THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with R.E.M.!  Live in Germany circa 1985, more complete than what has previously turned up on the Tube. Songs include "Feeling Gravity's Pull," "Harbourcoat," "Sitting Still," "Maps & Legends," "Fall On Me," "Green Grow The Rushes," "Driver 8," "Hyena," "So. Central Rain," CCR's "Have You Ever Seen The Rain," "Can't Get There From Here," Roger Miller's "King Of The Road," "Seven Chinese Bros.," "Auctioneer," "Old Man Kinsey," "Little America," "Pretty Persuasion, " "Theme From Two Steps Onward," Aerosmith's "Toys In The Attic," and Television's "See No Evil." Plus, previously unlinked here: "Second Guessing," "Ghost Riders In The Sky," "(Don't Go Back to) Rockville," "We Walk/ Behind Closed Doors" and "Paint It Black."

AUSTRA advance streams Future Politics.

FRED THOMAS (of Saturday Looks Good To Me) advance streams Changer.

THE END IS AT HAND: Three volumes of outsider Jesus People Movement psychedelia, from Aquarium Drunkard.

IGGY POP drops "GOLD" from the soundtrack of the same name, produced by Danger Mouse.

THE COURTNEYS share "Tour" ahead of The Courtneys II.

SLOWDIVE shares "Star Roving," their first new song in over two decades.

LAURA MARLING shares "Wild Fire."

THE DIG shares "Simple Love" ahead of Bloodshot Tokyo.

ART BRUT get you off to a "Good Weekend."

HOW THE BUZZCOCKS invented indie (with help from the Sex Pistols, a Renault and the Quo).

THE FLAMING LIPS: Wayne Coyne talks Miley Cyrus, LSD and A$AP Rocky.

THE BEST PUNK ALBUMS of the 2000s, according to Paste.

STREAMING became the primary mode of music consumption in the U.S. in 2016.

NOW SHOWING: Patriot's Day expands wide scoring 79 percent on the ol Tomatometer.  Live By Night also expands wide, scoring 34 percent.  Monster Trucks debuts scoring 26 pecent, while The Bye Bye Man opens scoring 14 percent, and Sleepless opens without critics' screenings.  Martin Scorsese's Silence reaches near-wide, scoring 85 percent.

KIM KARDASHIAN: The first suspects in her robbery case have been officially charged.

PETER DINKLAGE in early talks for a key role in Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War.

DEADPOOL writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick discuss awards season and the sequel at Deadline.

MICHAEL JACKSON's family is less than thrilled with Joseph Finnes playing the music icon. Quelle surprise.

THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS get screenwriters.

POLAND: US troops have begun arriving under a planned Nato operation to reassure the alliance's Eastern European allies in the face of mounting Russian aggression.

IRAQ: Thousands of terror victims go unnamed.

RED PANDA CUBS, playing in the snow.

FISH FRAUD is rampant in Los Angeles.

BIGFOOT was spotted in Ireland, presumably on vacation.

COYOTES ATTACKED a man walking his Beagles in Morris County, NJ.