THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THIN LIZZY! Remember that chick who used to dance a lot? Here's Phil Lynott & Co. live at the Sydney Opera House in 1978, playing "Jailbreak," "Bad Reputation," "Cowboy Song," "The Boys Are Back In Town," "Waiting For An Alibi," and "Are You Ready?"

HALEY BONAR advance streams the Impossible Dream.

FOR EVEREST streams We Are At Home In The Body.

IZZY TRUE advance streams Nope.

THE RAVEONETTES share their monthly single, "Where Are You Wild Horses.”

WALTHAM: "Cheryl (Come and Take a Ride)" would've been a smash in the 80s.

PINK FLOYD is releasing a rarity-packed 27-disc set of their early years, 1965-1972.

SHARON JONES talks to Fresh Air about cancer, performing, and the Daptone method.

BRUCE SPRNGSTEEN's memoir, Born To Run, will come with an "audio companion."

THE NEW COSMIC AMERICANA: Beyond Gram Parsons?

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include Jason Bourne, which is currently scoring 55 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Bad Moms, which is scoring 60 percent; and Nerve, scoring xx percent.

MATT. DAMON. plans to take a yearlong hiatus from acting.

MARY J. BLIGE is filing for divorce to end her 12 year marriage.

BEN AFFLECK & JENNIFER GARNER: Still not reconciled.

THE ROCKETEER is being looked at as a sequel-reboot and will be headlined by a black female character.

SESAME STREET: Gordon, Luis and Bob got fired.

HACKSAW RIDGE drops a trailer that doesn't mention Mel Gibson by name. And it's probably not the movie you might expect.

THE ISLAMIC STATE: Eventual victory against the Islamic State could well lead to an uptick of terrorist attacks in the West, not a reduction in them, James B. Comey, the director of the F.B.I., said on Wednesday.

A PONY, A DONKEY.... and their goats.

AN ELEPHANT killed a 7-year-old girl with a stone in Morocco.

DOES A CAT really go missing for a year over his third testicle?

A 100-YEAR-OLD LOBSTER spared from the pot died on the way to an aquairum.

RYLEY WALKER shares a video for "The Roundabout."

BONNIE RAITT played this year's Non-COMMvention in Philadelphia.

FOOZLE advance streams Romantic Comedies.

JOAN SHELLEY played the Newport Folk Festival.

REGINA SPEKTOR shares "Bleeding Heart" ahead of Remember Us to Life.

FICKLE FRIENDS shares a groovy, '80s-inflected single "Cry Baby."

FATBOY SLIM: When your "Weapon of Choice" is Walken.

SHARON JONES talks to Oliver Wang about chemo, performing and what it's like letting a film crew capture your most vulnerable moments.

MUDHONEY's singer/guitarist Mark Arm and fellow guitar player Steve Turner talk to Drowned In Sound about their current tour, rate their catalog, and more.

THE TOP 100 ALBUMS  of 2016 (So Far), according to The Quietus.

EDDIE MONEY does not have two tickets to Paradise for his fomer drummer and his former fiancee.

KIRSTEN STEWART talks to Elle about her past relationship withRobert Pattinson and her new one with Alicia Cargile.

JARED LETO: Suicide Squad's Joker is profiled by Rolling Stone.

HEIDI MONTAG talks about her infamous plastic surgeries at People.

ELLEN POMPEO denies she had an eating disorder and explains why she never left Grey's Anatomy.

CHRIS KLEIN and his wife Laina Rose Thyfault welcomed a son, Frederick Easton Klein, on Saturday.

GILMORE GIRLS dropped a trailer for their new Netflix episodes.

A SPIDER gets milked for silk.

A DULUTH BEAR turned to a local kiddie pool for relief from the summer heat.

A 12-FT SHARK sent Aussie surfers paddling for dear life.

WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? Finally, the story can be told.

RYAN ADAMS plays a a very country-folk version of his “Oh My Sweet Carolina" on Colbert.

NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS played the Newport Folk Festival.

ELIZABETH COOK stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

ESME PATTERSON stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

DINOSAUR JR dropped "Goin Down" on Spotify.

THE MONKEES: The TV version of "You Just May Be the One," which differs from the LP version and has more cowbell.

LED ZEPPELIN: The estate of musician Randy California, of L.A. rock band Spirit, intends to appeal the jury verdict last month that found that Led Zeppelin did not lift music that formed the basis for the group’s hit “Stairway to Heaven” from an earlier Spirit instrumental, “Taurus,” court documents show. Appealing a jury verdict is usually very tough.

ERIC BACHMANN talks to Aquarium Drunkard about his new album, the potential end of the Crooked Fingers name, how one promotes a tour like this, and how giving a 46 year-old-man some dignity is a good thing.

FATHER JOHN MISTY: Not a fan of Chipotle.

SANDY PEARLMAN, one of rock and roll's most revered producers, has died. He's worked with everyone from Black Sabbath to the Dictators to the Clash, but he's best known for his association with Blue Oyster Cult. He was 72. It is athough millions of cowbells cried out, and were suddenly silenced.

AMBER HEARD claims JOHNNY DEPP and his team are attempting to "thwart" their divorce proceedings, and that he is "smearing [Heard] at every turn."

LINDSAY LOHAN: Pregnant? Moving out on fiancé Egor Tarabasov? Both? Neither?

ARIANA GRANDE has broken up with her boyfriend, backup dancer Ricky Alvarez.

JEREMY RENNER's  ex-wife Sonni Pacheco says it's an impossible mission to get the actor to pay child support. He claims this is "erroneous."

MARIAH CAREY only enters a restaurant to her own songs, according to Page Six.

