THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with GRAM PARSONS! As a member of both The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, and as a solo artist, Parsons anticipated the so-called country rock of the 1970s and the alt-country movement that began around 1990. There is not a lot of GP video floating around, but "Christine's Tune" is a good place to start, though the video for "Older Guys" is great because someone made them go out to christen Judge Smails' sloop. The Hell's Angels make an unfortunate cameo in the clip of "Six Days o­n the Road" from the infamous Altamont festival in 1969. The posthumous video for "Sin City" is nice also. BONUS: Dwight Yoakum covers "Wheels" at a Parsons tribute concert. DOUBLE BONUS: Frequent duet partner Emmylou Harris covers "Return of the Grievous Angel" with Ryan Adams (and Buddy Miller o­n bass) at a different tribute.

WEYES BLOOD visits KEXP.

JOHN VANDERSLICE aso visits KEXP.

JOYERO advance streams Release The Dogs.

FIRST AID KIT pays tribute to David Berman.

ELBOW shares "Empires."

SNUFF shares "Hey Boff."

RED RIDER: Younger folks may remember Tom Cochrane for telling us life is a highway, but "Lunatic Fringe" found his prior band featured on the Vision Quest soundtrack, delivering the pseudo-Floyd-goods.

LANA DEL REY is your Billboard cover story.

BILL CALLAHAN: The Aquarium Drunkard interview.

SON VOLT: Jay Farrar talks to the Aspen Times. (Thx, LHB.)

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Ohio Players' immortally goofy funk jam "Love Rollercoaster."

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are Angel Has Fallen, which is currently scoring 46 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Ready Or Not, which is scoring 91 percent; and Overcomer, which was not screened for critics. The Peanut Butter Falcon expands near-wide scoring 94 percent.

THE SPIDER-MAN STANDOFF: Disney reportedly asked for less than originally reported (but probably still too much). But the pressure is still on Sony.

WHAT'S A GERARD BUTLER MOVIE? Every Movie Gerard Butler Is In.

DWAYNE "THE ROCK" JOHNSON tops the latest Forbes list of the world’s ten highest-paid actors.

TAYLOR SWIFT confirms plans to re-record her masters following the Scooter Braun deal.

GWYNETH PALTROW hired a personal book curator.

QUENTIN TARANTINO and his wife are expecting their first child.

GAME OF THRONES: Alfie Allen talks toxic fandom and more.

FRIENDS: The Untold Story.

CORGI PUP vs Tennis Ball. Who you got?

A LION CUB, rolling around the Denver Zoo.

MR.B is a CHONK? More like a bobcat.

SPIDERS become more aggressive after extreme weather.

THE TEMPTATIONS: "I Can't Get Next To You."

THE CACTUS BLOSSOMS visit KEXP.

THE BUDOS BAND also visits KEXP.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: New tracks from Big Thief, Brittany Howard, Shannon Lay, and more.

FITTED: Mike Watt joins members of Wire on "Training Pit Bulls For The Navy."

that dog. share their first single in 22 years, "If You Just Didn't Do It."

THOM YORKE & FLEA re-team on "Daily Battles."

STURGILL SIMPSON shares a video for "Sing Along," from his next LP and anime film. Really.

THE XX look back on Baria Qureshi leaving the band.

LOWER DENS: The Aquarium Drunkard interview.

NOTES ON POP: On Breakups.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Diana Ross' "Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)."

BOMBSHELL has a trailer online and man does Charlize Theron look like Megyn Kelly.

LIAM HEMSWORTH & MILEY CYRUS are putting out their competing narratives about their divorce.

LORI LAUGHLIN is now looking for a plea deal in the college admissions scandal.

PRINCE ANDREW flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet with a teen ‘sex slave.’

MARTIN FREEMAN on Finding Joy, His Love For Breakfast Burritos, And The MCU Timeline.

THE MANDALORIAN: Jon Favreau talks about exploring the freakier side of Star Wars.

KANYE WEST's Star Wars-looking housing project may have to be torn down after the rapper failed to secure the correct permits.

MARTIN SCORSESE finds himself in the crossfire of the so-called streaming wars.

PUPS enjoy a pupsicle.

ORANGE TABBY Stops, Drops and Rolls Whenever He Hears the Word 'Spaghetti'

IS IT A BIRD, or a muppet?

COYOTE PUP helped by a guy with thick chicago accent.

MIDLAND advance streams Let It Roll.

JOSH ROUSE plays the Mountain Stage.

LILLIE MAE visits the Paste studio.

TWIN PEAKS shares "Ferry Song."

KIM GORDON shares a video for "Sketch Artist."

THE HOLD STEADY: Craig Finn talks to the Chicago Sun-Times about the band's "supercharged" upcoming LP.

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART: Trout Mask Replica turns 50.

THE 30 BEST FILMS ABOUT MUSIC, selected by musicians.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Barry Manilow's cheeseball epic, "I Write The Songs."

SPIDER-MAN is out of the MCU!

THE MATRIX 4 is officially a Go, with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss reprising their roles as Neo and Trinity, and Lana Wachowski set to write and direct.

BOND 25 has a title.

STARDUST: The David Bowie pic releases a pic.

