GLADYS KNIGHT is backed on "Midnight Train to Georgia" by Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr., through the magic of CGI, to promote Tropic Thunder back in 2008.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Alvvays, Bonny Light Horseman, Courtney Marie Andrews, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Broken Bells, Dungen, and more.

POM POM SQUAD shares "River."

WILL SCHEFF, After Okkervil.

BOB DYLAN's audio book has all-star voices.

MERCH can make or break an indie band's career.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Nickelback's unkillable radio-rock monster "How You Remind Me," the last hard rock song ever to top the Hot 100.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Smile repeats atop the chart with 17.6MM on a 22 percent drop, the best hold for a horror movie since 2017’s Get Out. Lyle, Lyle placed with an 11.5MM debut, probably judged as "meh."  Amsterdam, which was already repositioned from Oscars bait to the mass market, showed with a 6.5MM debut, with audience scores suggesting little legs.

WILL "HOUSE OF THE DRAGON" overtake "The Rings of Power" in the streaming rankings?

KANE WEST's Instagram account was restricted after a post that was criticized as anti-Semitic. He's also locked out of Twitter.

KEANU REEVES will no longer star in the Hulu series adaptation of “The Devil in the White City.”

MILA KUNIS, getting booed by the Tonight Show crowd, then turning it around.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE talks about losing control when her careeer took off.

GUILLERMO DEL TORO defends Martin Scorsese.

JOHN WATERS is returning to filmmaking.

MICHAEL SHANNON & JESSICA CHASTAIN, as George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

NIKKE FINKE, a tenacious journalist who revolutionized entertainment reporting with what became the Hollywood trade website Deadline, died Sunday morning in Boca Raton, Fla. after a prolonged illness. She was 68.

PARKOUR! BARKOUR!

A PUPPER with ducklings.

A BABY GIRAFFE & A BABY HIPPO, falling in love.

THE COLUMBUS DAY 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."

AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS play The Current.

CURTIS HARDING plays KEXP.

KURT VILE joined PAVEMENT on "Zurich is Stained" in Philly.

PHOENIX plays "Alpha Zulu" for Kimmel.

SCOTT WEILAND gets the jump with a cover of John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War is Over)."

A YOUNG TRENT REZNOR covers Billy Idol's "Eyes Without a Face."

THE TOP 25 GRUNGE ALBUMS of the 1990s, according to Pitchfork.

R.E.M.'s CHRONIC TOWN is getting a tribute concert organized by the Black Crowes' Rich Robinson.

DEAD & CO.: The end of the road?

PRINCE HARRY, ELTON JOHN & LIZ HURLEY are among those suing the publisher of British tabloids the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday, alleging it hired private investigators to bug their cars and homes, hired people to listen into their telephone conversations, paid police for inside information, impersonated staff at hospitals and clinics to obtain information and accessed bank accounts and financial transactions “through illicit means and manipulation.”

EZRA MILLER, despite a hurricane of scandal, is still shooting The Flash.

MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM has a trailer online.

THE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF ROSA PARKS has a trailer online.

THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE has a teaser trailer online.

EVAN RACHEL WOOD wants DANIEL RADCLIFFE to get an Oscars nod for his role as “Weird Al” Yankovic.

JARED LETO is making a Karl Lagerfeld biopic.

MOONLIGHTING may finally make it to a streaming service.

AN ORAL HISTORY OF "THE BIG BANG THEORY" reveals the many actresses who nearly played Penny before Kaley Cuoco won the role.

AL PRIMO, creator of the "eyewitness" local TV news format still in use today, dies at 87.

JUDY TENUTA, a popular stand-up comic  known to her fans as “The Love Goddess” and “Aphrodite of the Accordion,” died of ovarian cancer on Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles. She was 72.

A MOMMA BIRD, hard at work.

JUMP: Might as well...

CATS & DOG, living together...

WE FIVE were on my mind when I woke up this morning, introduced by no less than Fred Astaire.

JEFF "SKUNK" BAXTER: The most interesting man in music?

THE LUMINEERS play World Cafe.

MODERN ENGLISH's late night TV debut. Yes, really.

THE BEST OF SEPTEMBER 2022, per Bill's Indie Basement.

R.E.M.: Automatic for the People turns 30. Get Off My Lawn.

TAME IMPALA's Lonerism turns 10. Get Off My Lawn.

LORETTA LYNN chronicled women's lives, from the new freedoms to defiant songs of survival.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Usher's smoothly anguished "U Got It Bad."

JAMES BOND: Dr. No turned 60. The AV Club ranks 'em all. Bond producer Michael G. Wilson has ruled out the possibility of a younger 007, claiming the next actor will likely be in their thirties.

