THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE ZOMBIES! Their Odessey and Oracle 40th Anniversary concert, as they're finally performing the LP here in the US, years later.  Thus, your set list is: Care Of Cell 44, A Rose for Emily, Maybe After Hes Gone, Beachwood Park, Brief Candles, Hung Up On a Dream, Changes, I Want Her She Wants Me, This Will Be Our Year, Butcher's Tale (Western front 1914), Friends Of Mine, and Time Of The Season, with Tell Her No and Shes Not There as encores.

FUZZ: Ty Segall's power-trio advance streams the double-LP II.

CAR SEAT HEADREST advance streams Teens of Style.

DAVE GAHAN & SOULSAVERS: The Depeche Mode frontman advance streams Angels and Ghosts.

CHIC GAMINE advance streams Light a Match.

NEIL YOUNG: Sad Movies - The Secret History 1973-78. 

ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA drops "When the Night Comes."

THE CURE: The Fish, the Barrel, the Smoking Gun. 

HUSKER DU:  The merch store that appeared this week may be only the beginning?

ST VINCENT: Annie Clark talked to Bon Appetit about waitressing at a family taqueria, and ended up apologizing to burrito lovers.

PATTI SMITH was moved to tears after a fan helped to reunite the singer with items stolen from her nearly 40 years ago. 

PETER HOLSAPPLE talks about the Continental Drifters and the dB's with PopMatters. Sneakers even make an appearance in the piece.

JONI MITCHELL's health “is making good progress," according to a friend of Judy Collins. 

NOW SHOWING:  This weekend's wide releases include Goosebumps, which is currently scoring 72 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Bridge of Spies, currently scoring 92 percent; Crimson Peak, scoring 67 percent; and Woodlawn, currently unscreened for critics.

BRIDGE OF SPIES gets a solid B+ from me. I think I should expect more from Steven Spielberg directing from a screenplay co-written byt the Coen Bros.  But for whatever reason, I didn't, and thus don't feel disappointed.  The story of how John Donovan was pushed into representing a Soviet spy and ended up negotiating an exchange involving u-2 spy pilot Gary Powers is an interesting one, and a solid outing for Tom Hanks.  But it's less a Cold War thriller than a tale about those with honor and resolve... and those who don't. The film works on that level, even if done a bit obviously here.  Also, the contrast between the prosperous West and the desolated East could've been more subtle, but again, subtlety apparently was not the priority on this project.

LAMAR ODOM: The Kardashians are preparing to say goodbye to Lamar Odom as he lies in a coma after being found unresponsive in a Las Vegas-area brothel Tuesday night. 

TAYLOR SWIFT learned a big lesson from VH-1's Behind the Music. (More cowbell?) 

CHRISTOPHER LLOYD would like to go back to the future again. 

JOHN STAMOS is now officially charged with DUI. 

ROSIE O'DONNELL is “extremely depressed" after her daughter's harsh, tell-all interview with the Daily Mail. 

SCOTLAND: Two Libyans have been identified as suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, nearly 27 years ago, Scottish and U.S. officials say. 

IRAN's test this weekend of a new surface-to-surface ballistic missile "likely" violated a U.N. resolution, an administration official told CNN.  Iran also broadcast pictures from The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force of a missile facility tunnel reportedly dug some 1,640 feet (500 meters) under a mountain.

AFGHANISTAN: President Obama said Thursday he will keep 5500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan into 2017, ending his ambitions to bring home most American forces from that war-torn country before he leaves office. 

A RATTLESNAKE PIT, captured with a GoPro. Snakes...why did it have to be snakes?

RENT-THE-CHICKEN: Complete packages include everything you need to get dozen eggs a week on the table. 

LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE on the beach. 

KITTEN and FERRETS...living together... mass hysteria!

CRAIG FINN played “Maggie, I’ve Been Searching For Our Sons” and “Newmeyer’s Roof" for Seth Myers. 

LUNA, Live at the Bowery Ballroom, October 7, 2015. 

FRANK TURNER stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set. 

WILDHONEY advance streams their Your Face Sideways EP. 

SHANA FALANA streams Set Your Lightning Fire Free.

THE BESNARD LAKES drop "Golden Lion" ahead of A Coliseum Complex Museum. 