MILEY CYRUS was “basically having sex” with Carter, at Soho House in West Hollywood on Friday.

LARRY KING decided to end his marriage to his 7th wife after 22 years.

JEFFREY EPSTEIN and his web of associates repeatedly arranged for sexual trysts with at least two girls, including one he met when she 17, while on "work release" from jail.

MATTHEW MODINE's supporters "deplore the politics of personal destruction” waged against him in the SAG-AFTRA presidential contest.

THE WRITERS' GUILD dropped their lawsuit against the Big 4 talent agencies, and have answered and filed counter-claims in the federal antitrust case three agencies filed against the guild.

THE OSCAR for best death or dying by a duck goes to...

A FEISTY, FRUIT-LOVING KINKAJOU fought its way into a Florida home and bit a man's feet in July.

THE VIRGINIA ZOO shares pics of baby red pandas.

PLAGUE-INFECTED PRAIRIE DOGS shut down part of a Colorado wildlife refuge.

THE RASPBERRIES crush "Go All The Way" and "I Wanna Be With You" for Twofer Tuesday.

BABY ROSE advance streams To Myself.

SWERVEDRIVER visits KEXP.

HAYES CARLL visits KEXP.

SHEER MAG shares "The Killer."

SCREAMING FEMALES mad an infomercial for their upcoming singles /  rarities comp.

DAVID BERMAN's songwriting evolution is essayed at SPIN.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN's Western Stars movie has a trailer online.

RIDE takes DIY on a track-by-track tour of their new LP.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at C.W. McCall's random, fascinating trucker-country novelty "Convoy."

DWAYNE "THE ROCK" JOHNSON and longtime girlfriend Lauren Hashian tied the knot in Hawaii over the weekend.

KATIE HOLMES & JAMIE FOXX break up after six years together.

RAMI MALEK is profiled at GQ.

JEFFREY EPSTEIN was sent three 12-year-old French girls as a ‘birthday gift.’

BRADLEY COOPER did not have a romantic getaway with Lady Gaga.

JASOM MOMOA confirmed the "Snyder cut" of Justice League is "sick."

JOAQUIN PHOENIX on the inspiration behind his laugh for Joker.

THE HUNT's director hopes the controversial political thriller will eventually be seen by audiences, and argues that its message has been misrepresented in media reports.

RUSH HOUR: Oh no, the goats got out.

"MY BOSS was gone one day so I put his dog’s bed in my office so he wasn’t lonely and now every morning this happens."

 A CAT encounters durian for the first time.

SEALS & CROFT: "Summer Breeze."

AMANDA SHIRES visits The Current.

BEIRUT visits World Cafe.

OSO OSO streams basking in the glow.

LIAM GALLAGHER shares "One of Us."

DVAE GROHL & RICK ASTLEY, together again. At the Moth Club.

BAT FOR LASHES: Natasha Khan on her ambition to direct a horror film and the influence of California on her new record.

LED ZEPPELIN, backed by the Department of Justice.

PORTISHEAD's Geoff Barrow discusses how he learned to score films, and more.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Bay City Rollers' bubblegum glam-rock chant-along "Saturday Night."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Good Boys tops the chart with 21MM, far surpassing gurus' estimates of 12-15MM and (iirc) the best original comedy opening of the year.  Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw places 14.1MM on a 44 percent drop; it's still doing far better overseas, so it the next F & F does well, we'll probably get another one of these.  The Lion King shows with 11.9MM on a 41 percent drop as it creeps up on 500MM domestic.  The Angry Birds Movie 2 debuts in the fourth slot with 10.5MM and 16.2MM since its Tuesday opening; that larger figure is less than half of its predecessor, despite better reviews, so ouch.  Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark rounds out the Top Five with 10MM on a 52 percent drop. Below the fold were three major new releases: 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, Blinded by the Light, and Where'd You Go, Bernadette. None had a large budget, but still a bit ouchy.

PETER FONDA, the tall, lanky actor who became a star and a counterculture sex symbol in the film Easy Rider, carrying on the Hollywood dynasty begun by his father, Henry Fonda, died Friday in Los Angeles. He was 79. He was also the subject of a Beatles song.

RICHARD WILLIAMS, reknowned animator best known for his work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, died Friday at his home in Bristol, England.

HEATHER LOCKLEAR was sentenced to 30 days in a residential mental health facility in a case involving an assault on a cop.

MILEY CYRUS & LIAM HEMSWORTH: Is it truly over?

GEORGE R.R. MARTIIN says HBO's Game of Thrones completely changed his life, but not wholly for the better.

LEONARD BERNSTEIN met and fell in love with a young Japanese fan on tour and their romance lasted until his death.

HE-MAN: MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE is getting a sequel series from... Kevin Smith.

CLEAR THE SHELTERS happened last weekend; here's a doggo getting adopted.

TIK TOK: Mr. Sandman.

DOZENS OF VOMITING, DEFECATING BLACK VULTURES have overtaken a New York couple's luxury Florida vacation house, tearing up screens and attacking cars with their beaks.

AN ALLIGATOR climbs the fence at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville.

SERVICE DOGS in training took in a performance of Billy Elliot.