THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE...

... with THE MINUTEMEN! San Pedro, California's greatest musical export took apart rock, jazz and funk and put the pieces back together in a jagged collage. They are caught here in an acoustic session for a cable-access show from Hollywood, circa 1985. Your setlist includes "The Meter Man," "Corona," "Themselves," "The Red And The Black" (Blue Öyster Cult), "Badges, "I Felt Like Gringo," "Time" (Richard Hell), "Green River" (Creedence Clearwater Revival), "Lost" (Meat Puppets), "Ack Ack Ack," "Ain't Talkin' Bout Love" "History Lesson Part II," "Tour Spiel" and "Little Man With A Gun In His Hand.

JONATHAN WILSON advance streams Rare Birds.

SOCCER MOMMY advance streams Clean.

CAMP COPE advance streams How To Socialise & Make Friends.

HALEY HEYNDERICKX advance streams I Need To Start A Garden.

THE BREEDERS share "Nervous Mary."

CAR SEAT HEADREST covers Smash Mouth's "Fallen Horses."

TWIN SHADOW shares "Saturdays" (ft HAIM) and "Little Woman."

WRECKLESS ERIC: The "Whole Wide World," of course. With Ian Dury on the throne.

BOB DYLAN shares how he was inspired by Rev. Billy Graham.

JANELLE MONAE talks to The Guardian about her music, politics and undefinable sexuality.

FRANZ FERDINAND Meets Drowned In Sound.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at at Elvis Presley's post-Army return single "Stuck On You."

NOW SHOWING:  This weekend's wide releases are Game Night, which is currently scoring 85 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Annihilation, currently scoring 89 percent; and Every Day, scoring 58 percent.

JOSS WHEDON is off the Batgirl movie, supposedly because he couldn't come up with a story, and it's a tribute to his clout that neither Variety nor THR gets around to mentioning this story.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN apologized for citing Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lawrence in an attempt to get a sexual misconduct class action suit dismissed earlier this week.

SCOTLAND YARD  is investigating after a letter containing white powder purporting to be anthrax was sent to Meghan Markle at Kensington Palace.

RACHEL McADAMS is pregnant, multiple sources tell E! News.

QUINCY JONES apologizes for recent interviews he characterizes as "word-vomit."

KYLIE JENNER tanked Snap's stock value by 1.3 Billion in a single tweet.

BRENDAN FRASER talks to GQ about his comeback, disappearance, and the experience that nearly ended his career.

QUILLIAM is a library's pygmy hedgehog.

A DOG finds a new favorite toy.

SKUNK REMOVAL goes wrong.

THE FEELIES are "Slipping Into Something" that sounds inspired by Lou Reed.

GLEN HANSARD stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

S. CAREY stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

TYPHOON stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic.

WYE OAK shares “It Was Not Natural.”

ST VINCENT covers Pearl Jam's "Tremor Christ."

THE EELS share a video for "Today Is The Day."

ROBERT PLANT talks to The Current about his latest record, his admiration of Low and even a few thoughts on Led Zeppelin's 50th anniversary.

THE NATIONAL: Matt and Tom Berninger are developing a half-hour sitcom.

SOFT CELL will play one last show.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Percy Faith's deeply chintzy, insanely popular instrumental "Theme From A Summer Place."

JURASSIC PARK 3 already has a release date.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE defends wearing a revealing Vercace dress, because 2018.

OSCAR ISSAC Talks Annihilation, Star Wars, and the Most Turbulent Year of His Life.

JENNIFER ANISTON & JUSTIN THEROUX had issues for a year before their split. Did anyone think otherwise?

JAMES BOND 25 to be directed by... Danny Boyle?

A LOYAL ROOSTER runs to meet his favorite girl at the bus stop.

YARD GOATS cancel monkey rodeo show after complaints made.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: They never stop, man.

DOG FLU spreads in Idaho.

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN:  "Just Like Honey".

HURRY streams Every Little Thought.

BIG DADDY KANE plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features Courtney Barnett, Exitmusic, Okkervil River and more.

MOUNT EERIE shares "Tintin In Tibet."

CAROLINE SAYS shares "I Tried."

SMASH MOUTH (!) covers Car Seat Headrest's “Something Soon.”

BETTE SMITH shres a video for "I Found Love."

AC/DC gets over two hours of fun and goofy discussion on Political Beats, with Roll Call's Eric Garcia.

WOLF ALICE: Ellie Rowsell talks to Firstpost about Visions of a Life, '80s synth-pop revival, and the Grammys.

THE NUMBER ONE ALT-HITS of 1998...hoo boy.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Mark Dinning's over-the-top melodrama "Teen Angel."

