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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.

THAT PETROL EMOTION: "Big Decision." Add Devo's "Freedom of Choice" for an election-themed Twofer Tuesday.

THE WAR ON DRUGS plays a Tiny Desk Concert and CBS This Morning.  Adam Granduciel talks to The Current.

ANI DiFRANCO plays Mountain Stage.

CURTIS HARDING shares "Explore."

M WARD covers the Sugarcubes' "Birthday."

CAT POWER covers "Pa Pa Power," a 2010 song from Ryan Gosling's indie rock project Dead Man's Bones.

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN: Read an excerpt from Will Sergeant's forthcoming memoir.

THE GO-GOS' Gina Schock talks about sharing her personal archives.

GEESE, profiled by Paste.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Janet Jackson's breezy, flirty, joyous "Love Will Never Do (Without You)."

THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT has a trailer online.

STEVE BUSCEMI went as his meme for Halloween.

BENNIFER trick or treated on the same block as Jennifer Garner.

RUST: The LA Times tries a reconstruction of the day Alec Baldwin shot the cinematographer.

CHRIS PRATT is the new voice of Garfield.

BRIAN COX takes aim at Johnny Depp among other co-stars in his newly released memoir.

TIGER KING: Carole Baskin sues Netflix over Season 2.

RUBY makes friends at daycare. 

A CAT, playing with toy penguins.

NEW ZEALAND's Bird of the Year.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to The War on Drugs, Bat Fangs, Lily Konigsberg and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Billy Bragg, Sam Evian,Geese, and more.

DINOSAUR JR streams a surprise live LP, including their cover of The Cure's "Just Like Heaven."

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE streams The Photo Album plus demos on Apple Music.

SPOON returns with "The Hardest Cut," which absolutely slaps.

MIDNIGHT OIL returns with "Rising Seas."

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE are "Heading West."

AIMEE MANN shares "I See You."

WILLIE NELSON & LUKAS NELSON cover George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass."

PAUL McCARTNEY: Unlocking his artistic influences, from Stockhausen to Hamburg. 

R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe talks about New Adventures in Hi-Fi at 25.

THE THE's Matt Johnson talks 'The Comeback Special,' his harrowing 2020 hospitalization, and finding a way forward in polarized times.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at "Justify My Love," the horny trip-hop provocation that Madonna made with Lenny Kravitz.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Halloween was more trick than treat for the domestic box office.  Dune repeats atop the chart with 15.5MM on a 62 percent drop which is better than some of the HBO Max dual releases, but worse than some.  Halloween Kills places with 8.5MM on a 41 percent drop. No Time to Die shows with 7.8MM on 36 percent drop.  Even so, October 2021 looks to be the best month for the movies in the pandemic period.

DUNE director Denis Villeneuve talks Part Two and.... Dune Messiah?

ANA de ARMAS looks set to play the lead role in the John Wick spin-off movie Ballerina.

HILARIA BALDWIN fears Alec will develop PTSD after shooting his cinematographer.  Not sure trying to make him the victim is good PR here.

ICE CUBE drops out of the Jack Black movie 'Oh Hell No' over a vaccination requirement.

KIM KARDASHIAN & PETE DAVISON are... just friends?

JOHN WOO is set to helm his first US action film in nearly two decades with the upcoming Silent Night, which features no dialogue whatsoever.

WILL SMITH: The Best Shape Of My Life has a trailer online.

A BABY ELEPHANT, enjoying a bath.

AN ADULT ELEPHANT smashes a great pumpkin or two.

AN OCTOPUS, changing colors while sleeping.

HEY, ROCKY, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.

CALIFORNIA CONDORS: Virgin births discovered in critically endangered birds.