THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with STEVIE WONDER! He turned 65 this week, but doesn't seem retiring. His session at the Beat Club includes "Intro Jam," "Contusion," "Higher Ground," "Dont You Worry ‘Bout A Thing," "I Can See The Sun In Late December," "He's Misstra Know-It-All," "Living For The City" and "Superstition."

MY MORNING JACKET perform songs from The Waterfall live during Morning Becomes Eclectic.

THEE OH SEES advance stream Mutilator.

VALKYRIE advance streams Shadows.

GOD D^MN advance streams Vultures.

DAWES drops "Right On Time" ahead of All Your Favorite Bands.

JAILL drops "Got an F" ahead of Brain Cream.

DAVID DUCHOVNY & GILLIAN ANDERSON: Mulder & Scully sing "Helpless." No word if this will be in the X-Files mini-series.

B.B. KING, whose world-weary voice and wailing guitar lifted him from the cotton fields of Mississippi to a global stage and the apex of American blues, died Thursday in Las Vegas. He was 89. Here's your obits from the New York Times and Rolling Stone.

PULP: Jarvis Cocker recalls the band's first gig, 35 years ago.

THE DARKNESS:  Justin and Dan Hawkins talk to Stereogum about the new record, their unfair reputation as a novelty band, (not) working with “Mutt” Lange, and more.

THE BEATLES: Behind the Album Art.

THE 50 SADDEST SONGS, according to Paste.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are Mad Max: Fury Road, which is currently scoring 99 percent on the ol' Tomatometer (and which I dug); and Pitch Perfect 2, currently scoring 70 percent.

JOHNNY DEPP has been told he has until Saturday to remove his dogs from Australia or they will be put down. He's on it.

CHARLIZE THERON & SEAN PENN were caught canoodling on camera at Cannes.

HARRY SHEARER plans to leave The Simpsons, which would leave Springield looking for at least 22 voices.

NATALIE PORTMAN will be the latest actress to portray Jackie Kennedy.

THE CRAFT is getting a remake.

MINIONS dropped another trailer online.

NORTH KOREA's claim that it launched a ballistic missile from a submarine was mostly likely a bluff and the images it released appear photoshopped to overstate the regime's military power.

YEMEN: A five-day humanitarian truce appeared to be broadly holding on Wednesday, despite reports of some air strikes overnight by Saudi-led forces and continued actions by the country's dominant Houthi group in the east.

RUSSIA rejects snapback sanctions in the event Iran cheats on the nuclear deal currently under negotiation. Good thing Iran would never cheat.

IRAN: The Czech Republic blocked an attempted purchase by Iran this year of a large shipment of sensitive technology useable for nuclear enrichment after false documentation raised suspicions, U.N. experts and Western sources said.  Also, five Iranian boats fired shots across the bow of a Singapore flagged cargo vessel in the Persian Gulf on Thursday in an attempt to potentially stop the ship.

SAUDI ARABIA and many of the smaller Arab states are now vowing to match whatever nuclear enrichment capability Iran is permitted to retain.

MAN & BEAR startle each other.

A GIANT SQUID washed up on a beach on New Zealand's South Island this week. Capt. Nemo unavailable for ccomment.

A NEW SPECIES OF CRAYFISH looks like a Trapper Keeper.

TEN PEOPLE in China's Yunnan province are accused of killing a rare giant panda and selling the meat and paws.