PETE BURNS, who founded the oh-so-80s pop group Dead Or Alive, has died of a cardiac arrest aged 57. The band's US hits were "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" and "Brand New Lover." (your twofer Tuesday). The Guardian has even more.

DAWES stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

KISHI BASHI visited World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

CLEAR PLASTIC MASKS advance streams Nazi Hologram.

JOANNA NEWSOM returned with a new song called “Make Hay,” an unreleased outtake recorded during the sessions for Divers.

THE FLAMING LIPS share a video for "The Castle" ahead of Oczy Mlody.

THE 50 BEST SHOEGAZE ALBUMS, according to Pitchfork.

BARRY GIBB talks to Weekend Edition about music, family and loss.

THE RAVEONETTES talk to Weekend Edition their monthly song project.

NICO, the late German chanteuse who was among Andy Warhol’s muses and sang with the Velvet Underground, is getting the biopic treatment.

DAISY RIDLEY has confirmed when Star Wars will reveal who Rey's parents are.

BILL MURRAY was saluted with the Mark Twain Prize.

CHRIS HEMSWORTH denied rumors he and wife Elsa Pataky would soon split.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER wishes he was running for President.

ORLANDO BLOOM rescued a bloodied and abandoned dog in Shanghai.

SHAILENE WOODLEY is to stand trial in North Dakota early next year on charges related to her protest against the Dakota Access pipeline.

IS SOCIAL MEDIA changing film criticism?

IRAQ: The Pentagon is sending dozens of additional intelligence analysts to Iraq to pore over a trove of information that is expected to be recovered in the offensive to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State, data that could offer new clues about possible terrorist attacks in Europe.

KUMBUKA THE GORILLA escaped from his enclosure at the London Zoo... to chug some fruity syrup. And did not break theough hsi enclosure, as previously reported.

A HAIRLESS HAMSTER gets a tiny sweater.

A GIANT SPIDER carries a mouse up a fridge.

SEVEN FEMALE ELK AND A BULL wents shopping at a Colorado mall.

NEIL YOUNG joins METALLICA for a cover of his "Mr. Soul."

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

PHANTOGRAM stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

BLIND PILOT played a Tiny Desk Concert.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS originally believed "Cubs In Five" was the height of the unlikely.

BOB DYLAN has quietly scrubbed the one mention of him as the "winner of the Nobel Prize in literature" in "the lyrics" section of the site following his surprise win last week. The Nobel comittee is in disarray.

PRINCE: A remastered, repackaged edition of Purple Rain is coming, with a second album of previously unreleased material.

BEFORE THE SMITHS, Johnny Marr and Andy Rourke were in a funk band named Freak Party.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN wrote a song for...Harry Potter?

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Boo! A Madea Halloween topped the chart with 27.6MM, again establishing that Tyler Perry makes a lot more money with drag comedies than with family dramas, though the 20MM budget is probably acceptable only because Perry keeps the marketing costs down.  Jack Reacher: Never Go Back placed with 23MM, much better that the original's 15MM debut and likely to do big worldwide business (already 31MM) against a very reasonable 60MM budget.  Ouija: Origin of Evil showed with 14MM against a 9MM budget, and good reviews may make this prequel as hugely profitable through the next two weeks as the original (which was a far worse film). The Accountant slid 43 percent to the fourth slot with 14MM as it recoups its production budget domestically; its modest 44 million budget should allow overseas markets to bring this one into the black.  Similarly, The Girl on the Train, which rounds out the Top Five with 7.3M, is most of the way to profit on worldwide grosses exceeding 100MM.

DONALD GLOVER will be playing the part of Lando Calrissian in the still-untitled Han Solo Star Wars film.

LEONARDO DiCAPRIO will play Sun Records' Sam Phillips, who helped make stars of artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin’ Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins.

DEADPOOL 2 lost director Tim Miller over what insiders say are creative differences between him and Ryan Reynolds, the actor who plays the titular Marvel character.

