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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...STREAMING FROM THE CASTLE EAST! This fan-made 1973 video for "The Monster Mash" is today's must-see clip (natch), though you can also see Bobby "Boris" Pickett perform it live at Little Steven's Halloween a Go-Go 2005. The covers by The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and The Misfits are pretty good also -- the latter uses clips from the Rankin-Bass animated classic, Mad Monster Party.

THE SHAGGS: It's Halloween!

JIM CARROLL (deceased) sings about "People Who Died."

KISS got their first television exposure in 1976 on The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.

"DO THEY KNOW IT'S HALLOWEEN?" is the all-star charity send-up of Band-Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" featuring Roky Erikson, Elvira, plus members from Arcade Fire, Sonic Youth, Smoosh, Rilo Kiley, Sparks and many more.

ROBERT POLLARD joins SWEET APPLE on the Halloween-themed video for "Reunion."

52 HORROR RELEASES from the Free Music Archive.

HALLOWEEN A/V: The Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer," Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising," Echo & the Bunnymen's "The Killing Moon,"  Santana's "Black Magic Woman", The Ramones' "Pet Sematary," Alice Cooper's "Welcome to My Nightmare," Siouxsie & the Banshees' "Halloween," The Eagles' "Witchy Woman," Tegan & Sara's "Walking With a Ghost," Stevie Wonder's "Superstition," Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' "Red Right Hand," AC/DC's "Hell's Bells," The Cramps' "Goo Goo Muck," Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear The Reaper (More Cowbell)," Tom Waits' "Cemetery Polka," The Edgar Winer Group's "Frankenstein," and Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party."  And, of course... Screamin' Jay Hawkins.

THE ROLLING STONES' "Sympathy For The Devil" was on the PopMatters list, but this version from the David Frost Show just plain amuses me.

WARREN ZEVON: A live trifecta of "Werewolves of London," "Excitable Boy" and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner."

THOMAS DOLBY: How about the mad vibe of "She Blinded Me With Science"?

HENRI MANCINI: "Experiment in Terror." A sentimental favorite to those who grew up watching "Creature Features" on WGN before it went superstation.

TRICK OR TREAT BIN: From the New York Dolls to Stevie Wonder, from Robyn Hitchcock to Ray Parker, Jr, from the Lemonheads to Donovan, plus Guided by Voices, Bauhaus, Blue Oyster Cult and more cowbell -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

THE TIME WARP: Let's do it again.

AND NOW: A Sophisticated Man About Town. Super-duper.

GRIM GRINNING GHOSTS, from the Haunted Mansion.

"THRILLER": The original 13-minute Jacko classic, plus the filipino prisoners.

IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN aired last night, but may still be viewable at ABC. This year, Rifftrax also paid tribute. The WaPo has 7 Things You Don't Know about the perennial Peanuts classic.

15 FACTS ABOUT HALLOWEEN: I counted more than that.

FIVE THINGS you may not know about Halloween.

THE TOP 10 SCI-FI HORROR FLICKS, according to Forbes.

WE THE PEOPLE, against the zombies.

IS FROZEN Disney's version of The Shining?

THE HORRIBLY SLOW MURDERER With the Extremely Inefficient Weapon. Ten minutes of unimaginable terror.

WAR of the WORLDS: Seventy-Six years later, you can stream the infamous Orson Welles broadcast from the Internet Archive.

THE WILHELM SCREAM: The repeatedly used film and television stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums, now appearing as an in-joke in many films, is the subject of a Masters of Horror segment.

31 CLASSIC HALLOWEEN TV EPISODES AND SPECIALS, according to Zap2It.

HOW TO CARVE YOUR PUMPKIN Using Power Tools.

DIED IN HOUSE: They're Heeeeeerrrrrrreeeeee...

THE TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES YOU HAVEN'T SEEN, according to the UAB Kaleidescope.

THE 20 ESSENTIAL VAMPIRE MOVIES, according to Flavorwire.

23 UNUSUAL VAMPIRE VARIATIONS, courtesy of The A.V. Club.

THE 25 MOST RIDICULOUS Movies "Of The Dead."

END CAT: Jake receives transmissions from the future.

PIGS. And pumpkins.

A ZOMBIE was busted for drunk driving — twice — during a three-hour binge in upstate New York.

PET COSTUMES: Business is booming at 350 million dollars.

THE BUZZCOCKS drop a video for "It's Not You" from The Way, the bands' first LP in eight years.

STRAND OF OAKS plays the Rockwood Music Hall for WFUV.

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

THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set. 

MIKE DOUGHTY plays unpluggedy in WFUV's Studio A.

ANGEL OLSEN's "May As Well" is a bonus track for Burn Your Fire For No Witness.

