THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

....wtih THE PRETENDERS! Circa 1981, via one of Pate's two fab drummers, Jon Hahn.  Your setlist includes "The Wait," "The Adultress," "Message of Love/Louie Louie," "Talk of the Town," "English Roses," "Birds of Paradise," "Kid," "Stop Your Sobbing," "Private Life," "Day After Day," "Jealous Dogs, " Up the Neck," "Tattooed Love Boys," "Bad Boys Get Spanked," "Precious," and "Brass In Pocket/MysteryAchievement."

LEYLA McCALLA, formerly of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, advance streams The Capitalist Blues.

LULA WILES advance streams What Will We Do.

DAWN advance streams new breed.

SON VOLT shares "Devil May Care."

TORO Y MOI covers The Zombies' "Care of Cell 44."

TROGGS: "With a Girl Like You," live.

IN CONVERSATION: Kim Gordon and Steve Gunn.

RUSH frontman Geddy Lee breaks down the band's greatest songs: "Even I can barely make sense of our concept albums."

LORNA DOOM, the bassist with cult Los Angeles punk band Germs, has died.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Smokey Robinson & The Miracles' accidental smash "The Tears Of A Clown."

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are Glass, which is currently scoring 36 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and Dragon Ball Super: Broly, scoring 83 percent.

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 has a trailer online, complete with dogs.

GHOSTBUSTERS 3 has a teaser trailer online.

THE MAN WHO KILLED HITLER AND THEN THE BIGFOOT, starring Sam Elliot, has a trailer online.

GLASS Demystifies -- and Discounts '-- Our Superhero Movie Fascination.

LIAM NEESON is mourning the death of his nephew, five years after he suffered a serious injury in a fall from a telephone kiosk.

MARIAH CAREY's assistant has just fired back at the singer's blackmail allegation with her own lawsuit, claiming she was the victim of horrible abuse by one of Mariah's key people, and the singer did nothing about it.

PRINCE PHILIP, 97, escaped unhurt after flipping the Range Rover he was driving near his royal estate.

GWYNETH PALTROW talks about embracing the haters, getting happy and why she loves courting controversy.

PARAMOUNT Was Hollywood's ‘Mountain.' Now It's a Molehill.

THE WORLD'S BIGGEST GREAT WHITE SHARK (on record) was sighted off Hawaiian waters.

A SUPPORT PIGEON transformed an autistic woman's life.

KITTY vs DOG: No, not the one I posted yesterday.

PANDA CAMS, another victim of the US government shutdown. Oh, the humanity! Or... the panditry?