MY MORNING JACKET drops a trippy live video for "Compound Fracture" from Red Rocks. 

BLITZEN TRAPPER is advance streaming All Across This Land. 

BIG STAR's THIRD: Jody Stephens, Ken Stringfellow, Chris Stamey and more stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set. 

BRANDI CARLILE stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session. 

CALVIN LOVE covers The Greenhornes (ft. Holly Golightly), Donnie & Joe Emerson, and Gordon Lightfoot at Aquarium Drunkard.

CASS McCOMBS joins the indie-star Soldiers Of Fortune to drop "Old Roman Wall." 

RAY DAVIES and DAVID BOWIE duet on "Waterloo Sunset," live at the Tibet House Benefit, Carnegie Hall, New York in Feb. 2003. 

RYAN ADAMS talks to Grantland about his cover of Taylor Swift's 1989 LP. 

METRIC: Emily Haines talks to Paste about Pagans in Vegas, introspection and women in the music biz. 

LUCERO frontman Ben Nichols talks to Salon about the influences and choices behind the new album All a Man Should Do.

A-HA: How We Made "Tke On Me." 

MATT DAMON has sought to clarify recent comments he made about actors' sexuality.

CAITLYN JENNER will not be charged with vehicular manslaughter or any other crime in connection with the fatal car crash on PCH. 

AMANDA SEYFRIED & JUSTIN LONG are dunzo after more than two years of dating. 

BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN is asking soon-to-be ex-wife Megan Fox for spousal support. 

KATE WINSLET talks to the Wall Street Journal about balancing work and family, and how she landed her role in Steve Jobs. 

SANDRA BULLOCK brings her boyfriend in-house. 

GERMANY: Just weeks after politicians from Germany's mainstream parties embraced Angela Merkel's unusually warm welcome for refugees, the tone has turned sober, reflecting growing fears about the scale of looming problems. 

CHINA: The CIA pulled a number of officers from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing as a precautionary measure in the wake of the massive cybertheft of the personal data of federal employees, current and former U.S. officials said. 

RUSSIAN Russian warplanes began airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday, which the Pentagon said apparently hit areas where Islamic State militants — ostensibly the intended targets — probably were not present. 

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday said his government no longer considers itself bound by the Oslo agreements in effect for two decades, charging that Israel has failed to live up to its obligations. 

A HUNDRED SHARKS or so, captured by drone photography. 

FOLLOW-UP: The goat arrested at a Saskatchewan Tim Hortons may have been kidnapped. 

CANADIAN COWS march on parliament to protest trade talks. 

THE SWARM: A semi-truck carrying honeybees overturned on an Oklahoma interstate Tuesday — trapping a sheriff's deputy as thousands of angry, swarming bees blanketed his cruiser.

WICKED RICKY: Stand-ups stand in for for Robert Pollard in "Poor Substitute." 

BEIRUT plays a full set at the Bell House. 

KURT VILE stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session. 

THE INTELLIGENCE streams Vintage Future. 

BROOKE ANNIBALE advance streams The Simple Fear. 

CAT POWER & JAKOB DYLAN cover The Turtles' "You Showed Me." 

BROTHERTIGER drops "Wake" ahead of Out Of Touch. Sounds vaguely 80s.

FOO FIGHTERS & JEWEL cover Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love." 

GARY CLARK JR talks to The Guardian about being the "chosen one" and taking calls from Beyonce. 

DEERHUNTER: Bradford Cox walks Vulture through the map of influences on Fading Frontier. 

CHVRCHES' Lauren Mayberry, interviewed by Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker. 

WHAT IS "INDIE"? Style, Sound, Spirit? 

KALEY CUOCO officially called it quits on her marriage to Ryan Sweeting.  The Big Bang Theory actress cited irreconcilable differences in divorce documents.

KIM KARDASHIAN & KANYE WEST may welcome their child on Christmas. 

TOM HANKS talks Forrest Gump, disses Amy Poehler and gives love advice at Entertainment Weekly. 

JIM CARREY's girlfriend committed suicide just days after breaking up with the famous comic actor. 

CATHERINE E. COULSON, best known as Twin Peaks' Log Lady, died of cancer at 71. 

THE PENTAGON's top official overseeing military relations with Russia and Ukraine is resigning amid the ongoing debate within the Obama administration over how to respond to Russian moves in Ukraine and Syria. 

RUSSIAN airstrikes in Syria could happen at any time, a U.S. official with knowledge of the latest intelligence told CNN. 

