THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with OTIS REDDING!  Otis and the Bar-Kays crank up the energy to 11 for a Ready Steady Go special, crashing through "Satisfaction,"  "My Girl" and "Respect," then "Shake" morphing into "Land of a Thousand Dances" performed by Otis, Eric Burdon and Chris Farlowe.  BONUS: from the same special, Eric Burdon covers "Hold On, I'm Coming," while Chris Farlowe covers "It's a Man's World."

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS play WFUV.

OF MONTREAL drops four new songs.

THE FOO FIGHTERS cover the Bee Gees' "You Should Be Dancing." Faithfully.

RICK ASTLEY, remastered in 4K and 60 frames per second.

THE BEACH BOYS sold a controlling interest in their intellectual property - including their master recordings, a portion of their publishing, the Beach Boys brand, and memorabilia - to Iconic Artists Group, a new company run by longtime music business power player Irving Azoff.

DAN AUERBACH made an album from Tony Joe White demos.

BOB MOULD talks Blue Hearts.

DOLLY PARTON asked Tennessee not to put her on a pedestal just yet.

MEGXIT: Nearly half of Britons think Prince Harry and Meghan Markle doing a tell-all interview with  Oprah Winfrey is ‘inappropriate’, a poll has found.

MORTAL KOMBAT has a red-band trailer online.

THE BATMAN hists another delay as Robert Pattinson reportedly tested positive for covid.

MARILYN MANSON is in the crosshairs of federal and local law enforcement after a bunch of women accused the rocker of abuse ... and cops are set to talk with one of his alleged victims.

DONALD GLOVER has exited his pact with Disney-owned FX for a multiple-year, eight-figure overall deal with Amazon.

SEX & THE CITY: The reboot won't have Mr. Big.

A PUP in a baby chair.

THOUSANDS OF COLD-STUNNED TORTOISES were rescued to a convention center in a South Texas resort town.

RAGING BEARS turn on their rescuers.

HUSKER DU covers The Beatles' "Ticket to Ride," circa 1985.

BOOTSY COLLINS visits with World Cafe.

BARTEES STRANGE visits with World Cafe.

CROWDED HOUSE shares "To The Island."

ARAB STRAB shares "Here Comes Comus!"

TOMBERLIN covers Talking Heads' "This Must Be the Place."

CRAIG FINN talks to Stereogum about Bruce Springsteen, the Replacements and more.

SOUNDGARDEN faces another lawsuit from Chris Cornell's widow.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at U2's pop breakthrough, the operatic grand-gesture power ballad "With Or Without You."

CRUELLA (a/k/a Joker For Kids) has a trailer online.

ALLEV v. FARROW has a trailer online.

MARILYN MANSON's ex-assistant claims he repeatedly subjected his now-wife, photographer Lindsay Usich, to physical and emotional abuse.

FKA TWIGS opens up her abusive relationship with Shia LaBeouf. 

DEMI LOVATO suffered three strokes and a heart attack in the aftermath of her 2018 overdose.

OLIVIA WILDE & HARRY STYLES are headed to England with her kids.

PADDINGTON 3 is in development.

PARIS HILTON is engaged.

RUSH LIMBAUGH, the right-wing radio megastar whose slashing, divisive style of mockery and grievance reshaped American conservatism, denigrating Democrats, environmentalists, “feminazis” (his term) and other liberals while presaging the rise of Donald J. Trump, died on Wednesday at his home in Palm Beach, Fla. He was 70.

A DOGGO helps make a snowman.

AN ARMY OF PARASITIC WASPS will be unleashed inside the English stately home where Anne Boleyn was born.

HE CRASHED his bike.

THIS DOGGO is well-trained.

JON PRATT: Pate's frontman plays "I Just Wanna Be Your's."

DR. JOHN'S New Orleans Swamp: 1974 Television Special with The Meters, 1974.

THE METERS: Live At The Bottom Line / Live At Showboat Lounge, 1977.

BOWERBIRDS return with "Moon Phase."

