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.