THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with GRAM PARSONS! As a member of both The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, and as a solo artist, Parsons anticipated the so-called country rock of the 1970s and the alt-country movement that began around 1990. There is not a lot of GP video floating around, but "Christine's Tune" is a good place to start, though the video for "Older Guys" is great because someone made them go out to christen Judge Smails' sloop. The Hell's Angels make an unfortunate cameo in the clip of "Six Days o­n the Road" from the infamous Altamont festival in 1969. The posthumous video for "Sin City" is nice also. BONUS: Dwight Yoakum covers "Wheels" at a Parsons tribute concert. DOUBLE BONUS: Frequent duet partner Emmylou Harris covers "Return of the Grievous Angel" with Ryan Adams (and Buddy Miller o­n bass) at a different tribute.

M WARD plays KEXP.

THE NATIONAL shares "Space Invader" and "Alphabet City."

GREEN DAY shares 4-track demos from Dookie.

JONI MITCHELL shares a demo for "Help Me."

DAVID BYRNE regrets how he handled the breakup of Talking Heads.

OSEES' John Dwyer talks to Brooklyn Vegan about the band's new wave-y LP.

THE SONG OF THE SUMMER, according to Stereogum readers.

GARY YOUNG, Pavement’s original drummer, has died at 70.

BARBIE surpasses The Dark Knight as Warner Bros' biggest domestic grosser.

OPPENHEIMER becomes the biggest grosser to not top the domestic box office chart.

THE BLIND SIDE LAWSUIT: Author Michael Lewis says the money satyed in Hollywood via creative accounting.

SHE CAME TO ME has a trailer online.

BRITNEY SPEARS is going to face story after story during her divorce from Sam Ashgari, who is contesting their prenup.

THE BEST JAMES BOND MOVIE, according to a poll of UK fans.

DID YOU KNOW This Movie Even Exists?

DOG & CALF, reunited.

A DOGGO persuades a newly adopted Rottweiler to play with him.

THE DUCK makes a break for it.

THE TEMPTATIONS: "I Can't Get Next To You."

BETHANY COSENTINO visits World Cafe.

KEVIN DREW (BSS) shares "Out in the Fields" and "Party Oven."

CHERRY GLAZERR shares "Ready For You."

TALKING HEADS are reuniting... for a talk.

SLOWDIVE's Rachel Goswell talks to The Quietus about her favorite LPs.

RESEARCHERS have figured out how to reconstruct a recognizable version of Pink Floyd's 1979 hit "Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)" by placing electrodes on the skulls of neurosurgical patients and decoding their brain activity.

JERRY MOSS, the Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who co-founded A&M Records with Herb Alpert more than 60 years ago and helped build it into one of the most successful independent record labels in history, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 88.

SCOTT PILGRIM: The Netflix anime has a teaser online.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 7 & INDIANA JONES 5 both could lose nearly 100MM in their theatrical runs.

MAESTRO: People are upset that Bradley Cooper is wearing a fake nose to play Leonard Bernstein.  Bernstein's family is fine with it.

ALEC BALDWIN may yet face charges for the fatal shooting of a cinematographer.

LARS VON TRIER advertised that he’s looking for a “girlfriend and muse” in a new Instagram video.

BRITNEY SPEARS and her husband, Sam Asghari have separated after a nuclear argument that involves allegations of cheating.

STRAYS director Josh Greenbaum is as surprised as you that it exists.

HOW HOLLYWOOD'S STRIKES are affecting the music biz.

CAT vs CRANE: Who You Got?

THE DUCK and The Hound.

SYNCHRONIZED Cats.

JONATHAN RICHMAN gives a live take on "Roadrunner" at Joey Ramone's 1998 birthday party.

THE REVIVALISTS at World Cafe.

MODERN ENGLISH at KEXP.

MARGARET GLASPY shares "Get Back" (not that one).

FUTURE ISLANDS shares "Deep In The Night."

SUFJAN STEVENS shares "So You Are Tired."

FIDDLE HEAD shares "Fifteen to Infinity."

STEVE ALBINI: What led him to reassess his past?

SPARKLEHORSE: Mark Linkous, Remembered By The Artists Who Knew Him.

STEVIE NICKS says the story of Daisy Jones & the Six hit very close to home.

HOW MYSPACE Changed Music.

