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MADNESS: "It Must Be Love."

NEW RELEASES: Brooklyn Vegan will point you to releases from The Muffs, Jimmy Eat World, Battles, and more.

INDIE BASEMENT will point you to releases from Mark Lanegan, The Blue Nile , Maximum Joy, and more.

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS: Hear previously unreleased Purple demos.

PRINCE: Hear the demo for "I Feel For You." 

PERFUME GENIUS shares a "Pop Song."

THOM YORKE played a trippy set for Kimmel.

THE KINKS: Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire) chimes with Britain's mood today, says singer Ray Davies.

PATTI SMITH talks to The Guardian about books: one by Mark Twain "gave me such anxiety that I threw up."

SPOON's Britt Daniel: My Life in 15 Songs.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Thelma Houston's disco classic, "Don't Leave Me This Way."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil tops the chart with 36MM... but the first one opened with 69MM; 150MM in overseas markets will help, but the production budget alone is reportedly 180MM. Joker places with 29.2MM on a 48 percent drop; with a little luck, it could hit the billion-dollar mark worldwide (and thereby greatly increase its prospects for awards season).  Zombieland: Double Tap shows with 26.7MM, a slight increase or decrease from the original, depending on whether you adjust for inflation.  The studio likely hoped for mor, given that the cast are all bigger stars than they were 10 years ago, but the 42MM budget wisely did not bank on that.  The Addams Family takes the fourth slotwith 16MM on a 47 percent drop; probably a slight disappointment this close to Halloween, but 56MMdomestic to date against a 24MM budget is probably fine.  Gemini Man rounds out the Top Five with 8.5MM on a 59 percent drop, looking like a flop even after overseas grosses are included.

QUENTIN TARANTINO has no intention of recutting his Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to appease China's censors.

ABOMINABLE will not be shown in Malaysia after its distributor said it could not comply with censors' demands to cut a controversial scene showing Beijing's disputed claims in the South China Sea.

KURT SUTTER:  Wsa the Sons of Anarchy/Mayans M.C. producer pushed out at FX by the network's new Mouse-eared paymasters?

JENNIFER LAWRENCE & COOKE MARONEY tied the knot in Rhode Island.

DENNIS QUAID got engaged to his girlfriend, Laura Savoie.

JARED LETO wanted to kill Joker.

EMILIA CLARKE talks about ditching the dragons.

NICK TOSCHES, who started out in the late 1960s as a brash music writer with a taste for the fringes of rock and country, then bent his eclectic style to biographies of figures like Dean Martin and Sonny Liston and to hard-to-classify novels, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was<span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span>69.

ORPHAN RHINO APOLLO likes a comforting horn rub before bedtime.

A CARACAL is not thrilled with the vet.

A KITTEN will not be displaced.

A CAT just wantes to catnap.

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

SLEATER-KINNEY, Live at the Palace in St. Paul.

BRITTANY HOWARD plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

TAYLOR SWIFT plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

UPSET returns with "Tried & True."

HOLY GHOST share a video for “Heaven Knows What,” ft. The Sopranos’ Michael Imperioli and his son Vadim.

THE TOP 10 ELBOW SONGS, as ranked by Paste.

TUSK at 40: On Fleetwood Mac's Defining Record.

WHAT IS The "Most 2010s Album' Of The 2010s"

THE NUMBER ONES looks at 'Starsky & Hutch' star David Soul's drippy ballad "Don't Give Up On Us."

MATT LAUER allegedly had an affair with a famed and well-respected broadcaster, Page Six is exclusively told, representing a “clear imbalance of power.” In the wake of a series of explosive allegations from Ronan Farrow, Time's Up is calling NBC out.

JASON MOMOA is profiled by Esquire.

JONAH HILL passes on The Batman.

THE MATRIX 4: Jada Pinkett Smith is in current negotiations to return as Niobe.

DISNEY+'s Marvel & Star Wars budgets are blowing past Game of Thrones budgets.

RYAN REYNOLDS & JOHN KRASINSKI are teaming up on a fantastical comedy.

A CAT changes its mind.

NYC hosts two separate Halloween dog parades this weekend.

BEES are better at math when they're punished for the wrong answer.

A TIBETIAN FOX  and a MARMOT inspire captions.

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

DEVENDRA BANHART visits Morning Becomes Eclectic.

WHITE REAPER visits The Current.

VAGABON is advance streaming her self-titled sophomore LP.

SCREAMING FEMALES share "Ancient Civilization."

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE shares "Autumn Rites."

FRAN shares a video for "So Surreal."

VAMPIRE WEEKEND's Ezra Koenig talks to World Cafe about the band's latest album, Father of the Bride.

SIGUR ROS was cleared on criminal tax evasion charges in Iceland.

THE BEST INDIE LPs of the 2010s, according to Uproxx.

THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME nominees are announced.

JEREMY RENNER claims his ex has aimed to humiliate him by sending his nudes to their custody evaluator.

THE MATRIX 4 signs... Neil Patrick Harris?

FELICITY HUFFMAN reported to prison.

MIRANDA KERR & EVAN SPIEGEL welcome a son.

JENNIFER ANISTON broke Instagram.

JULIE ANDREWS talks about her ascent to stardom and the many highs and lows that followed it.

