THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with ECHO and the BUNNYMEN!  Live at the Royal Albert Hall, circa July 1983.  Your setlist includes: "Going Up," "With a Hip," "All That Jazz," "All My Colours (Zimbo)," "Silver," "Simple Stuff," "The Cutter," "The Killing Moon," "Rescue," "Never Stop,""Over The Wall," "Crocodiles," and "Do It Clean."

WILCO plays KEXP.

ALVVAYS plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

MARY TIMONY returns with "The Guest."

ROBERT POLLARD: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.

NICK CAVE's New Year's Resolution.

TURNSTILE's Brendan Yates gives an in-depth interview to Anti-Matter.

KASABIAN talk about the "heavy hitters" of their next record.

"MACK THE KNIFE," and other songs entering the public domain.

MADONNA's fans have defended the star from “ageist” trolls who incorrectly mocked her for using a support beam at a live show.

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN's Peloton instructor slammed one of his movies during a workout. And someone found the video.

SOFIA COPPOLA, on baring Elvis' ugly side in Priscilla.

JACOB ELORDI loved his gozo scenes in Saltburn.

FLORENCE PUGH was reportedly not Marvel's first choice to play Yelena Belova in Black Widow.

"DON'T YOU LIE FOR A LIVING?": Margot Robbie, Emma Stone and THR's Actress Roundtable.

THE SAFDIE BROTHERS: With major acting roles in Christopher Nolan's atomic bomb epic "Oppenheimer," Kelly Fremon Craig's coming-of-age dramedy "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" and Showtime's "The Curse," which he co-created with Nathan Fielder - Benny is going solo. With "The Rock."

GLYNIS JOHNS, the British actress who in a trans-Atlantic career that endured for more than 60 years won a Tony Award for her role in “A Little Night Music,” giving husky, emotion-rich voice to the show’s most memorable number, “Send In the Clowns,” and played an exuberant Edwardian suffragist in the Disney movie classic “Mary Poppins,” died on Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 100.

A PELICAN... Denied!

A MAN AND HIS DOG rescue a dog from an icy reservoir.

A DALMATIAN PUP watches you-know-what.