ALEC BALDWIN and Rust Movie Productions LLC have reached a settlement with the estate of slain cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

CHRISTIAN BALE Keeps Trying to Quit Hollywood.

THE ROYALS: King Charles III is expected to be crowned on June 3 next year in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey.

GISELE took a ring off it.

HILARY SWANK is expecting twins.

NICOLAS CAGE was never paid for his Oscar-winning role in Leaving Las Vegas.

WILL SMITH: Will Oscars voters consider nominating him next year?

VIOLENT NIGHT has a trailer online.

DOGUE: A restaurant in SF offering a 75-dollar tasting menu for dogs.

A HOLE IN ONE, Down Under.

LITTLE BOY BECKLEY meets his new family.

THE JAGS: "Back of My Hand," from TOTP and the "Where Are They Now?" file.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Titus Andronicus, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Björk, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Lambchop, Pixies, Melody's Echo Chamber, and more.

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE are back with "Love Earth" ahead of a Rick Rubin-produced LP.

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM returns with "new body rhumba."

SNAIL MAIL, SOCCER MOMMY, SAD13 & ALICIA BOGNANNO cover Pavement's "Grounded."

PAVEMENT plays "AT&T" for the first time in 12 years.

TOM WAITS released a live take on "Lost in the Harbor."

LORETTA LYNN, the country singer whose plucky songs and inspiring life story made her one of the most beloved American musical performers of her generation, died on Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. She was 90.

THE BEST BEACH BOYS COVERS, according to Cover Me.

JASON ISBELL talked about the experience he and his wife, acclaimed artist Amanda Shires, had with a recent health scare.

ALVVAYS talks to NME.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at J-lo's "I'm Real" and Mary J. Blige's "Family Affair."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Smile topped the chart wiith 22MM. Don't Worry Darling placed with 7.3MM on a 62 percent plunge (oof). The Woman King showed with 7MM on a 36 percent drop.

TOM BRADY & GISELE have lawyered up, reportedly.

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER has a new trailer online, so you'll want to know about Namor.

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, reuniting Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, has a trailer online.

MARVEL is ackshually making a Werewolf by Night movie directed by movie music master Michael Giacchino.

FRASER: The sequel is headed to Paramount+.

SCOOBY-DOO: Velma is out.

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA puts his fortune on the line for Megalopolis.

NOSFERATU is getting a remake from director Robert Eggers.

BARK IN THE PARK: Catch It!

CAMOUFLAGE LEVEL = 100 percent.

IT'S A CLOWN CAR of Kittens.

THE LONG WEEKEND STARTS HERE (and probably ends Tuesday):

...with THE GO-GOs!  They made history as the first all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts. Kind of a hard band to place seasonally. Their debut, Beauty and the Beat, which yielded hits like "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got the Beat," as well as great album cuts like "This Town," "Lust to Love," "Tonite" and "How Much More," came out in late Summer 1981, iirc, and "Lips" was climbing the charts that Fall, so I mentally place the band in this time of year. And it's still warm enough that the title track to the too-quick sophomore album, "Vacation," -- or their cover of the Capitols' "Cool Jerk" -- doesn't sound too out of place. "Get Up and Go" was also a single from that LP, but it didn't make the Top 40.  The band would chart twice more -- in 1984, with "Head Over Heels" and "Turn to You" -- before splitting and the near-inevitable reunion tours.

WILLIE NELSON: The latter part of this legendary career gets over three hours of discussion and analysis on Political Beats. 

WET LEG plays KEXP.

BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN shares “Someone To Weep For Me.”

THE 150 BEST ALBUMS of the 1990s, according to Pitchfork.

THE B-52s debut album, reconsidered.

ED SHEERHAN will have to face a jury trial over whether or not he stole bits of “Thinking Out Loud” from Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.”

THE SMITHS: Mike Joyce discussed recording Strangeways Here We Come album with the BBC.

TREVOR NOAH is leaving the Daily Show and dating Dua Lipa.

QUEEN ELIZABETH's cause of death has been revealed.

MEGXIT: Harry and Megan are desperate to edit the Netflix show and memoir following the Queen's death.

ARMOR WARS: Marvel's Don Cheadle vehicle is shifting from a TV series to a movie.

BRUCE WILLIS returns to the screen via a deepfake.

STARS AT NOON has a steamy trailer online.

BONES AND ALL has a trailer online.

RETURN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: The reboots get another sequel.

AROOS: Join In.

THAT is not a cat.

THIS might be my week.

A CAT... and a rooster?