THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with GARAGE ROCK! It's the time of year when I bring out The Standells - "Dirty Water/ Why Pick On Me", but I couldn't stop there. Let's have a baker's dozen of Nuggets, like Music Machine - "Talk Talk"; Blues Magoos - "We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet"; The Knickerbockers - "Lies"; The Outsiders - "Time Won't Let Me"; Count Five - "Psychotic Reaction"; The Seeds - "Pushin' Too Hard"; 13th Floor Elevators - "You're Gonna Miss Me"; Love - "My Little Red Book"; The Leaves - "Hey Joe"; Electric Prunes - "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night," the Crazy World of Arthur Brown - "Fire" and The Nazz- "Open My Eyes."

THE FELICE BROTHERS advance stream Undress.

TACOCAT advance streams This Mess is a  Place.

TANK AND THE BANGAS advance streams Green Balloon.

JOY WILLIAMS advance streams Front Porch.

RHIANNON GIDDENS advance streams There Is No Other.

THE BLACK KEYS return with "Eagle Birds."

JON PRATT offers a "Guitar Lament for a Mail Order Bride" for the Tiny Desk Contest.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN is dropping a new single today, but we don't have a link for it yet.

PRINCE's estate has announced plans to release Originals, another album of previously unreleased tracks – many of which were hits for other artists – he recorded between 1981 and 1991.

MICK JAGGER has been seen in public folowing his heart valve surgery.

JASON ISBELL talks about the downside of having cool guitars, and shares a tip for playing "Whole Lotta Love."

THE NUMBER ONES ooks at Eddie Kendricks' "Keep On Truckin'," arguably the first disco song ever to hit No. 1.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME is this weekend's sole wide realeas, currently scoring 96 percent on the ol' Tomatometer. Thursday night tickets sold out at my theater within seconds, so I'll be seeing it today. I would feel worse about not having a review for you this morning but for the fact that reviewing this movie is like reviewing the sun. It's already cleared 200MM overseas and may well clear another 300MM domestically this weekend. Nothing I have to say is going to affect whether anyone sees it, so it can wait for Monday.

DEADWOOD: THE MOVIE has a trailer online. David Milch talks about the movie and battling Alzheiner's.

MEN IN BLACK: INTERNATIONAL has a new trailer online.

BOND 25 casting, with Rami Malek as the baddie.

BRITNEY SPEARS checked out of the California wellness center where she had been seeking mental health treatment for the past month.

KATE BECKINSALE & PETER DAVIDSON are slowing things down.

SQUAD GOALS: Cats and dogs, living together...

AUSTRALIA's plan to kill 2 million feral cats includes dropping lethal poisoned sausages of cat food from planes.

A PUPPER gets a surprise.