CYNDI LAUPER & BILLY CORGAN sang a duet of the Crystals’ 1961 hit “There’s No Other (Like My Baby)" for a benefit concert.

AMANDA SHIRES stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

STOVE is advance streaming The Meat That Fell Out EP.

PINEGROVE played a Tiny Desk Concert.

GRANDADDY shares "A Lost Machine" ahead of Last Place.

GLAM XMAS:  Wizzard's awesome "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" and Slade's "Merry Christmas Everybody" (1973's UK Xmas No. 1) are your Twofer Tuesday.

BOB DYLAN isn't picking up his Nobel Prize in person, but is submittinga written "speech" and Patti Smith will perform.

JOHNNY MARR talks to Salon about his autobiography.

STING talks about returning to rock (and more) at Rolling Stone.

THE BEST MUSIC of 2016, according to NPR.

BRANGELEXIT: Brad Pitt's child custody arrangement with Angelina Jolie is in the hands of a therapist.

JONAH HILL was shaken but uninjured in a Los Angeles auto accident.

JIMMY KIMMEL has been set as Oscar host.

STEVEN YEUN (The Walking Dead) married his longtime girlfriend, Joana Pak, in a romantic wedding ceremony in Los Angeles on Saturday.

TOM HARDY is profiled by Esquire.

LAST TANGO IN PARIS  director Bernardo Bertolucci said Monday that the outcry over the rape scene was based on a “ridiculous misunderstanding” of what actually happened.

TRANSFORMERS 5 has a trailer online.

ROGUE ONE has new clips online, at least one of which is a little spoilery.

A HUGE MOOSE turned to toxic car exhaust for warmth.

A ZOOKEEPER punched a kangaroo to save his dog.

A 14-FT PYTHON was caught after devouring three deer.

A MASSIVE STRAY GOAT rampaged through an Irish town.

CAR SEAT HEADREST brought "Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales" to Fallon.

CONOR OBERST stopped by WFUV's Studio A.

KEVIN DEVINE brings the power pop and indie folk to WNYC Soundcheck.

MOUNT MORIAH also visited WNYC Soundcheck.

THE FEELIES share "Been Replaced" ahead of In Between.

DROPKICK MURPHYS cover “You’ll Never Walk Alone."

THE KINKS, with the evergreen "Father Christmas."

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS: Patterson Hood talks to Oregon Music News about the new album, a solo residency, America, and more.

THE ROLLING STONES discuss Bob Dylan's reaction to the Nobel Prize, tho Keith Richards would later have the best line: wanting one for chemistry.

THE 2016 PITCHFORK READERS' POLL is open for voting.

THE TOP 50 ALBUMS  of 2016, according to American Songwriter.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Moana repeated atop the chart 28.4MM on a 50 percent drop, not a surprise given the lack of big new releases. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them placed with 18.6MM on a 59 percent drop, but it's likely into the black already with over 600MM worldwide.  Arrival showed with 7.3MM on a 36 percent drop, rising from the fifth slot -- a leggy showing based on well-deserved word-of-mouth. Allied took the forth slot with 77MM on a 45 percent drop and 29MM total is likely big trouble against an 85MM budget, even if overseas markets deliver big. Doctor Strange rounded out the Top Five with 6.5MM on a 53 percent drop, but is likely well in the black already with 634MM worldwide.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 has a second trailer online.

THE MUMMY reboot with Tom Cruise has a trailer online.

EMERALD CITY has a trailer online.

KANYE WEST is out of the hospital but living apart from his wife Kim Kardashian and their two kids after being hospitalized, and it all stems from the rapper's erratic pattern of taking his meds.

AMY SCHUMER will star in Sony's live-action Barbie movie.

LAST TANGO IN PARIS: Director Bernardo Bertolucci confessed that he and Marlon Brando conspired against actress Maria Schneider during a rape scene that itself was not consensual.

ANDREW SACHS, a British television star known best for playing Spanish waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers, has died. He was 86.

ALICE DRUMMOND, who had roles in films like Ghostbusters, Awakenings and Doubt, died on Wednesday in the Bronx at 88.

A HIPPO attacks a car. NSFW language, as you might imagine.

A 112-LB CATFISH, caught in North Carolina.

BEAR PROPAGANDA: Don't believe it.

HELPING HANDS: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with ELTON JOHN! Half of a live show captured by the OGWT on Christmas Eve, 1974.  Your setlist includes: "Grimsby" (incompete), "Rocket Man," "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," "Daniel," Grey Seal,"  "Bennie And The Jets," "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds," "I Saw Her Standing There," "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me," "Honky Cat," "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting," "Crocodile Rock," "The B^tch Is Back," "Your Song," and "White Christmas."

MARIA TAYLOR advance streams In The Next Life.

STAR SLINGER streams the We Could Be More EP, ft Dawn Richard, James Vincent McMorrow, Sam Sparro, Sara Z, and Tunji Ige.

LOW shares “Some Hearts (At Christmas Time)."

LOS CAMPESINOS! & THE MELVINS also share Christmas songs from an Amazon comp.

HAMILTON LEITHAUSER + ROSTAM share a cover of Dylan's "Mr Tambourine Man."

THE RAVEONETTES' 2011 video for 2001's "The Christmas Song."

PRINCE's estate now has a dollar value: 200 million, twice the monetary worth of David Bowie's estate.

