XPN FEST: See Dawes, St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Kathleen Edwards, The War and Treaty, Guster and more in a video playlist.

THE WATERBOYS, Live at Rockwood Music Hall, including a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Dead Flowers."

RANKY TANKY visits the World Cafe.

STEF CHURA covers Silver Jews' "How to Rent a Room".

R.E.M. has an A/B boss comparison of two mixes of Monster.  You'll need Spotify or Apple Music for the full tracks on Nov 1 tho.

MIKAL CRONIN talks to Paste about being inspired by a real-life disaster.

TRENT REZNOR has changed his mind about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

HOW THOM YORKE Learned to Stop Worrying and (Mostly) Love Rock Stardom.

BAT FOR LASHES: The Dark Side.

STAR WARS SETBACK: Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have dtched much-publicized deal with Lucasfilm to launch a feature film trilogy in 2022.

GAME OF THRONES SETBACK: The prequel written by Jane Goldman and starring Naomi Watts is no longer happening.

THE OTHER GAME OF THRONES PREQUEL, House of the Dragon, has been ordered to series, however.

HBO MAX will release new episodes on a weekly basis rather than release entire seasons at once like Netflix and Amazon.

RACHEL WEISZ has been cast as Elizabeth Taylor in the upcoming biopic A Special Relationship.

ROBERT EVANS: The late producer's best lines from The Kid Stays In The Picture.

KNIVES OUT has a final trailer online.

A RACCOON takes what seems like its first car trip.

RELEASING A BEAUTIFUL EAGLE after it was treated and recovered from its injuries.

A VETERAN saves a dog in an Afghanistan war zone, sneaks him home to safety.

AUSTRALIAN WATER RATS have learned to eat invasive poisonous toads with 'surgical precision.'