THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

....with MARSHALL CRENSHAW!  Live at The Ritz, July 6, 1985.  Your setlist includes: "Blues Is King," "Whenever You're On My Mind," "Shake Rattle And Roll," "Our Town," "Maryann," "Right Now," "The Distance Between Me And You," "Someday Someway," "Little Wild One," " I'm Sorry (But So Is Brenda Lee)," "Yvonne," "There She Goes Again," "Cynical Girl," "Shake Up Their Minds," and "Soldier Of Love."

FLEET FOXES advance stream Crack-Up.

ROYAL TRUX advance streams Platinum Tips + Ice Cream.

STEVE EARLE advance streams So You Wannabe an Outlaw.

PALEHOUND advance streams A Place I'll Go.

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE play "It Must Be Summer" unpluggedy.

DEVO's Mark Mothersbaugh talks to Rolling Stone about four decades of multi-media work.

GARBAGE: Shirley Manson talks to The Cut about touring with Blondie, and more.

THE BEST OF 2017 (So Far), according to World Cafe.

SAINT ETIENNE: Ten of Their Best.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are The Mummy, which is currently scoring 23 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Megan Leavey, which is scoring 81 percent; and It Comes at Night, scoring 89 percent.

PHIL COLLINS is on the mend after falling in his hotel room.

MORENA BACCARIN & BEN McKENZIE got hitched.

A-ROD is dealing with an ex from hell — a woman who's hit him up for cash for years is now threatening to expose private messages if he doesn't cough up as much as 600K.

MARY POPPINS RETURNS gets previewed at Entertainment Weekly.

JERRY SEINFELD defended his decision not to give Kesha that hug. Unnecessary, Jerry.

PIG OVERFED, Owner Facing Animal Cruelty Charges.

WHY DID THE PYTHON CROSS THE ROAD? To get his picture taken.

CATS, with samurai armor.

SPIDERS: What do they think about?

PJ HARVEY shares a video for "The Camp."

THE XX stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

ALT-J stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

BQNT stopped by WFUV's Studio A for a chat and mini-set.

FLEET FOXES share "If You Need To, Keep Time On Me."

ARIEL PINK shares "Another Weekend."

OH SEES (fmrly Thee Oh Sees) share “The Static God.”

BJORK shares "Notget."

CARL DOUGLAS, with the classic "Kung Fu Fighting."

THE BEATLES: All 213 Beatlesongs, ranked by Vulture.

PRINCE: NPR rolled out four playlists to mark what would have been the Artist's 59th birthday.

CYNDI LAUPER is scoring a Working Girl musical.

THE TOP 10 FOO FIGHTERS SONGS, according to Stereogum.

THE MUMMY's early reviews are...not good.

GEORGE & AMAL CLOONEY's twins reportedly look like him.

A-ROD two-timing J-LO? Inquiring minds want to know.

NORM MACDONALD talks to Vulture about Trump satire and the joke he won't tell again.

GWYNETH PALTROW admits she doesn't know much about Goop.

JAMIE PRESSLY is going to be a mom again — times two.

JONATHAN SILVERMAN & JENNIFER FINNIGAN are preparing to welcome their first child.

ZOOTOPIA: Esplanade Pictures sued Disney in March, claiming its film copied the work of Total Recall writer Gary L. Goldman, who had pitched his Zootopia franchise idea to the animation powerhouse in 2000 and 2009.

REESE WITHERSPOON: What's the wrorst script she ever saw?

RESCUE CATS, calmed by a nightly piano concert.

A LIVE DONKEY was fed to tigers in a protest against the management of a Chinese zoo.

DO NOT SNUGGLE YOUR BACKYARD CHICKENS. The More You Know. Swoosh.

A RECORD-BREAKING BASS, caught with a McNugget.

FRANKIE COSMOS performs "Outside With the Cuties."

SIGUR ROS, live with The LA Philharmonic.

DAN AUERBACH (Black Keys) stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED, Guest DJed by Alt-J.

TWIN PEAKS (the band) shares "Tossing Tears."

SHEER MAG shares "Need To Feel Your Love."

ALVVAYS shares "In Undertow."

DEATH FROM ABOVE shares "Freeze Me."

ZOLA JESUS shares "Exhumed."

THE CREATION:  "Making Time." The same old song (but a good one).

THE 50 BEST ALBUMS of 2017 (So Far), according to Stereogum.

PHOENIX: From The Ashes. (thx, Frank Yang)

BOB DYLAN: Chinese translations of Dylan lyrics are currently being sold in potato chip bags in China.

SGT PEPPER'S: For the 50th anniversary, Dangerous Minds revisits the homage and parody album covers.

JERRY SEINFELD goes full Seinfeld on Ke$ha.

GEORGE & AMAL CLOONEY welcomed Ella and Alexander Clooney into their lives. "Ella, Alexander and Amal are all healthy, happy and doing fine. George is sedated and should recover in a few days," the new parents of two say in a statement.

THE DARK UNIVERSE will include the Phantom of the Opera and the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Does that make sense?

BILL COSBY smirked in court Tuesday as the woman who has accused him of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2004 testified about the harrowing ordeal.

BILL MURRAY sings Van Morrison.

DAVID SPADE wuz robbed!

MISCHA BARTON's ongoing "revenge pron" lawsuit against a former boyfriend has come to a victorious end.

MAURAUDING BABOONS pillage and poop in a man's Airbnb.

HORSEY McHORSEFACE isn't just a joke name; he's a winner.

A BLUE CRAB was caught, with two live oysters attached.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A militant rodent assaults a woman using a cheetoh.

