CAR SEAT HEADREST made their late-night TV debut playing “Fill In The Blank” for Colbert.

TODD SNIDER returns to the World Cafe with Hard Working Americans.

CLEO PARKER (Girlpool) streams a new EP called Looking Pretty At The Wall.

SINGLE MOTHERS stream a new five-song EP called Meltdown.

SON LITTLE covers “State Trooper” from Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska.

LOCAL NATIVES drop "Coins" ahead of Sunlit Youth.

THE PIPETTES: "Your Kisses are Wasted On Me." Before it all went wrong. Sigh.

R.E.M. will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their seminal 1991 LP Out of Time with a deluxe reissue featuring unreleased demos, live performances and music videos.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE: Rock's most iconic landmarks.

LAURA MARLING has started a podcast, including and interview of HAIM.

TEN GREAT DUOS Who Couldn't Keep It Together.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Don't Breathe tops the chart with 26.1MM against a 9.9MM budget, well above estimates of 9-10MM.  Suicide Squad places with 12.1MM, dropping 42 percent, but finding some legs in the late-summer doldrums.  Kubo and the Two Strings shows with 7.9MM on a higher-than-expected 37 percent drop, making overseas grosses crucial.  Sausage Party holds on to the fourth slot with 7.7MM on a 51 percent drop; 80MM ttal for an R-rated animated comedy against a 19MM budget ain't bad.  The debut of Mechanic: Resurrection rounds out the Top Five with 7.5MMagainst a 40MM budget. Given that the first Mechanic seemed uprofitable, you may want to read about the Statham business.

THE MTV VMAs went to these people. Everyone loved Beyonce, because it's the law. It was a homecoming for Britney Spears (whose latest is getting good reviews). Rhianna and Drake kissed. And Kanye rambled, as he does.

DENISE RICHARDS & BROOKE MUELLER accept big child support cuts as Charlie Sheen runs into legal/financial difficulties.

DWYANE WADE's cousin was killed in a crossfire in Chicago on Friday afternoon.

ANNA CHLUMSKY and husband Shaun So welcomed daughter Clara Elizabeth So on Thursday.

NATE PARKER, director of Birth of a Nation, talked about consent, male privilege, and how he feels about being called a rapist.

LUPITA NYONG'O is dating GQ Style fashion editor Mobolaji Dawodu.

JAMES & THE GIANT PEACH may be made as a live-action film written by Nick Hornby and directed by Sam Mendes?

FRANCE's highest administrative court has stopped a town in France from banning the wearing of the burkini, a ruling expected to set a precedent across the country.

VENEZUELA, a country of 130MM, had 193 new car sales in July.

IRAQ: The fight for Mosul is redrawing the map of the North.

THIS GOLDEN RETRIEVER is not winning the game show.

DOGS from the Louisiana flood seek new homes in Maryland.

AN OKLAHOMA POLICE DOG found five bags of methamphetamine hidden inside a box of Twinkies snack cakes.

A SHEEP delayed a minor-league baseball game.