BEACH SLANG shares a video for "Atom Bomb."

LOCAL NATIVES stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

THE HEAD AND THE HEART performs onstage at World Cafe Live and discusses its surprising role in the Cameron Crowe-produced Showtime series Roadies.

WHITNEY perform in The Current studio.

NIRVANA: Their first TV performance of "Smells Like Teen Spirit," which just turned 25. Get off my lawn. It's really not their best work, but iconic to the young in the way Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)" was to a prior youth cohort.

BILLY CORGAN has said he wants to make a Smashing Pumpkins album in the vein of Gish and Siamese Dream and suggested it could be made with "people who used to be in the band".

TONI BASIL hasn't lost a step at age 72.

R.E.M.: New Adventures In Hi-Fi, 20 years later.

THE 50 BEST NEW WAVE ALBUMS, according to Paste.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Sully sticks the box office landing with 35.5MM, the best Tom Hanks opening since Angels & Demons, and director Clint Eastwood's second-biggest debut after American Sniper.  When The Bough Breaks places with 15MM against a 10MM budget, which means it likely profits, if a little behind projections, despite universally bad reviews.  Don't Breathe shows with 8.2MM; the 48 percent drop isn't bad after a 3-day weekend and the quality hoor flick has grossed 66.8MM domestic against a 9.9MM budget already.  Suicide Squad drops to the fourth slot with 5.6MM, and crosses 700MM worldwide.  The debut of The Wild Life rounded out the Top Five with 3.4MM, but that suggests a short shelf life.

ANNA CAMP & SKYLAR ASTIN of Pitch Perfect are married.

SHANNEN DOHERTY is almost done with chemo.

LACY CHABERT made her first child happen.

THE FLASH movie finds Barry Allen's father.

FRANCE: Two families on a cycle ride in Toulon came under violent attack after assailants hurled insults at two female partners for wearing shorts, according to prosecutors. The attack, carried out by a group of youths from a housing estate in the Mediterranean port town, has sparked claims that parts of France are prey to an Islamist “morality police”.

IRAN began building a second nuclear plant with Russian help on Saturday, in a 10 billion dollar project which follows Tehran's landmark nuclear deal with world powers last year, state media reported.

RUSSIA has staged one its largest ever military drills in the annexed Crimea peninsula, deploying missiles and rocket launchers in an explosive and spectacular display of might.

THE ISLAMIC STATE: The flow of foreign fighters to the ranks of the Islamic State has been cut to a trickle this year as the group’s territory has shrunk and its ambitions have withered.

THIS WHALE was camera-shy.

IN THE BONOBO WORLD, Female Camaraderie Prevails.

A CATFISH fell from the sky and struck a woman in the face.

A PUPPY and a CHEETAH CUB, raised together... mass hysteria!

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE B-52s!  The quirky combo from Athens, GA, has had a long and storied career, but we'll stick to the early stuff this weekend.  So, from the self-titled debut, classics "Planet Claire," "Rock Lobster,"  "Lava," and "Dance This Mess Around." And from the sophomore LP, Wild Planet, "Party Out of Bounds," "Give Me Back My Man", "Private Idaho" and "Dirty Back Road."  BONUS: "Song For A Future Generation," because it's the first song I heard them play live. DOUBLE BONUS: "Deadbeat Club," because get off my lawn.

DAWES advance streams We're All Gonna Die.

THE TYDE advance streams Darren 4.

AGAINST ME! advance streams Shape Shift With Me.

CYMBALS EAT GUITARS advance streams Pretty Years.

OF MONTREAL backed actor Paul Rudd and actor-director David Wain on Boston's classic "More Than A Feeling."

KIM GORDON talks about Sonic Youth's first acoustic set, Iggy Pop, PiL and a peptalk given to her by Neil Young's son.

OKKERVIL RIVER Had to Die in Order to Be Reborn. (Thx, Frank Yang)

THE 12 BEST ELLIOTT SMITH SONGS, according to Paste.

JERRY HELLER, a manager who rose and fell in rock before playing a key role in the gangsta rap movement, has died at 75.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include Sully, which is currently scoring 81 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; When the Bough Breaks, which has not been screened for critics, The Wild Life, scoring 24 percent; and The Disappointments Room, uncreened for critics.

NATALIE PORTMAN is expecting her second child with her husband, Benjamin Millepied.

IMAN talks about David Bowie during Fashion Week.

RYAN LOCHTE has been banned by the USOC for 10 months, through next June, and excluded from next July's world championships, after his gas-station incident and “over-exaggeration” in recounting the event at the Rio Olympics.

BATMAN will face comic book villain Deathstroke, played by True Blood star Joe Manganiello, in Ben Affleck's first solo movie playing the Dark Knight.

MEL GIBSON: Still crazy after all these years?

UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS has a trailer featuring Kate Beckinsale in a leather catsuit, per usual.

9/11: The first five minutes of CNN coverage. I came out of the shower, saw the second plane hit on NBC, and knew had had to contact my boss, whose daughter lived in NYC. There is still a lot of crazy stuff going on around the country and the world as a result, so consider taking a moment to watch and remember.

A RUSSIAN FIGHTER JET made an "unsafe close-range intercept" of a US aircraft over the Black Sea Wednesday, coming within 10 feet of the American plane.

 THE "GHOST" SNAKE is a new snake recently discovered in Madagascar.

A GIANT SNAKE was discovered on top of an Arkansas woman's truck after she returned to a parking lot.

A CAT uses a crosswalk.

AN OCTOPUS somehow slithered its way onto a New Orleans sidewalk.

