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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with JOE JACKSON! Live in Tokyo circa 1986, for the Big World tour. Your set list: One More Time, Wild West, Right & Wrong, You Can't Get What You Want (Til You Know What You Want), (It's a) Big World, Hometown, On Your Radio, Shanghai Sky, Fifty Dollar Love Affair, Cancer/Be My Number Two/Breaking Us in Two, Steppin' Out, Survival, Soul Kiss, It's Different for Girls, The Jet Set, Monday Papers, Tonight and Forever, Jumpin' Jive Medley: Jack You're Dead/What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again)/Jumpin' Jive, I'm the Man, and Man in the Street.

EZRA FURMAN plays KEXP. 

SAINTSENECA shares “Bitter Suite.” 

GIRL SCOUT shares "Same Kids." 

NAÏM AMOR & KID CONGO POWERS share "Surf Sirens."

ACE FREHLEY, the wild Spaceman of Kiss who played guitar in the band throughout their Seventies heyday and again during the reunion period in the Nineties, inspiring an entire generation of musicians to pick up the instrument along the way, died on Thursday in Morristown, New Jersey. He was 74. He's also, afaik, the only member of Kiss to have a solo hit, his cover of Russ Ballard's "New York Groove."  Here's the band's tribute.

TAME IMPALA responds to claims he's gone "commercial" with new music to "make money." 

DIANE KEATON's cause of death was revealed. Al Pacino pays tribute.

UFOs are coming to Prime. 

BRITNEY SPEARS: Kevin Federline claims she drank alcohol while pregnant and did cocaine while breastfeeding. 

STRANGER THINGS: Inside the final season. 

MAYA HAWKE didn’t care what Ethan Hawke had to say about following in his and Uma Thurman's footsteps. 

WARNER BROS rejects an Israel bycott. 

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD: How Tom Rothman and Sony landed the movie after The Weinstein company imploded. 

ED WILLIAMS, played the lab scientist Ted Olson opposite Leslie Nielsen on Police Squad and in The Naked Gun, is dead at 98.

A BULL tries to help with the landscaping. 

ATTACK of the Spider-Tailed Viper. 

A CAT, making fetch happen. 

THE OHIO PLAYERS are on "Fire." Over nine minutes, and just gets wackier.

WET LEG plays KEXP. 

SUGAR returns with “House of Dead Memories.” 

SHARP PINS shares “Queen Of Globes And Mirrors.” 

COURTNEY BARNETT shares “Stay In Your Lane.”

THIS IS LORELEI re-records “Name the Band.” 

KATY & THE NULL SETS shares “Last Time/Next Time.”  

LALA LALA is on SubPop with “Does This Go Faster?” 

THE AVETT BROS & MIKE PATTON share “Heaven’s Breath.” 

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is projected to lose 100MM in its theatrical run. 

JIM CARREY: Meet George Jetson? 

THE DUFFER BROS on Stranger Things, moving to Paramount, and more. 

DANIEL DAY-LEWIS defends Method acting. 

BRITNEY SPEARS cheated with a female backup dancer and was phoning Justin Timberlake before her wedding, according to Kevin Federline's new book. 

GWYNETH PALTROW: Not a fan of her new biography. 

LAURENCE FISHBURNE wants to play Professor X. 

MICHAEL J. FOX & ERIC STOLTZ met 40 years after the latter was replaced in Back To The Future.

A BABY ELEPHANT asking for treats. 

A DEER with dwarfism. 

A DOGGO loves the harmonica. 

THE MEMBERS: "Working Girl," from the "Where Are They Now?" file.

GRIZZLY BEAR plays their first show in six years. 

GUIDED BY VOICES shares "Lucy's World." 

WET LEG shares "mangetout."  Aw, yeah.  

STEVE GUNN shares "Morning on K Road." 

MARGOT PRICE covers the Dylan classic, "Maggie's Farm." Not bad.

JULIANNA BARWICK & MARY LATTIMORE share "Melted Moon."

CHARLI XCX is profiled at Vanity Fair. 

D'ANGELO, a legendary R&B singer who helped pioneer the genre of music known as “neo-soul,” died Tuesday of cancer. He was 51. Eff cancer. 

DID KURT RUSSELL save Titanic? 

SEND HELP has a trailer online. 

MEL GIBSON is recasting Jesus for “The Resurrection of the Christ,” and apparently Jesus isn't taking the bait. 

