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JULIANA HATFIELD: The autumnal "My Sister" and the Blake Babies' cover of "Temptation Eyes" for Twofer Tuesday.

NICK CAVE shares a playlist of his best songs.

MADDER ROSE is back for a new album after 24 years.

NATION OF LANGUAGE shares "Sightseer."

THOM YORKE, on vocal technique, his favorite singers, and more.

TEENAGE FANCLUB, on Life, Death, and Remaining Seated.

TURNING 20: My Morning Jacket's It Still Moves and The Decemberists' Her Majesty.

STOP MAKING SENSE: The Talking Heads may have more to say?

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Wiz Khalifa's breezy Pittsburgh-pride anthem "Black And Yellow."

THE CHARTER-DISNEY DEAL: Does it transform the TV biz? (The piece argues no, though carriage of D+ seems significant.)

MARTIN SHORT gets public support after a silly Slate piece claimed he's not funny. Including from celebs.

THE DREW BARRYMORE SHOW is picketed upon returning to production without writers.

L.A. CONFIDENTIAL 2: The sequel that wasn't.

AQUAMAN & THE LOST KINGDOM has a teaser online.

FILM FESTIVALS in a time of strikes.

A TAXONOMY of Cinematic Cucks.

PUPPERS do the mirror shtick.

TORTOISE ON THE LAM mobilizes a search party.

NICE DAY LIKE THIS, you'd think there'd be more people about.

REDBONE: "Come and Get Your Love."

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to the Handsome Family, Deeper, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Sparklehorse, Kristin Hersh, and more.

VELOCITY GIRL plays their first concert in 21 years.

THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH on not taking anything for granted, escaping the trap of self-pity, and learning from your past self.

LISTENING TO TAYOR SWIFT in Prison.

THE WRENS' The Meadowlands Turns 20.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Nun 2 blows away projections with a 32.6MM debut. Equalizer 3 places with 12.1MM on a 65 percent drop. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 shows with 10MM.

ASHTON KUTCHER & MILA KUNIS apologize for sending letters of support to the Los Angeles judge overseeing the Danny Masterson rape case ahead of Masterson's sentencing.

CHRIS EVANS married Alba Baptista over the weekend.

JERRY SEINFELD throws some cold water on one part of the Rolling Stone expose of Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show.

TIM BURTON, on cancel culture, AI, a Beetlejuice sequel, and more.

DUNE 2's delay opens Imax screens for The Marvels, Lionsgate’s latest Hunger Games sequel and Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.

NICOLAS CAGE picks four fave films.

DISNEY announced a box set of 100 animated films.

9/11: The first five minutes of CNN coverage. I came out of the shower, saw the second plane hit on NBC, and knew had had to contact my boss, whose daughter lived in NYC. There is still a lot of crazy stuff going on around the country and the world as a result, so consider taking a moment to watch and remember, esp. with a new generation that has grown up with no direct memory of the event.

A FLAMINGO, but as a barber.

PARTNERS in Crime. Sort of.

CATS & DOGS, living together...

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE B-52s!  The quirky combo from Athens, GA, has had a long and storied career, but we'll (mostly) stick to the early stuff this weekend.  So, from the self-titled debut, classics "Planet Claire," "Rock Lobster,"  "Lava," and "Dance This Mess Around." And from the sophomore LP, Wild Planet, "Party Out of Bounds," "Give Me Back My Man", "Private Idaho" and "Dirty Back Road."  BONUS: "Song For A Future Generation," because it's the first song I heard them play live. DOUBLE BONUS: "Deadbeat Club," because get off my lawn.

SPEEDY ORTIZ plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

PRINCE: Hear a previously unreleased take of "Cream."

JONI MITCHELL shares the previously unreleased song "Like Veils Said Lorraine."

JOLIE HOLLAND & BUCK MEEK share "Highway 72."

MILLISECONDS, a Dismemberment Plan offshoot shares "Fallingwater."

ANTI-FLAG's other ex-members issued a statement about their ex-frontman being accused of sexual abuse.

ARCTIC MONKEYS' TOP 40, according to Paste.

JIMMY FALLON's TONIGHT SHOW: Chaos, Comedy, and ‘Crying Rooms.'  He's already apologizing.

