THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with THE ANIMALS! I may have been quite remiss in not featuring them so let's dive in with their signature cover of "House of the Rising Sun" and "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" from Top Gear, "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" from Shindig, a creepy clip for  "It's My Life" from Hullabaloo, and "Don't Bring Me Down" on the Ed Sullivan Show.

DIRTY PROJECTORS, Live at Elsewhere, Nov. 18, 2018.

BOYGENIUS visits The Current for a chat and mini-set.

PHOSPHORESCENT visits Morning Becomes Eclectic.

ARCTIC FLOWERS stream Straight to the Hunter.

THE MEMBERS: "Working Girl," from the "Where Are They Now?" file.

ST NICK: The Long, Strange and Wonderful Career of Nick Lowe.

HOW INDIE LABELS reinvented British music: "It was like working in a mill, but with drugs."

30 ESSENTIAL NOISE ROCK TRACKS, according to Stereogum, leaving out the noise pop.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Rolling Stones' debauched strut "Honky Tonk Women."

NOW SHOWING: The Possession of Hannah Grace is this weekend's sole wide release, and it was not screened for critics.

ROMA cleaned up at the New York Film Critics Circle awards.

MEGHAN MARKLE & KATE MIDDLETON are not the best of friends. Gasp!

QUENTIN TARANTINO married his fiancée Daniella Pick.There was no bloodbath.

DRACULA: The Sherlock team cast a relatively unknown Dane in the role.

DAREDEVIL has been canceled by Netflix after three seasons.(of course, Disney is launching a competing streaming service, too.)

BLUE BEETLE may be headed for the big screen.

NOT SURE IF THIS IS A LEMUR, but it's a leaper.

THE PUP is a faker.

THIS DOG has a stuffed bear that he always hangs out with and he sat in front of the dryer the whole cycle just to make sure he would be okay.

SANTA is coming.

ARTHUR BUCK: Joseph Arthur and Peter Buck visit World Cafe.

THE WAR and TREATY  stop by The Current.

THE INNOCENCE MISSION plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

BOB MOULD rips it on a new track, "What Do You Want Me To Do."

MICHAEL CHAPMAN: The Brit folk legend shares "It's Too Late."

SHARON VAN ETTEN shares a video for "Jupiter 4."

JEFF TWEEDY on addicition, anxiety, and a lifetime of art.

ELVIS COSTELLO Explains His Songwriting Secrets.

JASON MOLINA gets an in-depth appreciation at The Believer.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Zager & Evans novelty sci-fi folk-rock curiosity "In The Year 2525"

HOW LES MOONVES tried to bury a sexual assault allegation.

THE GAME OF THRONES reunion special is definitely happening. But not on HBO.

BRADGELINA asked the court to give them more time with the private judge so they can reach a settlement on the custody of their children.

VOX LUX drops a trailer featuring Natalie Portman singing Sia and Greg Kurstin's "Wrapped Up."

STAN LEE officially died from heart and respiratory failure.

INFINITY WAR: A new book reveals new survivors of Thanos.

INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE is getting fantastic early buzz.

A DOG Cannot Control Her Excitement When a Solider Comes Home.

A CAT, on a skateboard.

THE MANDARIN DUCK is back and feisty in Central Park.

THE FIRST CHEETAH COTUPLETS born in North America have turned one.

THE WHO: "I'm A Boy."

KACEY MUSGRAVES stops by World Cafe.

BOYGENIUS plays a live KEXP session.

JENNY & THE MEXICATS play a Tiny Desk Concert.

SPEEDY ORTIZ features claymation coyotes in "I'm Blessed."

TRIBUTE ACTS: Harmless Fun or Musical Scourge?

RICHARD LLOYD looks back on 40 years of nerve-tingling axe work.

SIMPLY RED: How we made "Holding Back the Years."

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Henry Mancini's romantic film-score adaptation "Love Theme From Romeo And Juliet."

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS creator Stephen Hillenburg has died of ALS at 57.

GAME OF THRONES: Lena Headey shares new behind-the-scenes photo and videos.

VENOM: Sony put out a "rom com" trailer for the movie's home release.

GIGI HADID finally overcame her fear of facials.

LAINEY GOSSIP's Elaine Lui on blind items, the Oscars, and more.