JON PRATT plays Pate's "She Don't Seem To Care" (with some tech magic), and Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" for Twofer Tuesday.

BIG THIEF advance streams Capacity.

CHUCK BERRY advance streams CHUCK.

AGENT BLA advance streams Agent Blue.

SUPERCHUNK shares “I Got Cut.”

WAXAHATCHEE shares "Never Been Wrong."

URGE OVERKILL:  Their killer '93 single "Sister Havana" and their even more famous cover of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" are your Twofer Tuesday.

ELVIS COSTELLO talks to Rolling Stone about touring Imperial Bedroom,his upcoming musical, and future projects.

AEROSMITH's war stories, as told by the band.

THE KILLERS: How and Why Has "Mr Brightside" Never Left the UK Charts?

BOB DYLAN explains his roots, as only he can, in his Nobel Lecture.

HALLE BERRY's rep has denied that the Oscar winner is pregnant with her third child.

WONDER WOMAN director Patty Jenkins has thoughts about a sequel (and she is under contract for one).

BREAKING BAD is returning as a non-game, virtual reality experience.

AL PACINO is set to play Joe Paterno in an HBO movie about the Penn State college football sex scandal.

WHY MEG TILLY walked away from Hollywood.

T.J. MILLER talks about leaving HBO's Silicon Valley.

PETER SALLIS, best known for his work on Last of the Summer Wine and Wallace and Gromit, has died at the age of 96.

D-DAY: The anniversary of the invasion of Normandy is marked with five essential stories and some color footage. 

THE UNITED KINGDOM: A bouncer known as Ozzie led a brave charge against the London terrorists after seeing them repeatedly knifing a woman.

EGYPT, SAUDI ARABIA and three other Arab countries severed all ties with QATAR early Monday, in a renewal of a four-year effort to isolate it and in a sign of a new boldness after a visit to the region by President Trump.

AUSTRALIAN police said on Tuesday that a shootout in which two men died, three police officers were wounded and a female hostage was freed was being treated as a terror attack.

A TINY CORGI and a GIANT CORGI share a popsicle.

A DINOSAUR "MUMMY" was discovered by an oil worker, with skin and guts intact. Theme park to follow.

A GENETICALLY MODIFIED CYBORG DRAGON FLY takes flight.

...AND THERE WAS LOBSTER all over the highway.

FOO FIGHTERS share a video for "Run."

FATHER JOHN MISTY plays a stripped-down performance at Rockwood Music Hall.

JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

JACK WHITE & ELTON JOHN recorded “Two Fingers of Whiskey” straight to wax.

THE WAR ON DRUGS shares "Holding On" ahead of A Deeper Understanding. 80s U2 & Bruce, with a dash of Bryan Adams?

GLENN CAMPBELL shares "Arkansas Farmboy," inspired by Campbell's rural origins and written in the late 1970s by Campbell's longtime banjo player Carl Jackson, who produced the upcoming Adiόs.

DAN WILSON (Semisonic, Trip Shakespeare) shares "Someone Like You" and "Home" from Re-Covered, a collection of songs he wrote for artists like Adele and others.

JASON ISBELL shares "White Man's World."

THE FIVE STAIRSTEPS:  “O-o-h Child." Time for a dance-off?

JAWBREAKER: An oral history of 24 Hour Revenge Therapy. (Somehow missed this at the time.)

SHOVELS & ROPE: The Mom & Pop Rock 'n' Roll Shop.

ALT-J takes NPR on a track-by-track tour of Relaxer.

GREGG ALLMAN: The "Ramblin' Man" was laid to rest near highway 41.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Wonder Woman easily tops the chart with 100.5MM, the first, female-directed movie to debut in three digits; it's also considerably higher than the estimates just a week earlier, some of which were as low as 60MM.  The 122.5MM from foreign markets is less impressive, but overall, it looks to be worth a few hundred million dollars of profit for WB/DC before it leaves theaters, depending on how well The Mummy does. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie placed with 23.5MM, which is probably alright, considering DreamWorks outsourced this to Canada on a frugal 38MM production budget. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales tumbled 66 percent to show with 21.6MM; it continues to gross overseas, but the overall numbers now look shaky.  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 took the fourth slot with another 9.7MM added to it's already yuge pile of cash.  Baywatch rounds out the Top Five with 8.5MM and may be even shakier than the Pirates.

ARIANA GRANDE visited fans hospitalized after the terror attack on her Manchester concert, then headlined the One Love Manchester benefit concert.

TOM CRUISE reveals the title for the sequel -- Top Gun 2: Maverick.

CHRIS CORNELL had several prescription drugs in his system but they didn’t contribute to his death in a Detroit hotel room, autopsy reports released on Friday showed.

JOHN HAMM talks about life after Mad Men and why singledom sucks...tho it does free him up to hit on Kate Beckinsale.

BILL COSBY's real and TV wives support him as he heads to trial on sexual assualt charges.

LAKE BELL has given birth to her second child.

BILL MAHER dropped an n-bomb on his TV show, apologized.

THE UNITED KINGDOM: PM Theresa May  said “it is time to say enough is enough” as she condemned a terror attack on “innocent and unarmed civilians” which left seven people dead and 48 injured in London. She also pointed to the internet and "the big companies that provide internet-based services" as "the safe space" that allows extremism to breed.

THE SWARM: A busy block near NYC's Rockefeller Center was reopened Friday afternoon after a swarm of more than 2000 honey bees overtook a van, forcing authorities to close East 47th Street.

RESCUING A DOG with a six-year-old girl.

A BEAR broke into a Colorado home, played the piano.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT:  Militant rodents steal American flags from a veteran's yard.