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 DISMEMBERMENT PLAN gets over three hours of discussion and analysis on Political Beats with Peter Suderman.
DUCKS LTD plays KEXP.
THE CURE returns with "Alone."
JULIEN BAKER debuts "High In The Basement" in Chicago.
LANA DEL REY looks set to marry her boyfriend, Jeremy Dufrene.
HALSEY was hospitalized after a seizure.
BALLERINA: The John Wick spinoff has a trailer online.
ALAN TUDYK has a secret role in James Gunn's Superman.
ACTORS, DIRECTORS & SNL FOLK pick their favorite SNL sketches.
KATE WINSLET, on her kids' reactions to her films.
AMC's CEO, on refinancing and offering 140 flavors.
WHY TV EXECS are already freaking out over 2029.
WHICH DIRECTORS had the best four-film run?
CAPYBARAS Crossing.
AN ORANGUTAN, babysitting tiger cubs.
CATS & DOGS, living together…
FISHING FOR SALMON? Gonna need a bigger boat…