THE DEAD WEATHER drops  "Buzzkill(er)" as a single.

THE WHO: "5:15" from TOTP. Some vintage Keith Moon miming.

LUNA: Dean Wareham talks to Rolling Stone bout the band's reunion.

SIMPLE MINDS: Jim Kerr talks to Stereogum about Big Music, Prince, Italy, and more.

MICHAEL STIPE writes about coming out at The Guardian.

LED ZEPPELIN, ranked by Stereogum.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE, like so many, didn't understand Chris Martin's bond with Gwyneth Paltrow.

JESSICA BIEL pregnancy rumored.

AMANDA BYNES is again under the conservatorship of her parents.

CHARLIZE THERON can shut Sean Penn up?  I'm skeptical.

KATIE HOLMES talks to People about starting over, her life as a single mom and finding love again.

TOMMY LEE JONES: Not a Jim Carrey fan.

TERMINATOR: GENISYS - Can this franchise be saved?

RUSSIA: The White House is confirming cyber attacks on unclassified computer networks, and people are pointing the finger of suspicion at Russia. Meanwhile, NATO detected and monitored four groups of Russian military aircraft conducting significant military manoeuvers in European airspace over the Baltic Sea, North Sea/Atlantic Ocean, and Black Sea on 28 and 29 October 2014.  These sizable Russian flights represent an unusual level of air activity over European airspace.

LIBYA: Militants target civil society activists.

TURKEY: The increasingly hostile divergence of views between Turkey and the United States over Syria is testing the durability of their 60-year alliance, to the point where some are starting to question whether the two countries still can be considered allies at all.

MARU & HANA tackle a ladder.

WILD HOGS run amok in Florida county.

AN EEL-LIKE FISH was removed from a man's backside. He slipped. it was a million to one shot.

THE FIRST TEST-TUBE PENGUIN was hatched at SeaWorld in San Diego 12 weeks ago, but the first images of her were only made public this week.

JOHN CALE dropped a video for 1982's "If You Were Still Around" to mark the first anniversary of Lou Reed's death.

PERFUME GENIUS performs in the WNYC Soundcheck studio. 

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: A new single from Belle & Sebastian, plus Grouper, Aurora, the Velvet Underground, and more.

DIRTY BEACHES advance streams a final album, Stateless.

GLISH is advance streaming their self-titled debut.

THE NEW BASEMENT TAPES: "Liberty Street" is Bob Dylan by way of Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith.

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN: The Reid Bros talk to The Observer about the making of Psychocandy.

JEFF TWEEDY plays charades with Jimmy Fallon, Ewan MacGregor, and Charles Barkley.

LUNA is doing a short reunion, including dates in the US.

THE TOP 50 COVER VERSIONS, according to a BBC poll.

THE MARVEL SLATE: Following the announcement of DC's planned slate of movies, Marvel releases their schedule through 2019, including Chadwick Boseman in The Black Panther, and likely Benedict Cumberbatch in Doctor Strange. The two-part Avengers 3 is subtitled Infinity War, which suggests a possible Guardians oft he Galaxy crossover after the GotG sequel in 2017.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE and CHRIS MARTIN are dunzo, reportedly at her initiative.

HERE COMES HONEY BOO BOO: Mike "Sugar Bear" Thompson is not taking allegations that June "Mama June" Shannon is dating a registered sex offender lightly. He will seek custody of his daughter, Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, after news broke that her mother has allegedly rekindled her romance with registered sex offender Mark McDaniel.

AMANDA BYNES is in such bad shape that her doctors secretly got an order from a judge that allows them to hold her for another month.

NEIL PARTICK HARRIS will host  a U.S. version of Saturday Night Takeaway, the long-running U.K. variety show.

HUGH JACKMAN received skin cancer treatment for the third time in a year.

JESSICA PARE (Mad Men) is expecting her first child with boyfriend John Kastner.

NORTH KOREA: The top American military commander in South Korea said on Friday that he believed North Korea had most likely completed its yearslong quest to shrink a nuclear weapon to a size that could fit atop a ballistic missile. His assessment, if correct, could change American calculations about the vulnerability of the United States and its allies, and the North's ability to sell nuclear weapons to others.

TUNISIA's secular Nidaa Tounes party is emerging as the main winner in the 217-seat parliament election after Sunday's vote, preliminary results show.

LEBANON faces an internal threat from ISIS.

IRAQ: Islamic State fighters are using advanced surface-to-air missile systems that pose a serious threat to aircraft flown by Iraq and the American-led coalition.

AFGHANISTAN: The international military coalition said it would continue to provide air support to Afghan forces after the scheduled end of combat operations in December, even as it shuttered a major regional command in the violent Helmand province.

