THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE LEMONHEADS!  Evan Dando's songbook has always struck me as autmnal, though not all of it really is.  For example, a very young Dando released his take on Suzanne Vega's hit "Luka" in May '89.  He dissolved the band after releasing the Lovey LP, but returned with a new lineup on "It's A Shame About Ray" in July '92. Despite Johnny Depp's appearance in that video, the Ray album lingered in the lower reaches of the charts, despite being filled with grunge-pop goodness like "Rockin' Stroll" and "Confetti."  But that November, Atlantic released the band's take on Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson," which shot to No. 19 on the UK charts and landed Dando unlikely US gigs like "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee."  The flip side of that single was the goofy "Being Around," which becomes a singalong live.  The followup LP, C'mon, Feel the Lemonheads, hit the Top 5 in the UK, but only No. 56 in the US, with the single "Into Your Arms," which would later turn up on the soundtrack to Before Sunrise and in an FTD commercial.  The other two videos from the LP, like "Ray," sport celeb cameos -- Angelina Jolie turns up in "It's About Time" and a young Chloë Sevigny can be seen in "Big Gay Heart".  Unfortunately, Dando would soon slide into heavy drugs and the next album, Car Button Cloth was not nearly as successful -- commercially or artistically.  An unremarkable solo album and sporadic gigs would follow, until Dando got his personal life together and revived The Lemonheads brand with a self-titled LP in 2005, from which "Black Gown" was the lead track.  BONUS:  Dando and Mudhoney's Mark Arm fromted the DKT-MC5 on a ripping version (is there any other kind) of the classic "Kick Out the Jams" on The Late Late Show.

ADAM HOOD advance streams Somewhere In Between.

CHVRCHES plays the Palace Theatre in St. Paul, Minn.

THE WAR AND TREATY stops by World Cafe.

COURTNEY BARNETT shares "Small Talk," a song from the Tell Me sessions that didn't make it onto her sophomore album.

DAVID CROSBY shares "Vagrants Of Venice."

THE KINKS: The truly classic "You Really Got Me."

THE TOP 100 ALBUMS of the past 10 years, according to The Quietus for its 10th anniversary.

WAYNE KRAMER survived volatile years with the MC5, and now he's ready to celebrate.

GOAT GIRL is interviewed by Drowned In Sound.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Supremes' transitional hit "Love Is Here And Now You're Gone."

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are Venom, which is currently scoring 30 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and A Star Is Born, which is scoring 94 percent.

CHRIS EVANS sounds like he's done playing Captain America. (Not a surprise; Marvel is trying to move on from expensive contracts.)

CHRIS HEMSWORTH feels ‘gross’ about being rich. I could help.

JENNIFER GARNER filed court documents to have her divorce from Ben Affleck finalized. Coincidentally, he's out of rehab.

THE MULE, starring Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper and Lawrence Fishburne, has a trailer online.

SUGE KNIGHT has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for the death of man he ran over outside a Compton burger stand nearly four years ago.

LAURIE METCALF & JOHN LITHGOW are bringing the Clintons to Broadway.

ALAN ALDA has been named the 55th recipient of the SAG Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment.

THE GOOD PLACE: Why It's So Good.

A BABY OTTER performs a strategic roll to avoid a dangerous ball attack.

PLASTIC PENGUINS stand in at the Telford Exotic Zoo.

BENNY THE BELUGA seems to be lost in the Thames river.