GLADYS KNIGHT is backed on "Midnight Train to Georgia" by Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr., through the magic of CGI, to promote Tropic Thunder back in 2008.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Yo La Tengo, the Budos Band, Future Islands, Slow Pulp, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Cut Worms, Andy Bell, METZ, and more.

VAN HALEN: Paste has a few clips of the band live at Oakland Coliseum Stadium in 1981.

STEVIE NICKS returns with "Show Them The Way," directed by Cameron Crowe.

ELO'S JEFF LYNNE has been made an OBE.

FLEET FOXES' Robin Pecknold tells Pitchfork about the song by his own hero, country-folk legend John Prine, that inspires him.

JOHN LYDON, a/k/a Johnny Rotten: "Don't become entrenched in one opinion and get stuck there for ever."

PHIL COLLINS is kicking his ex-wife out of his Miami mansion folowing her secret re-marriage.

PIERRE KEDZY, former bassist for massively influential Chicago punk bands Naked Raygun and Pegboy, has died of cancer in a Glenview, Illinois hospice. He was 58.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at "Heaven," the first of Bryan Adams' chart-topping hits.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE? War With Grandpa ended Tenet‘s domestic marathon run, beating the Christopher Nolan movie in its 7th weekend with 3.6MM to Tenet's 2.1MM.  Nolan's film took a 22 percent drop.  The re-release of Hocus Pocus showed with 1.1MM on a 42 percent drop.

GAL GADOT will take on the role of Cleopatra in an upcoming biopic from Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins.

ALAN MOORE, creator of Watchmen, V For Vendetta and many more celebrated comic series, says superhero movies have blighted cinema, and also blighted culture.

GLOW's cast discussed the show's recent cancellation in a livestreamed virtual reunion this weekend.

HOW SNL skirted COVID-19 regulations in NYC.

THE OSCARS: Time to cancel them for 2021?

AT DISNEY WORLD, the worst feats of a viral outbreak have not come true.

TOM KENNEDY, the television game show host for "You Don't Say!" and "Name That Tune," died on Oct. 7 in Oxnard, Calif. He was 93.

WILD NUBIAN IBEXES crossing the highway near the Dead Sea.

A WALKING FROGFISH, on camera.

SUNRISE in the Grand Teton National Park, USA.