THIS HUSKY ain't leaving the dog park.

BEAVERS are getting new respect, and The New York Times is on it.

REPTILES that have sex early and frequently in life and feast on meat, tend to "live fast, die young," as the rock-and-roll saying goes.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A militant rodent was caught doing recon on a police car.

I SEEM TO BE ON THE MEND, and should be back tomorrow...

JACK BRUCE,  who became famous in the 1960s as the bassist and lead vocalist for the hugely successful rock group Cream (along with Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker), and whose adventurous approach to his instrument influenced two generations of rock bassists, died from liver disease on Saturday at his home in Suffolk, England. He was 71. Though known for their expansive reinventions of blues standards, Cream also turned out a number of pshch-blues pop gems, including “I Feel Free,” “Sunshine of Your Love,” and “White Room” -- all of which were co-written by Bruce.  I saw him play with the Golden Palominos, where he took lead vocals on "Silver Bullet."  The band also tackled "White Room" and "Deserted Cities of the Heart", because, well, Jack Bruce.  He played so hard his fingers started bleeding; he had to be bandaged up by Chris Stamey.  For a musician as practiced and aggressive as Bruce to reach that point at that juncture of his long career was quite something to watch.  The Guardian traces his journey through the Sixties, including bass duties on my favorite Manfred Mann tune, "Pretty Flamingo."

BOB DYLAN & THE BAND advance stream selections from The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11.

NEIL YOUNG advance streams Storytone, both electric and acoustic.

DEERHOOF advance streams La Isla Bonita.

GROUPER advance streams Ruins.

SHE & HIM drop a cover of Dusty Springfield's "Stay Awhile" ahead of their upcoming Classics album. Just tune to 1202 on your AM dial.

THE DECEMBERISTS: Colin Meloy previewed new songs while street busking at CMJ.

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE talks to Stereogum about the first album without Chris Walla.

PANDA BEAR talks to Pitchfork about fear, family, and projectile vomit.

YACHT took SPIN inside their home and studio.

THE GRATEFUL DEAD turns 50 next year; Martin Scorsese will produce a documentary.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Ouija tops the chart with 20 million against a 5 million budget, for some easy pre-Halloween profit.  John Wick places with 14 million, twice what gurus predicted against a 5.5 million budget.  Fury shows with 13 million on a 45 percent drop, which keeps it on track to recoup its production budget domesticallly and seek profit overseas.  Gone Girl drops to the fourth slot with another 11.1 million, continuing to do impressive business in all markets in its fourth week.  The Book of Life rounds out the Top 5 with 9.8 million on a 42 percent drop, which is pretty steep for the send weekend of a family movie.

JOHN WICK is in many respects a typical revenge picture, so it really has to succeed in style and execution.  Fortunately, it does and then some.  The script throws in a few intriguing novelties, creates a world, and a tone just over-the-top enough to let you know they're not taking themselves too seriously, even if they take the action very seriously.  Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Willem Dafoe, Ian McShane and Adrienne Padlicki in particular get to gleefully gnaw on what ever scenery they aren't blasting apart at the moment.Throughout, people ask Wick if "he's back," and I would think he will be; with this flick, Reeves certainly is.

HERE COMES HONEY BOO BOO was cancelled after TMZ reported Mama June is dating a convicted child molester who sexually abused June's daughter.

MINDY KALING is profiled by The New York Times.

ASHLEY GREENE's  apartment that burned to a crisp last year had one remnant ... a crack pipe, according to a sworn statement by the building manager.

GEORGE & AMAL CLOONEY continue to celebrate their nuptials in London.

LAKE BELL and her artist husband Scott Campbell have welcomed a baby girl.

SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR reveals her favorite onscreen kiss.

JENNY McCARTHY gives you TMI on her honeymoon period with Donnie Wahlberg.

MARCIA STRASSMAN, known for her roles in such hits as Welcome Back, Kotter and M*A*S*H*, died on Friday after a long fight with breast cancer, her sister Julie Strassman confirmed. She was 66.

NIGERIA: Boko Haram kiddnaped scores of schoolgirls days after agreeing to a ceasefire.

UKRAINE: Darth Vader is running for Parliament, vows to transform the republic into a galactic empire. He was blocked from voting.

IRAQ: Despite increasing assistance from the United States, Iraq’s ability to mount a sustained counteroffensive to retake territory seized by the Islamic State is still months away.

DACHSHUND'S CREEK: Now this I might watched.

WILD COYOTES help capture an Iowa fugitive.

THE WORLD'S LONGEST SNAKE had a virgin birth.

TUNICORN: A huge tuna survived being impaled on an embedded Marlin spike.