METRONOMY drops a video for "The Upsetter."

PARQUET COURTS, a/k/a/  PARKAY QUARTS advance streams Content Nausea.

MITSKI advance streams Bury Me At Makeout Creek.

SON LITTLE advance streams the Things I Forgot EP.

NEIL YOUNG gets a tribute at Aquarium Drunkard.

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: "I'm Waiting For The Man," live at The Matrix.

SUPERCHUNK covers Ryan Adams' "Come Pick Me Up".

THE DODOS drop "Competition" ahead of Individ.

FUNKADELIC: "I Got a Thing" on Upbeat in 1970. The intro and outro are almost as good as the song.

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has been charged by New Zealand police with attempting to arrange a murder. Dirty deeds.

DAVID BYRNE reviews Barry Manilow singing duets with dead people.

SIMPLE MINDS: Jim Kerr listed his favorite albums at The Quietus.

CLIVE DAVIS talks to The Guardian about his key collaborations with Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen and Alicia Keys, his regrets for those he never signed, and...Janis Joplin.

JESSICA BIEL & JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE are expecting their first child, reportedly.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH announced his engagement to theater director Sophie Hunter in The Times.

ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. and his wife, Susan, have welcomed a daughter in Los Angeles.

BRITNEY SPEARS is dating producer and writer Charlie Ebersol, the son of veteran TV producer and co-creator of Saturday Night Live Dick Ebersol.

MARC ANTHONY is engaged to his girlfriend Shannon De Lima.

BEYONCE easily repeats atop the Forbes list of Top Earning Women in Music.

AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON and ANT-MAN behind the scenes footage.

UKRAINE: Both the Ukrainian forces and the pro-Russian separatists have been mobilizing troops and weapons for another round of vicious fighting, and the truce has all but broken down in the war that has already claimed some 4,000 lives since April.

THE UNITED KINGDOM: The Defence Ministry said UK military trainers will be deployed to Iraq to help Iraqi forces in the battle against the Islamic State.

SYRIA: Fighters from al Qaeda’s Syrian branch have advanced along a northern area bordering Turkey after driving out several moderate factions from longtime strongholds, rebels said, complicating the U.S. effort to recruit and train the Syrian opposition battling Islamic State and trying to oust President Bashar al-Assad.Al-Monitor looks at life in Raqqa under the Islamic State.

ELEPHANTS take a mud bath.

A PYTHON tried to drag a woman down her toilet.

A DONKEY escaped a Swiss petting zoo and became stuck in a manhole.

107 MILLION SPIDERS infest a Balitmore wastewater facility.

LOST TRACK OF TIME YESTERDAY. I'll be back Thrsday. My apologies.

NICK CAVE covered "Stagger Lee" as an Austin City Limits bonus.

PITCHFORK PARIS: The full sets temporarily lnked on Monday--and more--are archived by Culturebox. Chvrches, Four Tet, St Vincent, Foxygen, Mogwai and more...

DREAM POLICE, the psych-dance side project of The Men, advance stream Hypnotized.

WE ARE THE WILLOWS stream Picture (Portrait).

GUERILLA TOSS advance streams their Smack The Brick EP.

THE DECEMBERISTS drop "Make You Better" ahead of What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World.

WHIRR drops "Ease" as part of a split single.

THAT PETROL EMOTION: "Big Decision." Add Devo's "Freedom of Choice" for an election-themed Twofer Tuesday.

GRAHAM NASH explains the David Crosby-Neil Young feud is about Daryl Hannah. (and possibly Jackson Browne, I would think).

OF MONTREAL: Kevin Barnes gives songriting tips to Drowned In Sound.

THE FLAMING LIPS: Wayne Coyne talks about the Sgt. Pepper's tribute with The A.V. Club.

THE CATCHIEST POP SONGS? It's Science.

HAYDEN PANETIERRE has put on major pregnancy weight.

LENA DUNHAM's autobiography has some odd passages about her sister.

ARIANA GRANDE has been receiving strange gifts from a Massachusetts fan, despite threats from cops.

STEVIE WONDER is expecting triplets, which would bring his total to eleven.

RHIANNA's Christmas wish is super-classy, by which I mean NSFW.

ANGIE HARMON & JASON SEHORN are amicably separating after 13 years of marriage.

MARISA MILLER and her husband, record producer Griffin Guess, are expecting their second child in late spring.

CHRISTIAN BALE has fallen off the Steve Jobs biopic that is being directed by Danny Boyle.

THE UNITED STATES: Prosecutors revealed that Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, of suburban Chicago, had tried to take his 17-year-old sister and his 16-year-old brother with him to join the Islamic State in the Middle East.