HOT AS SUN works an 80s synth vibe on "I Can Feel Your Love". 

KIM WILDE: "Kids In America."

ELVIS COSTELLO talks to All Things Considered about his career-spanning 674-page memoir, the gap in his teeth and why Lorne Michaels will probably take the truth of Costello's infamous SNL performance to his grave. 

LOU REED is getting an unflattering biography. 

MILEY CYRUS & THE FLAMING LIPS intend to perfom naked for an equally naked crowd. Sigh.

JOHN BERG, the art director for Columbia Records who designed classic LP covers for Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Sly Stone and more, died of pneumonia at his home in New York. He was 83. 

JENNIFER LAWRENCE's critique of Hollwood sexism gets plenty of celebrity responses. 

LAMAR ODOM  is still in a coma and his heart is failing after being found unconscious at a Nevada brothel. Khloé Kardashian and Kobe Bryant are among those rushing to the hospital.

YOKO ONO talks to the Daily Beast about why Mark David Chapman should stay in jail forever, the truth about John Lennon's bisexuality, and the ‘pain' she shares with Paul McCartney. 

HEIDI KLUM talks about single parenthood and more at Redbook. 

Y: THE LAST MAN may be headed to your TV screen. 

THE MUMMY may be female in the latest reboot. 

KING KONG & GODZILLA will be sharing the same cinematic universe.

NORTH KOREA has the capability to launch a nuclear weapon against the US and stands ready to defend against any such attacks, a high-level US military official has said.

IRAN has begun to ink lucrative arms contracts with the Russian and Chinese governments. OTOH, from Revolutionary Guards generals to Hezbollah commanders, Tehran's agents are being offed at a rapid rate in Syria.

TWO BRAVE(?) DIVERS remove a hook from a shark's jaws. 

A DUCK in a bowtie got into a bar fight with a dog. 

A FORMER MEERKAT EXPERT at London Zoo has been ordered to pay compensation to a monkey handler she attacked with a wine glass in a love spat over a llama-keeper. (I'm guessing she's still a meerkat expert, but formerly of the London Zoo.)

GIANT PANDA CUBS were born at the Toronto Zoo. 

DEERHUNTER drops a video for "Living My Life."

ALEX BLEEKER & THE FREAKS advance stream Country Agenda, which Stereogum compares to the Grateful Dead, but really takes in a lot of Laurel canyon-style country-rock.

BEACH HOUSE drops three tracks from its surprise album, Thank Your Lucky Stars, dure Friday. 

ANDRA DAY played a Tiny Desk Concert. 

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from Florist, Motel Beds, and the Walkmen's Hamilton Leithauser and Paul Maroon, highlight the newest edition.

DJANGO DJANGO drops “Hold The Line,” which is not a Toto cover or a Major Lazer cover. 

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD drops “Radiating Fiber Plane” as the first single from the band’s forthcoming record Global Chakra Rhythms.  

PLIMSOULS: "A Million Miles Away." Classic power-pop. Can you tell Valley Girl was on cable?

PITCHFORK MEDIA has been purchased by Condé Nast, publisher of Vogue, GQ, and Vanity Fair.

THE VILLAGE VOICE has been sold to a company controlled by investor Peter Barbey of the Reading Eagle Company, a family-owned business that says it has been publishing newspapers since 1796. 

HUSKER DU is officially open for business. 

ETERNAL SUMMERS talks to Brooklyn Vegan about CMJ, touring Europe, songwriting and more. 

JENNIFER LAWRENCE delivers an essay on Hollywood's sexism. 

EMILIA CLARKE (Game of Thrones) is Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive. 

LAMAR ODOM was found unconscious at the Love Ranch, a legal brothel in Crystal, NV.  Sen. Pat Geary unavailable for comment.

HAYDEN PANETTIERE checked into a facility to battle postpartum depression following the birth of her first child, Kaya.

HUGH GRANT (confirming prior rumors) is expecting a fourth child, his second with TV producer Anna Eberstein.

QUENTIN TARANTINO, interviewed by Bret Easton Ellis. 

EDDIE MURPHY emerges for a lengthy profile by the Washington Post. 

