THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE...

...with the wicked, wicked WILSON PICKETT, live from Germany, circa 1968. This disappeared from the Tube, but I've managed to find almost all of it reposted there or elsewhere.  His band warms up the crowd with the instrumental "Soulfinger," but Pickett electrifies from the moment he enters for "Everybody Needs Somebody" and doesn't let up through "Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won't Do)," "Mustang Sally" and "Stagger Lee." He takes it down just a half-notch for "I'm In Love" before cranking it back into top gear for "Funky Broadway," during which people dancing in front of the stage start turning up o­nstage (And why not? This rawks almost as hard as The Who's cover of "Shakin' All Over").  The tumultuous finale of "Land of 1000 Dances" from amid the crowd remains missing, but this other "Land of 1000 Dances" from 1966 is almost as wild, and in color to boot. Raw and riveting; if this can't put you in a weekend state of mind, probably nothing can.

DESCENDENTS advance stream Hypercaffium Spazzinate.

LORI McKENNA advance streams The Bird & The Rifle.

QUIERO CREEDENCE: Latin Alternative artists (including Los Lobos, Ozomatli, Los Lonely Boys, La Marisoul, Juan Gabriel and more) transform and reimagine CCR's formidable catalog.

DENT MAY shares "Face Down In The Gutter Of Your Love."

OF MONREAL shares "my fair lady."

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

BELLY talks to Drowned In Sound about their return to stage and studio.

THE LONG RYDERS are touring for the first time in 30 years.

THE TRAGICALLY HIP is profiled by Rolling Stone as they face their tragic fnal tour.

GREIL MARCUS, on the late-capitalist horror of James Bond songs, the indefatigable Kathleen Hanna, a farmers’ market atrocity, and more.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include Ice Age: Collision Course, which is currently scoring 10 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Star Trek Beyond, which is scoring 89 percent; and Lights Out, scoring 81 percent.

JOHNNY DEPP wants AMBER HEARD to keep certain details of their divorce proceedings confidential to protect their privacy.

TAYLOR SWIFT is not waving the white flag in her war with Kanye West over the secret audio recording.

SHANNEN DOHERTY shaved her head on Wednesday, July 20, amid her ongoing battle with breast cancer.

MIRANDA KERR is engaged to Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel.

DIVERGENT: The franchise may end on the small screen, which was news to star Shailene Woodley.

ROGER AILES resigned as the chairman of Fox News.

A WILD BOAR ran out of Baltic Sea to terrorize sunbathers at a Polish beach.

A LEMUR on the loose attacked a Miami woman outside her home.

BUBBA THE DOG kicks heroin and meth.

A PSYCHO SWAN has caused thousands of pounds worth of damage and is bullying other birds on a lake in Suffolk.