EGYPT, SAUDIA ARABIA, the UNITED ARAB EMIRATES & KUWAIT are discussing the creation of a military pact to take on Islamic militants, with the possibility of a joint force to intervene around the Middle East.

LIBYA: A medical official estimated that over 210 people have been killed in the past two weeks of fighting between Islamist militias and the forces of General Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi.

SYRIA: Two of the main rebel groups receiving weapons from the United States to fight both the regime and jihadist groups in Syria have surrendered to al-Qaeda.

GIANT MEN Meet Tiny Puppies.

BABY PANDAS team up to resist medication.

A FANGED DEER pops up in Afghanistan 60 years after its last appearance.

A WHALE CARCASS is not a safe place when surrounded by sharks.

PRINCE & 3RDEYEGIRL played an eight-minute medley of new material on SNL.

PITCHFORK PARIS: If you hurry, you may still be able to stream sets by Belle & Sebastian, St. Vincent, Foxygen, and Future Islands.

MARIANNE FAITHFULL advance streams Give My Love To London.

DAMIEN RICE advance streams My Favourite Faded Fantasy.

HOOKWORMS advance stream The Hum.

BEDHEAD advance streams 1992-1998, a four-disc box set.

SHE & HIM cover Sinatra's "Time After Time."

THE NEW BASEMENT TAPES drop "When I Get My Hands On You" sung by Marcus Mumford.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN talks books at The New York Times.

THE TWILIGHT SAD takes Drowned In Sound on a track-by-track tour of their new LP.

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES: The Guardian lists 10 of their best.

NIRVANA: UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK turns 20. Gett Off My Lawn.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Nightcrawler tops the chart with 11 million, typical for Jake Gyllenhaal, but really good for a serious pic released on Halloween, particularly against an 8.5 million budget. Ouija places with a photofinish 10.9 million on a 45 percent drop.  Fury shows with 9.1 million and has yet to recop its budget domestically, but has started over seas with another 32 million.  Gone Girl stays leggy in the fourth slot with another 8.8 million and a 136 million total (and slightly more than that overseas).  The Book of Life rounds out the Top 5 with some Halloween help, reaping 8.3 million on a 17 percent drop.

BIRDMAN is playing on only 230 screeens, so let me set it up a bit. Michael Keaton plays an actor who once starred incominc book movies in the 1990s.  Sound familiar?  He's now looking to write, direct, and star in a Broadway adaptation of a Raymond Carver story.  Edward Norton plays his co-star, a mercurial method  actor not above trashing a project that's not living up to his high standards.  Sound familiar? They're both terriffic, along with the female leads, played by Naomi Watts and Andrea Riseborough (Oblivion), who may share the film's biggest laugh line.  Indeed, this film is filled with sharp performances, including Emma Stone as Keaton's daughter, fresh out of rehab and working as his assistant, and Zach Galifianakis in a largely straight role as Keaton's lawyer/producer. And then there is the camera, which serves as its own character, as the movie was shot in a series of continuous takes and presumably stitched together in a computer.  It's an audacious tactic, one of manyundertaken by director and co-writer Alejandro González Iñárritu, previously known for heavier fare like 21 Grams, Babel, and Biutiful, but here produces a film that's equal parts backstage dramedy, magical realism, and commentary on the culture of celebrity.

AMANDA BYNES lost the fight against her conservatorship.

TOM HIDDLESTON's Loki will feature heavily in the new batch of Marvel films recently announced.

JENNIFER LOPEZ needs some alone time right now.

HALLE BERRY's ex claimed he couldn't get modeling jobs after her new bofriend beat him up.

NICHELLE NICHOLS' companion had a suitcase full of meth.

IRAN: The head of the United Nations nuclear inspection organization declared Friday that Iran had stopped answering the agency’s questions about suspected past efforts to design the components of a bomb.

QATAR has joined the American-led coalition to fight Islamic State, yet the emirate is a haven for anti-Western groups and foreign diplomats have reported seeing cars with Islamic State logos in an affluent bay district.

THE ISLAMIC STATE: U.S.-led airstrikes and steadily strengthening forces in Iraq are containing advances by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, but are by no means destroying it, experts told Al Arabiya News.

SYRIA: More than 1,000 foreign fighters are streaming into Syria each month, a rate that has so far been unchanged by airstrikes against the Islamic State and efforts by other countries to stem the flow of departures, according to U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials.

IRAQ: The past few weeks, the Islamic State group has been hunting down former policemen and army officers in areas it controls, apparently fearing they might join a potential internal Sunni uprising against its rule.

