THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with HARRY NILSSON! He would have celebrated a birthday yesterday, so let's revisit the BBC's "The Music of Nilsson from 1971, including a mashup of "Mr. Richland's Favorite…

CARL DOUGLAS, with the classic "Kung Fu Fighting." FOXING plays a Tiny Desk Concert. HAYES CARLL visits World Cafe. THE QUIET TEMPLE covers Band of Gypsys and Coltrane for a Lagniappe Session.…

THE CREATION:  "Making Time." The same old song (but a good one). RADIOHEAD officially released 18 hours of demos and outtakes recorded during the band's OK Computer sessions, after the tapes were…

URGE OVERKILL: Their killer '93 single "Sister Havana" and their even more famous cover of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" are your Twofer Tuesday. SESAME STREET plays a Tiny…

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE play "It Must Be Summer" unpluggedy. THE NATIONAL visited the World Cafe. NORAH JONES visited World Cafe. NEW RELEASES: Richard Hawley, Doug Tuttle, and Nicole Yun are among the…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: ….with MARSHALL CRENSHAW!  Live at The Ritz, July 6, 1985.  Your setlist includes: "Blues Is King," "Whenever You're On My Mind," "Shake Rattle And Roll," "Our Town," "Maryann,"…

THE MAIN INGREDIENT: "Everybody Plays the Fool." Sometimes. GOGOL BORDELLO, Live at the Palace. THE HEAD AND THE HEART visit Morning Becomes Eclectic. ELTON JOHN, LEONARD COHEN, and JOE COCKER, Live at…

EDDIE & THE HOT RODS: "Do Anything You Wanna Do," circa '77. THE DREAM SYNDICATE, Live at the Mercury Lounge. RYAN BINGHAM visits World Cafe. REMO DRIVE vists The Current.   TY…

OFF BROADWAY: "Stay In Time" and "Full Moon Turn My Head Around," for Twofer Tuesday. More power pop for the summer. SUPERCHUNK streams an acoustic version of 1994's Foolish. YOHUNA streams Mirroring.…

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Godzilla: King of the Monsters tops the chartwith 49MM, which is down 47 percent from the 2014 reboot; however, it has grossed 130MM more in foreign markets, which may assuague…