RYLEY WALKER, Live at Hopscotch, September 6, 2019. 

AIDA VICTORIA visits Morning Becomes Eclectic.

TRENT REZNOR & ATTICUS ROSS have put their Watchmen soundtrack online.

GRAHAM COXON covers Billy Idol's "White Wedding."

HAZEL ENGLISH returns with a video for "Shaking."

RINGO STARR talks to Morning Edition about his new book, chock full of Fab photos.

JOE PESCI is dropping an album, and it features Maroon 5’s Adam Levine. Yes, really.

AQUARIUM DRUNKARD's 100 fave albums of the 2010s.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Bill Conti's triumphant fanfare "Gonna Fly Now (Theme From 'Rocky')."

WHITNEY HOUSTON's best friend Robyn Crawford opens up about their love affair.

KRISTEN STEWART opens up about her fiirst love, with Robert Pattinson.

CGI JAMES DEAN has been posthumously cast in the Vietnam era action-drama Finding Jack.

INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE was a mistake, according to director Roland Emmerich, making it unanimous.

NOAH BAUMBACH's MOVIES, ranked by The Ringer.

THE IRISHMAN: Will its de-aging tech change the movie biz?

COLOR OUT OF SPACE, with Nic Cage doing H.P. Lovecraft, has a trailer online.

A BOY gets a dog.

THIS DOG couldn't stand to be touched, now loves to cuddle.

THE U.S. SENATE unanimously approved a bill making animal cruelty a federal crime.

A FLESH-EATING TAPEWORM was eating his brain for 15 years.

JON PRATT covers the Ray Charles classic, "I Got a Woman."  I'm shamefully behind in posting this, but the last few weeks have been, um, hectic.

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD play KEXP.

OF MONSTERS AND MEN visits World Cafe.

RHIANNON GIDDENS visits The Current.

THE RENTALS return with "Spaceship."

BEST COAST returns with "For the First Time."

SPINAL TAP have resolved their dispute with Universal Music Group regarding the film’s soundtrack recordings.

KACEY MUSGRAVES enlists LANA DEL REY, ZOOEY DESCHANEL and more for a Christmas special and album.

THE MELLOTRON: Inspiring a new generation of musicians.

THE 200 BEST SONGS of the 2010s, accordingto Stereogum.

ANGELINA JOLIE on parenting, being unpopular in school, and more.

COLIN FARRELL is in talks to play the Penguin in The Batman?

EMMA WATSON calls singledom being self-partnered.

ANTHONY MACKIE got divorced quietly.

JAMIE LEE CURTIS talks about 20 years of sobriety.

KRISTEN STEWART can't wait to propose to her girlfriend. And yet.

DANIEL CRAIG shut down a question about hiring Phoebe Waller-Bridge to punch up the script for No Time To Die (Bond 25.)

A DOG ABANDONED in the desert learns to trust people again.

THIS STRAY PIT BULL may be the world's most determined.

A MILLION CANNIBAL ANTS trapped in a nuclear bunker for years have escaped, scientists in Poland have said.

TWIGLET, a 420-pound hog, was rescued from a flat where it ate Chinese takeout.

X stopped by 30 Rock to play "Hot House" and "Breathless," lo these many moons ago.

THE NEW PR0NOGRAPHERS, Live at Rockwood Music Hall.

PERNICE BROTHERS, Live at the Mercury Lounge, October 20, 2019.

JEREMY IVEY plays World Cafe Live.

FIONA APPLE covers The Waterboys'' “The Whole Of The Moon.”

BLONDIE covers T. Rex's signature "Bang a Gong (Get it On)" this week in 1987.

EDDIE VEDDER joins RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS for Prince's "Purple Rain" and Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower."

MICHAEL JACKSON'S ESTATE bought majority ownership of the U.S. rights to Sly and the Family Stone's catalog.

R.E.M.: How Monster signaled the end of alternative rock.

THE TOP 100 ALBUMS of the 2010s, according to Stereogum.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Marvin Gaye's final #1 hit, the sensitive disco odyssey, "Got To Give It Up (Part 1)."

MARTIN SCORSESE brings his anti-Marvel argument to the NYT op-ed page.

KEANU REEVES and ... longtime pal Alexandra Grant?

ANNA FARIS appears to be engaged to cinematographer Michael Barrett.

FELICITY HUFFMAN logs community service hours as part of her Varsity Blues sentence.

ARCTIC DOGS had a historically bad opening weekend.

FANTASTIC BEASTS will in fact complete the trilogy.

