THE LONG WEEKEND STARTS HERE (and probably ends Tuesday):

...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.

WILLIE NELSON: The latter part of this legendary career gets over three hours of discussion and analysis on Political Beats. 

WET LEG plays KEXP.

BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN shares “Someone To Weep For Me.”

THE 150 BEST ALBUMS of the 1990s, according to Pitchfork.

THE B-52s debut album, reconsidered.

ED SHEERHAN will have to face a jury trial over whether or not he stole bits of “Thinking Out Loud” from Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.”

THE SMITHS: Mike Joyce discussed recording Strangeways Here We Come album with the BBC.

TREVOR NOAH is leaving the Daily Show and dating Dua Lipa.

QUEEN ELIZABETH's cause of death has been revealed.

MEGXIT: Harry and Megan are desperate to edit the Netflix show and memoir following the Queen's death.

ARMOR WARS: Marvel's Don Cheadle vehicle is shifting from a TV series to a movie.

BRUCE WILLIS returns to the screen via a deepfake.

STARS AT NOON has a steamy trailer online.

BONES AND ALL has a trailer online.

RETURN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: The reboots get another sequel.

AROOS: Join In.

THAT is not a cat.

THIS might be my week.

A CAT... and a rooster?

THE PSYCHEDLIC FURS broke through with this video for "Love My Way" on the MTV.  And before they did, I saw them play a junior college with Richard Butler wearing a tux that it looked like he hadn't removed for the entire tour.

BEABADOOBIE visits World Cafe.

TAYLOR HAWKINS got another tribute concert, and there's plenty of videos.

LUCY DACUS covers Carole King’s classics “Home Again” and “It’s Too Late.”

ARCHERS OF LOAF return after 24 years with "Aimee."

NATION OF LANGUAGE shares "From the Hill."

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN sounds like he's relaesing an album of Soul covers.

DAVID BOWIE: A new box set will incude a previously unreleased version of “Kooks,” which was recorded by Bowie and guitarist Mick Ronson for BBC Radio in September 1971.

ROXY MUSIC's Phil Manzanera has spoken to NME about the band’s ongoing reunion tour, as well as the chances of new music and the rumours of them appearing at Glastonbury next year.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Destiny's Child's "Bootylicious" and Alicia Keys' "Fallin."

COOLIO, whose 90s  music was a staple on radio, a favorite on MTV, and included the hit “Gangsta’s Paradise,” has died at the age of 59.  BONUS: How Stevie Wonder, Michelle Pfeiffer and "Weird Al" Yankovic played a role in his ubiquitous mega-hit.

KATIE COURIC has breast cancer.

HUGH JACKMAN is coming out of retirement as Wolverine in the upcoming Deadpool 3.

BLADE: The Marvel reboot loses its director.

STAR TREK: The fourth of the reboot movies has been removed from Paramount's release schedule. The news comes a month after director Matt Shakman exited the project.

MEGXIT: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been “demoted” on the Royal family’s website to bottom billing alongside the Duke of York.

TOM BRADY & GISELE are living separately in Miami.

ELIZABETH BANKS regrets the marketing of the Charlie’s Angels reboot.

AND JUST LIKE THAT, John Corbett's returning to the Sex and the City universe. 

SO, a Horse Walks Into a Bar...

CATS & DOGS, living together.

THE NEW CASHIER has catlike reflexes.

A BULLDOG onboard a plane wandered over and had diarrhea all over a Florida man.

DUMPTRUCK: "Back Where I Belong."

JEFF TWEEDY joins NORAH JONES for a podcast including “Jesus, Etc.,” “Save It For Me,” “Sunken Treasure,” “Muzzle Of Bees,” and the Tweedy co-written Jones song “I’m Alive.”

TEGAN & SARA share “I Can’t Grow Up.”

FANKIE COSMOS shares "F.O.O.F."

MARTHA shares "Hope Gets Harder."

THE 250 BEST SONGS of the 1990s, according to Pitchfork. Why are they doing this again?

LEONARD COHEN: A posthumous short story.

PETER HOOK, on his legacy.

PODOLA: Podcast companies are buying millions of listens through auto-playing episodes populated in free mobile games.

HOW ELIZABETH OLSEN Struck Marvel Magic. Will Wanda Return?

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER is going to be long.

TOM HANKS thinks he's made four "pretty good" movies, but he didn't name them.

