THE OHIO PLAYERS are on "Fire." Over nine minutes, and just gets wackier.

CRAIG FINN, Live at Rockwood Music Hall.

DURAND JONES & THE INDICATIONS play KEXP.

WALT DISCO covers Dusty Springfield’s biggest hit, “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me,” sort of reminiscent of Klaus Nomi.

ARETHA FRANKLIN's FBI FILE reflects an era when the agency spied not only on civil rights leaders, political organizers and suspected Communists, but also on popular Black entertainers involved in civil rights activism.

KATIE CRUTCHFIELD & KEVIN MORBY, interviewed by The Bitter Southerner.

ENUMCLAW, profiled at SPIN.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at "Ain't It Funny," the second of the smash remixes that Jennifer Lopez made with Ja Rule.

BRANDY has reportedly been hospitalized after possibly suffering a seizure.

BRENDAN FRASER's 600-pound comeback.

SPIRITED: A Christmas Carol with Ryan Reynolds and Will Farrell, has a trailer online.

JEFFREY DAHMER is huge on Netflix.

THE CROWN is preparing to shoot the scenes leading up to Princess Diana's death, Variety understands, which is causing some anxiety among the cast and crew.

EDDIE IZZARD has announced her intention to join the race to become the next Labour MP for Sheffield Central. Her campaign has been supported by... Russell Crowe.

BARNEY: The man in the suit is now a “tantric sex guru.”

ONCE YOU GET A DOG, nothing in your house belongs to you anymore.

NOT as easy as it looks.

A CAT, looking for a makeover.

DEAN & BRITTA: "Words You Used to Say."

THE CURE debuted two new songs on tour.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features Sigur Ros, Lydia Ramsey, and more.

WET LEG plays "Chaise Lounge" for Kimmel.

WEYES BLOOD shares "Grapevine."

THE A's cover New Riders Of The Purple Sage’s 1973 ballad “Lonesome L.A. Cowboy.”

NICK CAVE, on finding inspiration.

THE BETHS, on returning to power pop.

CRAIG FINN, on returning to Boston and the beginning of underground American music.

SOUL ASYLUM: Grave Dancers Union turns 30. Most definitely get off my lawn.

ANGELA LANSBURY, a formidable actress who captivated Hollywood in her youth, became a Broadway musical sensation in middle age and then drew millions of fans as a widowed mystery writer on the long-running television series “Murder, She Wrote,” died on Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 96.

BILL MURRAY allegedly straddled and began kissing a much younger female staffer on the set of Being Mortal.

MARVEL has overhauled its film schedule, delaying the releases of “Blade,” “Deadpool 3,” “Fantastic Four” and other major properties.

MEGXIT: Meghan Markle’s mental health was at its “worst point” when husband Prince Harry helped her find a therapist.

M3GAN has a trailer online.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON: Paddy Considine on the inspiration and meaning for King Viserys's decline.

SHE SAID: The stars-and the journalists they play-talk about the big-screen adaptation of the groundbreaking investigation into Harvey Weinstein.

MARGOT ROBBIE thinks Lady Gaga will make a fine Harley Quinn.

JOHN CLEESE is set to become a presenter on the right-wing television channel GB News.

FAT BEAR WEEK hit by allegations of voter fraud.

A BEAR, hanging out in an apartment building.

A CORN DOG, bringing in the harvest.

FEIST staples "Mushaboom" and "1 2 3 4" are your Twofer Tuesday.

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF: Alynda Segerra visits World Cafe.

BONNIE RAITT plays World Cafe.

YEAH YEAH YEAHS brought out Japanese Breakfast and the Linda Lindas for Kim Wilde’s new wave classic “Kids In America.”

ROGER WATERS says he "couldn't care less about AC/DC or Eddie Van Halen" in an explosive new interview with Joe Rogan.

HOODOO GURUS are hitting the road.

REX ORANGE CONSADINE has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman in London, the UK tabloid The Sun reports.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Ja Rule and Ashanti's airy, growly sing-rap duet "Always On Time."

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON: Paddy Considine, on whether it's good to be King.

MEGXIT: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are poor by Hollywood standards, according to Tina Brown, who joked that “Elon Musk is still single” if the Duchess fancies trading up.

A HAUNTING IN VENICE: A new Kenneth Branagh-led Hercule Poirot movie has been confirmed.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON felt she was "hypersexualized" from a young age and it threatened her success.

LENA HEADEY married Ozark's Marc Menchaca in Italy, with some Game of Thrones amumni in attendance (tho not Bronn, I'd guess; they have a history).

DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY loses its director, days after the departure of Keanu Reeves.

THE GRINCH is set to get the slasher horror treatment in a new film coming this Christmas.

ALAN MOORE, co-creator of Watchmen and V For Vendetta, has argued that the dominance of superhero films has caused a rise in fascism.

A DOG teaches a pup to play ball.

A PAPA GIRAFFE visits his baby.

DO NOT underestimate me, hooman...

GLADYS KNIGHT is backed on "Midnight Train to Georgia" by Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr., through the magic of CGI, to promote Tropic Thunder back in 2008.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Alvvays, Bonny Light Horseman, Courtney Marie Andrews, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Broken Bells, Dungen, and more.

POM POM SQUAD shares "River."

WILL SCHEFF, After Okkervil.

BOB DYLAN's audio book has all-star voices.

MERCH can make or break an indie band's career.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Nickelback's unkillable radio-rock monster "How You Remind Me," the last hard rock song ever to top the Hot 100.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Smile repeats atop the chart with 17.6MM on a 22 percent drop, the best hold for a horror movie since 2017’s Get Out. Lyle, Lyle placed with an 11.5MM debut, probably judged as "meh."  Amsterdam, which was already repositioned from Oscars bait to the mass market, showed with a 6.5MM debut, with audience scores suggesting little legs.

WILL "HOUSE OF THE DRAGON" overtake "The Rings of Power" in the streaming rankings?

KANE WEST's Instagram account was restricted after a post that was criticized as anti-Semitic. He's also locked out of Twitter.

KEANU REEVES will no longer star in the Hulu series adaptation of “The Devil in the White City.”

MILA KUNIS, getting booed by the Tonight Show crowd, then turning it around.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE talks about losing control when her careeer took off.

GUILLERMO DEL TORO defends Martin Scorsese.

JOHN WATERS is returning to filmmaking.

MICHAEL SHANNON & JESSICA CHASTAIN, as George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

NIKKE FINKE, a tenacious journalist who revolutionized entertainment reporting with what became the Hollywood trade website Deadline, died Sunday morning in Boca Raton, Fla. after a prolonged illness. She was 68.

PARKOUR! BARKOUR!

A PUPPER with ducklings.

A BABY GIRAFFE & A BABY HIPPO, falling in love.

THE COLUMBUS DAY WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE FACES! Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane, Kenny Jones, and Ian McLagan, live on the Beeb circa 1972.  Your setlist includes: "Three Button Hand Me Down"; "Maybe I'm Amazed"; "Too Much Woman/Street Fighting Man"; "Miss Judy's Farm"; "Love In Vain"; "Stay With Me"; and "I'm Losing You."

AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS play The Current.

CURTIS HARDING plays KEXP.

KURT VILE joined PAVEMENT on "Zurich is Stained" in Philly.

PHOENIX plays "Alpha Zulu" for Kimmel.

SCOTT WEILAND gets the jump with a cover of John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War is Over)."

A YOUNG TRENT REZNOR covers Billy Idol's "Eyes Without a Face."

THE TOP 25 GRUNGE ALBUMS of the 1990s, according to Pitchfork.

R.E.M.'s CHRONIC TOWN is getting a tribute concert organized by the Black Crowes' Rich Robinson.

DEAD & CO.: The end of the road?

PRINCE HARRY, ELTON JOHN & LIZ HURLEY are among those suing the publisher of British tabloids the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday, alleging it hired private investigators to bug their cars and homes, hired people to listen into their telephone conversations, paid police for inside information, impersonated staff at hospitals and clinics to obtain information and accessed bank accounts and financial transactions “through illicit means and manipulation.”

EZRA MILLER, despite a hurricane of scandal, is still shooting The Flash.

MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM has a trailer online.

THE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF ROSA PARKS has a trailer online.

THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE has a teaser trailer online.

EVAN RACHEL WOOD wants DANIEL RADCLIFFE to get an Oscars nod for his role as “Weird Al” Yankovic.

JARED LETO is making a Karl Lagerfeld biopic.

MOONLIGHTING may finally make it to a streaming service.

AN ORAL HISTORY OF "THE BIG BANG THEORY" reveals the many actresses who nearly played Penny before Kaley Cuoco won the role.

AL PRIMO, creator of the "eyewitness" local TV news format still in use today, dies at 87.

JUDY TENUTA, a popular stand-up comic  known to her fans as “The Love Goddess” and “Aphrodite of the Accordion,” died of ovarian cancer on Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles. She was 72.

A MOMMA BIRD, hard at work.

JUMP: Might as well...

CATS & DOG, living together...