THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE REPLACEMENTS! The original quartet, opening for X in Mpls in October '83.  Your setlist includes: "I'm In Trouble," "Kids Don't Follow," a lounge version of "F*** School," "Color Me Impressed," and "Sixteen Blue."  BONUS: The A.V. Club's primer to Paul Westerberg and the Replacements.

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD plays KEXP.

DIIV, Live at the Murmrr Theater.

JOHNNY MARR joins ANDY ROURKE on "Strong Forever."  Been a mere 35 years.

CAITLYN ROSE, on leaving her dark days behind.

THE CURE, on becoming Funko Pop figures.

TICKETMASTER blames TAYLOR SWIFT for its crash.

THE 50 SEXIEST SONGS, according to Paste.

MUSIC FANS are listening to more music today than ever before, according to the findings of a new report.

QUENTIN TARANTINO announced that he will be making an eight-part TV series, with shooting set to commence in 2023.

MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY made a hype vdeo for the Texas Longhorns, if you dare.

MEGXIT: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's project will be released on Netflix in December.

CHRIS HEMSWORTH on movies, the future of Thor, his businesses, fatherhood, and how a genetic predisposition for Alzheimer's alters everything.

BRADLEY COOPER will play Bullitt for Steven Spielberg.

ANNA TAYLOR-JOY, on how Mike Love inspired her career.

JERRY SEINFELD, on the state of stand-up, and Chappelle.

THE ONLY WAY to get the nails done.

RATS can dance.

A DOGGO, graceful with the ball.

A CAT gets the door.

BILLY PAUL: "Me and Mrs. Jones." Got a thing going on.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features Yo La Tengo, Among Authors, and more.

TAKURU OKADA covers Don Cherry and Haruomi Hosono for a Lagniappe Session.

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM plays "New Body Rhumba" on Colbert.

TITUS ANDRONICUS reimagines Billy Joel's "Piano Man" as about the birth of Jesus. Oh yeah.

WEYES BLOOD shares "God Turn Me Into a Flower," ft. Oneohtrix Point Never.

JENNY HVAL shares "Buffy."

LOVE is disappearing from pop songs.

THE TOP 20 LPs of 2022, according to Rough Trade US and UK.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Ludacris's party stomp "Stand Up."

HOLLYWOOD HORROR BLOCKBUSTER: Jason Blum and James Wan are in advanced talks to merge their companies and create a massive horror film factory.

KEVIN SPACEY is facing seven new sexual assault charges in the U.K., British authorities said Wednesday.

BRENDAN FRASER: Call it a comeback?

BONES AND ALL: The making of a cannibal love story.

FANTASTIC BEASTS: Is the franchise dead?

BRAD PITT has a new gal pal.

QUENTIN TARANTINO called the current era of movies “the worst in Hollywood history.”

ROBERT CLARY, who went from Buchenwald to the cast of Hogan's Heroes, has died at 96.

HE's part of the pack now.

SQUIRREL! This is not a drill!

EVERYONE swim for your lives!

NOT TODAY, murder mittens...not today.

MARTI JONES & TIM LEE (The Windbreakers) cover The dB's classic, "Neverland." With Beatle Bob cameo.

FRIENDSHIP plays World Cafe.

MARCUS MUMFORD visits World Cafe.

THE BAD ENDS (ft Bill Berry) shares "Thanksgiving 1915."

ROBERTA FLACK, the highly decorated vocalist whose smash hits like “Killing Me Softly With His Song” made her among the most recognizable voices of the 1970s, has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and can no longer sing, according to a statement released by her publicist.

THE GRAMMYS nominations went to these folks. Congrats.

THE TOP 75 ALBUMS of 2022, according to MOJO.

OVERLOOKED WOMEN in AMERICANA in the Oughts.

DENISE RICHARDS was in a life-threatening situation when a road rage incident erupted in gunfire.

ZOE KRAVITZ, on Catwoman, ***** Island, Channing Tatum, and more.

JAMES GUNN and Peter Safran are coming close to completing a roadmap for the future of DC.

PRINCESS DIARIES 3 is in the works, but maybe without Anne Hathaway.

MAGIC MIKE'S LAST DANCE has a trailer online.

EMANCIPATION: Inside Will Smith's salve drama.

PAULINA PORIZKOVA, on how she found her estranged husband, Ric Ocasek, dead in his bed.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

CATS & DOGS, living together...

MINISTRY of Silly Walks.

THE MAMAS & PAPAS: All the leaves are brown, so it's "California Dreamin'" and "Nowhere Man" for Twofer Tuesday.

CATBITE plays World Cafe.

ANDY SCHAUF shares "Wasted On You."

DEATH VALLEY GIRLS share "What Are The Odds."

ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME ARTISTS, ranked by Vulture. 

BEAT HAPPENING: "It was about having this adventure with your friends."

DOLLY PARTON was awarded 100MM by Jeff Bezos.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Beyonce's horny Sean Paul collab "Baby Boy."

JAY LENO, recovering from a gasoline fire.

MARGOT ROBBIE, Nobody's Barbie.

PETE DAVIDSON and Emily Ratajkowski are dating, because of course.

DEMI MOORE and boyfriend Daniel Humm have split after less than one year together.

SYLVESTER STALLONE, on Arnold Schwarzenegger.

1923: The Yellowstone prequel has a trailer online.

JOHN ANSITON, Days of Our Lives star, father to Jennifer, has died at 89.

THE CAPE FOX and the striped polecat.

A PUPPER, enjoying a walk.

THE DEER HUNTER: Mao!

IKE & TINA TURNER: "River Deep, Mountain High," live and de-Spectorized.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Bruce Springsteen, Christine and the Queens, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has The John Hughes box, Love & Rockets, and more.

IGGY POP shares "Frenzy."

MARGOT PRICE shares "Lydia."

KEITH LEVENE, the innovative guitarist who was a founder member of both the Clash and Public Image Ltd, has died at the age of 65.  He had liver cancer.

THE TOP 75 ALBUMS of 2002, according to Uncut.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ALBUMS, ranked by Stephen Hyden.

THE NUMBER ONES, on the unholy Diddy/Michael Bay connection, the wave of fake Nellys, the Murphy Lee experiment, and "Shake Ya Tailfeather."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever dominates the chart with 180MM, a November record.  Black Adam places with 10MM on a 45 percent drop that seems not bad against the MCU.  Ticket to Paradise shows again with 6.3MM on a leggy 25 percent drop, a tribute to the 90s ways of rom-com.

KEVIN CONROY, the voice of Batman for three decades across almost three dozen television shows, movies and video games, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 66. He had intestinal cancer.

GALLAGHER, who became one of the most recognizable comedians of the 1980s for an outrageous act that always concluded with him smashing a watermelon with a sledgehammer, died on Friday at his home in Palm Springs, Calif. He was 76.

JOHN WICK 4 has a trailer online.

HOW KEANU REEVES made the Constantine sequel happen.

ALEC BALDWIN sued people involved in handling and supplying the loaded gun that he was using when it fired, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a 2021 filming accident in New Mexico.

TIFFANY TRUMP married Michael Boulos on Saturday in Palm Beach, Florida.

RAINN WILSON has changed his name to Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson to protest climate change. Yes, really.

A CAT, on a slide.

A COW, on a slide.

A MOTHER SLOTH reclaims her baby.

A MAMA ELEPHANT, warning her baby not to talk to strangers.