KELLEY DEAL of The Breeders talks to the Creative Independent about having multiple outlets.

1983: The Year Goth Broke.

THE 50 BEST ALBUMS of 2016, according to Stereogum.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide release is Incarnate, which hasn't been screened for critics -- though Believe is openinging sorta wide, also without advance screenings.

MILA KUNIS & ASHTON KUTCHER welcome their second child.

IRINA SHAYK & BRADLEY COOPER are expecting a child?

KANYE WEST is out of UCLA Medical Center after more than a week of treatment for his mental breakdown.

HILARY DUFF and Jason Walsh have split.

BUZZ ALDRIN, 86, was evacuated from the South Pole Thursday. I'd say that trip was a bad idea, but Aldrin could probably still deck me.

GILMORE GIRLS creator and EP Amy Sherman-Palladino and EP Dan Palladino tell THR when they planned to end the original series and why the last four words of the revival "felt even more right" nine years later.

COLOMBIA's Congress has approved a historic peace agreement that will lead to the disarming of rebels in the 52-year conflict.

A BEAR is rescued from a septic tank.

A CAT is rescued from a frozen puddle.

A ROGUE BEAVER trashed a store selling artificial Christmas trees.

SQUIRREL vs SNAKE: Who You Got?

TIM DARCY (Ought) shares a "Tall Glass of Water."

SHOVELS & ROPE played the Mountain Stage.

SEU GEORGE plays a mini-set during Morning Becomes Eclectic.

THAO & THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN played the Lincoln Center Out Of Doors series in New York's Damrosch Park.

THE BESNARD LAKES share "Laura Lee."

LEONARD COHEN: Rolling Stone looks back on the many chapters of his remarkable life.

IGGY POP shares his top 5 favorite current bands and musicians with The New York Times.

ANGEL OLSEN talks about the 50's-ish, but Bowie-influenced "Shut Up Kiss Me" on the Song Exploder podcast.

HARANGUING CHAD: How Nickelback became pop's ultimate punchline.

TAYLOR SWIFT is the highest-paid musician—and the highest-paid celebrity of any stripe—on the planet, according to Forbes.

KANYE WEST & KIM KARDASHIAN were fighting before his recent hospitalization.

AMANDA SEYFRIED  is pregnant.

CHRIS PRATT talks to British GQ about stripping, working with Jennifer Lawrence and his self-made formula for success.

BACK TO THE FUTURE will not be remade or rebooted as long as producer Frank Marshall has any involvement.

GRANT TINKER, a revered producer and executive who founded MTM Enterprises with Mary Tyler Moore and later rose to the challenge of taking NBC from last place to first, has died. He was 90.

'JIM' DELLIGATI, the McDonald's franchisee who created the Big Mac nearly 50 years ago and saw it become perhaps the best-known fast-food sandwich in the world, died Monday at home in Pittsburgh. Delligatti, who according to his son ate at least one 540-calorie Big Mac a week for decades, was 98.

GERMAN authorities have arrested a suspected Islamist mole discovered working within the country’s domestic intelligence service, sparking criticism of an agency that has been on high alert following a string of attacks and foiled plots this year.

A GIANT SPIDER hatches her babies in an Aussie mailbox.

A MISSING FLORIDA DOG was found three years later in New Jersey.

AN 8-FT VENOMOUS COBRA escaped from a toilet in South Africa.

COW TIPPING, usually a myth, turns deadly.

CASS McCOMBS shared a video for "Run Sister Run."

DEVENDRA BANHART stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

AARON LEE TASJAN stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from Laura Marling, Sam Phillips, Weyes Blood and more feature in the latest edition.

THE DECEMBERISTS shared an alternate version of "Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)," ft Alela Diane.

'ALLO DARLIN shares a final single, “Hymn On The 45."

IKE & TINA TURNER: "River Deep, Mountain High," live and de-Spectorized.

PERE UBU's David Thomas talks to Aquarium Drunkard about two new box sets, compartmentalizing, baseball as a metaphor for loners in art, how culture doesn’t exist, and his humbleness before an irrelevant audience.

PINK FLOYD'S Nick Mason stopped by World Cafe to talk about the band's early days and share bits of The Early Years 1965-1972.

THE EAGLES are in fact finished, according to Don Henley.

THE TOP 50 ALBUMS of 2016, according to Consequence of Sound.

MORENA BACCARIN & BEN FOSTER are engaged.

GERARD BUTLER and his longtime girlfriend Morgan Brown have gone their separate ways.

KIM KARDASHIAN is worried about the kids being around Kanye West.

KATY PERRY & ORLANDO BLOOM engagement rumor.

BRANGELEXIT: Brad Pitt spent Thanksgiving alone in Turks and Caicos, without his estranged wife Angelina Jolie or their six children.

LAUREN GRAHAM talks to USA Today about her memoir-ish new book, Talking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls.

YEMEN: The Houthi movement and its allies formed a new government in Yemen on Monday, a surprise that angered their Saudi-backed rivals and complicated United Nations efforts to end a conflict that has ravaged the Arab world’s poorest country for much of the past two years.

BULL vs SUV: Who You Got?

LARRY THE CAT, No. 10 Downing Street's mouser, keeps the Chancellor of the Exchequer's cats locked up next door.

ELVERS: Three men admitted Monday to illegally netting the tiny, translucent juvenile eels from the Cooper River and arranging their sale.

SNAKES falling through light fittings Down Under.