OVER 38 MILLION SERVED. Thanks to everyone for stopping by! JON PRATT unveils the Pulp Fiction-inspired "No. 1 Groovy Song for Mia and Odile" appropriately rendered on a Vega. Jon's also soundtracking a fundraising video for the Red Wiggler. NEW ORDER is streaming Music Complete via Rdio. U.S. GIRLS are streaming Half Free on Rdio and Spotify. EMILE & OGDEN are streaming 10000 on Pandora. ARCADE FIRE streams six previously-unreleased bonus tracks from The Reflektor Tapes via Spotify. CHVRCHES stream three bonus tracks from Every Open Eye via Spotify. FATHER JOHN MISTY capped off a contoversial veek with "The Memo." POPE FRANCIS--yes, that Pope Francis--goes prog on "Wake Up! Go! Go! Forward!" ahead of Wake Up! THE PSYCHEDLIC FURS broke through with this video for "Love My Way" on the MTV. BEIRUT's Zack Condon talks to Noisey about the emotional turmoil leading to No No No. PATTI SMITH's new memoir is excerpted by The Guardian. LOW, interviewed by Bon Iver, for Magnet. JOHN PEEL's musical influence is essayed at The Guardian. WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:In a surprisingly good weekend for the end of September, Hotel Transylvania 2 tops the chart with 47.5MM, setting a September debut record. The Intern placed with 18.2MM, near the high end of estimates, and got an "A-" Cinemascore that could keep it leggy. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials showed with 14MM on a 54 percent drop the original didn't see for weeks into its run; big foreign receipts will keep this profitable tho. Everest takes the fourth slot with 13MM, a wide expansion that suddenly makes the well-reviewed flick look like it might need substantial worldwide receipts against a 55MM budget. Black Mass skids to round out the Top Five with 11.5MMand will need Johnny Depp to carry foreign screens big to break even. KALEY CUOCO & RYAN SWEETING are divorcing after 21 months. MORENA BACCARIN & BEN McKENZIE plan to marry. BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN's cause of death is being kept secret, as a criminal investigation looms. REBECCA HALL married actor Morgan Spector in Saugerties, New York, on Saturday. DANNY PENATURO (Who's the Boss) is HIV-positive. IRAQ's military said Sunday it will begin sharing "security and intelligence" information with Syria, Russia and Iran to help combat the Islamic State group, a move that could further complicate U.S. efforts to battle the extremists without working with Damascus and its allies. IRANIAN President Hassan Rouhani taalked to Weekend Edition about his country's relations with the U.S., the landmark nuclear deal, and cooperating with the U.S. in the fight against ISIS. SYRIA: U.S.-trained rebels handed over American-supplied vehicles and ammunition to an al-Qaeda linked group, the Pentagon said Friday in the latest blow to a program plagued by problems since its inception. A BABY LION, not quite ready to roar. BLOODSUCKING FISH rain from the sky in Alaska. AN UNIDENTIFIED CREATURE turns up in a Mississippi toilet. AN ESACPED TARANTULA grounds a flight from Baltimore to Atlanta.
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