SYRIA: Insurgent commanders say that since Russia began air attacks in support of the Syrian government, they are receiving for the first time bountiful supplies of powerful American-made antitank missiles. 

IRAN's parliament passed a bill on Tuesday approving its nuclear deal with world powers, signaling victory for the government over hardline opponents who worry the accord opens a door to wider rapprochement with the West. 

OVER 100 SHARKS were spotted off Miami Beach. 

THE GUADALCANAL MOUSTACHED KINGFISHER, an extremely rare bird, was found and promptly killed by a scientific expedition. 

HEDGEHOGS risk being wiped out in the UK if more is not done to prevent the garden mammal being needlessly killed, wildlife experts have warned. 

SEAWORLD in California has been banned from breeding and trading any animals held in captivity. 

RICHARD HAWLEY dropped a video for "I Still Want You."

CRAIG FINN performed songs from his new solo record Faith In The Future live on KEXP’s Midday Show.

FFS, the Franz Ferdinand/Sparks hybrid rolls a couple of live tracks when the Mael bros talk to WFUV.

WOOZY advance streams their debut, Blistered.

NEON INDIAN advance streams VEGA INTL. Night School.

MARTIN COURTNEY of Real Estate drops "Airport Bar" ahead of his solo LP, Many Moons.

MARK KOZELEK covers the traditional Appalachian murder ballad “Down In The Willow Garden" twice on an EP of the same name.

MIKE PACE & THE CHILD ACTORS have a new single out.

GRAHAM PARKER gives The Quietus the 13 albums that have had the biggest impact on him as a musician.

DEERHUNTER frontman Bradford Cox shares blunt talk with The Observer.

LOW's Alan Sparhawk told Drowned In Sound the band is still figuring out how to communicate with each other, and us, and higher powers. And, also, he thinks Beyoncé is quite good. (Thx, Frank Yang.)

LUNA: Dean Wareham does a quick hit with amNY about the reunion tour.

JOHNNY DEPP doesn't want an Oscar; it's an honor enough to be nominated.

CHARLIE SHEEN was headlocked and thrown out of a bar. Alcohol may have been a factor.

RHIANNA was interviewed by filmmaker Miranda July for the New York Times magazine about what turns her on, how she handles the pressure of public scrutiny and why she's been Googling childbirth.

AMANDA BYRNES is going back to fashion school.

FANTASY ISLAND may be rebooted until it's barely recognizable.

STAR WARS is not being Disney-fied, insists Episode VII director J.J. Abrams.

GERMANY: More than a million refugees will come to Germany this year, Chancellor Angela Merkel's deputy said on Sunday, as a poll showed almost half of Germans believe she is handling the influx of asylum seekers badly.

RUSSIAN air strikes in Syria could cause a new refugee crisis as Syrians in rebel-held parts of the country flee to avoid a return to living under Bashar al-Assad's regime, the Turkish prime minister has said. Putin's overture to opponents of Russia's bombing campaign in Syria was snubbed on Monday, with Saudi sources saying they had warned the Kremlin leader of dangerous consequences and Europe issuing its strongest criticism yet.

IRAN: While all eyes are on Vladimir Putin’s machinations in Syria, deploying Russian fighters and troops, a potentially more dangerous Moscow effort in Iran is picking up steam.

WHALES play under the Northern Lights.

MOUNTAIN GOATS are being culled en masse in France.

THE BUZZING DEAD: Tiny flies create zombie honeybees.

WHOOO ARE YOUUUU? A giant green caterpillar was found in the back garden of a family in Alabama.

STEVE MACKAY, the saxophonist who appeared on the Stooges' 1970 LP Fun House and a longtime touring member of the group following the Stooges' reunion in 2003 (Here he is playing behid Iggy on "Fun House"), died recently following a month-long fight with sepsis. Mackay was 66.

PATRICK STICKLES of Titus Andronicus stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

KURT VILE stopped by WFUV's Studio A for a chat and mini-set.

ALBERT HAMMOND JR performs in the WNYC Soundcheck studio.

SILVERSUN PICKUPS stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

CAMERA OBSCURA keyboardist Carey Lander passed away after battling osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer, since 2011. She was 33. In her honor, let's revisit 2009's "The Sweetest Thing."