HOLLYWOOD may kill US trade with South Africa.

A RAVEN acts just like a puppy with his human.

ORPHANED RACCONS, mothered by a pit bull.

A CAT took the field for Monday Night Football; Kevin Harlan has the call.  BONUS: Cats and dogs watch.

A BEAR with a soccer ball, rolling around in the snow in a Colorado resident's backyard. 

THE BOOMTOWN RATS: "I Don't Like Mondays," live at the Secret Policemen's Other Ball.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to releases from Earl Sweatshirt, Miranda Lambert, Sean Henry, and more.

INDIE BASEMENT will point you to releasesfrom new albums from Bradford Cox & Cate Le Bon, Omni and more.

RAPHAEL SAADIQ plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

OLIVIA COLEMAN & PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE cover Portishead's "Glory Box" for charity.

LUCY DACUS does an angry version of Wham!'s "Last Christmas."

ROBYN HITCHCOCK shares a video for "Sunday Never Comes."

R.E.M: Peter Buck talks about nine songs that influenced Monster.  Michael Stpe and Mile Mills chat with NME.  And the demos are online now, along with live tracks from Chicago.

DEREK SMALLS of Spinal Tap talks about his upcoming show in L.A., the British Fund for Ageing Rockers, and the scam that is the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE will rage again.

THE 30 BEST POP ALBUMS of the 2010s, according to Paste.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Fleetwood Mac's incandescent pop classic "Dreams."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Terminator: Dark Fate tops the chart with 29MM, which is below the lowest projections last week and the lowest No. 1 debut in November since Ender's Game in 2013.  It made about the same amount overseas, again well below the 40-50MM many projected.  This is afilm that probably had to make almost 500MM to break even. Ouch.  Ouch.  Ouch.  Joker places with 13.9MM and will break 300MM domestic this week.  Maleficent: Mistress of Evil shows with 12.2MM.  Harriet debuts in the fourth slot with 12MM and could leap ahead once the estimates become actuals.  The Addams Family rode the Hollywood weekened to round out the Top Five with another8.5MM.

THE BEE GEES will be getting the biopic treatment  from Bohemian Rhapsody producer Graham King.

MICHAEL JACKSON again tops the latest Forbes list of top-earning dead celebs.

LORI LAUGHLIN says she's not guilty of new charges in the Varsity Blues scandal.

CARY ELWES talks about Saw on its 15th anniversary.

LADY GAGA & RIDLEY SCOTT are teaming up on a film about the tumultuous Gucci family fashion dynasty and the murder of the grandson of founder Guccio Gucci.

ANT-MAN 3: Peyton Reed will return to direct.

HUNTERS, ft Al Pacino and Jordan Peel tracking Nazis, has a teaser trailer online.

INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE announced a sequel date.

BRIAN TARANTINA (The Marvelous Mrs Maisel)  has died at 60, apparently from a heart issue.

A PUPPER goes down the stairs with style. 

UNLIKE CARNIVORES who get sodium from meat, butterflies have to find other sources—like turtle tears.

SURPRISE dictates I leave it there.

TENTACLE DRONES: Not an animal, but freaky.

THE HALLOWEEN WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...STREAMING FROM THE CASTLE EAST! This fan-made 1973 video for "The Monster Mash" is today's must-see clip (natch. The covers by Bootsy Collins and Buckethead,  The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and The Misfits are pretty good also -- the latter uses clips from the Rankin-Bass animated classic, Mad Monster Party.

THE SHAGGS: It's Halloween!

JIM CARROLL (deceased) sings about "People Who Died."

KISS got their first television exposure in 1976 on The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.

"DO THEY KNOW IT'S HALLOWEEN?" is the all-star charity send-up of Band-Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" featuring Roky Erikson, Elvira, plus members from Arcade Fire, Sonic Youth, Smoosh, Rilo Kiley, Sparks and many more.

HALLOWEEN A/V: The Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer," Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising," Echo & the Bunnymen's "The Killing Moon,"  Santana's "Black Magic Woman", The Ramones' "Pet Sematary," Alice Cooper's "Welcome to My Nightmare," Siouxsie & the Banshees' "Halloween," Cat Power's "Werewolf," Guided by Voices' "Cut-Out Witch,"  Classics IV's "Spooky," Tegan & Sara's "Walking With a Ghost," Stevie Wonder's "Superstition," Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' "Red Right Hand," AC/DC's "Hell's Bells," The Cramps' "Goo Goo Muck," Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear The Reaper (More Cowbell)," Tom Waits' "Cemetery Polka," The Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein," and Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party."  And, of course... Screamin' Jay Hawkins.

