THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE GODFATHER OF SOUL, MR. JAMES BROWN!  With a hat tip to Friend of Pate Steve Craven, here's the hardest working man in show business barreling through "I Got The Feeling","Cold Sweat," "Say it Loud I'm Black and I'm Proud," "Give It Up Or Turn It A Loose," "Please,Please,Please" and "There Was A Time" in just about ten minutes flat circa 1969.

TITUS ANDRONICUS does a live session at the KEXP studios.

FUTURE OF THE LEFT run through a quick live set of post-hardcore/synth-punk at KEXP.

LORD HURON stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

MENAHAN STREET BAND also stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic to share some funky soul.

TEMPLE OF THE DOG: "Hunger Strike." Brrr.

WILCO frontman Jeff Tweedy discusses critics and aging with Spinner.

JASON ISBELL quits drinking, finds a girl, and learns to write about himself.

MOUNTAIN GOATS bassist Peter Hughes talks to Urban Tulsa Weekly about joining the band and its evolution. (Thx, LHB.)

THE TOP 15 HAIR METAL ALBUMS of 1984, according to Play It Loud.

CUTOUT BIN: From Mickey & Sylvia to Led Zeppelin, from Al Green to ZZ Top, from the Ramones to the Rolling Stones, plus Warren Zevon, Eric Burdon, Madness, Meat Puppets and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include: Killing Them Softly, which is currently scoring 81 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and The Collection, scoring 52 percent.

LINDSAY LOHAN was arrested after allegedly punching a woman in the face at a NYC nightclub. Li-Lo was reportedly drinking and doing coke at the time. Meanwhile, the Santa Monica City Attorney charged Lindsay with 3 crimes in connection with her car accident last June on Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica.

HALLE BERRY & GABRIEL AUBRY have reached a truce in their war over that Thanksgiving Day blowout between Gabriel and Olivier Martinez.

STEVEN TYLER responds to Nicky Minaj's accusaion of racism over a joke he made about Bob Dylan.

GUY RITCHIE and his fiancee Jacqui Ainsley welcomed their second child together, a daughter.

THE KARDASHIANS: Kris Humphries wants Kim to return his engagement ring.

THE WORLD'S HIGHEST-PAID MUSICIANS, according to Forbes.

DIRECTORS' ROUNDTABLE: Gus Van Sant, Ben Affleck, Ang LeeTom Hooper, David O. Russell and Quentin Tarantino have a spirited discussion at THR.

THE UNITED STATES: A judge set a sentencing date of Jan. 17, 2013 for David Coleman Headley, a US national who conducted surveillance for the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks.

IRAN is increasingly worried about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad regime's fate and is distraught that the regime is not taking recommendations from the Islamic republic to keep its power, an Iranian report obtained by a Western diplomatic source said.

EGYPT: Islamist president Mohammed Morsi is not backing down in the showdown over decrees granting him near-absolute powers.

A BABY HIPPO has his first meal.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT is on the menu in Romney, W VA.

THE LITTLE LION went to school one day, school one day...

BIGFOOT is real, says a new genetics study out of the US. And not only that, but the creature known as the Sasquatch is the result of human women mating with an "unknown hominin" species about 15000 years ago. Oh sure.