THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with SQUEEZE!  Despite a new LP, some of you whippersnappers may never heard of Difford, Tilbrook & Co., who previously reeled of stellar string of pop gems, including "Take Me I'm Yours", "Cool for Cats", "Up the Junction", "Goodbye Girl,"  "Another Nail in My Heart", "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)", "If I Didn't Love You", and the one most people know -- even if they don't know it's Squeeze -- "Tempted", which features transient member Paul Carrack on vox and keys.  Fun fact: Carrack was also responsible for the classic, "How Long" as a member of Ace.

DAN BOECKNER visits World Cafe.

GRACE POTTER performs at the 30A Songwriters Festival.

DAVID GILMOUR shares "The Piper's Call."

GIANT DAY shares “Walk With A Shadow.”

BLUR: How Parklife skewered the Nineties.

MIKE PINDER, the keyboard player and founding member of The Moody Blues, has died aged 82.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN's 2020 rape conviction has been overturned by the New York Court of Appeals. The court has now ordered a new trial.

28 YEARS LATER: Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes have boarded the cast.

THE SIMPSONS: Producer Tim Long has apologized to fans after the show killed off an original character. 

EMILY BLUNT: Not a fan of the algorithm.

SOFIA BUSH comes out.

CIVIL WAR: How Alex Garland turned the nation's capital into a war zone.

PULP FICTION at 30: How Quentin Tarantino's Self-Mythologizing Began.

THE ONION was sold again.

CAT needs a hug.

TURTLE, helping out a bro.

WILD STALLIONS aren't having it.

THE ROLLING STONES made their second US TV appearance on The Mike Douglas Show, covering Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away."

SPOON played a Telefono-era reunion gig.

THE DECEMBERISTS share "All I Want Is You."

LES SAVVY FAV shares "World Got Great."

GIRL IN RED covers Talking Heads' "Girlfriend Is Better."

BAT FOR LASHES shares "Home."

ROBYN HITCHCOCK announced a memoir.

TAYLOR SWIFT, ranked by NME.

LARRY PAGE, who managed The Kinks, The Troggs, Sonny and Cher, Daniel Boone and many others, is dead at 86.

CHALLENGERS: Gen Z's Next Movie Obsession?

SYDNEY SWEENEY & GLEN POWELL played up the romance rumors to market "Anyone But You."

RYAN GOSLING Says ‘The Nice Guys' Didn't Get a Sequel Because ‘Angry Birds' "Destroyed Us."

OWEN WILSON is passing on an O.J. Simpson movie.

JIM HENSON, IDEA MAN has a trailer online.

GAME OF THRONES: Another spinoff fails.

13 GOING ON 30: A Cast Reunion Going On 20.

THE LINGUINI INCIDENT, a nearly-forgotten 1991 crime comedy starring David Bowie and Rosanna Arquette, is getting a second chance.

BAREFOOT FLORIDA MAN wrangles a gator in the street.

SNACK TIME on the Doggo Bus.

THE BANANAS Chose Violence.

THE MEMBERS: "Working Girl," from the "Where Are They Now?" file.

DEVOTCHKA plays KEXP.

ST. VINCENT shares “Big Time Nothing.”

CULTS shares "Crybaby."

JOHNNY CASH: hear the postumous “Well Alright.”

MOTOWN's Berry Gordy is caught up in an ugly legal battle pitting his son -- Rockwell --  against a former business advisor and romantic partner.

SCOTT WEILAND's son released a songwith vocals by the late Stone Temple Pilots frontman... due to blackmail.

MEGAN THEE STALLION's former cameraman is suing her for a hostile work environment, alleging that he was forced to watch Megan have sex with a woman while trapped in a moving vehicle.

JOHN LENNON's lost guitar from Help! has been found, and is headed for auction.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: Inside the messy, late-hour collapse of the director's mysterious final feature.

DUNE: PART TWO Director Denis Villeneuve Answers All Your Questions.

JERRY SEINFELD Says Movies Are Over. Here's Why He Made One Anyway.

CLUE may be headed to screens big and small.

JOHN CLEESE said he’s “surprisingly poor” despite being in show business for five-decades, blaming his 20MM divorce for him having to work into his eighties.

13 GOING ON 30: An oral history, going on 20.

TERRY CARTER, who portrayed Pvt. Sugie Sugarman on The Phil Silvers Show, the sidekick of Dennis Weaver’s character on McCloud and Colonel Tigh on the original version of Battlestar Galactica, has died. He was 95.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

A FROG, trying to swallow a baby snake.

THE DONKEY hopes you brought some for everyone.

WALL OF VOODOO, on the "Mexican Radio."

WAXAHATCHEE visits World Cafe.

THOM YORKE shares “Knife Edge” and “Prize Giving.”

THURSTON MOORE shares "Rewilding."

MORRISSEY claims he has bought back the rights to two of his albums, after a long-running dispute with his label Capitol Records.

CHAN ROMERO, who wrote and recorded the original version of "The Hippy Hippy Shake" in 1959, has passed at 82.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at "The Monster," the second giant hit from the unlikely team of Eminem and Rihanna.

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE has a trailer online.

ANNE HATHAWAY is looking back at “gross” requests she fielded for roles early in her career.

TOM HOLLAND discusses plans for future projects, including whether he will return for a fourth Spider-Man movie. 

REBEL WILSON  claimed a member of the Royal Family invited her to a drug-fuelled orgy at the home of a US tech billionaire. 

TOM CRUISE reportedly stole the show by breakdancing at Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday bash. No word on Les Grossman.

FURIOSA has a 15-minute action sequence that took 200 stunt people 78 days to shoot.

DAVID MAMET is against the initiatives in Hollywood to create diversity, equity, and inclusion.

SCREENWRITER BRIAN HEGELAND on writing the Denzel Washington classic Man On Fire, new details about his A Knight's Tale sequel, and the Game of Thrones spinoff he wrote that fans may never see.

THE DOGGO GOT SCARED; The Donkey laughed.

A DOGGO meets a new member of the family.

A SPIDER MONKEY reunites with the man who freed her.

THE CONNELLS: " '74-'45. " Read more about this Raleigh, North Carolina quintet at Trouser Press.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Cloud Nothings, Pearl Jam, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has A Certain Ratio, Gwenno, Suede's Brett Anderson, and more.

THE WOODENTOPS return after almost a decade with Fruits of the Deep.

LOU REED: Stream The Power Of The Heart tribute LP.

BLUR seems to have ended ts current reunion.

TAYLOR SWIFT's new LP broke Spotify's record, with 300MM streams in a day.

THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME inductees are announced.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Civil War repeats atop the chart with 11.1MM on a 56 percent drop. Abigail places with a 10.2MM debut. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire shows with 9.5MM on a 40 percent drop. Guy Ritchie's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare came in fourth wth a 9MM debut.

CIVIL WAR and the illusion of objectivity in journalism.

REBEL MOON: The early reviews for the sequel are... not great Bob!

CHRISTINA HENDRICKS married George Bainchini in a ceremony officiated by Garbage's Shirley Manson.

KEANU REEVES is in talks to star in two-time Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund’s highly anticipated next feature “The Entertainment System Is Down.”

VENOM: THE LAST DANCE is moving up its release date to avoid the US election vortex.

TOM CRUISE wanted to be in Watchmen.

A BORDER COLLIE guides ducklings to a puddle.

LIED ON HIS RESUME, got the job anyway.

DOGGO vs GATOR: Who You Got?