JON PRATT: Pate's frontman reprises "Train Wreck," from the band's alter ego, All The Fixins. 

RICHARD THOMPSON stops by World Cafe.

NATALIE PRASS plays the Mountain Stage.

KT TUNSTALL visits Morning Becomes Eclectic.

BEIRUT shares  "Galipoli," the band's next title track.

RANK AND FILE: The seminal country-punk band formed by brothers Chip and Tony Kinman -- and including Alejandro Escovedo -- checks in with "Amanda Ruth" and their title song for Twofer Tuesday.

IAN HUNTER: Rock's Great Underdog.

KURT VILE talks to Salon about the wide variety of influences and performers on his new solo album.

JULIA HOLTER is profiled by Rolling Stone.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Lulu's "To Sir With Love," the "Gangsta's Paradise" of its day.

SARAH SILVERMAN said comedian Louis C.K. used to masturbate in front of her with her permission.

EZRA MILLER thinks people should see the next Fantastic: Beasts before slamming it. That's crazy talk.

BILLY IDOL is getting sued for allegedly inviting a woman to his concert and a hotel rendezvous afterward, but instead just ditching her. He must've been dancing.

CATE BLANCHETT defends straight actors playing LGBT roles.

BOB BARKER is hospitalized in L.A. after paramedics responded to his Hollywood Hills home.

MENA SUVARI quietly married her boyfriend of two years, Michael Hope.

LIAM NEESON's son Micheál is remembering his late mother Natasha Richardson with a deeply personal gesture.

PINOCCHIO, but by Guillermo del Toro.

MONGOOSE vs LIONS: Who You Got?

BABY ELEPHANTS learn to ride with the herd at the San Diego Zoo

RUFF COMMUTE: A conductor stops a NJ Transit train to rescue a dog on the tracks.

THE CDC WARNS against dressing up pet chickens for Halloween.

LENARD COHEN: "Suzanne" is perhaps his best, and it was posted online by...Jan Hammer?

CANDI STATON stops by the World Cafe.

CHROMEO brings a live band to their Tiny Desk Concert.

THE CORDOVAS played The Local for AmericanaFEST.

SONIC YOUTH's second restored video is for "Silver Rocket."

TURNING 20: Fatboy Slim's You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby and the Silver Jews' American Water.

LIZ PHAIR discusses her deserrt island books at Vulture.

DAVID BYRNE: "My agent says I’m having a Leonard Cohen moment."

LORETTA LYNN has reportedly been hospitalized for an unknown but "serious" health condition.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Box Tops' "The Letter," the out-of-nowhere smash that future Big Star frontman Alex Chilton sang when he was 16.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Halloween reboot-sequel easily tops the chart with 77.5MM, breaking various records and instantly becoming the biggest film in the long history of the franchise (before inflation, anyway). A Star is Born places again with 19.3MM on a leggy 32 percent drop and keeps a 200MM total within reach. Venom shows with 18.1MM on a 48 percent drop on its way to probably over 500MM worldwide. Goosebumps 2 holds onto the fourth slot with 9.7MM on a mere 38 percent drop, but it still lags far behind the original. First Man rounds out the Top Five with 8.6MM on a 47 percent drop; it's almost recouped its production budget worldwide, but has to be considered a disappointment, which likely hurts its chances in awards season.

JOHN CARPENTER tours the soundtrack of his life.

SELMA BLAIR has revealed that she has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. 

GAME OF THRONES: The cast -- inluding Sean Bean --  shot a reunion special with Conan O'Brien.

LUKE CAGE is canceled as Netflix further trims its Marvel roster.

STRAIGHT DOWN:  Paula Abdul took a tumble Saturday night during her show ... but she was a true trooper.

COURTNEY COX feels like she's already tied the knot with boyfriend Johnny McDaid.

JONESY: The cat from Alien is getting his own spin-off.

DANNY LEINER, the director of Dude, Where’s My Car? and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, is dead from cancer at 57.

A DELIGHTED DOG runs again after an auto accident.

CLUMSY PUP is clumsy.

CITIES Are Turning Snails Yellow?

DOGS are wearing tuxedos and chiffon as canine wedding guests become more common.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with JOE JACKSON! Live in Tokyo on1986, for the Big World tour. Your set list: One More Time, Wild West, Right & Wrong, You Can't Get What You Want (Til You Know What You Want), (It's a) Big World, Hometown, On Your Radio, Shanghai Sky, Fifty Dollar Love Affair, Cancer/Be My Number Two/Breaking Us in Two, Steppin' Out, Survival, Soul Kiss, It's Different for Girls, The Jet Set, Monday Papers, Tonight and Forever, Jumpin' Jive Medley: Jack You're Dead/What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again)/Jumpin' Jive, I'm the Man, and Man in the Street.

OH PEP! advance streams I Wasn't Only Thinking About You...

MERCY UNION streams The Quarry.

KAIA KATER advance streams Grenades.

LAURA GIBSON advance streams Goners.

THE BEATLES: Listen to a previously unreleased acoustic demo of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."

CHARLES BRADLEY: Listen to the posthumous “Can’t Fight the Feeling.”

