THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

….wtih THE PRETENDERS! Circa 1981, via one of Pate's two fab drummers, Jon Hahn. Your setlist includes "The Wait," "The Adultress," "Message of Love/Louie Louie," "Talk of the Town," "English Roses," "Birds of Paradise," "Kid," "Stop Your Sobbing," "Private Life," "Day After Day," "Jealous Dogs, " Up the Neck," "Tattooed Love Boys," "Bad Boys Get Spanked," "Precious," and "Brass In Pocket/MysteryAchievement."
WASHED OUT plays KEXP.
TINA TURNER: Hear the previously unreleased "Hot For You Baby."
MITSKI joins TAMINO for "Sanctuary."
AEROSMITH will reunite for a Grammys shindig.
MOGWAI's Stuart Braithwaite on The Bad Fire.
BARRY GOLDBERG, a blues-rock keyboard player whose work with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band led to playing with Bob Dylan in the 1960s, including the notorious 1965 Newport Folk Festival concert dramatized in “A Complete Unknown,” died Wednesday at 83.
…AND THE OSCAR NOMINATIONS went to these folks. Congrats! There were snubs and surprises.
ANORA: How Sean Baker landed four Oscar noms for one movie.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD is tracking for an 90MM+ opening.
ROBERT EGGERS will also be directing… a sequel to Labyrinth?
LEONARDO DiCAPRIO & MARTIN SCORSESE look to be reteaming for The Devil in the White City?
OCEANS 14: David Leitch is in taks to direct.
ROBERT PATTINSON: Still taking crap over Twilight.
WIILEM DAFOE, interviewed man-on-the street style by someone who didn't know him.
A GOLDEN Slumbers.
REEF SHARK vs FISH: Who You Got?
RESCUING a Horseshoe Crab.