ROGUE ONE: The planned Disney Plus series centered on Cassian Andor is bringing in the film's co-writer, Tony Gilroy.

BOMBSHELL has a new trailer online.

APPLE's long, bumpy road to Hollywood.

ODD COUPLE: A baby raccoon and a puppy in a Siberian zoo have become the cutest best friends you'll ever see.

AN EXTREMELY RARE YELLOW CARDINAL was spotted and photographed in Florida.

A YOUNG POLAR BEAR wandered onto a baseball diamond in Churchill, Manitoba.

AN OWL, with its legs crossed.

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.

TY SEGALL & THE FREEDOM BAND, Live at the Bowery Ballroom, Oct. 2, 2019.

SHAWN COLVIN visits World Cafe.

TAMINO visits World Cafe.

BEACH SLANG shares "Bam Rang Rang," if you like early Replacements.

LES SAVY FAV is back, playing "Let's Get Out of Here" for Seth Meyers.

GEORGE CHAMBERS, bassist and vocalist for psychedelic soul greats the Chambers Brothers, has died at 88.

WILCO: Jeff Tweedy and Nels Cline talk to SPIN about Ode To Joy, streaming music, and more.

PHARRELL has second thoughts about "Blurred Lines."

THE NUMBER ONES looks at ABBA's immortal, overwhelming "Dancing Queen."

JEREMY RENNER, amid a vicious child custody fight, denies being being coked up and drunk, rhapsodizing about killing his ex-wife Sonni, or shoving a gun in his mouth and threatening to kill himself.

MATT LAUER allegedly propositioned and exposed himself to a “Today” show producer — who then “melted in pain” recalling the sickening behavior to Ann Curry, according to Ronan Farrow's book. NBC News President Noah Oppenheim sent this long email to NBC News staffers in advance of the book's publication.

ELTON JOHN talks about his memoir, Ellen DeGeneres and George W. Bush, plus more.

ZOE KRAVITZ has been tapped to play Catwoman, the antiheroine and sometime love interest of the Caped Crusader, in Matt Reeves' upcoming The Batman.

JAMES GUNN was offered "whatever he wanted" by the WB when Disney (temporarily) fired him.

PAUL RUDD really has no opinion of Martin Scorsese's critiquwe of the MCU.

DISNEY tweeted a long list of films coming to its new streaming service.

THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL has a Season 3 trailer online.

TWO LLAMAS, on the llam in Colorado.

CLYDE THE BASSET is cleared for takeoff.

OTIS locked his owner out of the car.

I DON'T WANT TO SOUND UNGRATEFUL, CARL, but I think I'll get the bus tomorrow.

NEW RELEASES: Pitchfork will point you to Big Thief, Kim Gordon, Richard Dawson, and more.

INDIE BASEMENT will point you to the Allah-Lahs, Elbow, The Wedding Present, and more.

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE debuted a bunch of new songs over the weeekend.

JULIEN BAKER shares “Tokyo” and “Sucker Punch.”

BRITTANY HOWARD nails "Stay High" on Corden.

EDDIE VAN HALEN is reportedly undergoing surgery for throat cancer.

THE BLACK CROWES : Chris and Rich Robinson may reunite, but not with the full band.

GARY GLITTER, as it turns out, will not profit from Joker.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Daryl Hall & John Oates' class-warfare-themed blue-eyed soul jam, "Rich Girl."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Joker repeats atop the chart with 55MM on a 42 percent drop that's leggy for the superghero genre (esp. DC films). At 192MM domestic, it has already outgrossed Justice League. And it's done another 351MM overseas already.  The Addams Family places with 30.3MM, probably boosted by the Columbus Day holiday weekend and the Halloween season generally.  That's pretty good againt a very modest reported budget of 40MM, esp when you consider most of the kids seeing it don't even know about the 90s reboot, let alone the 60s series.  Get off my lawn.  Gemini Man shows in its debut with 20.5MM against a 138MM budget; it made almost twice as much overseas tho.  Abominable slides to the fourth slot with 6.2MM on a 48 percent drop; it finally opened in China, lifting the gross to over 100MM worldwide.  Downton Abbey rounds out the Top Five with another 4.9MM on a 39 percent drop; its 120MM worldwide grosss against a 20MM budget is one of the bigger returns on investment this year.

ROBERT FORSTER, the journeyman actor whose comeback role as a bail bondsman in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown earned him an Oscar nomination, and who drew acclaim for his tough-guy performances on the television series “Breaking Bad” and the reboot of “Twin Peaks,” died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 78. He's remembered by Quentin Tarantino and David Lynch.

RONAN FARROW claims NBC paid settlements to Matt Lauer’s victims for years. Farrow's producer says Peacock execs Lack and Oppenheim "behaved more like members of Weinstein’s PR team than the journalists they claim to be."

GROUCH has a trailer online.

ELTON JOHN answers questions from famous fans, including Bob Dylan.

HUGH GRANT would like to register a complaint.

GAL GADOT will star as Irena Sendler, a Polish woman credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust.

JANE FONDA has moved to D.C. for the next few months, and plans to get arrested at the Capitol every Friday through the end of the year.

A PUPPY adopts a stray kitten.

FAKE NEWS about a dog in the New York Times, circa 1908.

A DOG missing for 12 years from Orlando turns up in Pittsburgh.

AN OTTER got you something.