THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE CLASH! Although Saturday Night Live polices clips turning up o­n the Internet, we have its long defunct imitator, Fridays, to thank for these April 1980 high-octane performances of "London Calling" and "Train In Vain," followed by equally powerful takes o­n "The Guns of Brixton" and "The Clampdown."

THE POSIES perform live on KEXP's Morning Show. 

JAGWAR MA plays a mini-set at KEXP.

ROSANNE CASH played an intimate session at Apogee Stduios for Morning Becomes Eclectic.

THE JAYHAWKS: Poised for Stardom.

ARCADE FIRE is streaming the soundtrack to Her.

THE HOLD STEADY drops "I Hope This Whole Thing Didn't Frighten You" ahead of Teeth Dreams. Rawk On.

BUILT TO SPILL covers Bob Dylan's "Jokerman."

PATTERSON HOOD: The Drive-By Trucker discusses his Portland residency, balancing family with band life, "drinking for a living," Willy Vlautin, Jason Isbell and...Kendrick Lamar? (Thx, LHB.)

MY BLOODY VALENTINE have innovated a great deal in the world of drums, rhythm and percussion over their 30-year career, but this has been overlooked in the race to acclaim their guitar progressions.

LYDIA LOVELESS talks to SPIN about jumping from alt-country to fuzzy jangle-pop, firing her Dad from the band, and more...

JAMES GOVAN: The successor to Otis Redding who wasn't.

CUTOUT BIN: From Robyn Hitchcock to Belle & Sebastian, from Radiohead to Edgar Winter, from Scott McKenzie to The Jam, plus Jimi Hendrix, Stone Roses, the Beatles, Todd Rundgren and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's only new wide release is I, Frankenstein, which seems like the unholy Frankenspawn of Van Helsing and Underworld and unsurprisingly was not screened for critics. However, Oscar bait Nebraska (91 percent) and Dallas Buyers Club (93 percent) are expanding wide or near-wide.

JUSTIN BIEBER was arrested in Miami Beach early Thursday on charges of drunk driving and drag-racing. His people are urging him to seek help. Bieber reportedly ratted out his mother as one of his drug suppliers.

ANNE HATHAWAY thought people needed a break from her.

DEAN McDERMOTT: Tori Spelling's husband, who's been the subject of cheating rumors since the holidays, has entered rehab.

QUENTIN TARANTINO's quashed script for The Hateful Eight has found its way to the media.

THE KARDASHIANS: Are viewers finally tiring of them?

WONDER WOMAN: Gal Gadot inked a three-picture deal with Warners.

UKRAINE: Violent protests have spread beyond the capital, Kiev, as President Viktor Yanukovych held crisis talks with three key opposition leaders.

IRAQ: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed four civilians in a bombing in Babil, an Awakening leader near Kirkuk, two policemen and a civilian south of Mosul, a policeman in Hit, a soldier in Abu Ghraib, and a civilian in Badush.

SYRIA: Al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri issued an audio statement urging jihadist groups in Syria to avoid "partisan fanaticism" and focus on their common enemies, to submit themselves to a shared sharia court with enforcement powers, and to feel free to name a leader for themselves.

LIBYA: The Congress commissioned President Nuri Abu Sahmain to assume the role of Commander in Chief for a month to deal with instability in the country, including ongoing clashes in Sebha.

A RABBIT STAMPEDE: Let's go to the video.

THE O'HARE AIRPORT ALLIGATOR story results in criminal charges.

ABUSED DOG gets a prosthetic paw. Accent on the "aw."

A GHOST SHIP OF CANNIBAL RATS may be headed for Britain.

STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS perform "Lariat" on French television.

UNCLE TUPELO is streaming the deluxe edition of their classic No Depression LP.

VILLAGERS played a mini-set for Deezer Sessions. 

ERIC GAFFNEY, a co-founder of Sebadoh, has a trove of unreleased material on Bandcamp. 

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from Real Estate, Actress, Saintsenecs and more highlight the latest edition of the series.

