THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with HUSKER DU! Live from London's Camden Palace in 1985 (via A Thousand Voices Talk). Pieces have turned up on the Tube, but this is the whole magilla, including: "New Day Rising"; "It's Not Funny Anymore"; "Everything Falls Apart"; "Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill"; "I Apologize"; "If I Told You"; "Folklore"; "Terms of Psychic Warfare"; "Powerline"; "Books About UFOs"; "Chartered Trips"; "Diane"; "Celebrated Summer"; "Every Everything"; "Makes No Sense at All"; "Pink Turns to Blue"; "Ticket to Ride"; "Reoccurring Dreams/Dreams Reoccurring"; "Eight Miles High"; and "Love Is All Around".

MATT & KIM stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

RELEASE THE SUNBIRD, a side project from Zach Rogue of Rogue Wave, also stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

CHARLES BRADLEY stopped by Oregon Public Broadcasting for a session.

TYPHOON -- all 13 of 'em -- swept into WFUV for a session.

THE WALKMEN perform a set live from the KEXP Studio.

THURSDAY did three free songs for Daytrotter.

JOHNNY CASH, Live at Rocky Gap, MD, circa 1990.

STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS shamble through R.E.M.'s "Radio Free Europe."  BONUS: PopMatters ranks R.E.M.'s 10 best albums.

FELICE BROS bassist Christmas Clapton talks to the Charleston City Paper about the band's evolving sound.

BLITZEN TRAPPER's Eric Eaton tours the band's new album with PopMatters.

RETROMANIA author Simon Reynolds talks to Straight -- and at great length to the Daily Swarm -- about the dangers of nostalgia and abundance.

BEN LEE talks to Magnet (where he's guest editing this week) about his new concept album.

NOEL GALLAGHER talks to The Quietus about the High-Flying Birds, fatherhood, and more...

THURSTON MOORE's favorite Punk songs.

20 OVERLOOKED ALBUMS from the Grunge Era, according to eMusic. (Thx, LHB.)

CUTOUT BIN: From Simple Minds to the Righteous Bros, from Tennis to KISS, from Cream to Emmy the Great, plus Squeeze, the Sweet, Johnny Thunders, Strangeloves, the Miracles, Dirty Looks and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are now streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include: the Footloose remake, which is currently scoring 73 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; the prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing, currently scoring 31 percent; and The Big Year, which is scoring 52 percent.

ASHTON KUTCHER is telling "friends and associates" he expects his wife, Demi Moore to file for divorce following his humiliating public tryst with 23-year-old Sara Leal. He's also worried about a drastic ratings drop of his hit CBS show, Two and a Half Men.

LINDSAY LOHAN has been kicked out of the program where she was supposed to complete her community service because she violated the rules numerous times. 

MICHAEL JACKSON: Dr. Conrad Murray's lawyer is abandoning the argument that the singer accidentally killed himself by orally self-administering Propofol.

WHITNEY HOUSTON almost got kicked off a Delta Airlines flight ... because she refused to buckle her seatbelt.

MIRANDA KERR has been chosen by Victoria's Secret to model their iconic 2.5 million Fantasy Treasure Bra.

HARRY POTTER and the LONDON RIOTS: The actor who played Crabbe the bully in 6 of the "Harry Potter" movies has been charged with possession of a homemade bomb ... which cops say he intended to detonate during the London riots. Stupify!

TERROR in the USA: Two Somali women from Minnesota, both US citizens, solicited money for Shabaab under the guise of charitable activity, according to wiretapped phone conversations presented at their trial on terror charges.

YEMEN: The Yemeni government has urged the UN Security Council to avoid a resolution targeting embattled Pres. Saleh, calling on it instead to back a political solution for the country's crisis.

EGYPT: Large caches of weapons from Libya are making their way across the Egyptian border and flooding black markets in Egypt's already unstable Sinai Peninsula.

IRAN: US officials provided additional details about the plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's US ambassador, and launched an international campaign to punish the Islamic theocracy. Saudi Arabia vowed that Iran would "pay the price" for the plot.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A snake with two heads.

KANGAROO tells off her kid.

THE NAKED MOLE RAT may hold the key to human longevity.

JUMPING THE SHARK? Try surfing the shark.