ANNE HATHAWAY talked to The Guardian about Colossal -- and about getiing awards in a way that may have people on her back again.

SNEAKERS may be headed to the small screen.

BILL MURRAY crashed the White House press room to talk baseball.

DAVID LETTERMAN (and his beard) shop at Target these days.

VENEZUELA goes Full Dictatorship. You never go Full Dictatorship.

A U.S. DESTROYER sailed close to a cluster of islands claimed by Beijing in the South China Sea on Friday, the Pentagon said, amid continued tensions in the contested waterway.

PLAYER 3 has entered the game.

AN EMU was found wandering an Arizona highway.

THE POLICE HORSE did not like being slapped.

AN OVER-FRIENDLY OCTOPUS tries playing Alien with a diver.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE FACES! Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane, Kenny Jones, and Ian McLagan, live on the Beeb circa 1972.  Your setlist includes: "Three Button Hand Me Down"; "Maybe I'm Amazed"; "Too Much Woman/Street Fighting Man"; "Miss Judy's Farm"; "Love In Vain"; "Stay With Me"; and "I'm Losing You."

TOY advance streams Clear Shot.

MANNEQUIN P***Y advance streams Romantic.

AARON LEE TASJAN advance streams Silver Tears.

NINA DIAZ advance streams The Beat Is Dead.

NICOLE ATKINS returns with “A Little Crazy" ahead of Goodnight Rhonda Lee.

THE MEMBERS: "Working Girl," from the "Where Are They Now?" file.

NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL: Is Jeff Mangum teasing a new album?

ROY ORBISON: The Noisey Guide.

PRINCE's siblings say a woman and girl purported to be his niece and grand-niece have no genetic connection to the late superstar and should not be named heirs to his estate.

KILLER RIFFS: A Guide to Parody in Popular Music.

NOW SHOWING:  This weekend's wide releases include Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, which is currently scoring 39 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Ouija: Origin of Evil, which is scoring 83 percent; Keeping Up With The Joneses, currently scoring 16 percent; and Boo! A Medea Halloween, which -- like all Medea films -- was not screened for critics.

LOGAN: The next Wolverine flick has a trailer online.

BRANGELEXIT: Brad Pitt had his first visit in more than a month with his 15-year-old son, Maddox ... since their confrontation last month on a private jet.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE & DARREN ARONOFSKY are hanging out and casually dating.

COLIN FIRTH is joining the Mary Poppins sequel.

JON HAMM talks to Elle about sex, love, and why getting older sucks.

THE PHILIPPINES: President Rodrigo Duterte announced his "separation" from the United States on Thursday, declaring he had realigned with China as the two agreed to resolve their South China Sea dispute through talks.

IRAQ: The operation to retake Mosul is going faster than expected, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Thursday. 

IRAN: Iranian-Americans Baquer Namazi and his son Siamak have been sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined 4.8MM, according to Iran's official news channel.

AN ORPHAN ORANGUTAN cries at his first day of school.

A SNAKE slithers out from under the hood of a car. Not that one Down Under, this one was in Florida.

AN ORYX CALF was born in Chad for the first time in decades.

HUNDREDS OF GOATS keep the Sea-Tac airport timmed.

PAUL McCARTNEY played "A Hard Day's Night," "Junior's Farm," "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," "I Saw Her Standing There," and "Hey Jude," among others, for 300 folks in a bar between Destert Trip gigs.

CONOR OBERST plays songs from Ruminations at the Housing Works Bookstore in New York.

SHANA FALANA advance streams Here Comes the Wave.

DAVID BOWIE: "Killing A Little Time" is the third unreleased Bowie song recorded during his Blackstar sessions to surface.

THE EXTERMINATORS, whose members went on to join The Germs, The Gun Club, The Feederz, Mighty Sphincter, 45 Grave, and more, have recorded an album of the proto-hardcore they jammed in the 70s.  They share "Just Like Your Mom."

