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THE SHINS return with a timely video for "Dead Alive."

ANDY SCHAUF stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

OKKERVIL RIVER played the Rockwood Music Hall for WFUV.

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD covers "People Get Ready."

CAR SEAT HEADREST: Will Toledo talks to the Colorado State Independent about his next LP and more. (Thx, LHB.)

AFGHAN WHIGS: The Quietus reconsiders Black Love at 20.

FLOCK OF DIMES: Jenn Wasner talks to Paste about solo albums, aloneness, and more.

STEELY DAN, ranked by Paste.

MEL GIBSON: Pariah No More? The audience screening his World War II battlefield hero movie Hacksaw Ridge at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences gave him a standing ovation.

BRANGELEXIT: The Brad Pitt child abuse investigation has been expanded to the entire family, including Angelina Jolie.

PATTON OSWALD talks to the New York Times about the untimely death of his wife, true-crime writer Michelle McNamara.

MICHAEL PHELPS tied the knot with Nicole Johnson months ago, but they kept it under wraps.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON & JENNIFER LAWRENCE are fronting competing flims about Zelda Fitzgerald.

CHRIS PINE is in talks to join the cast of Disney’s adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time.

DEADPOOL 2: Which creative differences led to the split with director Tim Miller?

THE INCREDIBLES 2 moves up on the calendar, while TOY STORY 4 moves back.

IRAQ: Defense Secretary Ash Carter tells NBC News that the next major operation will target ISIS’ proclaimed capital of Raqqa in Syria, and that it will take place in “weeks.”

A PANDA stays in shape with sit-ups.

CATS: Good thing they're adorable, because they get away with a lot.

A PARROT outed a cheating husband.the

 SQUIRREL THREAT: A militant rodent ransacked a Vancouver Island home.

ANDREW BIRD  & MATT BERNINGER (The National) cover Lou Reed's "Perfect Day."

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS play a Tiny Desk Concert.

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

SUNFLOWER BEAN stopped by WFUV's Studio A for a chat and mini-set.

OTIS REDDING: "Respect" is shared ahead of the new six-CD set Live at the Whisky A Go Go: The Complete Recordings.

CHEAP TRICK: "I Can't Take It." An overlooked gem.

BOB WEIR talks to Rolling Stone about the Grateful Dead's legacy, Adele, fame's downside and more...

PRINCE's Paisley Park officially opens as a museum.

31 LEGENDARY ROCK DRUMMERS, compiled by NME.

BOBBY VEE, whose infuriatingly catchy 60s hits included "Rubber Ball" and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes," and who gave Bob Dylan an early job, has died aged 73 of complications from Alzheimer's disease.

KATE BECKINSALE & LEN WISEMAN have pulled the plug on their marriage.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE could go to jail for 30 days for taking a selfie in a voting booth.

TAYLOR SWIFT & KATY PERRY had a standoff at Drake's birthday party.

BRITNEY SPEARS is in a rumble with Bumble.

THE PROMISE a film starring Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac and set during the final days of the Ottoman Empire, leading up to the Armenian Genocide, is already an internet controversy.

PETER JACKSON is co-writing and producing (but not directing) the adaptation of Philip Reeve's science-fiction fantasy book series, Mortal Engines.

TOM HANKS revisited Zoltar (Big) on Colbert.

GILMORE GIRLS has a trailer for their Netflix revival.

A SHARK eats A COW in the middle of the ocean.

THIS BUG has 4 penises, 200 poison glands & 414 legs.

AN ESCAPED EMU sent deputies on a wild goose chase after it walked up to a bar in central Florida. (note: not the same as Monday's emu)

A 6-FT PYTHON turned up before a PGA event.

NEIL YOUNG joins METALLICA for a cover of his "Mr. Soul."

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

PHANTOGRAM stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

BLIND PILOT played a Tiny Desk Concert.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS originally believed "Cubs In Five" was the height of the unlikely.

BOB DYLAN has quietly scrubbed the one mention of him as the "winner of the Nobel Prize in literature" in "the lyrics" section of the site following his surprise win last week. The Nobel comittee is in disarray.

PRINCE: A remastered, repackaged edition of Purple Rain is coming, with a second album of previously unreleased material.

BEFORE THE SMITHS, Johnny Marr and Andy Rourke were in a funk band named Freak Party.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN wrote a song for...Harry Potter?

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Boo! A Madea Halloween topped the chart with 27.6MM, again establishing that Tyler Perry makes a lot more money with drag comedies than with family dramas, though the 20MM budget is probably acceptable only because Perry keeps the marketing costs down.  Jack Reacher: Never Go Back placed with 23MM, much better that the original's 15MM debut and likely to do big worldwide business (already 31MM) against a very reasonable 60MM budget.  Ouija: Origin of Evil showed with 14MM against a 9MM budget, and good reviews may make this prequel as hugely profitable through the next two weeks as the original (which was a far worse film). The Accountant slid 43 percent to the fourth slot with 14MM as it recoups its production budget domestically; its modest 44 million budget should allow overseas markets to bring this one into the black.  Similarly, The Girl on the Train, which rounds out the Top Five with 7.3M, is most of the way to profit on worldwide grosses exceeding 100MM.

DONALD GLOVER will be playing the part of Lando Calrissian in the still-untitled Han Solo Star Wars film.

LEONARDO DiCAPRIO will play Sun Records' Sam Phillips, who helped make stars of artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin’ Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins.

DEADPOOL 2 lost director Tim Miller over what insiders say are creative differences between him and Ryan Reynolds, the actor who plays the titular Marvel character.