AFGHANISTAN: U.S. warplanes carried out an early Tuesday morning airstrike on Taliban positions, but government ground troops sent to try to retake Kunduz, one of Afghanistan's wealthiest and most strategic cities, were stalled by roadblocks and ambushes, unable to move closer than about a mile (two kilometers) toward their target. 

A HUSKY asks for his Momma. 

AN EMU on the lam returns home in a Prius. 

THE FIRST BIOFLUORENSCENT SEA TORTOISE was discovered near the Solomon Islands.

A STUBBORN GOAT was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police after a tense stand-off in a Saskatchewan Tim Hortons.

THE WELL, proto-psych/heavy rockers from Austin, go equally retro on the video for "Mortal Bones."

RIDE played Field Day 2015.

HEY COLOSSUS advance streams Radio Static High.

YOUTH LAGOON stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

JOAN SHELLEY plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

THE CHILLS drop a "Warm Waveform" ahead of Silver Bullets.

DAVID BOWIE: Mars appears to have flowing rivulets of water, at least in the summer, scientists reported Monday in a finding that raises the question, "Is There Life on Mars?" Throw in "Queen B^tch" from the OGWT for Twofer Tuesday.

NEW ORDER talks to The Guardian their new album, Music Complete, their old album Technique, and getting by without founding bassist Peter Hook.

BRIAN ENO delivers the annual John Peel Lecture.

EDDIE ARGOS (Art Brut), interviewed by Ezra Furman on the time Furman accidentally got filmed naked, playing live as an opportunity to do something weird, parenthood and its effect on one’s music, the advantages of being pretentious, and why “no” always beats “yes.”

KENNY ROGERS: A fine time to leave us?

KALEY CUOCO & RYAN SWEETING both "seemed miserable" before their divorce, even during romantic nights out, a source tells People.  The couple have a prenup.

GWEN STEFANI & GAVIN ROSSDALE, otoh, apparently did not have a prenup, and he reportedly wants half her fortune.

KATE HUDSON & NICK JONAS say they're not dating ... but does hooking up count?

BOBBY BROWN believes that Nick Gordon is to blame for the death of his daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown.

JUSTIN BIEBER was at a recording studio in Australia Sunday night ... and a woman who was there claims she was drugged. Other people at the studio say nothing like that happened.

RUSSIAN reconnaissance flights over Iraq to spy on Islamic State militants would complicate the U.S.-led campaign against the extremist group but wouldn’t obstruct it, American officials said Monday after Baghdad left open the possibility of overflights by Moscow.

SYRIA: With its Syria policy in tatters and Europe alarmed at a tide of refugees, the Obama administration and its allies are contemplating a policy shift that once seemed unthinkable: A peace formula that would allow President Bashar Assad to remain in office, at least on an interim basis.

CAT vs BEAR: Who you got?

A MONKEY eats the mail out of a Sanford, FL mailbox.

AFRICAN BAT PUGS evolved fake genitalia to avoid sex injuries.

THE KIMBERLEY DEATH ADDER is a new, deadly species of snake discovered Down Under.

OVER 38 MILLION SERVED. Thanks to everyone for stopping by!

JON PRATT unveils the Pulp Fiction-inspired "No. 1 Groovy Song for Mia and Odile" appropriately rendered on a Vega. Jon's also soundtracking a fundraising video for the Red Wiggler.

NEW ORDER is streaming Music Complete via Rdio.

U.S. GIRLS are streaming Half Free on Rdio and Spotify.

EMILE & OGDEN are streaming 10000 on Pandora.

ARCADE FIRE streams six previously-unreleased bonus tracks from The Reflektor Tapes via Spotify.

CHVRCHES stream three bonus tracks from Every Open Eye via Spotify.

FATHER JOHN MISTY capped off a contoversial veek with "The Memo."

POPE FRANCIS--yes, that Pope Francis--goes prog on "Wake Up! Go! Go! Forward!" ahead of Wake Up!

THE PSYCHEDLIC FURS broke through with this video for "Love My Way" on the MTV.

BEIRUT's Zack Condon talks to Noisey about the emotional turmoil leading to No No No.

PATTI SMITH's new memoir is excerpted by The Guardian.

LOW, interviewed by Bon Iver, for Magnet.

JOHN PEEL's musical influence is essayed at The Guardian.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:In a surprisingly good weekend for the end of September, Hotel Transylvania 2 tops the chart with 47.5MM, setting a September debut record. The Intern placed with 18.2MM, near the high end of estimates, and got an "A-" Cinemascore that could keep it leggy.  Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials showed with 14MM on a 54 percent drop the original didn't see for weeks into its run; big foreign receipts will keep this profitable tho.  Everest takes the fourth slot with 13MM, a wide expansion that suddenly makes the well-reviewed flick look like it might need substantial worldwide receipts against a 55MM budget.  Black Mass skids to round out the Top Five with 11.5MMand will need Johnny Depp to carry foreign screens big to break even.

