THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with AIMEE MANN's CHRISTMAS CAROL (profanity warnings): Part One has your Scrooge-y set-up with Michael Penn. Part Two features The Office's John Krasinski. Part Three has Michael Cera. Part Four has John C. Reilly.

FUTURE ISLANDS play for KEXP.

MUZZ is streaming their Covers EP.

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD share "If Not Now, Then When?"

THE ROLLING STONES are turning into an FX series written by Nick Hornby.

JON BON JOVI covered "Fairytale Of New York" and The Pogues don't like it.

JIM MORRISON'S final concert did not go well, 50 years ago.

2020's BEST HOLIDAY MUSIC, according to The AV Club.

THE HOUSE OF MOUSE plans 10 more Star Wars series and 10 more Marvel shows.And here's a preview of one.

DUNE director Denis Villeneuve blasts the HBOMax deal.

HARRISON FORD is donning his hat and whip once again, reprising his role as Indiana Jones for the fifth and final movie directed by James Mangold.

RACHEL McADAMS will reprise her role in the next Doctor Strange film.

ELLEN DeGENERES has the coronavirus.

PATTY JENKINS, director of the Wonder Woman movies, is not a fan of Joss Whedon's Justice League.

THE OFFICE's Brian Baumgartner, who played the chili-loving accountant Kevin Malone on the NBC sitcom, is set to earn more than a million bucks from making Cameo videos.

FRANCES McDORMAND is profiled at Vogue.

NOBODY, starring Bob Odenkirk in a revenge flick, has a trailer online.

DAVID FINCHER's habit of doing huge numbers of takes continued on Mank.

TINY LISTER, a longtime character actor best known for playing the menacing neighborhood bully in Ice Cube and Chris Tucker’s comedy “Friday,” has died at 62.

REINDEER, under the Northern Lights.

THE GREAT ESCAPE, with a hamster.

ANTEATER ON THE LAM, found after 3 months.