THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with JOE JACKSON! Live in Tokyo circa 1986, for the Big World tour. Your set list: One More Time, Wild West, Right & Wrong, You Can't Get What You Want (Til You Know What You Want), (It's a) Big World, Hometown, On Your Radio, Shanghai Sky, Fifty Dollar Love Affair, Cancer/Be My Number Two/Breaking Us in Two, Steppin' Out, Survival, Soul Kiss, It's Different for Girls, The Jet Set, Monday Papers, Tonight and Forever, Jumpin' Jive Medley: Jack You're Dead/What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again)/Jumpin' Jive, I'm the Man, and Man in the Street.

NATION OF LANGUAGE plays KEXP.

BARTEES STRANGE, Live at Rockwood Music Hall.

QUEEN shares a previously unheard song with Freddie Mercury called “Face It Alone.”

THE ARCS share "Keep on Dreamin'."

CRAIG FINN plays “The Amarillo Kid” for Seth Meyers.

WET LEG talks about their breakthrough year, their plans for LP2 (both joke and real versions), industry sexism, and more.

BOB DYLAN shares two excerpts from his upcoming book.

BILL CALLAHAN on keeping it down-to-Earth.

SHANE MacGOWAN used to "wave his willy" at passing trains while living in Bono‘s house.

AFGHAN WHIGS' Greg Dulli talks to American Songwriter about the new LP and the late Mark Lanegan.

KANYE WEST once praised “Hitler and the Nazis” during an interview with TMZ, an ex-staffer at the site has claimed.

GINUWINE is OK after passing out doing a water tank stunt with Criss Angel.

THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS nominations went to these folks. Congrats.

THE NAKED GUN rebooting with Liam Neeson?

ISSA RAE called out the WB for protecting Ezra Miller.

OLIVIA WILDE, on sex, motherhood, abortion, and life in the eye of the social media storm.

SYDNEY SWEENEY, profiled by Elle.

CUBA GOODING JR resolved his New York City forcible touching case with a guilty plea to a lesser charge and no jail time. 

BLACK ADAM: Early buzz is hot (tho not from big critics yet).

A MARMOSET, gently touching a giant katydid.

THE HEALING TOUCH of a kind hooman.

CATS & DOGS, working out together...

IT'S Spooky Season.