TOM CRUISE started to pull away from Scientology while filming the intense Stanley Kubrick film “Eyes Wide Shut” with then-wife Nicole Kidman in 1997, according to the new book “A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology.” But you know how the story ended.

ARMIE HAMMER's ex allegedly leaked damaging stories about him to the press months before their divorce.

SHAKIRA faces a trial on charges of tax fraud.

ANTHONY BOURDAIN's Last, Painful Days.

A DOGGO knows the shell game.

A CASSOWARY, checking out a phone.

MAISY waits every day for her 90-year old friend.

THE MOODY BLUES "Ride My Seesaw" for Twofer "Tuesday Afternoon."

ROLLING BLCAKOUTS COASTAL FEVER plays KEXP.

THE WAR ON DRUGS shares "Oceans Of Darkness" and "Slow Ghost" in time for Twofer Tuesday.

BILL CALLAHAN shares "Natural Information."

WE ARE SCIENTISTS shares "Operator Error."

BECK covers Neil Young's "Old Man."

THE GO! TEAM returns with "Divebomb."

MARGO PRICE on her memoir: ‘My editor said whiskey is basically a character.'

KATE BUSH: The Dreaming Turns 40.

ELTON JOHN was awarded the National Humanities Medal by US president Joe Biden.

THE 100 GREATEST TV SHOWS, according to Rolling Stone.  It is a hot, hot mess.

KEVIN FEIGE on why Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa was not recast in Wakanda Forever.

ALAN RICKMAN's Showbiz Diaries.

BRAD PITT and... Emily Ratajkowski?

MILA KUNIS revealed how she and husband Ashton Kutcher were able to handle his health scare.

KNOCK AT THE CABIN from M. Night Shyamalan, has a trailer online.

THE LAST OF US has a teaser trailer online.

JON HAMM gave back 60 percent of his salary to help finance three extra days of filming on"Confess, Fletch."

JUST JAECKIN, a fashion photographer turned film director whose first movie, “Emmanuelle,” became a box-office sensation when it was released in 1974 after being blocked by French censors because of its soft-core depiction of a young woman’s erotic adventures, died on Sept. 6 in Saint-Malo, France. He was 82.

A CAT Ambush.

DOWNWARD DOG and Zzzz...

THE DOG advises the Cat.

THE TEMPTATIONS: "Psychedelic Shack." That's where it's at.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Beth Orton, Alex G, Future Teens, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Tim Burgess, Casual Dots, a Neu! tribute, and more.

COURTNEY BARNETT covers Sleater-Kinney's "Words and Guitar."

STEVIE NICKS covers Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth."

DAVID BOWIE: 30 Great Indie Covers.

BECK: Sea Change Turns 20.

PETER GABRIEL: Up Turns 20.

ROGER WATERS: Not popular in Poland right now.

MOGWAI: A quarter-century of feuds, regrets, and (eventual) success with Stuart Braithwaite.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Usher's sensitive-player anthem "U Remind Me."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  The controversial Don’t Worry Darling tops the chart with 19.2MM, a little more than the studio expected, but with signs of weakness over the weekend.  The Woman King places with 11.1MM on a 41 percent dro, while the Avatar re-relaese shows with 10MM, both of which similarly over performed estimates by a little.

DON'T WORRY DARLING: Forty members of the crew and production team are speaking out following accusations of on-set tension tied to the recently released film.

RIVERDALE actor Ryan Grantham has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to murder.

RHIANNA is playing the Super Bowl.(Taylor Swift turned it down for now.)

ALEC & HILARIA BALDWIN welcomed their seventh child together. 

JAMES EARL JONES signed over the rights to Darth Vader's voice to Lucasfilm, which will recereate the voice with AI. Reached for comment, Ben Kenobi quipped, "He's more machine than man now..."

PIERCE BROSNAN: Not a big fan of  No Time To Die.

CONFESS, FLETCH's Strange Fate and the Dire State of Big Screen Comedies.

LOUISE FLETCHER, the sweet actress from Alabama who won an Academy Award for her turn as the heartless Nurse Ratched — one of the most reviled characters in movie history — in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, has died. She was 88.

ALWAYS keep your beaver satisfied.

A CAPYBARA loves some scritches.

A DOGGO loves the slide.

CATS & DOGS, living with a deer...