BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH joins DAVID GILMOUR for a version of "Confortably Numb."

PAUL SIMON played the season premiere of Austin City Limits.

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS stopped by CBS This Morning for a chat and mini-set.

BON IVER's 22, A Million is streaming via via Spotify and Apple Music.

DAVID BOWIE; How the shapeshifting Starman was inspired by the dark sci-fi experiments of the space age.

GUIDED BY VOICES: Is Alien Lanes "the greatest post-modern classic rock album ever made"? I tend to think not, but it is excellent.

THE BEATLES: Revolver is getting an all-star tribute organized by...Howard Stern.

THE BEACH BOYS' Pet Sounds gets a 50th anniversary review from John Munson (Semisonic, Trip Shakespeare).

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children topped the chart with 28.5MM, a result likely disappointing for both the studio and director Tim Burton; it's result much like the debut of A Series of Unfortunate Events, which would be unfortunate for both. Deepwater Horizon placed with 20.6MM, a result even more disappointing against a budget similar to that for the Burton flick. (Note: Both of these debuts combined are less than The Martian opened with a year ago.)  The Magnificent Seven remake showed with 15.7MM on a must-be-disappointing 54 percent drop.  Storks took the fourth slot with 13.8MM on a leggier 35 percent dro, though the weak opening levaes it struggling for profit.  Sully rounded out the Top Five with 8.4MM and seems the most likely to profit of this group.

KIM KARDASHIAN was held at gunpoint in her Paris hotel room by masked men dressed as police officers. She was unharmed.

LINDSAY LOHAN lost a portion of her ring finger in a boating accident ... and the pic is horrifying.

BRANGELEXIT: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have reached a temporary custody agreement more than a week after announcing their split. Jolie will not cooperate with law enforcement if there's a move to file child abuse charges against Pitt.

FORMER POWER RANGER Ricardo Medina Jr,  charged with stabbing his California roommate to death with a sword has pleaded not guilty to murder.

DENZEL WASHINGTON strangles ARETHA FRANKLIN, but not that Denzel and not that Aretha.

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES reveals plot details.

OSCAR BRAND,  the lanky, affable, gravelly-voiced folk singer and songwriter whose weekly on-air hootenanny was the longest-running radio show in history with a single host, died on Friday at his home in Great Neck, N.Y. He was 96. The NYT barely alludes to his more risque material, which is how I knew him.

MIGRANT CHILD BRIDES put European governments in a dilemma.

RUSSIA is involved in directing Ukrainian rebels, leaked emails show.

VENEZUELA can't pluck leaves off China's money tree anymore.

SWIMMING with 16 Golden Retrievers.

BEES land on the Endangered Species List. Some of them, anyway.

A RACCOON was not used to beat a Breathalyzer.  Or there's a cover-up ongoing.

MAN'S BEST FRIEND May Be the Flu's Worst Enemy.

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, which have perhaps just ended.

CONOR OBERST advance streams Ruminations.

PHISH advance streams Big Boat.

SHOVELS & ROPE advance streams Little Seeds.

ULTIMATE PAINTING streams Dusk.

DAVID BOWIE's unreleast LP, The Gouster, is streaming via Spotify.

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

NIRVANA: Generations of alt-rockers reflect on Nevermind for SPIN.

FEMINIST PUNK in 33 Songs.

TOM PETTY will receive the 2017 MusiCares Person of the Year award.

WARPAINT is profiled at Drowned In Sound.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, which is currently scoring 61 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Deepwater Horizon, which is currently scoring 77 percent; and Masterminds, which is scoring 40 percent.  Plus, Queen of Katwe expands wide scoring 92 percent.

BRANGELEXIT: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's lawyers are trying to hash out a custody agreement for the estranged couple and their six children. Meanwhile, Jolie retained the help of legendary crisis manager Judy Smith.  NBC has abruptly pulled the plug on a one-hour special on the breakup.

TAYLOR SWIFT & CALVIN HARRIS are no longer at war after one of Hollywood's nastiest breakups, and are firmly in the friend zone.

LIEV SCHRIEBER wished NAOMI WATTS a happy birthday via Instagram, just one day after they announced they’d called it quits.

JAY Z inked an exclusive film and TV first-look overall deal with The Weinstein Company.

DOCTOR STRANGE: IGN takes 15 lessons from the set of Marvel's mystic movie; numbers 10, 13 and 15 will be the most interesting to comics nerds, particularly in light of this.