THE ROLLING STONES' "Sympathy For The Devil" from the David Frost Show just plain amuses me. Monty Python makes much more sense when you know most of them once wrote for Frost.

WARREN ZEVON: A live trifecta of "Werewolves of London," "Excitable Boy" and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner." BONUS: "Werewolves of London," by James Joyce.

THOMAS DOLBY: How about the mad vibe of "She Blinded Me With Science"?

HENRI MANCINI: "Experiment in Terror." A sentimental favorite to those who grew up watching "Creature Features" on WGN before it went superstation.

THE TIME WARP: Let's do it again.

NOW SHOWING:This weekend's wide releases are Terminator: Dark Fate, which is currently scoring 66 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Harriet, scoring 70 percent; Motherless Brooklyn, scoring 65 percent; and Arctic Dogs, not screened for critics.  Plus, there's Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, in limited release on the big screen before coming to Netflix on Nov. 27; it's scoring 98 percent.

AND NOW: A Sophisticated Man About Town. Super-duper.

GRIM GRINNING GHOSTS, from the Haunted Mansion.

"THRILLER": The original 13-minute Jacko classic, plus the filipino prisoners.

IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN is viewable online. The WaPo has 7 Things You Don't Know about the perennial Peanuts classic. Vox thinks it's a Christmas special.

15 FACTS ABOUT HALLOWEEN: I counted more than that.  AND FIVE THINGS you may not know about Halloween.

THE TOP 10 SCI-FI HORROR FLICKS, according to Forbes.

THE 25 SCARIEST OPENING SCENES in horror-movie history, according to The A/V Club.

WE THE PEOPLE, against the zombies.

DOCUMENTING MADNESS: The Making of The Shining. Directed by Vivian Kubrick.

IS FROZEN Disney's version of The Shining?

THE HORRIBLY SLOW MURDERER With the Extremely Inefficient Weapon. Ten minutes of unimaginable terror.

13 MUSICIANS recount paranormal experiences.

WAR of the WORLDS: All these decades years later, you can stream the infamous Orson Welles broadcast from the Internet Archive.

THE WILHELM SCREAM: The repeatedly used film and television stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums, now appearing as an in-joke in many films, is the subject of a Masters of Horror segment.

31 CLASSIC HALLOWEEN TV EPISODES AND SPECIALS, according to Zap2It.

HOW TO CARVE YOUR PUMPKIN Using Power Tools.

HALLOWEEN: A Foodie History.

THE WEEKLY SUBSTANDARD Halloween Candy Draft is a classic.  (NSFW content included)

THE ULTIMATE HALLOWEEN CANDY POWER RANKING, according to FiveThirtyEight.

DIED IN HOUSE: They're Heeeeeerrrrrrreeeeee...

THE 13 BEST HORROR scores of the 2010s, according to Stereogum.

TEN KILLER TRACKS associated with horror movies, courtesy of NME.

THE 17 BEST HORROR FLICKS STREAMING NOW, according to Wired.

THE 100 BEST HORROR FILMS, compiled by TimeOut with assistance from filmmakers like Guillermo del Toro, Clive Barker and Roger Corman to actors, academics and fans of scary movies including Simon Pegg, Kim Newman and Alice Cooper.

THE 100 GREATEST HORROR FILMS, according to IndieWire.

THE 25 BEST HORROR FILMS SINCE 2000, according to The A.V. Club.

THE BEST HORROR FILMS OF THE PAST 20 YEARS, according to Variety.

THE TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES YOU HAVEN'T SEEN, according to the UAB Kaleidescope.

THE 15 SCARIEST FILMS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN, according to Variety, though I've seen Alice Sweet Alice.

10 SUPERNATURAL FILMS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED, according to Flavorwire.

THE 20 ESSENTIAL VAMPIRE MOVIES, according to Flavorwire.

23 UNUSUAL VAMPIRE VARIATIONS, courtesy of The A.V. Club.

THE 25 MOST RIDICULOUS Movies "Of The Dead."

THE MOST MIND-BOGGLING "SEXY" COSTUMES of 2017.

END CAT: Jake receives transmissions from the future.

TIPS FOR FEAR-FREE PETS on Halloween.

HALLOWEEN COSTUME ADVICE for pets.

THE MOST POPULAR HOWLOWEEN COSTUMES for pets.