THE MAVERICKS play the AmericanaFest Day Stage.

JESCA HOOP visits WFUV Studio A.

SONNY LANDRETH plays World Cafe.

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS return with “Armageddon’s Back In Town.”

DAVID BYRNE performs “Road To Nowhere” with the cast of American Utopia on Fallon.

McCARTNEY's 10 BEST SOLO TRACKS, according to NME

THE WORLD'S LARGEST BABY JESUS STATUE? Or Phil Collins?

THE GRAMMY nominees are announced.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Meco's utterly ridiculous disco cash-in novelty "'Star Wars' Theme/Cantina Band."

DANIEL CRAIG  has confirmed that next year's No Time To Die will be his last film as James Bond.

THE MISTER ROGERS No One Saw.

FELICITY HUFFMAN wants to work with incarcerated women as part of her community service program.

HARRY, MEGHAN, WILLIAM & KATE: Inside the royal rift.

THE JOKER is not getting a sequel... yet.

BRAD PITT is not dating Arrested Development's Alia Shawka.

THE TOP 100 MOVIES of the 2010s, according to The A.V. Club.

FX's A CHRISTMAS CAROL has a trailer online.

CAT REUNIONS are different from dog reunions.

"I SAID NO, BARRY!"

DONKEY IN A HAMMOCK, I know, I know, it's serious.

RESPECT THE HUSTLE of Soda Can Raccoon and Murder Cat.

BLEACHED visits Morning Becomes Eclectic.

THE HEAD AND THE HEART visits World Cafe and does an audience Q & A.

JOAN SHELLEY guest DJs All Songs Considered, with tracks from her, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, June Tabor, and more.

SHARON VAN ETTEN & JEFF GOLDBLUM perform "Let's Face The Music And Dance" on Kimmel.

PETE TOWNSHEND talks to World Cafe about his novel, Tommy, and more.

THE ORDINARY BRILLIANCE of Big Thief.

STEELY DAN's Aja is the 25th album that changed Terry Teachout's life.

THE TEN GREATEST BASS LINES, according to NME.

STAR TREK: The next movie will be written and directed by... Noah Hawley (Legion, Fargo).

EMILIA CLARKE talks about all that nudity on Game of Thrones.

HARRY POTTER's playground romance.

VICTORIA'S SECRET Angels may go extinct.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF ROYAL FIXATION, from Will & Kate to The Crown.

DAVID FINCHER & ROBERT TOWNE are cooking up a Chinatown prequel for Netflix.

LORD OF THE RINGS: Amazon is already greenlighting a second season during pre-production of the first.

THE IRISHMAN has a final trailer online.

DOGS in a lineup.

THE SOUND of 100 duck feet marching in unison.

THREE MEN catch a falling bear.

TERRIFIED COWS run for their lives as a Florida man leads deputies on a chase through a cattle field.

SON VOLT, Live at the Fine Line Music Cafe in Mpls.

BLACK MOUNTAIN visits KEXP.

MICHAEL KIWANUKA visits WFUV's Studio A.

GUIDED BY VOICES shares "Heavy Like The World."

ANDY SCHAUF shares a video for "Try Again."

TEENAGE FANCLUB: Gerry Love talks to The Scotsman about leaving the band.

THE 25 BEST MUSIC VIDEOS of the 2010s, according to Paste.

THE TOP TEN BEATLES BOOKS, according to Rolling Stone.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Emotions' ebullient soul-disco classic "Best Of My Love," the song that opened up Boogie Nights.

MOVIE THEATERS: The federal consent decree ruling the biz since the 1940s is going away.

TAYLOR SWIFT will get to play her old songs at the American Music Awards.

EDDIE VAN HALEN  is home after a few rough days in a hospital with reported complications from his cancer treatment.

KYLIE JENNER is selling a 51 percent stake of her Kylie Cosmetics line to Coty for 600MM.

JENNIFER LOPEZ is profiled by GQ.

FLORENCE PUGH & BEANIE FEDSTEIN interview each other about Little Women, Booksmart, and more.

ALAN MOORE: A resurfaced 2017 interview tops Scorsese when it comes to superhero movies.

A DOGGO, rescued from a 20-foot deep cave.

THE BIG BOY doesn't need help.

A CAMEL, A COW, AND A DONKEY, roaming together along a Kansas road in a grouping reminiscent of a Midwestern Christmas Nativity scene.

A 40-LB PYTHON was hiding in a spa ceiling for a decade.

NEW RELEASES: Pitchfork will point you to Bonnie “Prince” Billy, DJ Shadow, Margaux and more, while Paste adds Molly Burch, Varsity and more.

INDIE BASEMENT will point you toward Tindersticks, Falkon/Falkland, TOY and more.

CALEXICO + IRON & WINE play KEXP.

THOM YORKE brings his "Daily Battles" to Colbert.

LONDON CALLING ay 40: How The Clash shattered punk orthodoxy and created a masterpiece.

JOE HENRY is battling stage four cancer and has a new LP out a year after hee was told he had months to live.