SAMMY HAGAR, FOO FIGHTERS and JASON BONHAM cover Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll."

MICHAEL NESMITH: The Closest The Monkees Ever Got to Cool. Which is a shame, really.

PEARL JAM's third drummer, David Abbruzzese, twants into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.

WHO KILLED SHOEGAZE?  The music press or the bands themselves?

PHIL CHESS, who co-founded the legendary label Chess Records with his brother Leonard and helped make Chicago the epicenter of the blues, died Wednesday at his home in Tucson, Arizona. He was 95.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, VOL. 2 has a teaser online.

BRANGELEXIT: Angelina Jolie and her kids were interviewed Tuesday by 2 FBI agents ... primarily to determine where exactly the incident between Brad Pitt and 15-year-old son Maddox went down.  Pitt has not seen his oldest son, Maddox, since Jolie filed for divorce last month.

RUSSELL CROWE has launched a furious defense after rapper Azealia Banks revealed full details of her claims that he was racist and violent towards her.  Banks is angry at RZA for not defending her when Russell Crowe threw her out of his party, and says she's cutting him off for good ... personally and professionally.

ADAM LEVINE was falsely accused of abusing his wife and newborn daughter, according to a report.

LINDSAY LOHAN plans to offer an energy drink to refugees in Syria and Turkey?

JAMES FRANCO has been sued for an alleged head-butting incident that took place at Lana Del Rey’s 2014 concert at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

WILLY WONKA may be headed to the big screen yet again, though without Charlie.

OSTRICHES, fed by Weird Al Yankovic.

THE SMOKING CHIMP:  Not the flaming chimp. And yes, that's a very obscure reference.

AND THERE WERE PIGS all over the interstate.

A LIVE CRAB was spotted getting off the train at Cheltenham Spa.

SUZANNE VEGA shares a video for "We of Me" from Lover, Beloved: Songs From An Evening With Carson McCullers.

PETER WOLF stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

CHARLES BRADLEY played a mini-set including soulful covers of  Black Sabbath's "Changes" and Neil Young's "Heart of Gold," on Strombo Sessions.

JAMIE LIDELL stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

DAVID BOWIE: Two of his last recordings,  “When I Met You” and “No Plan," debuted on BBC2. (56:10 and 46:10, respectively)

DEERHOOF shares "Risk Free."

JULES SHEAR: "If She Knew What She Wants," unplugged on Unplugged, circa 1990. Check how he's holding his guitar.

CHUCK BERRY, turning 90, announces his first new LP in 38 years. I love that song he does.

THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME nominees are announced.

LUSH is down to one final show as bassist Phil King exits.

DEREK SMALLS...HE WROTE THIS: This is Spinal Tap star Harry Shearer is suing Vivendi, the parent company of Universal Music and StudioCanal, alleging it has withheld millions of dollars in profits owed to the creators of the cult 80s rock mockumentary.

TWIN PEAKS released a behind-the-scenes teaser.

RUSSELL CROWE & AZEALIA BANKS's scuffle spilled into a hotel hallway, where it was likely caught on video -- and both sides think the footage will support their version of events.

TOBEY MAGUIRE and wife Jennifer Meyer are separating after nine years of marriage.

RICHARD GERE and CAREY LOWELL are finally divorced after four years.

ASHLEY OLSEN had a romantic hike with entrepreneur Hayden Slater after being seen holding hands?

LEONARDO DiCAPRIO is backing a Captain Planet movie.

SCOTT EASTWOOD's Halloween costume looks familiar.

A NORTHERN SAW WHET OWL, just being cute.

A 14-LB LOBSTER was caught off the coast of Bermuda after Hurricane Nicole.

ONE SHRIMP-LIKE family of crustaceansis enjoying climate change.

THOUSANDS OF "SCROTUM FROGS" are dying mysteriously in Peru.