MISS CLEO, iconic TV psychic, is dead after battling cancer.

FRANCE: An 84-year-old priest was killed and four other people taken hostage by two armed men who stormed his church in a suburb of Rouen in northern France. The two attackers, who said they were from the so-called Islamic State.

SOMALIA: At least 13 people have been killed in two car bomb attacks near an entrance to the airport in Mogadishu.

BULLS 2, MATADORS 0.

THE WORLD'S SADDEST POLAR BEAR, displayed in a Chinese mall.

A BLACK BEAR walked 400 miles across Missouri, causing UPI to drop a Proclaimers reference.

DON'T PAT THE DOG. No, really.

OKKERVIL RIVER shares a video for "The Industry."

RYAN ADAMS played the Newport Folk Festival, including Appalachian-tinged renditions of Adams' songs — plus a couple metal covers.

ADAM REMNANT advance streams his debut solo EP, When I Was A Boy.

IJI advance streams Bubble.

THE CHESTERFIELD KINGS cover the Moving Sidewalks' "99th Floor" (introed by Martha Quinn) and psych up even more on "Sunrise (Turn On)" for Twofer Tuesday.

UNCLE TUPELO: Pitchfork claims the band foretold our current politics.  On Twitter, Jeff Tweedy disagrees.

DOUG GILLARD rejoins Guided by Voices and starts another new bad with Robert Pollard.

KLAUS VOORMAN tells the story behind the psychedelic cover of the Beatles' Revolver LP.

PUNK IN PLASTICENE: 40 years of music history – in pictures and poetry.

LINDSAY LOHAN: Cops were called in as the actress suffered a meltdown on the balcony of her Knightsbridge apartment with boyfriend Egor Tarabasov.

JENNIFER ANISTON held back tears while talking to young fans about self-doubt and bullying.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE got slapped by a golf tournament spectator.

SHERLOCK drops a First Look at Season Four.

THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE shares its Comic-Con trailer.

MARNI NIXON, the American cinema’s most unsung singer, died on Sunday in Manhattan. She was 86.

IRAQ: A family including a two-year-old girl have been burned alive after they tried to escape from from ISIS savages in Rashad village, southwest of Kirkuk in the north of the country.

SYRIA: Government air raids struck at least five medical facilities in the northern province of Aleppo, where violence has intensified in recent weeks amid a siege by government forces, Syrian opposition activists said Sunday.

MAN vs RACCOON: Who you got?

A COLORADO BEAR imitates Winne-the-Pooh.

A SALTWATER CROCODILE turns up in an Aussie bathroom.

RATS have been targeted for total extinction in New Zealand.

JON PRATT: Pate's frontman drops "Emily's Song for Aging Punk Rockers," which you can read about at his website.

VIOLENT FEMMES played the hits at the Newport Folk Festival.

ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES played the Newport Folk Festival.

ROBERT ELLIS stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

HAIRCUT 100: "Love Plus One."

CASE/LANG/VEIRS are profiled by the Boston Globe.

TANYA DONNELLY talks to PopMatters about her solo work and the Belly reunion.

PAUL McCARTNEY gets a revised bigraphy from Philip Norman.

ORANGE JUICE/EDWARD COLLINS: Ten of His Best.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Star Trek Beyond tops the chart with 59.6MM against a 185MM production budget, which means it will have to do big biz in overseas markets. The rebooted franchise has been improving overseas, so it could happen, but it easily fall short (as Into Darkness did, albeit on a larger budget).The prior two installments in this reboot opened to 75.2MM and 70.2MM, respectively (seems bad, but many sequels have dropped off worse this year). Paramount is comparing this to the last Mission Impossible, but that franchise has had a much bigger foreign multiplier than Trek. The Secret Life of Pets places with 29.3MM and a 260.7MM domestic total against a 75MM production budget.  The Ghostbusters reboot shows with 21.6MM and 86.9MM total against a 144MM budget; again, overseasmarkets will be needed to put this in profit, and China may not show it. Merch sales will help some.  Lights Out debuted in the fourth slot with 21.6MM against a mere 4.9MM budget, due to a surprising number of females (54 percent). The debut of Ice Age: Collision Course rounds out the Top Five with 21MM against a 105MM budget, which smells like a flop here, but may be saved abroad, if history is a guide.

JUSTICE LEAGUE reelased first-look footage at Comic-Con. May make Ezra Miller (Barry Allen) a star.

WONDER WOMAN shares a Comic-Con trailer.

DOCTOR STRANGE: The Sorcerer Supreme drops a second trailer.

KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD, directed by Guy Ritchie, drops a trailer for Comic-Con.

KONG: SKULL ISLAND shares a trailer. Star Tomm Hiddleston is profiled by People.

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM: The Harry Potter spinoff has a Comic-Con trailer.

SUICIDE SQUAD gets a soundtrack trailer for Comic-Con.

LIZZY CAPLAN and her boyfriend Tom Riley are engaged.

FRANCE: Terrorist truck driver Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel had been planning the Nice attack for months apparently and had at least five accomplices. The suspected accomplices were four men and one woman and are in custody in Nice.

GERMANY: The gunman who killed nine people in a rampage in Munich on Friday was obsessed with mass shootings and appeared to have planned the attack for a year. Police said Saturday that the attacker was a mentally troubled individual who had extensively researched rampage killings, and had no apparent links to terror groups and no political motive.

AFGHANISTAN: At least 80 people have been killed in two suicide bombings at a march in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials say.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A militant rodent steals from a one-legged seagull.

SEAGULLS get drunk on Flying Ant Day.

200-lb tranked in Cutler Bay, FL.

WHO YOU GONNA CALL? Mysterious green slime bubbles up from sewers in Utah town.