THE ST. PATRICK'S DAY WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with JOE STRUMMER and THE POGUES!  People will be getting their drink and dance on, so enjoy Joe, Shane and the band putting a Celtic spin on "London Calling" and "I Fought The Law" for St. Patrick's Day, 1988. Follow that up with the Dropkick Murphys' videos for "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" (which you may have heard in Martin Scorsese's The Departed) and "The Wild Rover."  Round it out with an Old Grey Whistle Test of my fave Pogues song, "Sally MacLennane," and a Shamrock Shake.

M WARD stopped by WFUV's Studio A for a chat and mini-set.

THE WILD FEATHERS stopped by WFUV's Studio A for a chat and mini-set.

SXSW: A Brooklyn Vegan playlist.

THE SUN DAYS drop “Get Him Off Your Mind” ahead of Album.

JOE COCKER is "Feelin' Alright," with a little help from his friend.

MARVIN GAYE's I Want You turns 40: Producer and co-writer Leon Ware talks about how one of the sexiest albums in music history came to be.

THE WRENS' Charlie Bissell has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, “a white blood cell cancer sorta thing.” According to Bissell, it’s treatable if not curable. Our best wishes to him.

MALCOLM McLAREN's son plans to burn his collection of punk memorabilia, estimated to be worth around £5m.

FRANK SINATRA JR., who followed in his famous father’s footsteps with his own music career, died Wednesday in Florida. He was 72.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are The Divergent Series: Allegiant, which is currently scoring 18 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and Miracles from Heaven, currently scoring 65 percent.

BEN-HUR has a trailer online. Oh dear.

DAISY RIDLEY very nicely truned down a dude's invite to his college formal.

HEATHERS looks to be headed to TV Land.

JARED FOGLE  got a surprise beatdown in federal prison from an inmate who has major issues with child molesters.

JAMIE DORNAN & AMELIA WARNER recently welcomed their second child.

SYLVIA ANDERSON,  the co-creator of Thunderbirds who was best known for voicing Lady Penelope in the classic TV show, has died aged 88.

TOP MOVIE STUNTS, compiled by the NYDN.

GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM: The US Army plans to stockpile equipment in Vietnam, Cambodia, and other Pacific countries yet unnamed that will allow US forces to deploy there more rapidly, because key supplies and gear will already be in place. The new caches will be well inside what China considers its sphere of influence.

THE ISLAMIC STATE has lost about 22 percent of its territory in Iraq and Syria in the past 15 months, according to a new study.

SYRIA: Russia's announced pull-out is more short-term political maneuvering by Putin, experts said, and it wouldn't take much to place Putin and the Russian military right back in the middle of the Syrian conflict.

LION ATTACK At The Circus.

DC BALD EAGLE CAM: Has the egg hatched yet? Take a look.

NYC RATS can be big, and because of some yucky research, we now know just how big.

RAMBO, a 125-lb gator, fights to stay in his Lakeland, Florida home.