THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with POWER POP! A few of these may be known generally, like Cheap Trick's "Way of the World" and Nick Lowe's "Cruel to Be Kind"… and some well-known…

THE FIVE STAIRSTEPS:  “O-o-h Child." LOCAL NATIVES visit The Current. SINKANE covers classics from The Beatles and Peter Gabriel for a Lagniappe Session. ALL SONGS CONSIDERED rolls out tracks from Rhye, Quinn Christopherson,…

DAVID BOWIE: "Modern Love." from the Summer of 1983. THE O'JAYS visit the World Cafe. ECHO IN THE CANYON: Jakob Dylan, Cat Power and Jade Castrinos perform material from a new music…

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The live action remake of Aladdin tops the chart with a four-day estimate of 112MM, which likely has the House of Mouse sighing in relief given the underperformance of…

THE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND STARTS HERE:   …with THE SWEET!  The bubble-glam rockers are probably best known for the trifecta of "Little Willy," "Ballroom Blitz" and "Fox on the Run," though they…

JAY & THE AMERICANS "Come a Little Bit Closer" onThursday. RICHARD THOMPSON streams the score for a new WWII documentary, Erik Nelson's The Cold Blue. COVEY streams Some Cats Live, Some Cats…

FREE: "All Right Now." Wouldn't be Summer without it. BETTER OBLIVION COMMUNITY CENTER: Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst visit WFUV Live. WEYES BLOOD visits The Current. AURORA visits KEXP.   THE BLACK KEYS…

BANANARAMA: "Cruel Summer" and their cover of the Shocking Blue's "Venus" makes for a timely Twofer Tuesday. THE HEAD AND THE HEART visits Morning Becomes Eclectic. JULIA JACKLIN visits The Current. ENSEMBLE…

THE SAINTS: "(I'm Stranded)." KAREN O & DANGER MOUSE visit the World Cafe. NICK WATERHOUSE visits the Paste Studio. MEG BAIRD & MARY LATTIMORE, Live at Union Pool. THE HIVES return with…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: … with XTC! Live on Rockpalast, February 10, 1982. Your setlist includes: "Respectable Street" (still one of my faves), "Towers of London," "Runaways," "Jason and the Argonauts," "Burning…