BRITNEY SPEARS: Is she OK post-conservatorship? 

MIA GOTH is profiled at Elle. 

SEAN PENN, on PTA, Brian de Palma, Terrence Malick and more. 

JEREMY RENNER plans to narrate the first full-length AI-based animation. 

CHESS: Writer Danny Strong is trying to fix the incomprehensible plot of the 80s musical. 

BILL SIMMONS is headed to Netflix, sort of. 

DREW STURZAN, the renowned artist known for designing posters for films including “Star Wars,” “Back to the Future” and “Blade Runner,” died on Monday. He was 78. 

DOGGOS work the balloon. 

A DOGGO sees Dad after a month. 

THE SQUIRREL is me most days. 

MADNESS: "It Must Be Love."

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Flock of Dimes, The Antlers, and more. 

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has The Besnard Lakes, The Verve's Richard Ashcroft, and more.

HAIM & BON IVER share "Tie You Down." 

IMOGEN HEAP shares "Aftercare." 

DAVID BYRNE & HAYLEY WILLIAMS "Open The Door."

PERRY FARRELL & CARL COX share "Joya." 

RHETT MILLER teaches us about great songwriting via Dylan, Pixies, Adrianne Lenker, and more. 

FACES: Ronnie Wood revealed that progress on the new album has stalled, saying it is hard to make their “times tally.” 

TOMMY PRICE, the drummer known for his work with Joan Jett and Billy Idol, has died at the age of 68.  

JOHN LODGE, bassist and vocalist for symphonic prog-rock greats The Moody Blues for over 50 years, died last week. He was 82.

DIANE KEATON, who sparkled in her Oscar-winning turn as the titular quirky woman in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall and portrayed the outsider Kay Adams-Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s three Godfather films, has died. She was 79.  Here are the obits from Variety and the NYT.  A flood of tributes issued (oddly, my fave may be Reese Witherspoon's).  Keaton did not do a ton of interviews, but she did one with THR in 2023.  She also directed and campaigned to preserve L.A.'s classic architecture.  I think I'll be watching Something’s Gotta Give.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Tron: Ares tops the chart with a disappointing 33.5MM, well below Legacy. Roofman places with 8MM.  One Battle After Another shows with 6.7MM on a 39 percent drop.

BRET EASTON ELLIS, author of American Psycho, is not a big fan of One Battle After Another. 

WARNER BROS rejected Paramount's first bid for the company. 

A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS has a trailer online. 

WONDER MAN has a trailer online. 

SIGOURNEY WEAVER could return to the Alien franchise. 

REBECCA FERGUSON calls TOM CRUISE a "manchild," but in a good way. 

 A RESCUE LYNX befriended a cat who seems... thrilled.

A BLUE TIT finds a home, starts a family, in time-lapse.

SWANS thank a man for freeing their child from a fishing line. 

A KANGAROO, not hitting the bag. 

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE FACES! Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane, Kenny Jones, and Ian McLagan, live on the Beeb circa 1972.  Your setlist includes: "Three Button Hand Me Down"; "Maybe I'm Amazed"; "Too Much Woman/Street Fighting Man"; "Miss Judy's Farm"; "Love In Vain"; "Stay With Me"; and "I'm Losing You."

HUNX AND HIS PUNX play KEXP. 

EMF covers the Bauhaus classic, "Bela Lugosi's Dead." Unbelievable. 

MIDLAKE shares "The Calling." 

SPANISH LOVE SONGS shares “Cocaine and Lexapro” and “Berlin.” 

GENE SIMMONS recovers from a car crash. 

DRAKE's defamation suit against Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" is dismissed. 

MICHAEL J. FOX is coming out of retirement. 

ANDREW GARFIELD absolutely denies appearing in Avengers: Doomsday. 

RYAN REYNOLDS says being a people-pleaser doesn't work in Hollywood. 

MATLOCK actor David Del Rio was fired after an allegation of sexual assault. 

TANGLED: The live action remake moves forward, possibly with ScarJo. 

MINECRAFT: A sequel is set for 2027. 

TIMOTHEE CHALAMET is a Yaknees fan, his gf Kyle Jenner less so. 

SORA is here and Hollywood is sore. 

GOOD BOY's canine star is urging the Oscars to recognize animal actors in its acting categories.  

A BULL helps someone over a fence. 

CATS & DOGS, living together... 

THE BITE POWERS of doggos, measured.