THE ZOMBIES: Rod Argent talks to the Village Voice about his influences, NYC in the Sixties, and touring Odessey and Oracle in its entirety.

ST VINCENT: Annie Clark waitressed this past weekend at a Dallas taqueria owned by her brother and sister-in-law.

THE TEN VIDEOS with more than a billion Tube views. "Do you already despair for the future of humanity? Then stop reading now."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Martian repeats at the top of the chart with 37MM, on the strength of people like me, who took my brother and sister-in-law to se it. The Ridley Scott flick dropped only 32 percent, which is leggy, tho not as leggy as Gravity's 23 percent sophomore frame. Hotel Transylvania 2 places  again with 20.3MM on a 39 percent drop, clearly benefitting from the Halloween season and a lack of family film competition until next month's Peanuts film. The debut of Pan shows with 15.5MM which means it would need Neverland-level grosses abroad to make money on a 150MM budget. The Intern takes the fourth slot with 8.7MM on a leggy 26 percent drop.  Sicario rounds out the Top Five with 7.4MM on a 40 percent drop, which is OK, tho in hindsight this release maight have been a bit early to retain buzz during awards season.

KANYE WEST got political advice from President Obama.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE gave AZIZ ANSARI a piggyback ride leaving the SNL afterparty.

BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN died due to “injection of a toxic mixture” by Nick Gordon, according to a new legal document filed by Brown's court-appointed conservator Bedelia Hargrove.

JOHN GOODMAN has dropped a lot of weight.

RANDY QUAID was taken into custody Friday night while trying to cross into the United States from Canada, Vermont State Police said.

PIPPA MIDDLETON, the sporty sister of Princess Kate, has split from Nico Jackson, her boyfriend of three years.

MARVEL STUDIOS may drop The Inhumans movie in its schedule reshuffle. OTOH, the next two Avengers movies have a combined budget of one billion dollars.

COLUMBUS DAY:  I get it as a holiday, so I thought a few words might be in order. Over the course of my life, I have seen the image of Columbus swing from unvarnished hero to genocidal criminal, and the subject of many misconceptions.  Columbus was certainly no sweetheart, but at the end of the 15th Century, it is fair to say that Europeans often did not treat each other all that well. Moreover, before the furriners showed up, Native North and South Americans engaged in tribal massacre, infanticide, scalping, human sacrifice, and the ritual skinning of slaves for their priests to wear. It was a far less civilized time all 'round. But the West is civilized today in part because of Columbus. Some four centuries-plus later, we all are still struggling to become more civilized, but focusing criticism o­n the more-civilized while giving the less-civilized a pass is not particularly useful to that struggle.

TURKEY: At least 95 people were killed in twin explosions Saturday outside the main train station in the Turkish capital Ankara where protesters were gathering for a peace march, the government said.

SYRIA's key opposition National Coalition said Sunday it would boycott talks proposed by UN peace envoy Staffan de Mistura over concerns about his plan and Russia's air strikes in the country. Russia said on Saturday it had stepped up its bombing campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria, while local observers said several of the air strikes had hit areas in western Syria where the hardline group has little presence. Meanwhile, for the first time since 2007, the U.S. Navy has no aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf.  A week into Russia's military intervention in Syria, some top White House advisers and National Security Council staffers are trying to persuade President Barack Obama to scale back U.S. engagement there, to focus on lessening the violence and, for now, to give up on toppling the Syrian regime.

IRAN tested a new guided long-range ballistic missile on Sunday, hours before Parliament, in a rowdy session, approved the generalities of the nuclear agreement reached in July between Iran and world powers, the state news agency IRNA reported. The missile launch may have violated the terms of the agreement, reached in Vienna with six world powers. Shocka.

AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban insurgency has spread through more of the country than at any point since 2001, according to data compiled by the United Nations as well as interviews with numerous local officials in areas under threat.

IRAQ: Eight senior figures from the Islamic State were killed in an air strike while meeting in a town in western Iraq, but the group's reclusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi did not appear to be among them, residents of the town and hospital sources said.

PIZZA RAT 2: Electric Boogaloo.

BLACK BEARS can now be hunted in Florida for the first time in 21 years.

HOW THE GIRAFFE got its neck.

A DOG saves KITTENS in a Doritos box.