 473 million bucks.

BATGIRL: A select group of insiders is getting to see the canceled film during secret screenings on the Warner Bros. lot this week.

NICHELLE NICHOLS will have her ashes launched into space.

SYLVESTER STALLONE has spoken: his 25-year marriage is not ending because of a dog.

CONFESS, FLETCH has a trailer online.

THE BOYS is adding Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Season 4.

EVIL DEAD RISE is getting a theatrical release in 2023.

THE OSCARS are ready for a post-Slap future.

TRIUMPH: An alien military satire that's also based on a true story from 1990s Bulgarian history.

JOE E. TATA, the actor best known for playing Nat on Beverly Hills, 90210, has died.  He was 85.

A CAT with floppy ears.

A DOG, cleaning up after itself.

THE SQUIRREL knew what it was doing.