THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE GO-GOs!  They made history as the first all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts. Kind of a hard band to place seasonally. Their debut, Beauty and the Beat, which yielded hits like "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got the Beat," as well as great album cuts like "This Town," "Lust to Love," "Tonite" and "How Much More," came out in late Summer 1981, iirc, and "Lips" was climbing the charts that Fall, so I mentally place the band in this time of year. And it's still warm enough that the title track to the too-quick sophomore album, "Vacation," -- or their cover of the Capitols' "Cool Jerk" -- doesn't sound too out of place. "Get Up and Go" was also a single from that LP, but it didn't make the Top 40.  The band would chart twice more -- in 1984, with "Head Over Heels" and "Turn to You" -- before splitting and the near-inevitable reunion tours.

JOSH RITTER advance streams Sermon on the Rocks.

DONOVAN: NPR advance streams Gazing With Tranquility, a tribute LP featuring  Sharon Van Etten, the Flaming Lips, Chris Mars, Hamilton Leithauser and more.

THE MANTLES davnace stream All Odds End.

SON LITTLE advance streams a self-titled LP. 

CHRIS WALLA advance streams Tape Loops.

THE MARCH VIOLETS stream Made Glorious. Released in 2014, but they're finally touring.

TOM PETTY reveals a 90s heroin addiction in a forthcoming biography written by Warren Zanes (of the Del Fuegos and the Rock Hall of Fame, iirc). Obligatory: I saw the Del Fuegos open for TP.

THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME nominees are announced. Rooting for Cheap Trick, the Cars,Los Lobos, the Smiths, and Steve Miller of course.

FATHER JOHN MISTY discusses the whole Taylor Swift-Ryan-Adams-Lou Reed controversy.

THE 100 BEST SONGS of the 1990s, according to NME.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are Pan, the prequel currently scoring 29 percent on the ol' Tomatometer, and The Walk, which expands wide scoring 87 percent.

TOM CRUISE is relocating to Florida: “He thinks all the people in Hollywood are fake.”

BILL COSBY lost his bid to stop another civil lawsuit against him from going forward, but his deposition in the case will be sealed at least until December.

MARVEL STUDIOS adds Ant-Man and the Wasp, and three mystery movies, to Phase 3 of its schedule.

KATE HUDSON & NICK JONAS were just a fling, allegedly.

ST VINCENT & CARA DELEVIGNE flaunted their matching diamond bands from the front row of Chanel's Parisian show.

RUSSIA's air campaign in Syria is not only supporting Assad, it's giving cover to fighters from the so-called Islamic State. Senior U.S. lawmakers have begun probing possible intelligence lapses over Moscow’s intervention in Syria, concerned that American spy agencies were slow to grasp the scope and intention of Russia’s dramatic military offensive there. A number of cruise missiles launched from a Russian ship and aimed at targets in Syria have crashed in Iran, two U.S. officials told CNN.

TWO WHALES, One Paddleboarder.

AN 8-FT KING COBRA missing for more than a month was found under a dryer in a garage not far from its reality TV star owner's home near Orlando.

A TARANTULA was spotted crossing the road in Ottawa, Canada.

OLIVER the PARROT enjoys his owner's hair dryer.