THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with BLONDIE! "One Way or Another," they're gonna getcha.  Maybe with the new wavey material like that song or their cover of the Nerves' "Hanging On the Telephone."  Maybe with the Eurodisco sound of "Heart of Glass," "Call Me" or "Rapture."  But for me, it's the pop anthems like "Union City Blue" and "Dreaming," both propelled by the frenetic drumming of Clem Burke, who is clearly a fan of Keith Moon, right down to the pantomiming in that last TOTP clip.

JAMES BLAKE is advance streaming the Enough Thunder EP.

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

TENNIS did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter.

BATTLES played All Tomorrow's Parties; the entire gig is now streaming on demand.

THE HORRORS played All Tomorrow's Parties; the entire gig is now streaming on demand.

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE played a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR.

THE AMERICANA MUSIC AWARDS nominees are a streaming mix at NPR.

FANFARLO drops "Deconstruction," the first track to surface from Fanfarlo's as-yet-untitled second record, due out in February.

COUSTEAU: "The Last Good Day of the Year." Or close to it.

RYAN ADAMS gave a wide-ranging interview to The Sun.

MATES OF STATE: Kori Gardner gave the Baltimore Sun her opinion on high-waisted pants, Justin Beiber and more. (Thx, LHB.)

MICK JONES talked to Sabotage Times about The Clash, Sid Vicious, the recent London riots and more...

BJORK has a five-part interview at Drowned In Sound.

THE BEATLES would have reunited, had tragedy not struck, according to Paul McCartney.

THE HIGHEST CHARTING TV THEMES since 1980.

CUTOUT BIN: From the Knack to Tom Waits, from Jackie Wilson to Fun Boy 3, from REM to Buddy Holly, plus the Lovin' Spoonful, Bob Geldof, Lindsey Buckingham, Dum Dum Girls and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are now streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are Real Steel, which is currently scoring 57 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and The Ides of March, which is scoring 80 percent.

ASHTON KUTCHER: The details of his wild night of boozing and hot-tubbing with 23-year-old Sara Leal, whose nsfw pics are gfloating around the 'net.

LEO DiCAPRIO & BLAKE LIVELY: What went wrong? And who is Alyce Crawford?

JENNIFER ANISTON tells Elle about the time she threw a chair at a director.

DREW BARRYMORE "is yearning to get married and have kids" with Will Kopelman.

THE SIMPSONS: The End draws nearer.

CHARLES NAPIER, longtime character actor you may have seen on Star Trek, Baretta, Kojak and the Rockford Files, or in the Blues Brothers, Rambo or Philadelphia, died Wednesday afternoon at 75.

IRAN: The families of BBC staff members in Iran say they have been subject to arrest, harassment and intimidation by Iranian officials since the broadcast of a documentary about Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on the British broadcaster's Persian-language service last month.

AfPAK: American officials recently held secret (and separate) meetings with Pakistan's top military official and leaders of the Haqqani network. The Abbottabad commission said that Osama bin Laden's wives and children are allowed to return to their home countires after being questioned.

SCARY WOMAN: A Husky is terrified of Julia Roberts.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT disrupted the Great British Bake-Off (possibly nsfw).

A BEAR broke into a Florida home and made off with a birthday cake. Apparently, there was no pic-a-nic basket.

A CAT goes uncharged in the shooting of a Spartanburg man.