NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Adele, Beach Fossils, Robert Plant and Alison Krass, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Elbow, Kelley Stoltz, Fine Place, and more.

BOYGENIUS performs "Stay Down" at a benefit show.

WARREN ELLIS on the past, present, and future of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.

CHVRCHES is profiled in the New Haven Register.

THE TOP 75 ALBUMS of 2021, according to Uncut.

KEITH ALLISON, who performed with Paul Revere & The Raiders, has died, a family spokesperson has confirmed. He was 79.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Wilson Phillips "You're In Love," the final chart-topper of the trio's brief but dominant run.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Ghostbusters: Afterlife topped the chart with 44MM, and even ticked up over the weekend, which bodes well as we enter a holiday period with schools out.  The Eternals places with 10.8MM on a 60 percent drop that's probably among the steepest in the MCU for a third weekend in release.  Clifford the Big Red Dog shows with 8MM on a 53 percent drop, which is what happens when big competitioner rolls in and you're already streaming the pic at home.  Below the fold, the much-promoted Will Smith vehicle King Richard debuted in the fourth slot with only 6.5MM.

JASON REITMAN, avoiding talking about Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

BRITNEY SPEARS: Preparing for a wedding?

KIM KARDASHIAN & PETE DAVIDSON want their budding romance to remain “low-key” for now. You laughed. You know you did.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE, blazing up on set.

JEREMY RENNER is boasting two very different streaming TV roles.

ARCANE has already replaced Squid Game as Netflix's most-watched series.

ART LaFLEUR, the actor who was best known for playing Babe Ruth in The Sandlot, has died after a 10-year battle with A-typical Parkinson's. He was 78.

A BABY ARMADILLO, playing with its toy.

JUST a happy pupper.

A DOG and his boy, sort of.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE REPLACEMENTS! The original quartet, opening for X in Mpls in October '83.  Your setlist includes: "I'm In Trouble," "Kids Don't Follow," a lounge version of "F*** School," "Color Me Impressed," and "Sixteen Blue."  BONUS: The A.V. Club's primer to Paul Westerberg and the Replacements.

COURTNEY BARNETT plays The Current.

SLEIGH BELLS plays KEXP.

THE WAR ON DRUGS live debuts "Harmonia's Dream" and "Victim" at Desert Daze.

EDDIE VEDDER shares "The Haves."

KILLS BIRDS - who count Dave Grohl and Kim Gordon among their famous fans - dissect their new LP.

ELBOW's Guy Garvey talks almost being on Game of Thrones, meeting his wife at Benedict Cumberbatch's wedding, and more.

HOW PETER JACKSON used AI to uncover private Beatle talk. 

DAVID FRISHBERG, who wrote the well-known "Schoolhouse Rock!" song "I'm Just a Bill," died Wednesday in Portland, Ore., at 88. 

PAM & TOMMY has a trailer online.

SOUTH PARK: POST-COVID has a trailer online.

THE GILDED AGE, the long-awaited period drama from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, has a teaser online.

NIGHTMARE ALLEY from Guillermo del Toro, has a trailer online.

HAWKEYE: A Primer (Mild spoilers.)

KIM KARDASHIAN & PETE DAVIDSON are officially dating.

JONAH HILL will play Jerry Garcia in a biopic about the Grateful Dead, directed by Martin Scorsese.

THE EVOLUTION of Will Smith.

A BABY ELEPHANT, chasing birds.

A CONURE, trying to cuddle.

STINGRAYS, riding a wave.

THE ANTLERS stream a surprise EP with four 'Green To Gold' reworks.

KIT SEBASTIAN covers Sezen Aksu and Stereolab for a Lagniappe Sessions.

SPOON covers The Beatles' "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)."

NATION OF LANGUAGE's Ian Devaney gives a track-by-track tour of A Way Forward.

PHILIP MARGO, a member of the close-harmony group the Tokens, which earned enduring pop-music fame with the No. 1 hit “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” in 1961, died on Saturday in a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 79.

WHY ROD STEWART didn't play Live Aid.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Londonbeat's spirited soul-dance hybrid "I've Been Thinking About You."

BRITNEY SPEARS addresses the end of her conservatorship.

MEGXIT: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have no plans to jet back to the UK for the holidays — despite the fact that it will be Queen Elizabeth II's first Christmas without her husband, Prince Phillip, who died in April.

TOM HOLLAND is profiled at GQ.

GREASE: Canceled Down Under. Tell me more.

GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE First Reactions.

QUENTIN TARANTINO is being sued by Miramax over his plan to release non-fungible tokens based on Pulp Fiction.

ALEC BALDWIN is among those being sued by Rust script supervisor Mamie Mitchell for assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and deliberate infliction of harm.

DOG has a trailer online.

A DEER claims sanctuary inside a southern Michigan church on opening day of the state’s firearm deer hunting season.

ROBIN HOOD and Little John.

FINDING that matching sock.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features Big Thief, Pinegrove, Maia Friedman and more.

SUSTO plays World Cafe.

AEON STATION shares "Fade."

DURAN DURAN: Simon Le Bon talks about Bond themes and Pavarotti and side projects and more.

THE TOP 10 DAVE GROHL SONGS, ranked by Paste.

THE TOP 75 ALBUMS of 2021, according to MOJO.

HOW AL STEWART met the Beatles.

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME has a trailer online.

HARRY POTTER: The cast is reuniting to ring in 2022 on HBOMax.

GHOSTBUSTERS: The surviving cast reunited on the Tonight Show.

JAMES BOND: Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who have had a hand in every script this century, know that No Time to Die's secret weapon in Ana de Armas (and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, most likely).

DON'T LOOK UP, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, has a trailer online.

BABY YODA is in Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.

SHANG-CHI, fact-checked by a bus driver.

WHAT'S IN THE BOX?: The Terrifying Truth of ‘Se7en'.

THE MASSIVE FUNNEL WEB SPIDER has fangs capable of piercing human fingernails.

A ZEBRA, breaking in.

A CAT, thinking outside the box.

FLEETWOOD MAC: The Buckingham-Nicks era gets over three hours of discussion and anaysis with guest Charles C. W. Cooke.

KRISTIN ANNA visits KEXP.

COURTNEY BARNETT performed "Write A List Of Things To Look Forward To" for Ellen.

ADELE sang "I Drink Wine" after her interview with Oprah.

MY MORNING JACKET, on longevity, their new self-titled album and the breakup that wasn't.

THE BUSH TETRAS talk to Stereogum about  a new box set and the future.

THE CHARLATANS: How we made "The Only One I Know." And yet no mention of Deep Purple's "Hush."

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Gloria Estefan's gospel-tinged ballad "Coming Out Of The Dark," which she recorded while recovering from a fractured spine.

STAR WARS: Both Patty Jenkins' and Rian Johnson's plannedprojects have reportedly been shelved due to recurring "creative differences" with Lucasfilm.

JAMES BOND: Saving global theater chains.

MARILYN MANSON  is now accused of locking women in a small, soundproof space.

KRISTEN STEWART is profiled at The New Yorker.

KIRSTEN DUNST has expressed interest in returning to the Spider-Man universe as Mary Jane Watson.

BLACK PANTHER: T'Challa will not be recast.

YOUNG VIEWERS are far likelier than older viewers to use subtitles when watching TV.

DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA has a trailer online.

A BEAR visited a 7-Eleven in Lake Tahoe.

SNEAKING IN when you're too late for dinner.

WHY ARE DETROIT COPS Killing So Many Dogs?