ARCTIC MONKEYS' explosive debut single "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor," which turns 13, revolutionized the way music was sold in the UK forever. I remember hearing it and thinking that someone finally built on The Jam and Buzzcocks properly.

CAT POWER tours the soundtrack of her life.

KURT VILE talks to Aquarium Drunkard about his new record, recording with Dean Ween of Ween, the influence of Sonic Youth, working with Kim Gordon, and how collaborating with his “sister” Courtney Barnett helped shape the new album.

ROXY MUSIC's debonair art-glam should get its due.

PEAK GRUNGE: An oral history of the fall of '93.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Bobbie Gentry's "Ode To Billie Joe," a great work of short American fiction.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide rleases include the Halloween sequel-reboot, which is currently scoring 80 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and The Hate U Give, which expands wide at 96 percent. The Old Man and the Gun, which may or may not be Robert redford's last acting gig, opens on 600 screens scoring 90 percent.

JOHN CARPENTER talks to Rolling Stone about the Halloween sequel-reboot, soundtracks, and more. He's also interested in a They Live sequel.

GEORGE R.R. MARTIN answers NYT staffers' questions.

JADA PINKETT SMITH & LEAH REMINI have ended their feud. A greatful nation breathes a sigh of relief.

REAL POLITICS IMITATES VEEP, because 2018.

THE ENDURING APPEAL of Oscar the Grouch.

BISCUIT THE CHIHUAHUA has dog siblings, but he much prefers hanging out with his chicken sister Rose.

A SPIDER SWARM cloaks Lake Vistonida in northern Greece.

A RUSSIAN TOWN hires a cat chief to handle strays.

WHALE-WATCHERS watch great white sharks eat one.

DINOSAUR JR, Live at Whire Eagle Hall, Sept. 19, 2018.

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO stops by the World Cafe.

BIG BOI plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

FALL FLING: A World Cafe playlist.

BAD RELIGION shares "The Profane Rights Of Man."

ST VINCENT shares her reqorked "New York" on Kimmel.

BOBBIE GENTRY: Whatever happened to the trailblazing queen of country?

DAVE GROHL: "I'm ready to take a break from Foo Fighters, but I'm ready to do it again at some point."

THE BEST ALBUM TTLE TRACKS, according to Paste.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Beatles' ambitious global message-song "All You Need Is Love."

CARROLL SPINNEY, the original Big Bird (and Oscar), is leaving Sesame Street after nearly 50 years.

THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD: Peter Jackson restores and colorizes World War One for you.

ARIANA GRANDE is getting offline for a while.

ROSEANNE BARR spoke out about ABC killing off her character via an opioid overdose.

BRADGELINA have begun child custody evaluations.

SEAN "DIDDY" COMBS  and Cassie Ventura are both back on the market. 

IDRIS ELBA is in final negotiations to join the film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats.

NYPD BLUE may get a TV reboot.

ANNAPURNA PICTURES, the prestige production company behind such films as Zero Dark Thirty, American Hustle and Her, is... troubled.

AN AIRPORT K-9 finds a whole roasted pig in some luggage traveling from Ecuador.

DOG LOVERS challenged a study that found canines to be smart but not “exceptional” by citing their own pets.

'HYPERALARMING" STUDY Shows Massive Insect Loss.

DON'T EAT DEER that looks like this.

THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN: Because there's "Something In The Air." And you know that it's right.

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features new tracks from Sharon Van Etten, Jason Lytle, Miya Folick, and more.

BONO, THE NATIONAL, MICHAEL STIPE, LAURIE ANDERSON and more pay tribute to a dead cat on a new album.

JULIANA HATFIELD shares “It’s So Weird.”

J MASCIS shares "Web So Dense."

TY SEGALL covers The Dils' "Class War."

SONIC YOUTH is releasing restored Daydream Nation era videos, and first up is “Teen Age Riot.”

JIMI HENDRIX: A slight return to Electric Ladyland 50 years later.

BOYGENIUS: Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and the story of indie rock’s new supergroup.

FORMER BLINK 182 member Tom DeLonge’s UFO company is a massive 37.4MM in debt.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Doors' unlikely pop breakout "Light My Fire."

LADY GAGA and boyfriend Christian Carino are engaged.

ARIANA GRANDE will return the engagement ring, keep the pig.

PIPPA MIDDLETON welcomed her first child with husband James Matthews.

KANYE WEST tells Uganda's president he'd like to turn the place into Jurassic Park.

TARA REID was removed from a Delta flight on Monday following a “disturbance” onboard.

LOUIS CK speaks out on his ‘weird year’ and the millions he’s lost since his sexual misconduct scandal.

JON HAMM & JAMES CORDEN take turns choosing between answering very personal questions or eating stomach-churning foods, like bird saliva or bull penis.

THE FLASH isn't exactly rushing to the big screen; try 2021.

A GIANT PIG loose in a San Bernadino neighborhood was lured home with Doritos.

CATS will be cats.

A PACK OF POLAR BEARS besiege a remote Russian town.

A SNAKE interrupts a business meeting.