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THE ANTLERS stream a surprise EP with four 'Green To Gold' reworks.

KIT SEBASTIAN covers Sezen Aksu and Stereolab for a Lagniappe Sessions.

SPOON covers The Beatles' "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)."

NATION OF LANGUAGE's Ian Devaney gives a track-by-track tour of A Way Forward.

PHILIP MARGO, a member of the close-harmony group the Tokens, which earned enduring pop-music fame with the No. 1 hit “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” in 1961, died on Saturday in a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 79.

WHY ROD STEWART didn't play Live Aid.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Londonbeat's spirited soul-dance hybrid "I've Been Thinking About You."

BRITNEY SPEARS addresses the end of her conservatorship.

MEGXIT: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have no plans to jet back to the UK for the holidays — despite the fact that it will be Queen Elizabeth II's first Christmas without her husband, Prince Phillip, who died in April.

TOM HOLLAND is profiled at GQ.

GREASE: Canceled Down Under. Tell me more.

GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE First Reactions.

QUENTIN TARANTINO is being sued by Miramax over his plan to release non-fungible tokens based on Pulp Fiction.

ALEC BALDWIN is among those being sued by Rust script supervisor Mamie Mitchell for assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and deliberate infliction of harm.

DOG has a trailer online.

A DEER claims sanctuary inside a southern Michigan church on opening day of the state’s firearm deer hunting season.

ROBIN HOOD and Little John.

FINDING that matching sock.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features Big Thief, Pinegrove, Maia Friedman and more.

SUSTO plays World Cafe.

AEON STATION shares "Fade."

DURAN DURAN: Simon Le Bon talks about Bond themes and Pavarotti and side projects and more.

THE TOP 10 DAVE GROHL SONGS, ranked by Paste.

THE TOP 75 ALBUMS of 2021, according to MOJO.

HOW AL STEWART met the Beatles.

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME has a trailer online.

HARRY POTTER: The cast is reuniting to ring in 2022 on HBOMax.

GHOSTBUSTERS: The surviving cast reunited on the Tonight Show.

JAMES BOND: Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who have had a hand in every script this century, know that No Time to Die's secret weapon in Ana de Armas (and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, most likely).

DON'T LOOK UP, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, has a trailer online.

BABY YODA is in Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.

SHANG-CHI, fact-checked by a bus driver.

WHAT'S IN THE BOX?: The Terrifying Truth of ‘Se7en'.

THE MASSIVE FUNNEL WEB SPIDER has fangs capable of piercing human fingernails.

A ZEBRA, breaking in.

A CAT, thinking outside the box.

FLEETWOOD MAC: The Buckingham-Nicks era gets over three hours of discussion and anaysis with guest Charles C. W. Cooke.

KRISTIN ANNA visits KEXP.

COURTNEY BARNETT performed "Write A List Of Things To Look Forward To" for Ellen.

ADELE sang "I Drink Wine" after her interview with Oprah.

MY MORNING JACKET, on longevity, their new self-titled album and the breakup that wasn't.

THE BUSH TETRAS talk to Stereogum about  a new box set and the future.

THE CHARLATANS: How we made "The Only One I Know." And yet no mention of Deep Purple's "Hush."

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Gloria Estefan's gospel-tinged ballad "Coming Out Of The Dark," which she recorded while recovering from a fractured spine.

STAR WARS: Both Patty Jenkins' and Rian Johnson's plannedprojects have reportedly been shelved due to recurring "creative differences" with Lucasfilm.

JAMES BOND: Saving global theater chains.

MARILYN MANSON  is now accused of locking women in a small, soundproof space.

KRISTEN STEWART is profiled at The New Yorker.

KIRSTEN DUNST has expressed interest in returning to the Spider-Man universe as Mary Jane Watson.

BLACK PANTHER: T'Challa will not be recast.

YOUNG VIEWERS are far likelier than older viewers to use subtitles when watching TV.

DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA has a trailer online.

A BEAR visited a 7-Eleven in Lake Tahoe.

SNEAKING IN when you're too late for dinner.

WHY ARE DETROIT COPS Killing So Many Dogs?

NEW RELEASES: Paste wil point you to Courtney Barnett, IDLES, Silk Sonic, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Robin Guthrie, Damon Albarn, Endless Boogie, and more.

UNDER THE THUNDER that opens Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks."

ROGERY DALTREY dumps on the Stones.

THE FLAMING LIPS are doing an album of Nick Cave covers with a 14-year-old singer, because obvsly.

LENNY KAYE: "Boom! I saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show and everything changed."

THE NUMBER ONES looks at "One More Try," the heartbroken DIY synth ballad that randomly took shy Frenso kid Timmy T to the top of the charts.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Eternals repeats atop the chart with 27.5MM on a 61 percent drop, toward the higher end of projections, but not an implosion.  Clifford the Big Red Dog places with 16.3MM, exceeding expectations for the troubled project.  Dune shows with 5.5MM on a 29 percent drop and I'd wager the studio would like to push it across the 100MM mark in theaters dmestically.

BRITNEY SPEARS: A Los Angeles judge ruled Friday that the conservatorship that has overseen the pop star’s life and finances for nearly 14 years should be terminated immediately.

DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS faces major reshoots.

RED NOTICE became the most-watched film ever on Netflix in its opening day, which may say more about star power than script.

CHRIS DAUGHTRY's daughter is a homicide victim.

QUEEN ELIZABETH II has sprained her back.

RIDLEY SCOTT can't stop, won't stop.

PR for Possums.

BEES scream when Murder Hornets attack.

SNOW LEOPARDS die of Covid in Nebraska.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE PAISLEY UNDERGROUND!  A two-part (Part 1, Part 2) feature from the Old Grey Whistle Test on L.A.'s psychedelic-flavored, West Coast scene in the mid-80s. Bands featured include the Long Ryders, Prime Movers, Thin White Rope, Pontiac Brothers and the Rain Parade with a 6 minute live version of No Easy Way Down. The Long Ryders get short shrift so I'll add in their later OGWT appearance to play "Looking For Lewis & Clark." The term "Paisley Underground" is believed to have been jokingly coined by Michael Quercio of the band The Three O'Clock, so I'll toss in the clip for "Her Head's Revolving" as a bonus. Abther band associated with the scene not featured is The Bangs, a/k/a The Bangles, with an early track, "The Real World."  DOUBLE BONUS: The Guardian Music Blog has a piece on the Rain Parade and other Paisley Underground bands.

HOUNDMOUTH plays World Cafe.

THE WAR ON DRUGS plays WFUV Live.

KNOW HOW THE BEATLES ENDED? Peter Jackson May Change Your Mind.

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM Reviews His Albums With And Without Fleetwood Mac.

ADELE delves into her divorce album.

GRAEME EDGE, the drummer, co-founder, and sole constant member of the English art-rock band the Moody Blues, has died at 80.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Mariah Carey's funky dance-pop jam "Someday."

PAUL RUDD is People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive.  Sorry, Cap.

ROCKY IV now nas an "Ultimate Director's Cut" and a 90-minute documentary about its making. The latter is free on YouTube.

ROAD HOUSE is getting a remake?

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON on "Licorice Pizza": "I still haven't quite figured out how to talk about it yet."

THE ETERNALS: Jack Kirby Runs Into the MCU Buzzsaw.

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME will be "brutal," according to Tom Holland.

AARON SORKIN defends "Being The Ricardos."

JIM CUMMINGS: The writer-director-star who creates people we hate ourselves for loving.

TOM HANKS revealed the three of his films that he has enjoyed working on the most.

SYNCHRONIZED sleeping.

DOGS & CATS, living together...

PARROTS, in slo-mo.

A PUPPY who thinks he's a bunny.