THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with TRAFFIC!  Live in Santa Monica, circa 1972, flagged by my online pal Jay. Your setlist includes: Low Spark of High Heeled Boys; Light Up or Leave Me Alone; John Barley corn; Rainmaker; Glad; Freedom Rider; Forty Thousand Headmen; and Dear Mr. Fantasy.

HOZIER visits World Cafe.

BONUS TRACKS, VOL. 2: Bobby Hutcherson, The Byrds, Pentangle.

WILCO plays "Tired Of Taking It Out On You" on Late Night.

TOMBERLIN covers Guided By Voices' "Game of Pricks."

DEERHOOF shares “Phase-Out All Remaining Non-Miracles By 2028.”

BE YOUR OWN PET returns with "Hand Grenade."

BOYGENIUS are releasing a new film directed by Kristen Stewart tonight.

KISS: Paul Stanley and Ace Frehley are beefing again.

LILY ALLEN, on four years of sobriety.

THE WHITE STRIPES: Elephant Turns 20. Dunn dun dun da dunn dunn.

BRIAN "BRIZZ" GILLIS, one of the founders of the ’90s boy band LFO, died Wednesday. He was 47.

SCOTT PILGRIM: THE ANIME is coming to Netflix, with the movie cast as the voice actors.

JONATHAN MAJORS' girlfriend reportedly  admitted she’s to blame and doesn’t want to press charges against the Marvel star in texts his attorney provided to TMZ.

GWYNETH PALTROW wins the ski trash trial, is awarded one dollar.

THE BACHELOR creator Mike Fleiss left the show after he had been investigated over workplace misconduct allegations.

A JOHN WICK ACTION SCENE, Step by Step. ALSO: How ‘John Wick' Pays Homage to the Kung Fu Masters and Stuntmen Who Came Before It.

MARK RUSSELL, a master of political satire who stood at a star-spangled piano and kept the cognoscenti in stitches for six decades with musical parodies and professorial tomfoolery that tweaked politicians and captured the silly side of Washington, died on Thursday at his home there. He was 90.

WHY IS THIS SATURDAY DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER DAYS?  Because ABC has its annual showing of The Ten Commandments, a grand spectacle featuring acting from Edward G. Robinson and Anne Baxter that is so over-the-top that Yul Brynner starts to look good by comparison.  And while Robinson's Dathan never actually spoke the line "Where's your Messiah now?" in the movie, it  -- like "Play It Again, Sam" (not spoken in Casablanca) -- has become part of a part of our culture. The line actually comes from Billy Crystal, originally a bit from the Oscars, iirc. It later turned up o­n The Simpsons, with Chief Wiggum playing Dathan to Ned Flanders' Moses. It may lose viewers to the Final Four this year, but even though I own a copy, there's something to be said about the communal tradition of its broadcast on network TV.  BONUS: The making-of story is now the subject of a novel.

THE LOCH NESS MONSTER, caught on camera, allegedly.

BLACK WIDOWS ARE VANISHING: Here's their new enemy.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT, dressed differently in different countries.