JESSICA CHASTAIN is in negotiations to star in the IT sequel.

PAUL RUDD & JUSTIN THEROUX talks about Atari 2600 games, Jon Hamm, Mute, and more.

JANUARY JONES is obsessed with The Bachelor, but is definitely not dating one of them.

NATALIE PORTMAN talks to BuzzFeed News about Annihilation, Hollywood's Time's Up revolution, learning from Reese Witherspoon, and her regret over signing the Roman Polanski petition.

LAUREN COHAN is eyeing her departure from The Walking Dead.

THE 25 TOP MOVIE SUPERVILLAINS, ranked by Vulture.

A RESCUE PIG adopts a duckling.

COLDILOCKS, the oldest known polar bear in the U.S., has passed away.

GREAT TITS can imagine snakes and take appropriate defensive action when hearing specific alarm chirps from their peers, according to a Kyoto University scientist.

A RACCON CAFE? I'm guessing those rodents are stressed.

VUNDABAR streams Smell Smoke.

IDLE BLOOM plays for World Cafe in Nashville.

TURNSTILE advance streams Time & Space.

WRECKLESS ERIC shares “Gateway to Europe.”

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE and MARK RONSON cover Elton "John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," and "Broken Box" for Twofer Tuesday.

EMMY THE GREAT speaks out about music industry men.

SUPERCHUNK: Laura Ballance talks to Aquarium Drunkard about the new album’s creation and discussed the importance of community.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Johnny Preston's problematic hit "Running Bear."

GIBSON GUITARS faces potential bankruptcy.

FERGIE apologized for her less than fergalicious version of the national anthem at the NBA all-star game.

JUSTIN THEROUX is still hanging out with Jennifer Aniston's friends, including Courteney Cox.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE, contra some reports, will not be taking a year off from acting to focus on activism.

THE BLACK PANTHER REVOLUTION: How Chadwick Boseman and Ryan Coogler created the most radical superhero movie of all time.

CHINA had a bigger box office weekend than any weekend in U.S. box office history.

A COW has been living alone on an island, attacking anyone who comes near, after staging a miraculous escape on its way to a slaughterhouse. 

REIGNING CATS AND DOGS: Andy Ferguson writes of cats as a dog person.

DOWNING STREET CATS Larry and Palmerston had another fight.

THE WORLD'S LARGEST SPECIEIES OF ORANGUTAN is rapidly disappearing due to hunting and deforestation in Borneo.

A SLOW-SPEED CAR CHASE... with a parakeet.

FIELD MUSIC shares a video for "Count It Up."

LANA DEL REY stps by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA stopped by World Cafe for a mini-set.

MARLON WILLIAMS plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

LOW covers Al Green's "Let's Stay Together."

FATHER JOHN MISTY unveils "Mr. Tillman" in Tokyo.

COURTNEY BARNETT shares "Nameless, Faceless."

WILLIAM SHATNER, BEN FOLDS & JOE JACKSON: Just some "Common People."

BELLE & SEBASTIAN: Stuart Murdoch talks to Vulture about How to Solve Our Human Problems.

LUCY DACUS: How an Indie-Rock Star Is Made in 2018.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Marty Robbins' gunslinging country classic "El Paso."

GET OFF MY LAWN: An Olympic gold medalist born in 2000 listens to 90s songs for the first time.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Black Panther crushes the chart with an estimated 192MM, and perhaps as high as 225MM thru President's Day. Having edged out the debut of the second Avengers, it's the fifth-biggest premiere in North America and it could become Marvel's second-biggest grosser by the time it's done.  Peter Rabbit places with a distant second of 17.3MM on a leggy 31 percent drop. Fifty Shades Freed shows with 17MM on a 56 percent drop, right in line with the prior installment of the franchise; it could still clear 100MM domestic.  Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle takes the fourth slot with 8MM on another leggy 20 percent drop.  The 15:17 to Paris rounds out the Top Five with 7.7MM on a 39 percent drop.

THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY has fired its president, whose continued presence at the movie company was a source of controversy.

JENNIFER ANISTON & JUSTIN THEROUX split over... New York?

READY PLAYER ONE has a new trailer online.

ADAM LEVINE & BEHATI PRINSLOO welcomed their second child.

ERIC DANE & REBECCA GAYHEART are divorcing after 14 years.

THE BAFTAS went to these folks. Cheerio.

EDGAR WRIGHT shares his film soundtrack favorites.

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

HOGZILLA invades Hong Kong.

A PUMA rescued from a Russian contact zoo now lives as a house cat.

SAVING THE ORANGUTANS of Sumatra.

IT'S PEAK CAMEL WRESTLING SEASON in Turkey.