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.