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

NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS play World Cafe.

BIG STAR: Jody Stephens was joined by Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan, The dB's Chris Stamey, Brett Harris & Charles Cleaver, and more for a tribute show.

LAUFEY plays KEXP.

AMANDA SHIRES shares "Home to Me."

R.E.M.: Michael Stipe and Mike Mills reveal the secrets of "Electrolite."

BEN GIBBARD, on the Legacy of Death Cab for Cutie's The Photo Album, 20 Years Later.

THE BEST ALBUMS of 2021 (So Far), updated by Vulture.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Whitney Houston's bombastic, gospel-flavored ballad "All The Man That I Need."

NO TIME TO DIE reportedly hits Video-on-Demand today.

BENNIFER: Caught canoodling on camera.

LEONARDO DiCAPRIO wants to play Jim Jones.

WONDER WOMAN 3: The Return of Lynda Carter.

STAR WARS: Rogue Squadron, due to be directed by Wonder Woman filmmaker Patty Jenkins, has been delayed.

EMILIO ESTEVEZ is not returning to The Mighty Ducks. It's complicated.

MIDNIGHT RUN is getting a sequel.

HOW POPULAR are Standup Specials on Netflix?  Also, how good is Blumhouse at budgeting horror films?

STRANGER THINGS: Season 4 has a trailer online.

NOW THE DUCK wants to wear my red shoes.

BISCUIT & WAFFLES share a sidecar.

HOW DOES A SLOTH CROSS THE ROAD? With assistance.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Nation of Language, Snail Mail, Aimee Mann, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Penelope Isles, Chime School, Massage, and more.

ASTROWORLD: A stampede of fans surging toward the stage during rap star Travis Scott's music festival in Houston killed at least eight people and injured dozens more as panic rippled through the crowd of largely young concertgoers, officials said on Saturday.

UB40: The band's former trumpet player, percussionist and vocalist Terence ‘Astro' Wilson has died. He was 64.

808 STATE bassist and keyboardist Andrew Barker has passed at at 53.

SHOULD CLASSIC ROCK SONGS BE TOPPLED LIKE CONFEDERATE STATUTES? That was the original title of this NYT essay before social media weighed in.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the complicated story behind C+C Music Factory's triumphantly simplistic house anthem "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Marvel's The Eternals tops the chart with 71MM, well below the early tracking numbers of 80-85MM, but its 162MM worldwide take is the second-largest of the pandemic (behind F9, which had the Chinese market).  The upside is the lack of new competition until Thanksgiving.  Dune places with 7.6MM on a 51 percent drop as it lost a bunch of screens (esp IMAX) to the MCU.  No Time to Die shows with 6.1MM on a 20 percent drop.

KIRK DOUGLAS sexually assaulted Natalie when she was a teenager, according to Wood's sister.

BRITNEY SPEARS' former managers have argued that the singer cannot subpoena financial records prior to 2019, adding that they had no knowledge of a listening device placed in her bedroom.

KANYE WEST is dating model Vinetria.

SARAH JESSICA PARKER, on returning to the City.

VIN DIESEL asks DWAYNE JOHNSON to return for F10.

TECH NOIR: The sub-genre of the 1990s.

FEEDING THE MONKEYS from a Subaru.

A CAT, watching a baby goat.

RED LIGHT... Green Light.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with NEIL YOUNG!  Live on the Beeb, circa '71. Your setlist includes: "Out on the Weekend," "Old Man," "Journey Thru the Past," "Heart of Gold," "Don't Let It Bring You Down," "A Man Needs A Maid," "Love in Mind," and "Dance, Dance, Dance."

AMYL & THE SNIFFERS visit KEXP.

BLEACHERS: Live at Electric Lady kicks off with a cover of The Cars' "Drive."

LE REN covers Kitty Wells, Dorothy Skaggs, and more for a Lagniappe Session.

CHASTITY BELT shares "Fear."

ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS cover Bert Jansch's "It Don't Bother Me."

LAKE STREET DIVE covered Hall & Oates for Halloween.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS' John Darnielle talks to Consequence about SNL, "No Children," the Dead, and more.

AIMEE MANN: "Any woman my age is traumatised by growing up in the 60s and 70s."