ALFIE TEMPLEMAN's "Everybody's Gonna Love Somebody" sounds very Tears For Fears.

MITCH EASTER talks to Vinyl Writer.

35 BEATLES COVERS by indie and alt artists.

COWPUNK, A Brief History.

MEGXIT: Royal author Robert Jobson said Meghan and Harry ‘seem hell bent on causing the Queen more discomfort and possible embarrassment’.

LARRY KING's widow has contested the late television icon's handwritten will, which excluded her from his multi-million dollar fortune.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 7 & 8 will no longer be filmed back-to-back.

GAME OF THRONES' Kit Harington and Rose Leslie have become first-time parents after welcoming a baby boy.

GILLIAN ANDERSON won back her boyfriend Peter Morgan.

ASHLEY JUDD expressed gratitude to the Congolese people who aided in her rescue from the rainforest, where she broke her leg in four places.

MARTIN SCORSESE inveighs against "content."

HOW TO SPOT when a Bull Elephant is charging.

AT LEAST THIS DOGGO is enjoying the snow.

A BEAR, pole dancing.

...and I'm spent!

REDD KROSS play "Annie's Gone" and cover The Carpenters' "Yesterday Once More" for Twofer Tuesday.

ALABASTER dePLUME plays a Lagniappe Session.

NATHANIEL RATELIFF plays SNL.

ANIKA PYLE streams Wild River.

NICK LOWE: How he made "Cruel to Be Kind."

CABARET VOLTAIRE: Richard discuss all things current, whether Brexit, COVID-19, or the new generation of fans who have come along in recent years.

THE BEST ALT-ROCK LOVE SONGS, according to SPIN.

LOUIS CLARK, who orchestrated such ELO favorites as "Mr. Blue Sky" and "Can't Get It Out of My Head," died Saturday at age 73.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Cutting Crew's synth-rock howl "(I Just) Died In Your Arms."

MEGXIT: Oprah Winfrey is sitting down with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.

LILY JAMES, spotted with a guy who's not Dominic West.

GWYNETH PALTROW is selling a vibrator.

THE BACHELOR host Chris Harrison said Saturday he is "stepping aside" from the show "for a period of time" after defending a frontrunner on the current season who came under scrutiny for social media photos from her past.

ELIJAH WOOD has a nit to pick with Amazon's Lord of the Rings.

STRANGER THINGS: Season 4 will be the darkest yet.

A GOOSE, A DOG and the Goats.

A DOOGO reunites with his human recovering from covid.

THE CIRCLE of Life.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Claud, the Obsessives, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Django Django, Virginia Wing, So Badly, and more.

WAXAHATCHEE & KEVIN MORBY play CBS This Morning.

ROBERT FRIPP & TOYAH WILCOX cover "Tainted Love."

DJANGO DJANGO drummer and bandleader Dave Maclean tells Brooklyn Vegan about some of the inspirations behind Glowing in the Dark.

SINGLES ONLY: 22 Great Songs By Artists Who Never Made An Album.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Aretha Franklin and George Michael's ebullient gospel-pop duet "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)," Franklin's first No. 1 hit in 20 years.

RUPERT NEVE, the audio equipment inventor whose mixing consoles and preamplifiers shaped the sound of recorded music in the 20th century, has died aged 94.

MEGXIT: After suffering a miscarriage in July 2020, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are expecting another baby. 

THE BEATLES: GET BACK. Peter Jackson has a sneak peek of his documentary.

JUSTICE LEAGUE: The Snyder Cut has a full trailer online.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE posted an apology to both Britney Spears and Janet Jackson.

PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE & DONALD GLOVER will star in a new Amazon Prime Video series based on the 2005 film Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

MARTIN SCORSESE's List of British Cinema You Need To See (Before You Die).

GEORGE WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY is observed today. Here's an inaccurate and profane tribute to the first US President.

PERFECT Jump.

A BABY ARMADILLO, with a toy.

A PARROT does impressions.