JON PRATT shares a musical travelogue, "Hinterland."

NEW RELEASES:  Pitchfork Will point you to new LPs from Tegan & Sara, Sturgill Simpson, Emel Mathlouthi, and more. PLUS: You'll find the New Pronographers here.

INDIE BASEMENT will point you to new LPs from Kelley Stoltz (yes), Moon Duo, Automatic, and more.

JOSH RITTER brings AMANDA SHIRES & JASON ISBELL to play a Tiny Desk Concert.

R.E.M. shares the demo for "Revolution" from Monster.

HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS returns with "Her Love is Killing Me."

THE SUPREMES' Mary Wilson: "Motown was like walking into Disneyland."

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE: Chris Collingwood gets an interesting profile from the Boston Globe.

THE 15 BEST COVER SONGS, according to American Songwriter.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Stevie Wonder's rich, funky childhood reminisce "I Wish."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Abominable tops the chart with 20.9MM, another in a long string of hits for Universal this year. This one had a diverse domestic audience and also should travel well overseas. Downton Abbey (from Focus, a Universal branch) places with 14.5MM, on a 53 percent decline that's closer to 46 percent once you account for Thursday night premiere numbers; that seems pretty good for a likely front-loaded pic with a cult fan base. Hustler, which was fifth last week, shows with11.5MM on a 32 percent drop in an already profitable run. It: Chapter Two takes the fourth slot with another 10.4MM on a 39 percent drop as it heads for 200MM domestic (and perhaps a second wind as Halloween approaches?).  Ad Astra rounds out the Top Five with 10.1MM on a 47 percent drop, which seems disappointing.

SPIDER-MAN and the MCU re-marry for at least two more movies. Which will make it harder to uncouple again.

THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS director Rob Cohen has been accused of sexual assault.

KANYE WEST is reportedly becoming a Gospel artist.

EDDIE MURPHY is Bringing Eddie Murphy Back.

JOHN CUSACK talks to The Current about Say Anything... and how he turned Cameron Crowe onto The Replacements.

SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT married in a ceremony so secret we don't know who he wed.

MICHAEL SHEEN and his girlfriiend Anna Lundberg welcomed a baby girl.

THE JOKER disinvited the press from its US red carpet.

ROBERT GARRISON,  best known for his work in Karate Kid and Cobra Kai, has died. He was 59.

IT'S MONDAY, but guess what day it is.Wait, there's more.

WHEN SHE TELLS YOU to wake her up in two hours and you actually do it.

THIS DOOGO is a ninja.

AN OCTOPUS changes colors while dreaming.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE GO-GOs!  They made history as the first all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts. Kind of a hard band to place seasonally. Their debut, Beauty and the Beat, which yielded hits like "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got the Beat," as well as great album cuts like "This Town," "Lust to Love," "Tonite" and "How Much More," came out in late Summer 1981, iirc, and "Lips" was climbing the charts that Fall, so I mentally place the band in this time of year. And it's still warm enough that the title track to the too-quick sophomore album, "Vacation," -- or their cover of the Capitols' "Cool Jerk" -- doesn't sound too out of place. "Get Up and Go" was also a single from that LP, but it didn't make the Top 40.  The band would chart twice more -- in 1984, with "Head Over Heels" and "Turn to You" -- before splitting and the near-inevitable reunion tours.

JAWBOX visits KEXP.

PRIESTS visits KEXP.

BRITTANY HOWARD visits World Cafe.

ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA returns with "From Out of Nowhere."

CHARLI XCX & JIMMY FALLON (playing Dave Gahan) mash up  Depeche Mode's "Just Can't Get Enough" with Icona Pop's "I Love It"... and it works.

THE REPLACEMENTS: How their biggest failure predicted the future of indie rock.

R.E.M.'s Monster Is Still Trying to Reach You, If You'll Let It In.

ROCK STARS ARE NOT OUR FRIENDS: The wild story of CREEM magazine.

ROBERT FRIPP spars with David Bowie's estate.

SUGAR, SUGAR: How did a bubblegum pop tune by a fictional cartoon band become the top song of the year in 1969?

ABOMINABLE is this weekend's sole wide movie release, currently scoring 78 percent on the ol' Tomatometer.

THE IRISHMAN: Martin Scorsese's upcoming epic has a trailer online.

STAR WARS:  Marvel boss Kevin Feige is reportedly set to lend his talents to the franchise.

KEANU REEVES says he's "absolutely" excited about The Matrix 4 script.

JASON BATEMAN and RYAN REYNOLDS are in talks for a Clue movie.

JENNIFER LOPEZ & SHAKIRA will be performing during the Super Bowl halftime show.

JENNA FISCHER & ANGELA KINSEY are doing a podcast about The Office.

NALA, an autism service dog, got to meet her hero and they became the best of friends.

A ROUND OF APPLAUSE for this doggo?

A BOBCAT celebrates a birthday.

A WALRUS defending her cubs sank a Russian Navy boat in the Arctic Ocean.

THE PSYCHEDLIC FURS broke through with this video for "Love My Way" on the MTV.

BILL CALLAHAN visits KEXP.

THE BRUCE PROJECT: WFUV celebrated Sringsteen's 70th birthday with a collection of live covers.

KEREN ANN plays for World Cafe in Paris.

HARRY NILSSON: Hear two songs from the upcoming posthumous release, Losst and Found.

JULIANA HATFIELD covers The Police's "Next To You," a song which kicked off numerous early Pate gigs.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS share “Get High And Listen To The Cure.”

CURSIVE shares "Marigolds."