JERRY DONAHUE (Fairport Convention, Fotheringhay) is the beneficiary of an all-star fundraiser; the guitarist has fallen on hard times after a stroke.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at bonus Bee Gee Andy Gibb's teen-idol arrival "I Just Want To Be Your Everything."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Ford v Ferrari tops the chart with 31MM, and given the relative drought of Oscar contenders in a biz that allegedly keeps moving the awards season up, the fact that it plays well with older moviegoers gives it a shot at legs into the holiday season.  It made alnost as much total as Midway, which places with 8.8MM on a 51 percent drop and a 35MM domestic total that does not bode well for a 100MM-budget movie.  The re-rebooted Charlie's Angels shows with 8.6MM; given that the 2000 vesrion opened to 40MM, this is bad, even against a reasonable 50MM budget.  Playing With Fire takes the fourth slot with 8.55MM, which means it could beat the Angels when the estimates become actuals.  Last Christmas rounds out the Top Five with 6.7MM and its 35.6MM worldwide gross to date is not too bad against a 30MM budget.

CHRISTIAN BALE talks Ford v Ferrari, Batman, and his real dream job. BONUS: Bale's mastery, in seven charts.

CBS allegedly mishandled complaints of inappropriate touching by Patricia's Heaton's (real) husband  on her new show.

PRINCE ANDREW talked to the BBC about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  The reviews were not good.

JOSHUA JACKSON & JODIE TURNER-SMITH: More evidence suggesting they're married.

JUSTICE LEAGUE; There now looks like a coordinated campaign to release Zack Snyder's cut of the movie.

NICOLAS CAGE is in talks for the role of a lifetime: Nicolas Cage.

ALAN MOORE's legacy is taking over TV and movies, but he wants nothing to do with it.

THE BEST 100 MOVIES of the 2010s, according to Paste.

REUINTED after a year away.

A DONKEY, reunited with the little girl that raised him.

A CHEETAH CUB  and a RESCUE PUP nuzzle each other during a cute sleepover at the Cincinnati Zoo.

TWO PUPS and a baby.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE PAISLEY UNDERGROUND!  A two-part (Part 1, Part 2) feature from the Old Grey Whistle Test on L.A.'s psychedelic-flavored, West Coast scene in the mid-80s. Bands featured include the Long Ryders, Prime Movers, Thin White Rope, Pontiac Brothers and the Rain Parade with a 6 minute live version of No Easy Way Down. The Long Ryders get short shrift so I'll add in their later OGWT appearance to play "Looking For Lewis & Clark." The term "Paisley Underground" is believed to have been jokingly coined by Michael Quercio of the band The Three O'Clock, so I'll toss in the clip for "Her Head's Revolving" as a bonus. Abther band associated with the scene not featured is The Bangs, a/k/a The Bangles, with an early track, "The Real World."  DOUBLE BONUS: The Guardian Music Blog has a link-rich piece on the Rain Parade and other Paisley Underground bands.

ANGEL OLSEN visits The Current.

THE BLACK CROWES' Chris and Rich Robinson visit Morning Becomes Eclectic.

LITTLE WINGS cover Don Henley, Joey Scarbury, Natalie Merchant, Jerry Garcia and Cyndi Lauper for a Lagniappe Session.

WYE OAK shares their "Fortune."

OF MONTREAL returns with “Peace to All Freaks.”

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD covers "People Get Ready."

THE GET UP KIDS share a video for "Lou Barlow," starring the man himself.

TINDERSTICKS: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.

THE 1975's Matty Healy Dissects Every Song on A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships.

THE ESSENTIAL KRAUTROCK ALBUMS, according to Stereogum.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS ALBUMS EVER, according to Happy Magazine.

NOW SHOWING:  This weekend's wide releases include Ford v Ferrari, which is currently scoring 91 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; the latest reboot of Charlie's Angels, which is scoring 59 percent, and The Good Liar, scoring 59 percent.

FORD vs FERRARI: Director James Mangold talks about how the film is a metaphor for filmmaking.

CHRIS PRATT auditioned for Captain America.

QUEEN ELIZABETH II has been helping the Duke and Duchess of Sussex cope with the pressures of royal life.

ANGELINA JOLIE  “has been on a few dates, but nothing serious” has come out of them.

TAYLOR SWIFT says Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta are blocking her from performing her old songs.  Shades of John Fogerty.

BEVERLY HILLS COP: Netflix has picked up the rights to make a sequel, with Eddie Murphy set to star and Jerry Bruckheimer set to produce.

SPIKE LEE will direct a 1980s-era hip-hop take on Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.

DIANE NEAL, who played prosecutor Casey Novak on Law and Order: SVU, is accusing her celebrity magician ex-boyfriend of physical and sexual abuse—and of hurting her pets.

HALLMARK CHANNEL is getting into the holiday spirit... of Hannukah.

OTTERS on a water slide.

A FERRET gets down.

KANGAROOS, rescued from "unprecedented" emergency-level fires in Australia.

THREE COWS swept out to sea during Hurricane Dorian have been found alive on the Outer Banks in North Carolina.