Short and sweet today. Wishing you an adventure-filled, musical weekend. A good time to curl up with an obsessive song-by-song podcast about your favorite mysterious R&B star or your favorite literate indie-rocker. Or watch a doc on the history of techno in Berlin. Or start prepping for your IPO, if that's more your thing... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from my favorite Antipodean lefty guitarist, COURTNEY BARNETT, as well as BTS, BOMBINO, MARY LATTIMORE, GAS, RAY LAMONTAGNE, LIL BABY, KYLE, MALUMA, PARQUET COURTS, DJDS, STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS, SPENCER BROWN, NOW NOW, NICK GRANT, ASH, BRAD MEHLDAU, ARTURO SANDOVAL, KELLY WILLIS, JUSTIN NOZUKA, TT, MC PAUL BARMAN, BURN THE PRIEST, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, NAV, ZIGGY MARLEY, MICHAEL RAULT, JAMES BAY, RAT SCABIES, LOW CUT CONNIE, JOAN ARMATRADING, MATTHEW SWEET and the SIDEKICKS... RIP YOUNG KING DAVE.