THURSTON MOORE has a "Detonation" as a single.

OFF!: The punk supergroup drops "Void You Out" ahead of Wasted Years.

SUPERFOOD drops a "TV" ahead of heir upcoming MAM EP.

THE JAGS have your number written on the "Back of My Hand." From TOTP and the "Where Are They Now?" file.

BELLE & SEBASTIAN: Stuart Murdoch talks to Rolling Stone about his first foray into filmmaking, being inspired by John Hughes and Belle and Sebastian’s plans for their ninth album.

SHARON JONES talks to Rolling Stone about beating cancer and career advice from Riker's inmates.

LUCINDA WILLIAMS talks to Rolling Stone about her upcoming, Muscle Shoals-inspired album.

ROGER DALTREY is fronting a new album by Wilco Johnson (Dr Feelgood), who was  iagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January 2013.

JUSTIN BIEBER is trying to keep the police out of his cellphone.

JONAH HILL did The Wolf of Wall Street for 60 grand.

BILL COSBY is returning to an NBC sitcom near you. 

QUENTIN TARANTINO shelves The Hateful Eight after the script leaked.

SHIA LeBEOUF claims his recent bizarre behavior was "performance art." So now maybe Joaquin Phoenix also has a plagarism claim (Yes, I'm kidding).

VANESSA PARADIS isn't bitter about Johnny Depp's engagement to Amber Heard, in case you were wondering about the terms of their separation agreement.

THE CAPTAIN & TENILLE: Love isn't keeping them together anymore.

PIXAR is making a Star Wars film?

SYRIA: At the Geneva II talks on Syria, Secretary of State Kerry said "parallel efforts" will be made during the talks to find other ways to pressure the Assad regime. Kerry also revived the idea that Iran could be part of the negotiations.

IRAN: An apparent delay in Iran's building of a nuclear conversion plant suggests its stockpile of low-enriched uranium gas will grow for a while longer, despite Tehran's deal with world powers to curb its disputed atomic activity.  Iran's oil exports have picked up modestly in January for the third consecutive month, according to sources who track tanker movements, adding to signs that the easing of sanctions pressure on Tehran is helping its oil exports to recover.

IRAQ: Security forces killed an Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham leader east of Ramadi, 50 ISIS fighters in Anbar, 13 ISIS fighters west of Baghdad and two in Latafiyah, 10 south of Mosul, three near Samarra, and two more in Tikrit.

AFGHANISTAN: Fourteen Taliban fighters died in a premature detonation in Helmand. Oops.

DIDGA the CAT's Super Skateboarding Adventure.

THE SLOTH-MOTH PACT: It's everything you imagined.

ARE BRITISH BATS migrating to the Netherlands?

MYSTERY SEE-THROUGH SHRIMP(?) caught near New Zealand.

DALE EARNHARDT JR JR drops a video for "Run."

SNOWBIRD, featuring fmr Cocteau twin Simon Raymonde with cameos from members of Radiohead, is advance streaming Moon.

CONNECTIONS, Columbus lo-fi pop-rockers, are advance streaming Year One.

ELIZABETH & THE CATAPULT is advance streaming Like It Never Happened.

SHY BOY is advance streaming their self-titled debut.

SUSANNA HOFFS: "Feel Like Making Love" is back after a period of absence. You're welcome.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN talks about High Hopes and plugs a lot of other artistsin an interview for The Record.

PAVEMENT: An oral history of their fab LP, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain.

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR talks about their controversial reaction to winning the Polaris Prize.

GOOGLE's MUSIC TIMELINE still needs a little work.

KATY PERRY talks to GQ about aliens, her body, going geisha and more...

JUSTIN BIEBER blows 75K in a Miami strip joint.

KANYE WEST's 18-year-old battery victim wants a cash settlement.

LINDSAY LOHAN held a last-minute press conference at the Sundance Film Festival to announce her next film.

BARBARELLA may be headed to the small screen.