BLIND OTHER SIDED? Michael Oher, the ex-NFL star whose story inspired the Oscar-winning film “The Blind Side,” allegedly asked Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy for 15MM not to go public with claims they swindled him, according to the family’s attorney. 

BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE will be released "when it is ready."

BARBIE: Banned in Algeria.

ANGEL CLOUD did not leave a note.

KRISTEN BELL & DAX SHEPARD deny that they're swingers.

BROADCAST & CABLE TV made up less than half of all TV use in July.

MOVIE REVIEWERS ON TIKTOK: Don't Call Them Critics.

THE FLEMISH GIANT RABBIT is one big bunny.

SNAKE IN A TOILET, with video.

A TORTOISE, opening the new science lab at the University of Lincoln.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Video from Night 2 at Wrigley Field.

MILK CARTON KIDS visit World Cafe.

METRIC shared "Nothing Is Perfect."

LAND OF TALK shares "Your Beautiful Self."

YOUTH LAGOON covers Virginia Astley's "Over The Edge Of The World."

FOUR TET, on being the world's unlikeliest superstar DJ.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Pink's self-empowerment number "Raise Your Glass."

BLIND SIDED? Retired NFL star Michael Oher, whose supposed adoption out of grinding poverty by a wealthy, white family was immortalized in the 2009 movie "The Blind Side," petitioned a Tennessee court Monday with allegations that a central element of the story was a lie concocted by the family to enrich itself at his expense.

CLARENCE AVANT, whose unofficial title of the "Black Godfather" spanned the worlds of music, sports, entertainment and politics, died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles, according to a statement from his family. No cause of death was provided; he was 92.

MARGOT ROBBIE has hit the jackpot with Barbie money.

AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON, on Kraven The Hunter and more.

SOUND OF FREEDOM writer-director Alejandro Monteverde rebuts criticism that the film is a QAnon fever dream.

ZOOEY DESCHANEL and Jonathan Scott are engaged.

ASHLEY OLSEN and her husband welcomed their first son.

MICHAEL IMPERIOLI, on his band ZOPA's origin and new EP, talking music with James Gandolfini, that time his 'Sopranos' character tried to get into the music biz, his friendship with Thurston Moore, and much more.

HANS ZIMMMER is now a co-owner of Maida Vale Studios, the legendary recording space that the BBC has owned and operated since the 1930s.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

A DOGGO reunites with its owner after two years.

DOGGOS and a balloon.

SEALS & CROFT: "Summer Breeze."

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Neil Young, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Hurry, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has The Hives, Public Image Ltd., and more.

PKEW PKEW PKEW shares "The Dumbest Thing I Ever Done," with lyrical consultant Craig Finn.

THE 50 GREATEST NEIL YOUNG SONGS, according to Paste.

HURRY talks Beach Boys, Oasis, Weezer and more in their track-by-track LP breakdown.

DURAN DURAN's Andy Taylor talks about his cancer treatment.

JOHN LYDON said he believes it’s “wrong” to credit Patti Smith and, more broadly, New York with punk’s origins – saying the UK did it first. But Glam is not Punk.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Barbie continues to dominate with another 33.7MM on a 36 percent drop. Oppenheimer places with another 18.8MM on a 35 percent drop.  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem shows with 15.7MM on a 47 percent drop.  Below the fold, Last Voyage of the Demete ropens in the fifth slot with 6.5MM debut against a 45MM budget (ouch) while Talk To Me took in another 5.1MM on a very leggy-for-horror 23 percent drop.

BARBIE's billion-dollar gross may not be its most impressive number.

THE EQUALIZER 3 has a trailer online.

SUPERMODELS REDUX: Linda, Cindy, Christy and Nomi are back in Vogue.

RAMI MALEK & EMMA CORRIN, caught on camera.

TIMOTHY OLYPHANT on the role that got away.

TOM JONES (not that Tom Jones), who wrote the book and lyrics for a modest musical called “The Fantasticks” that opened in 1960 in Greenwich Village and ran for an astonishing 42 years, propelled in part by its wistful opening song, “Try to Remember,” died on Friday at his home in Sharon, Conn. He was 95.

A HORSE, having fun on the beach.

A DOGGO making the long catch.

PEACOCKS are breeding and running amok in Pinecrest, Fla. The village will test a novel solution to rein them in: vasectomies.

A 20-ARMED SEA MONSTER, lurking off Antarctica.