NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Dirty Projectors, Bill Callahan, Hamilton Leithauser and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Throwing Muses, The Young Knives, Thibault, and more.

THE POLYPHONIC SPREE stream covers of ABBA, The Rolling Stones, Rush, The Association, and more.

DEVENDRA BANHART covers the Grateful Dead's "Franklin Towers."

PHOEBE BRIDGERS & ARLO PARKS cover Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees."

FIFTEEN 2020 ALBUMS inspired by the '80s.

BRUCE WILIAMSON, lead singer for the Temptations from 2006-2015, died Sunday night from COVID-19.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called To Say I Love You."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE? Tenet finally opened in the US, and together with its Canadian run, which began last weekend, rang up $20.2MM to date at 2810 theaters, and almost $150MM worldwide. What does that mean? No one really knows.  Mulan opened overseas, but the House of Mouse won't say how much it made selling it as a pemium charge on Disney+.  The New Mutants placed in North America with 2.9MM on a 65 percent drop.  Unhinged showed with 1.67MM on a 36 percent drop.

THE BATMAN has the virus.

MICHAEL ROOKER had the virus.

RHIANNA is recovering after a recent accident involving an electric scooter.

ALEXANDER PAYNE denied Rose McGowan's accusation of sexual misconduct.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 7 shares another insane motorcycle stunt. 

CUBA GOODING JR extinguished a guest who caught on fire at a Hamptons party over Labor Day weekend.

ARMIE HAMMER and his wife, Elizabeth Chambers, have both just filed for divorce.

DAVID FINCHER shares images from his Citizen Kane-themed Netflix project, Mank.

A WILD KOALA sneaks into a guy's car and refuses to leave.

A THIRSTY SQUIRREL tricks humans into sustaining the threat.

A SKUNK, A POSSUM, AND A RACOON walk onto a porch.