LIFE INTERVENED. But I do note the following light entertainment:

MADONNA & GUY RITCHIE resolved the custody dispute over their teenage son, Rocco.

JEREMY RENNER settled his child support dispute.

HALLE BERRY & OLIVIER MARTINEZ may not get a divorce after all.

JOHNNY DEPP  is attached to play the Los Angeles police detective who investigated the murders of rappers Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, in Labyrinth.

JAMES FRANCO will play the pick-up artist known as Mystery in a movie adaptation of The Game.

BRAD PITT is profiled by the New York Times Magazine.

TWO PYTHONS were caught fighting while hanging from a roof in Queensland.

SEE YOU on Friday.

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS release "Jesus Alone."

PANSY DIVISION advance streams Quite Contrary.

ICE CHOIR advance streams the 80s-tinged Designs In Rhythm.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from R.E.M., Sharon Van Etten, Sylvan Esso and more highlight the latest episode.

DRUGDEALER and ARIEL PINK collaboarted on “Easy To Forget.”

SPLIT SINGLE shares  “Leave My Mind” ahead of Metal Frames.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN talks to Vanity Fair about “Born to Run” (the song), Born to Run (the book), depression, his next LP and more...

THE CURE: A Complete Guide, from ClashMusic.

GANG OF FOUR:Andy Gill talks to Brooklyn Vegan about a new live album, Frank Ocean sampling "Love Like Anthrax," Viet Cong's name change and more.

CAPITOL RECORDS' vinyl master Ron McMaster is busier than ever.

TAYLOR SWIFT & TOM HIDDLESTON have called it quits after three months of dating.

BILL COSBY plays the race card as his trial is set for June 2017.

AMBER HEARD dropped her defamation lawsuit against comic -- and Johnny Depp defender -- Doug Stanhope.

MEL GIBSON: Not a fan of Batman v Superman.

CHEVY CHASE checks back into rehab.

BRIE LARSON apologized on Friday after posting a 2004 photo of herself petting the belly of a dolphin to Instagram.

FOX NEWS paid Gretchen Carlson 20MM to settle the suit claiming she was harrassed by fmr FNC honcho Roger Ailes.

SYRIA: US forces hit Islamic State targets near Turkey's border with Syria using a newly deployed mobile rocket system, a senior diplomat said on Saturday.

A GATOR swims in front of a car in Bradenton, FL.

MAN vs BEAR, Karate-style, as one does.

A GERMAN VILLAGE is enjoying its peace after an unruly guest took off: Ronny the stork, who spent the summer pecking at windows and cars as he attacked his own reflection.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A 'mutant' pig born in China.appears to have a human face and a 'penis' on its forehead.

EARTH WIND & FIRE: The fish, the barrel, the smoking gun.

CASE/LANG/VEIRS plays a full set at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! festival.

AMOS LEE has a chat and mini-set at World Cafe.

PEARL CHARLES covers The Sir Douglas Quintet and The Carpenters for Aquarium Drunkard.

OPETH shares the jangly-yet-proggy “Will O The Wisp.”

NOEL GALLAGHER & PAUL WELLER cover The Jam's "Pretty Green" and "Town Called Malice" in time for Twofer Tuesday.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle talks to Christianity Today about Amy Grant, Rich Mullins, and the Book of Jonah.

JENNY HVAL talks to SPIN about the meaning of defeat.

RYAN ADAMS tals to Entertainment Weekly about how Bruce Hornsby, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, and AC/DC inspired his upcoming LP.

'WE BUILT THIS CITY": An oral history of the notorious hit.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Don't Breathe tops the holiday weekend chart with 19.6MM, the best performance for a Labor Day champ since 2010. It has grossed 55MM to date against a 9.9MM budget.  Suicide Squad places with 12.8MM, riding the late-summer doldrums to break the 300MM mark domestically; its 675MM worldwide likely makes it profitable in teaters, if a bit of a disappointment for WB/DC.  Pete's Dragon shows with 8.6MMand hasrecouped its 65MM production budget domestically...but weak overseas performance puts this one in danger of exiting in the red.  Kubo and the Two Strings takes the fourth slot with a similar 8.6MM, which is fairly leggy, but its weak opening keeps it in danger unless it does better in larger overseas markets to come. Sausage Party rounds out the Top Five with 6.5MM and an impressive 89.6MM domestic total against a 19MM budget.  The weekend's wide releases, The Light Between Oceans and Morgan, open in eighth and eighteenth, respectively.

DANIEL CRAIG: Returning as James Bond for 150MM?

JON POLITO, a character actor who often played law enforcement figures and gangsters and had memorable turns in many films by Joel and Ethan Coen, died from complications of multiple myeloma on Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 65.

MASCOTS: The latest from Chhristoper Guest & Co. has a trailer online.

STAR TREK celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and the L.A. Times is on it.

THE PRISONER celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and the BBC is on it.

OLIVER TWIST as a “sexy, contemporary” tale? Ohhhhh Kaaaayy...

VENEZUELAN President Nicolás Maduro was chased at a routine political event by a crowd of angry protesters banging on pots and yelling that they were hungry, just days after thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets to call for his ouster, local news media reported on Saturday.

CHINA is jerking Pres Obama around, protocol-wise, on his trip to Beijing.

A BROAD, COVERT RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE EFFORT in the United States to sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election and in U.S. political institutions is under investigation.

BRUNO walks four miles into town daily, just to say hello.

AN ANACONDA was discovered in Maine.

GEESE: The worst animal on the planet?

TRANTULA MATING SEASON is upon us, Southwesterners.