ROCKY MOVIES, ranked by Uproxx.

KNICKERS: The steer too big to kill.

WOMEN sleep better next to dogs than humans.

A CHIPMUNK sits and eats.

MAGGIE & ORA perfected the duo snoozle.

ELTON JOHN, Live at the Music Hall in Cleveland, Nov. 26, 1970.

MAGGIE ROGERS stops by The Current.

HATCHIE stops by World Cafe.

ART BRUT shares “She Kissed Me (And It Felt Like a Hit).”

ICEAGE shares "Broken Hours."

BOYGENIUS covers the Dixie Chicks' "Cowboy Take Me Away."

JEFF TWEEDY: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.

BOB DYLAN, selling whiskey at the circus.

THE 50 BEST ALBUMS of 2018, according to Paste.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Beatles' back-to-basics attempt "Get Back."

LENA DUNHAM is mostly done making herself the subject of the story.

AMANDA BYNES reenters the spotlight after four years sober.

KIM KARDASHIAN claims she was on ecstacy when she made her infamous sex tape.

JOE SCARBOROUGH & MIKA BRZEZINSKI got hitched in the National Archives.

DAKOTA JACKSON joined CHRIS MARTIN & GWYNETH PALTROW for Thanksgiving.

HELLBOY: The rebbot will be more bloody and violent than the original.

CHRISTOMPHER McQUARRIE talks Mission: Impossible, Maverick, and more.

THE MANDARIN DUCK was spotted in northern New Jersey.

A BEAR, captured on camera standing on hind legs, turning a door handle to open the door and walking into California Highway Patrol facility.

A CAT LIES IN WAIT: She is elusive and cunning.

A WHALE, blowing a rainbow.

JON PRATT: When not redefining the kilogram, he's reinventing the Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen In Love?"

JANELLE MONAE plays Austin City Limits.

SOCCER MOMMY plays a mini-set at Iceland Airways.

TOM MORELLO stops by World Cafe.

BONO & PHARRELL sing the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive."

AIMEE MANN talks to Stereogum about her early LPs and music videos, collaborating with Elvis Costello, Squeeze, Jon Brion, and PT Anderson, and battling the biz.

THE BEATLES' "White Album" songs, ranked by Stereogum.

LFO singer Devin Lima died at age 41 on Wednesday morning following a yearlong battle with stage 4 cancer.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Tommy Roe's spun-around bubblegum smash "Dizzy" and the 5th Dimension's flower-child show tune "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Ralph Breaks the Internet tops the holiday chart with 84.5MM over the five-day frame, a Thanksgiving debut second only to Frozen.  Creed II places with 55.8MM the best-ever live-action debut in this frame, and could outeran the original by a substantial amount. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald showed with 42.9MM, edging out The Grinch, which took in 42MM for fourth place over the long weekend. Of course, the difference in budgets means the former has to continue more strongly abroad to get into the black on the big screen. Bohemian Rhapsody rounds out the Top Five with another 19.3MM as aprt of the weekend's record haul of 314MM. Of course the remake of Robin Hood was part of that too, but a seventh-place, 14.2MM debutagainst a nerly-100MM budget can't be making the folks at Lionsgate merrie men.

THE LION KING remake has a teaser trailer online.

STAN & OLLIE has a trailer online.

JULIE ANDREWS has a secret role in Aquaman.

BRADGELINA are settling their child custody dispute.

GAME OF THRONES: Kit Harington's rep denies allegations of infidelity to Rose Leslie.

NATALIE DORMER: Not a fan of journalism, social media, or sex scenes.

THE TOP 10 EPISODES OF THE SOPRANOS, according to Vulture.

NICOLAS ROEG, the British cinematographer turned director who employed his visual flair on such films as David Bowie’s The Man Who Fell to Earth and the horror masterpiece Don’t Look Now, has died. He was 90.

RICKY JAY, a master magician who also acted in films and TV shows such as Boogie Nights, House of Games and Deadwood, died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 72. The New Yorker profiled him in 1994.

CAT vs OSTRICHES: Who You Got?

A DOG, trying to steal another smaller dog.

WANT TO VISIT a cave full of glowworms?

DOG kills owner with forklift truck.