FAN CONVENTIONS: A goldmine for movie and TV stars.

A DOLPHIN jumped a surfer off the coast of Australia.

YOUR DOG Is Too Smart to Follow Your Dumb Human Advice.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A pig with two legs.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: They have two heads now. Or do they?

REGINA SPEKTOR played "Bleeding Heart" on Colbert.

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

MICROWAVE advance streams Much Love.

BELLOWS advance streams Fist & Palm.

ALLSONGS CONSIDERED features tracks from Dirty Projectors, Leonard cohen, Johnny Swim, and more in the lstaest edition.

LOU BARLOW shoots "The Breeze" ahead of the Apocalypse Fetish EP.

JAMES CHANCE & THE CONTORTIONS return with "Melt Yourself Down."

DUNGEN shares “Jakten genom skogen” ahead of Häxan.

DUMPTRUCK: "Back Where I Belong."

TEENAGE FANCLUB is profiled at Magnet.

BOB DYLAN is releasing all of his 1966 live recordings.

GENE CLARK: Ten of His Best.

JOHN D. LOUDERMILK, best known for writing the Nashville Teens' 1964 smash, "Tobacco Road," has died aged 82.  His songs were recorded by artists as diverse as Jefferson Airplane, Eddie Cochran, Johnny Cash and Marilyn Manson.

BRANGELEXIT: People goes "Inside Angelina Jolie's Plot to 'Destroy' Brad Pitt in Divorce, Custody Battle<" which is interesting given the couple's past relationship with the mag.

COURTENEY COX is expressing her concern over the fact that her close pal and former Friends co-star, Jennifer Aniston, is being dragged into all the drama surrounding Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's shocking divorce.

TOM HIDDLESTON, Interviewed by Benedict Cumberbatch.

AMY SCHUMER is a favorite of malware creators.

MILEY CYRUS is profiled by Elle.

ALEC BALDWIN will be playing Donald Trump on SNL.

JOHN WICK looks to have a sidekick in the sequel.

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM has an expansive new trailer online.

IRAQ: The Department of Defense is preparing to dispatch 615 more U.S. troops to Iraq to help government forces oust ISIS from the city of Mosul, the White House announced Wednesday.

UKRAINE: A Dutch-led investigation largely confirmed the Russian government’s already widely documented role not only in downing a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine two years ago, but also in the subsequent cover-up, which continues to this day.

WATSON THE DOG practices his trust falls.

A VENOMOUS SPIDER bit an Auusie on his penis. Again.

RATTLESNAKES are losing their rattles.

EEK! Police in Minnesota came to the aide of a local woman who pulled over to the side of a highway after finding a mouse in her car.

SERIOUSLY, there wasn't even any good tabloid gossip. Does anyone care what Jennifer Aniston's huisband thinks about Brangelexit? Nah. I blame the news drought on the Presidential debate. I should be back tomorrow.

MORRISSEY covers The Ramones "Judy Is A Punk" as a NYC tribute.

ANDREW BIRD & FIONA APPLE, Live From The Great Room.

WE ARE WOLVES advance stream Wrong.

SAM EVIAN advance streams Premium.

TEMPLES share "Certainty."

GARY CLARK JR talks about opening for the Rolling Stones and more...

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS: Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood talk to Salon about making American Band, the political backdrop that inspired its lyrical content, and how the band has managed to reinvent itself after two decades in the business of recording and performing.

OKKERVIL RIVER: Will Sheff talks to Noisey about Away and how it's not as sad as you may think.

THE JAM are auctioning off all the items from their memorabilia exhibition to raise money for charity.

LIEV SCHREIBER & NAOMI WATTS decided to split after 11 years together.

BRANGELEXIT: The Jolie-Pitt prenup means it's all about the kids.

MICHAEL PALIN writes about Terry Jones's dementia.

LINDSAY LOHAN's ex-fiancee strikes back.

STAN LEE shot four Marvel cameos in a single day.

TOM HANKS, Wedding Crasher.

THE LAST MAN ON EARTH: Betty Draper finally got to kill Don.

JAMES PATTERSON has decided not to publish his upcoming novel, The Murder Of Stephen King.

A CAT, armed with a GoPro camera, clearly likes to monitor the neighborhood.

PYTHON bites selfie taker, as it should.

A BLOODTHIRSTY TORTOISE attacks a snorkeller.

WHY SOME MONKEYS have blue testicles. Literally.