KALEY CUOCO & RYAN SWEETING are divorcing after 21 months.

MORENA BACCARIN & BEN McKENZIE plan to marry.

BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN's cause of death is being kept secret, as a criminal investigation looms.

REBECCA HALL married actor Morgan Spector in Saugerties, New York, on Saturday.

DANNY PENATURO (Who's the Boss) is HIV-positive.

IRAQ's military said Sunday it will begin sharing "security and intelligence" information with Syria, Russia and Iran to help combat the Islamic State group, a move that could further complicate U.S. efforts to battle the extremists without working with Damascus and its allies.

IRANIAN President Hassan Rouhani taalked to Weekend Edition about his country's relations with the U.S., the landmark nuclear deal, and cooperating with the U.S. in the fight against ISIS.

SYRIA: U.S.-trained rebels handed over American-supplied vehicles and ammunition to an al-Qaeda linked group, the Pentagon said Friday in the latest blow to a program plagued by problems since its inception.

A BABY LION, not quite ready to roar.

BLOODSUCKING FISH rain from the sky in Alaska.

AN UNIDENTIFIED CREATURE turns up in a Mississippi toilet.

AN ESACPED TARANTULA grounds a flight from Baltimore to Atlanta.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with LOU REED! Live at the Capitol Theater, 30 years ago this very day. Your saucy setlist includes: Sweet Jane, I'm Waiting For My Man, Martial Law, Down At The Arcade, Legendary Hearts, There She Goes Again, Turn Out the Light, My Red Joystick, Average Guy, Street Hassle, Sally Can't Dance, Walk On The Wild Side, Satellite Of Love, New Sensation, A Gift, Doin' The Things That We Want To, Waves Of Fear, I Love You Suzanne, White Light / White Heat, Turn To Me, Kill Your Sons, Coney Island Baby, Maybe (The Chantels), He's Gone, People Who Died (with Jim Carroll), and Rock 'N' Roll.

WAVVES advance stream V.

EAGLES OF DEATH METAL advance stream Zipper Down.

BORN RUFFIANS advance stream Ruff.

CHILDBIRTH advance streams Women's Rights.

JEFF LYNNE's ELO returns with “When I Was A Boy” ahead of Alone In The Universe.

SUEDE reurns with "Outsiders" ahead of Night Thoughts.

DUMPTRUCK: "Back Where I Belong."

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN is recording a new LP, Jim Reid tells TimeOut.

BOB DYLAN is releasing every note of his 1965-66 sessions along with mono singles, hotel-room recordings and a few frames of film snipped from a print of Don’t Look Back, the Dylan documentary filmed in 1965 by D.A. Pennebaker.

CHRISSIE HYNDE talked about the Pretenders, Punk, and the early days of MTV with Conan.

!!!'s Nick Offer talks to Drowned In Sound about the band's new music.

NICK CAVE turned 58 this week. NME ranked his albums and songs.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are Hotel Transylvania 2, which is currently scoring 29 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; The Intern, currently scoring 51 percent; and The Green Inferno, scoring 50 percent.  Everest expands wide at 73 percent.

MORENA BACCARIN & BEN McKENZIE: The Gotham co-stars aren't just dating; she's pregnant.

GLENN CLOSE and her husband, biotech entrepreneur David Shaw, have divorced after nine years of marriage.

LEIGHTON MEESTER & ADAM BRODY are proud new parents.

BAR REFAELI married her fiancé, Adi Ezra, in Israel on Thursday.

IVANKA TRUMP and her husband, Kushner Companies CEO Jared Kushner, are expecting their third child.

ROSIE O'DONNELL saved the life of her estranged wife by keeping her on the phone while EMTs rushed to help her.

UKRAINE:  The United Nations humanitarian chief said Thursday that he was alarmed that United Nations agencies had been ordered out of eastern Ukraine's separatist-controlled Luhansk region by the "de facto authorities" there.

THE ISLAMIC STATE: There are now multiple investigations inside the intelligence community and on Capitol Hill into whether senior intelligence officers at U.S. Central Command altered intelligence assessments of the U.S. war against the Islamic State. The main whistleblower will meet with senior senators on the matter as early as next week.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Milkshake squirrel horns in on Pizza Rat's internet success.

PUPPY SHOOTS FLORIDA MAN in self-defense.

A PIG CHASE was disrupted by a protester in Ephrata, PA.

A PIG & A DOG, wandering together... mass hysteria!