DANNY MASTERSON: The "70s Show" star has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison, after being convicted for rape earlier this year.

SOPHIE TURNER was struggling after the birth of her second child, and Joe Jonas was “less than supportive,” so claims several sources who were around Joe after the birth. In case you were wondering how she was taking the last round of Jonas-fiendly leaks.

THANKSGIVING: The Eli Roth movie teased by a fake trailer in Grindhouse (2007) now has a real trailer online.

THE ROYAL HOTEL has a trailer online.

IAN McKELLEN, on Not Retiring, Not Being the First Choice for Gandalf and Going Evil for ‘The Critic.'

RICHARD LINKLATER, on His Comedy Thriller ‘Hit Man' and Why Indie Movies Might Be "Gone With the Algorithm."

TOM HARDY has left some viewers baffled by his accent in the trailer for upcoming film, The Bikeriders.

BEST FRIENDS, racing each other.

A GOLDEN RETRIEVER has surprising friends.

A THREE-LEGGED BEAR Walks Into a Bar...

OF MONTREAL, backing actor Paul Rudd and actor-director David Wain on Boston's classic "More Than A Feeling."

WILDER WOODS plays World Cafe.

THE ROLLING STONES shares "Angry," the single from the first LP of new songs in 18 years.

SUN JUNE shares “Easy Violence” and “John Prine.”

SLOWDIVE's Simon Scott lists his 10 essential shoegaze albums.

SWEDISH GANGS, laundering money through Spotify.

2024 CANDIDATES pick the 20 songs that bring them joy.

ROTTEN TOMATOES' Payola Scandal.

JOE JONAS saw/heard something with Sophie Turner that was the last straw in his decision to file for divorce, and it involves a ring camera. 

AL PACINO's ex-girlfriend is asking a court to give her physical custody of their infant son.

LEONARDO DiCAPRIO & VITTORI CERWTTI, caught canoodling on camera.

SAMUEL L. JACKSON may play the President as Nick Fury.

WARNER BROS is suspending some deals with big names.

THE BOY AND THE HERON, Hayao Miyazaki's reported final film, has a teaser online.

THE BIKERIDERS, ft. Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, Tom Hardy, and Michael Shannon, has a trailer online.

PAIN HUSTLERS, with Chris Evans and Emily Blunt, has a trailer online.

STEPHEN KING, terrifying his wife.

DISNEY'S WILDEST RIDE: Iger, Chapek and the making of an epic succession mess.

DANGER NOODLES, hanging out in the den.

A WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER, blending in.

TIGER vs GOOSE: Who You Got?

CATS, introduced to the treadmill.

ISSAC HAYES croons "Walk On By".

SIMON AND GARFUNKEL get over three hours of discussion and analysis on Political Beats with Rory Cooper.

NEIL YOUNG & THE STRAY GATORS, Scope Arena, Norfolk, Virginia, January 29, 1973.

BILLY IDOL joins FOO FIGHTERS on the Sex Pistols' "Pretty Vacant."

GASLIGHT ANTHEM shares "Little Fires."

ANTI-FLAG's ex-frontman faces 12 more sexual assault allegations.

PHOEBE BRIDGERS Interviews OLIVIA RODRIGO.

ELEPHANT 6: "Our plan was to humiliate the corporate rock industry."

DINOSAUR JR's J Mascis lists 10 guitarists who shaped his sound.

THE HOLLYWOOD STRIKES will cost Warner Bros. 300-500MM.

CHICKEN RUN 2 has a trailer online.

LOKI: Sason 2 has a teaser online.

WOODY ALLEN on possible retirement, cancel culture, and more.

JOE JONAS is divorcing SOPHIE TURNER.

KYLIE JENNER & TIMOTHEE CHALAMET are an item.

KANYE WEST and ‘wife' Bianca Censori were banned from a Venice boat company after ‘obscenities' onboard.

SEAN "DIDDY" COMBS is returning music rights to the artists on his Bad Boy label.

STRAY may be headed from your game screen to the big screen.

BOB BARKER's cause of death has been revealed as a result of Alzheimer's disease.

GAME OF THRONES has nothing on this bird.

GEESE, taking back the beach. 

A PELICAN, working out the gullet.