THE GRAMMYS add Lindsey Buckingham, Dave Grohl, NIN and QotSA to the lineup.

THE UNITED STATES: Top American and Russian officials discussed security cooperation during the Sochi Olympics. The Navy said air and naval assets, including two warships in the Black Sea, will be available during the Olympics in case they are needed for contingency operations resulting from a terrorist attack.

AFGHANISTAN: US military officials are urging the Obama administration to consider keeping 10,000 troops in Afghanistan after 2014 and drawing that number down to near zero by the end of Obama's term; they say fewer troops will be insufficient for security purposes and thus the only other option would be a full pullout at the end of this year.

SYRIA: Three Islamist fighting groups, including the large Islamic Front coalition as well as the Islamic Union of the Soldiers of al-Sham and the Army of the Mujahideen, issued a statement yesterday rejecting the Geneva II talks and vowing to fight on; they also thanked Turkey and Qatar for their support. In an effort to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the US, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar have reportedly been funneling cash and weapons to rebel groups, including the Syrian Revolutionary Front and the Army of Islam.

A FALCON stole a hidden camera, films penguin documentary.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Yesterday was Squirrel Appreciation Day? Have we learned nothing?

A PORCUPINE fell on a woman's head, sticking her with hundreds of quills. Don't cross the Pirhana Bros. Ever.

CATS can now buy hand-made leather and nickel silver battle armor.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & JESSE MALIN cover The Ramones' "Do You Remember Rock N' Roll Radio?"

HOSPITALITY is advance streaming Trouble. 

MORGAN DELT is advance streaming his remarkably trippy self-titled album.

JAKE BUGG plays a solo acoustic set at WNYC Soundcheck.

SONS OF FATHERS stopped by KUTX for a mini-set.

BECK drops a new song, "Blue Moon," ahead of Morning Phase.

THE SOFT MOON dropped "Feel" as a single. (Not the Big Star number.)

SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS played "Retreat!" and " You'll Be Lonely" for Conan and Twofer Tuesday.

THE ORWELLS: Mario Cuomo talks to ClashMusic about creating their own scene, touring and more.

CHERRY GLAZERR, a teenage band on the rise, is profiled at LA Weekly.

JOHNNY RIVERS: The 'Secret Agent' of rock 'n' roll.

RADIO's ANSWER TO SPOTIFY? Less variety.

JUSTIN BIEBER had drugs and drug paraphernalia strewn all over his house when it was raided Tuesday ... but drugs were not on deputies' radar. Also, the Biebs sexted pics to Selena Gomez after their breakup. Not a wise choice.

BEN AFFLECK's equipment was a subject on the podium of the Producers' Guild Awards.

LENA DUNHAM responds to the controversy over her retouched Vogue photoshoot.

KHLOE KARDASHIAN complains about the paparazzi on her reality show. M'kay.

J.J. ABRAMS says the script for Star Wars Episode VII is complete, and confirms that he’s talked with Breaking Bad actor Jesse Plemons about a role.

THE UNITED STATES: Despite concerns about terrorism at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, heightened by the release of a threatening video by Islamist militants, the US is sending a relatively small security contingent to the games.

LIBYA: Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is said to be regrouping and moving freely between bases in Libya and neighboring countries.

IRAN: A global interim agreement to halt Iran's nuclear program, which went into force Monday, will not stop Tehran trying to develop a military atomic capability, Israel's prime minister said.

SYRIA: The UN has withdrawn its invitation to Iran to join this week's peace conference on the Syria crisis. Syria’s main political opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, threatened, via Twitter, to withdraw from the talks, while France and Saudi Arabia said Iran was not welcome. Iran wanted to attend without accepting the idea of a Syrian transitional government.

CATS & DOGS teach their offspring to take the stairs.

A TURTLE TRAFFICKER was sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy.

BRITISH ZOO MONKEYS have been cut off bananas.

A MAN AND A BENGAL TIGER, best of friends... mass hysteria!