THE BOSS IS COMING: Look busy.

A FUGITIVE's DOG leads police right to him.

BLACK BEARS brawl in a New Jersey neighborhood.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT went Halloween.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...STREAMING FROM THE CASTLE EAST! This fan-made 1973 video for "The Monster Mash" is today's must-see clip (natch), though you can also see Bobby "Boris" Pickett perform it live at Little Steven's Halloween a Go-Go 2005. The covers by The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and The Misfits are pretty good also -- the latter uses clips from the Rankin-Bass animated classic, Mad Monster Party.

THE SHAGGS: It's Halloween!

JIM CARROLL (deceased) sings about "People Who Died."

KISS got their first television exposure in 1976 on The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.

"DO THEY KNOW IT'S HALLOWEEN?" is the all-star charity send-up of Band-Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" featuring Roky Erikson, Elvira, plus members from Arcade Fire, Sonic Youth, Smoosh, Rilo Kiley, Sparks and many more.

ROBERT POLLARD joins SWEET APPLE on the Halloween-themed video for "Reunion."

52 HORROR RELEASES from the Free Music Archive.

HALLOWEEN A/V: The Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer," Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising," Echo & the Bunnymen's "The Killing Moon,"  Santana's "Black Magic Woman", The Ramones' "Pet Sematary," Alice Cooper's "Welcome to My Nightmare," Siouxsie & the Banshees' "Halloween," The Eagles' "Witchy Woman," Tegan & Sara's "Walking With a Ghost," Stevie Wonder's "Superstition," Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' "Red Right Hand," AC/DC's "Hell's Bells," The Cramps' "Goo Goo Muck," Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear The Reaper (More Cowbell)," Tom Waits' "Cemetery Polka," The Edgar Winer Group's "Frankenstein," and Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party."  And, of course... Screamin' Jay Hawkins.

THE ROLLING STONES' "Sympathy For The Devil" was on the PopMatters list, but this version from the David Frost Show just plain amuses me.

WARREN ZEVON: A live trifecta of "Werewolves of London," "Excitable Boy" and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner."

THOMAS DOLBY: How about the mad vibe of "She Blinded Me With Science"?

HENRI MANCINI: "Experiment in Terror." A sentimental favorite to those who grew up watching "Creature Features" on WGN before it went superstation.

TRICK OR TREAT BIN: From the New York Dolls to Stevie Wonder, from Robyn Hitchcock to Ray Parker, Jr, from the Lemonheads to Donovan, plus Guided by Voices, Bauhaus, Blue Oyster Cult and more cowbell -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

THE TIME WARP: Let's do it again.

AND NOW: A Sophisticated Man About Town. Super-duper.

GRIM GRINNING GHOSTS, from the Haunted Mansion.

"THRILLER": The original 13-minute Jacko classic, plus the filipino prisoners.

IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN aired last night, but may still be viewable at ABC. This year, Rifftrax also paid tribute. The WaPo has 7 Things You Don't Know about the perennial Peanuts classic.

15 FACTS ABOUT HALLOWEEN: I counted more than that.

FIVE THINGS you may not know about Halloween.

THE TOP 10 SCI-FI HORROR FLICKS, according to Forbes.

WE THE PEOPLE, against the zombies.

IS FROZEN Disney's version of The Shining?

THE HORRIBLY SLOW MURDERER With the Extremely Inefficient Weapon. Ten minutes of unimaginable terror.

WAR of the WORLDS: Seventy-Six years later, you can stream the infamous Orson Welles broadcast from the Internet Archive.

THE WILHELM SCREAM: The repeatedly used film and television stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums, now appearing as an in-joke in many films, is the subject of a Masters of Horror segment.

31 CLASSIC HALLOWEEN TV EPISODES AND SPECIALS, according to Zap2It.

HOW TO CARVE YOUR PUMPKIN Using Power Tools.

DIED IN HOUSE: They're Heeeeeerrrrrrreeeeee...

THE TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES YOU HAVEN'T SEEN, according to the UAB Kaleidescope.

THE 20 ESSENTIAL VAMPIRE MOVIES, according to Flavorwire.

23 UNUSUAL VAMPIRE VARIATIONS, courtesy of The A.V. Club.

THE 25 MOST RIDICULOUS Movies "Of The Dead."

END CAT: Jake receives transmissions from the future.

PIGS. And pumpkins.

A ZOMBIE was busted for drunk driving — twice — during a three-hour binge in upstate New York.

PET COSTUMES: Business is booming at 350 million dollars.