SNAIL MAIL: Lindsey Jordan on Lana Del Rey, Lindsay Lohan, and the album that wrecks her.

THE 40 BEST NEW BANDS OF 2021, according to Stereogum.

GUY FIERI, the Mayor of Flavortown, will be officiating Kristen Stewart's wedding.

THE ETERNALS is getting pulled in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait.

CHRIS EVANS: People magazine's “Sexiest Man Alive” for 2021?

JENNIFER GARNER: Sporting a ring.

DWAYNE JOHNSON will stop using real guns on his set.

JOHNNY DEPP is getting access to his ex-wife Amber Heard’s phone — which he hopes will prove she faked injuries he allegedly gave her.

HARRY POTTER TURNS 20: Director Chris Colombus on young Daniel Radcliffe and why he wants to adapt The Cursed Child.

RAY LIOTTA claims Frank Sinatra's daughters once sent him a fake horse's head as revenge for him not playing their father in a project.

CATS & DOGS, sleeping together...

WHEN THE CAT kneads you.

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD PIG overcomes depression, is ready for adoption.

A CAR STRIKES A DEER, leading to a tanker truck that was filled with thousands of gallons of gasoline to explode.

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD: "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself."

GEESE plays KEXP.

LUCY DACUS plays "VBS" for Fallon.

U2 returns with "Your Song Saved My Life."

JENNY LEWIS returns with “Puppy And A Truck.”

MARK LANEGAN detailed his near-death experience from COVID-19 in a new memoir, which will be published next month.

PAUL McCARTNEY knew he'd never top The Beatles - and that's just fine with him.

THE BEST WAR ON DRUGS SONGS, ranked by Steven Hyden.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Surface's fragile, tinkly R&B ballad "The First Time."

KIM KARDAHIAN & PETE DAVIDSON had a secret dinner rendezvous.

TOM HANKS paid tribute to his great friend and Bosom Buddies co-star Peter Scolari.

GAL GADOT is in final negotiations to play the Evil Queen in Disney's live-action adaptation of Snow White.

THE ETERNALS has set an undesirable record as the worst-rated film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe on Rotten Tomatoes.

WILL SMITH fell in love with Stockard Channing?

BRAD PITT has a "huge cloud hanging over him" as his ups and downs with ex-wife Angelina Jolie continue to make headlines.

LIV TYLER complained ex-fiancé Dave Gardner continually forced her to watch football with his best pal David Beckham in the years before their split.

THE SOPRANOS: David Chase talks about the ending and the future.

DAKOTA JOHNSON: Hollywood's Heiress Apparent.

RYAN MURPHY: Hollywood's 300MM king of phoning it in?

A HUMMINBGBIRD, feeding chicks.

A CAT, preparing to launch.

A DEER, enjoying autumn leaves.

NATION OF LANGUAGE plays KEXP.

STRAND OF OAKS: Timothy Showalter brings live tracks to World Cafe.

SPIRITUALIZED shares "Always Together With You."

LE TIGRE's Kathleen Hanna and Johanna Fateman have settled their lawsuit against singer-songwriter Barry Mann, who claimed that their song "Deceptacon" infringed the copyright for his 1961 hit "Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp, Bomp Bomp)."

THE 10 BEST WAR ON DRUGS SONGS, according to Paste.

NICK CAVE moved to Los Angeles because Brighton became "too sad" following his son's death.

PINK FLOYD: The soundtracks.

RONNIE WILSON, a founding member of the popular funk and R&B group the Gap Band alongside his brothers Charlie Wilson and Robert Wilson, has died. He was 73.

KRISTEN STEWART and girlfriend Dylan Meyer are officially engaged.

KIM KARDASHIAN & PETE DAVIDSON are "having fun."

BRITNEY SPEARS' lawyer wants to know more about the listenting device in her bedroom.

ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. & MATT. DAMON. are in talks to join Christoper Nolan's Oppenheimer.

GEMMA WHELAN, on Game of Thrones' messy sex scenes.

MORBIUS: The Spider-Verse spin-off has a trailer online.

QUENTIN TARANTINO is auctioning unseen Pulp Fiction scenes.

SHAKIRA says that nobody helped her when wild boars stole her purse. 

A LIZARD shakes it.

WEINER DOGS hog the ball.

WALKING THE DOG, sort of.