RINGO STARR & THE ROOTS cover "Yellow Submarine" on toy instruments.

PAUL McCARTNEY still has “a lot of dreams” about John Lennon.

VERUCA SALT: The oral history of American Thighs.

ROBERT JOHNSON finally got a New York Times obituary.

THE NATIONAL and producer-engineer Erik Flannigan recorded Juicy Sonic Magic, a limited-edition three-cassette box set out November 29th, as part of Record Store Day’s 2019 Black Friday event, as a vintage bootleg.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Leo Sayer's yelpy, 1977 hit, "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing."

JURASSIC WORLD 3 is bringing back Laura Dern, Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum.

DEMI MOORE syas Ashton Kutcher took a picture of her drunk on the toilet.

ASTON KUTCHER & MILA KUNIS met with the president of Ukraine. No transcript yet.

BRAD PITT, contra other reports, is not dating spiritual healer and jewelry designer Sat Hari Khalsa.

KYLIE JENNER  is suffering, and has been for several days, with an intense illness that required her to check into a hospital this week.

MIRANDA KERR has quite the home wellness regime.

CHARLIE SHEEN walked  away from Dancing With The Stars.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE is promoting her wedding registry.

LABRADOODLES are a "Frankenstein’s monster," according to the Frankenstein of Labradoodles.

A JOGGER rescued a deer twice in the span of three minutes after it kept getting stuck in fences at Georgia's Stone Mountain Park.

DUKE THE BULLDOG had a long day at the skatepark.

THAT KITTEN she rescued was a bobcat.

DUMPTRUCK: "Back Where I Belong."

THE HEAD AND THE HEART play unpluggedy at The Current.

ROSEANNE CASH plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

JON PARDI advance streams Heartache Medication.

CATE LE BON & BRADFORD COX share “Secretary.”

DAVID HASSELHOFF covers the Jesus & Mary Chian's "Head On," with The Cars' Elliot Easton on guitar.  Don't say you weren't warned.

BELLE & SEBASTIAN share a video for "This Letter."

ROBERT HUNTER, the poet and writer who provided the Grateful Dead with many of their vivid and enduring lyrics, died Monday night. He was 78. No cause of death was provided. He once told Rolling Stone his favorite line was in “Ripple: “Let it be known there is a fountain that was not made by the hands of men.”

SOCCER MOMMY: Sophie Allison talks to The Current about her new music, The Matrix, and Bruce Springsteen's romantic nostalgia.

VIVIAN GIRLS talk to Paste about picking up where they left off.

THE CARS: The New Pronographers' A.C. Newman discusses his favorite Cars tracks.

DEMI MOORE claims Jon Cryer lost his virginity to her. Cryer denies it.

PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE (Fleabag) has signed a new major TV deal with Amazon Studios, believed to be among the biggest for a female creator.

JONAH HILL is in talks to play the Riddler — not the Penguin as has been roundly speculated -- in The Batman.

BRAD PITT, on how divorce influenced his acting.

STAR WARS: George Lucas wasn't thrilled that the latest sequels ignored his story treatments.

ALISON BRIE talks to Uproxx about GLOW, CBD, and the Community text chain.

EL CAMINO: The Breaking Bad movie has a trailer online.

UNCUT GEMS has a trailer online.

CATURDAY: Keeping the kids entertained.

WORK SMARTER, not harder.

THIS BIRD Landed On The Page About Itself.

DON'T PUT AN INJURED BOBCAT IN YOUR CAR, especially with a child. The More You Know. Swoosh.

GREASE is the word marking the start of autumn, with "Summer Nights" and "You're the One That I Want" marking Twofer Tuesday.

BRITTANY HOWARD, Live at the Palace in St. Paul.

JOSEPH visits The Current.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN's 70th birthday spawned a mega-playlist from WXPN.

MEGHAN TRAINOR covered the Rembrandts' "I'll Be There For You" for the 25th anniversary of Friends.

THE BLACK KEYS welcomed WAYNE NEWTON to join them on "Lonely Boy."

THE CARS get almost two hours of discussion and analysis on Political Beats with guest Kevin Madden of Arnold Ventures.

EDDIE MONEY, the Slightly Undersold Rock Artist.

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS are surprise-releasing a new double LP. 

THE TOP 50 ALBUMS OF THE DECADE, according to Gorilla Vs. Bear.

THE NUMBER ONES ooks at Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr.'s post-Fifth Dimension pop-soul duet "You Don't Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show)."

MICHAEL JACKSON's estate has reportedly earned almost 1.7 billion dollars since the singer's death a decade ago.

SID HAIG, a Hollywood character actor who for more than 50 years played thugs, villains and, most famously, a psychotic clown named Captain Spaulding, died on Saturday. He was 80.

WATCHMEN: Damon Lindelof gives his first deep-dive interview to Entertainment Weekly.

JEFFREY WRIGHT is in negotiations to play Commissioner Gordon, the classic ally to the Dark Knight, in Matt Reeves' The Batman. But who will Jonah Hill play?

MICRONAUTS move closer to the big screen.

THE EMMYS Gave Us a Glimpse of the Uncertain Post-‘Thrones' TV World. And they were a ratings disaster.

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION: How has it held the crown at IMDb for so long?

THIS KITTEN loves swimming with her owner.

EVERY OFFICE should have a dog.

"THE CAMEL DID NOTHING WRONG": Woman bites creature ‘in his private area' at truck stop zoo, police say.

A MYSTERIOUS "GEL-LIKE" SUBSTANCE has been found by China on the far side of the moon.