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, which have perhaps just ended.

CONOR OBERST advance streams Ruminations.

PHISH advance streams Big Boat.

SHOVELS & ROPE advance streams Little Seeds.

ULTIMATE PAINTING streams Dusk.

DAVID BOWIE's unreleast LP, The Gouster, is streaming via Spotify.

THE PSYCHEDLIC FURS broke through with this video for "Love My Way" on the MTV.

NIRVANA: Generations of alt-rockers reflect on Nevermind for SPIN.

FEMINIST PUNK in 33 Songs.

TOM PETTY will receive the 2017 MusiCares Person of the Year award.

WARPAINT is profiled at Drowned In Sound.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, which is currently scoring 61 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Deepwater Horizon, which is currently scoring 77 percent; and Masterminds, which is scoring 40 percent.  Plus, Queen of Katwe expands wide scoring 92 percent.

BRANGELEXIT: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's lawyers are trying to hash out a custody agreement for the estranged couple and their six children. Meanwhile, Jolie retained the help of legendary crisis manager Judy Smith.  NBC has abruptly pulled the plug on a one-hour special on the breakup.

TAYLOR SWIFT & CALVIN HARRIS are no longer at war after one of Hollywood's nastiest breakups, and are firmly in the friend zone.

LIEV SCHRIEBER wished NAOMI WATTS a happy birthday via Instagram, just one day after they announced they’d called it quits.

JAY Z inked an exclusive film and TV first-look overall deal with The Weinstein Company.

DOCTOR STRANGE: IGN takes 15 lessons from the set of Marvel's mystic movie; numbers 10, 13 and 15 will be the most interesting to comics nerds, particularly in light of this.

FAN CONVENTIONS: A goldmine for movie and TV stars.

A DOLPHIN jumped a surfer off the coast of Australia.

YOUR DOG Is Too Smart to Follow Your Dumb Human Advice.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A pig with two legs.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: They have two heads now. Or do they?