Karl Dean & Britta: “Words You Used To Say” is one that has stuck with me.
New Releases: Pitchfork will point you to Fontaines D.C., the Avalanches, and more.
Bill’s Indie Grotto has @, Dummy, and more.
Exploding Flowers: Check out the Alphabet Window LP.
Smashing Pumpkins shares “Black Stars.”
This Is Lorelei covers Shane MacGowan & The Popes’ “The Song With No Name.”
Poly Styrene was paid tribute in London.
Michael Stipe joined members of The National on “E-Bow the Letter” and more as part of the AB100 festival celebrating the Dessner brothers’ 50th birthdays.
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Weekend Box Office: Street Fighter tops the chart with 31MM, a slight disappointment. You Can See Everything placed with 15MM in limited release, the biggest opening of a non-music documentary in two decades, possibly foretelling a phenomenon next week. Other Mommy showed with 8.35MM, skidding 70 percent in what should be a favorable Spooktober environment. Whalefall thuds with a fourth-place 8MM debut.
The Coen Brothers are reuniting.
Josh Brolin on Whalefall, Sicario 3, and more.
Nicolas Cage & Antonio Banderas star in the next season of True Detective.
Peter Jackson’s next project is… the Tintin sequel?
Timothy Busfield’s indictment on child sex abuse charges was tossed by a judge finding that prosecutors failed to act impartially during the grand jury proceedings.
Billy Ray Cyrus and Liz Hurley are engaged.
James McAvoy says Split is the only movie that really pays him.
Tubi plans to build an R.L. Stine Cinematic Universe.
Carrot Top broke his silence following a Sept. 18 suicide attempt and hospitalization.
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Hey Babe, be back to pick you up later.
And now for something completely different.
The Fake Mantis Controversy.