ANNE HATHAWAY talked to The Guardian about Colossal -- and about getiing awards in a way that may have people on her back again.

SNEAKERS may be headed to the small screen.

BILL MURRAY crashed the White House press room to talk baseball.

DAVID LETTERMAN (and his beard) shop at Target these days.

VENEZUELA goes Full Dictatorship. You never go Full Dictatorship.

A U.S. DESTROYER sailed close to a cluster of islands claimed by Beijing in the South China Sea on Friday, the Pentagon said, amid continued tensions in the contested waterway.

PLAYER 3 has entered the game.

AN EMU was found wandering an Arizona highway.

THE POLICE HORSE did not like being slapped.

AN OVER-FRIENDLY OCTOPUS tries playing Alien with a diver.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE FACES! Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane, Kenny Jones, and Ian McLagan, live on the Beeb circa 1972.  Your setlist includes: "Three Button Hand Me Down"; "Maybe I'm Amazed"; "Too Much Woman/Street Fighting Man"; "Miss Judy's Farm"; "Love In Vain"; "Stay With Me"; and "I'm Losing You."

TOY advance streams Clear Shot.

MANNEQUIN P***Y advance streams Romantic.

AARON LEE TASJAN advance streams Silver Tears.

NINA DIAZ advance streams The Beat Is Dead.

NICOLE ATKINS returns with “A Little Crazy" ahead of Goodnight Rhonda Lee.

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

NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL: Is Jeff Mangum teasing a new album?

ROY ORBISON: The Noisey Guide.

PRINCE's siblings say a woman and girl purported to be his niece and grand-niece have no genetic connection to the late superstar and should not be named heirs to his estate.

KILLER RIFFS: A Guide to Parody in Popular Music.

NOW SHOWING:  This weekend's wide releases include Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, which is currently scoring 39 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Ouija: Origin of Evil, which is scoring 83 percent; Keeping Up With The Joneses, currently scoring 16 percent; and Boo! A Medea Halloween, which -- like all Medea films -- was not screened for critics.

LOGAN: The next Wolverine flick has a trailer online.

BRANGELEXIT: Brad Pitt had his first visit in more than a month with his 15-year-old son, Maddox ... since their confrontation last month on a private jet.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE & DARREN ARONOFSKY are hanging out and casually dating.

COLIN FIRTH is joining the Mary Poppins sequel.

JON HAMM talks to Elle about sex, love, and why getting older sucks.

THE PHILIPPINES: President Rodrigo Duterte announced his "separation" from the United States on Thursday, declaring he had realigned with China as the two agreed to resolve their South China Sea dispute through talks.

IRAQ: The operation to retake Mosul is going faster than expected, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Thursday. 

IRAN: Iranian-Americans Baquer Namazi and his son Siamak have been sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined 4.8MM, according to Iran's official news channel.

AN ORPHAN ORANGUTAN cries at his first day of school.

A SNAKE slithers out from under the hood of a car. Not that one Down Under, this one was in Florida.

AN ORYX CALF was born in Chad for the first time in decades.

HUNDREDS OF GOATS keep the Sea-Tac airport timmed.

PAUL McCARTNEY played "A Hard Day's Night," "Junior's Farm," "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," "I Saw Her Standing There," and "Hey Jude," among others, for 300 folks in a bar between Destert Trip gigs.

CONOR OBERST plays songs from Ruminations at the Housing Works Bookstore in New York.

SHANA FALANA advance streams Here Comes the Wave.

DAVID BOWIE: "Killing A Little Time" is the third unreleased Bowie song recorded during his Blackstar sessions to surface.

THE EXTERMINATORS, whose members went on to join The Germs, The Gun Club, The Feederz, Mighty Sphincter, 45 Grave, and more, have recorded an album of the proto-hardcore they jammed in the 70s.  They share "Just Like Your Mom."

SAMMY HAGAR, FOO FIGHTERS and JASON BONHAM cover Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll."

MICHAEL NESMITH: The Closest The Monkees Ever Got to Cool. Which is a shame, really.

PEARL JAM's third drummer, David Abbruzzese, twants into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.

WHO KILLED SHOEGAZE?  The music press or the bands themselves?

PHIL CHESS, who co-founded the legendary label Chess Records with his brother Leonard and helped make Chicago the epicenter of the blues, died Wednesday at his home in Tucson, Arizona. He was 95.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, VOL. 2 has a teaser online.

BRANGELEXIT: Angelina Jolie and her kids were interviewed Tuesday by 2 FBI agents ... primarily to determine where exactly the incident between Brad Pitt and 15-year-old son Maddox went down.  Pitt has not seen his oldest son, Maddox, since Jolie filed for divorce last month.

RUSSELL CROWE has launched a furious defense after rapper Azealia Banks revealed full details of her claims that he was racist and violent towards her.  Banks is angry at RZA for not defending her when Russell Crowe threw her out of his party, and says she's cutting him off for good ... personally and professionally.

ADAM LEVINE was falsely accused of abusing his wife and newborn daughter, according to a report.

LINDSAY LOHAN plans to offer an energy drink to refugees in Syria and Turkey?

JAMES FRANCO has been sued for an alleged head-butting incident that took place at Lana Del Rey’s 2014 concert at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

WILLY WONKA may be headed to the big screen yet again, though without Charlie.

OSTRICHES, fed by Weird Al Yankovic.

THE SMOKING CHIMP:  Not the flaming chimp. And yes, that's a very obscure reference.

AND THERE WERE PIGS all over the interstate.

A LIVE CRAB was spotted getting off the train at Cheltenham Spa.