U2: "Pride" and "MLK." Crushingly obvious. Have a dream.

DUM DUM GIRLS are advance streaming Too True.

THE AUTUMN DEFENSE is advance streaming Fifth.

LAURA CANTRELL is advance streaming No Way There From Here.

QUILT is advance streaming Held In Splendor.

DION: A vintage performance of "Abraham, Martin & John."

SHARON JONES talks to NPR about putting aside music to battle cancer, and come back. 

SKATERS are profiled as part of DIY's Class of 2014. 

THE BBC will be plunged into a major crisis with the publication of a damning review, expected next month, that will reveal its staff turned a blind eye to the rape and sexual assault of up to 1000 girls and boys by Jimmy Savile in the corporation's changing rooms and studios.

THE 10 BEST SONGS FROM THE KILLERS, according to Stereogum.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Ride Along dominates the chart with a 41.2 million breakout performance from Kevin Hart (and Ice Cube and director Tim Story, who both have solid box office track records). Lone Survivor places with 23.2 million, on a not-bad 39 percent drop; at 74 million total so far, this one now tops director Peter Berg's domestic total for Battleship.  The Nut Job shows with 20.6 million, whichis an open on the path to profit against a 42 million budget. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit has a disappointing debut of 17.2 million; it may do alright once overseas grosses are included, but seems unlikely toreboot the franchise. Frozen rounds out the Top 5 with 12 million, despite The Nut Job opening.Below the fold, awards buzz has propelled American Hustle ahead of The Wolf of Wall Street for now.

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT probably deserved better than it got at the box office, as long as you're not a Tom Clancy purist and are willing to overlook some glaring plot holes of the sort typical to action pictures. Paramount seemed desperate enough to revive the Harrison Ford era for this franchise as to retain Steven Zaillian (who wrote Ford's dilaogue in Clear and Present danger after script doctoring Patriot Games) as screenwriter, which could not have been cheap.  Chris Pine stars as Jack Ryan, if Jack Ryan was a yong and vaguely smartass-y Chris Pine.  Keira Knightley, Kevin Kostner and Kenneth Branagh all turn in solid enough performances, as one might expect under Branagh's direction.  It was not the Bourne kncokoff I feared, and sufficiently suspenseful for a January release.

THE SAG AWARDS went to these folks. Relevant to the Oscars? Actors comprise 20 percent of the Oscars vote, and the SAG is usually a good indicator of the acting Oscars.

JOHNNY DEPP & AMBER HEARD engagement confirmed.

LAURA LINNEY and her husband welcomed a son.

GWEN STEFANI is having a third boy.

KANYE WEST: No witnesses have corroborated his claim that the 18-year-old he pummeled threaten to kill Kim Kardashian. Shocka.

MADONNA apologized for using the n-word on Instagram.

JUSTIN BIEBER is using drugs with alarming regularity, sources tell TMZ.

DENNIS RODMAN checked into an undisclosed alcohol rehabilitation center after bizarre behavior in North Korea.

DARREN SHARPER, a 5-time Pro Bowler and Super Bowl champ, has been arrested in L.A. on suspicion of rape.

BATMAN vs SUPERMAN has been pushed back 10 months, which could put it in direct competition with a Marvel film.

UKRAINE: What started out as largely another Sunday of peaceful protests in Kiev turned violent later in the day, as protesters clashed with riot police. An estimated 100K protesters swarmed the streets after sweeping new anti-potest laws were enacted by the parliament.

EGYPT: After crushing the Muslim Brotherhood at home, Egypt's military rulers plan to undermine the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which runs the neighboring Gaza Strip, senior Egyptian security officials told Reuters.

A BALD DOG DANCES: Let's go to the video.

A DOG was blamed by two allegedly intoxicated men for driving into a ditch near Tulsa, OK.

CATS tend to think of humans as big, lazy, overgrown fellow cats.

PRINCESS, New Jersey's pigskin-prognosticating camel, has died just weeks before the state is set to host its first Super Bowl.