OKKERVIL RIVER shared a video for “Mary On A Wave.”

THE SHELTERS stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

JONATHAN EDWARDS played the Mountain Stage. Yes, including "Sunshine."

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from Brian Eno, Timber Timber, Tall Tall Trees and more highlight the latest edition.

SOUNDGARDEN shared a previously unreleased version of “Beyond the Wheel” from the Ultramega OK reissue.

DIRTY PROJECTORS shared "Up In Hudson" ahead of their third (yet self-titled) LP.

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD shared "Sleep Drifter" ahead of Flying Microtonal Banana.

THE DEL LORDS extend "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" Circa 1990.

PAUL McCARTNEY has filed a lawsuit against Sony/ATV to regain the rights to classic Beatles songs.

FOXYGEN talked to Aquarium Drunkard about the conception and execution of their new album, Hang, how they’ve evolved as performers and record-makers, and the misconception that annoys them still.

CONOR OBERST will release Salutations -- a cameo-laden, full band version of 2016's Ruminations, and then some.

THE SLANTS are locked in a legal battle at the Supreme Court over trademarks, free speech and their band name.

DISNEY confirmed that Pixar movies are connected.

WILL & GRACE are getting a 10-episode revival.

DRAKE met JENNIFER LOPEZ's kids, and they're making music together.

FUTURE & CIARA are no longer at war over custody of their 2-year-old baby.

MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY packed on 47 pounds for Gold. And it made him "Captain Fun."

JOHN McTIERNAN, who directed Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October, and The Thomas Crown Affair remake, made his first film in 14 year, and it's a videogame commercial.

IRAQ's military says it has retaken the eastern side of Mosul from the Islamic State group, a critical milestone in its battle to drive the terror organization from the country’s second-largest city.

A BABY ELEPHANT with an injured foot gets hydrotherapy.

JOSEPHINE THE GORILLA, the grandmother of Harambe, has died, Zoo Miami says.

A NEW MOTH has been named after Donald Trump; it's the hairstyle.

VAMPIRE BATS are now feasting on human blood.

THANKS TO EVERYONE for stopping by!  Business makes today a short one, but I have a few things  things:

SPOON shared "Hot Thoughts" ahead of their LP by that name.

LINDSAY LOHAN has not converted to Islam, despite a fake news report.

ROBIN THICKE & PAULA PATTON attended a family therapy session with their 6-year-old son amid their messy custody battle.

BETTY WHITE turned 95 and talked to Katie Couric about her secrets to a long and vibrant life, her storied career and her positive outlook.

KATHERINE HEIGL & JOSH KELLEY welcomed a second son.

JERRY SEINFELD has signed a multifaceted production deal with Netflix.

See y'all Thursday!

THE ORWELLS  shared a video for "Black Francis."

NICK CAVE made his long-awaited return to the stage, performing live for the first time and gave his first interview since the tragic death of his son.

THE SLOPPY HEADS advance stream Useless Smile.

MICHAEL CHAPMAN advance streams 50.

LOS CAMPESINOS! share “5 Flucloxacillin” ahead of Sick Scenes.

STURGILL SIMPSON played “Keep It Between the Lines” and “Call to Arms” on Saturday Night for Twofer Tuesday.

THE XX: The brave new world of pop’s brooding perfectionists.

THE EAGLES OF DEATH METAL documentary from Colin Hanks has a trailer online.

SHARON VAN ETTEN talksed to All Songs Considered about how and why she made the surprising decision to take an acting role on the Netflix series The OA.

HOW DAVID BOWIE & BRIAN ENO Revolutionized Rock on Low.

TOM HARDY talks to the Daily Beast about Mad Max, James Bond, and more...

TAYLOR SWIFT is restoring Hollywood icon Samuel Goldwyn's former home.

ARNIE HAMMER and his wife, Chief Correspondent of the Human Rights Foundation Elizabeth Chambers Hammer, welcomed their second child on Sunday.

ZOE SALDANA, who signed an anti-Trump letter during campaign season, has had further thoughts about Hollywood's treatment of Donald Trump.

RIVERDALE, a/k/a Archie in Twin Peaks, has another teaser online.

GENE CERNAN, the last man to walk on the moon, died on Monday in Houston. He was 82.

THE U.K.: Prime Minister Theresa May is set to declare Tuesday that the U.K. wants a clean break from the European Union, in a closely watched speech in which she is expected to lay out her plans for the divorce.

TURKEY: The man authorities suspect of being behind the New Year's Eve attack on an Istanbul nightclub has been captured alive, according to Turkish police sources.

MR HUNCHBACK lumbered across the track at the Circle B Bar reserve.

HORNY OWLS attracted the Coast Guard.

A MYSTERIOUS DESERT SHRIMP emerged following a deluge Down Under.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A gang of fat squirrels are attacking children and stealing their food in Cornwall.

U2: "Pride" and "MLK." Crushingly obvious. Have a dream.

DAVID CROSBY stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

THE FLAMING LIPS are streaming Oczy Mlody via Spotify.

OF MONTREAL is streaming the Rune Husk EP via Spotify and Apple Music.

THE XX is streaming I See You via Spotify.

DION: A vintage performance of "Abraham, Martin & John."

LAURIE ANDERSON tals to The Guardian about Buddhism, lide, loss and Lou Reed.

SMASHING PUMPKINS: Billy Corgan updated The Loop (97.9 in Chicago) on a possible reunion.

LIZ PHAIR is making a double-LP in Ryan Adams’ Pax-Am studios.

TONY ALLSUP, a guitarist best known for losing a coin toss that kept him off a plane that later crashed and killed rock 'n' roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson, has died. He was 85.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Hidden Figures tops the chart with 20.5MM, a very leggy 10 percent drop from its debut, and likely a big profit for the studio.  La La Land placed with 14.5MM riding a 43 percent increas in biz after its Golden Globes sweep; this one's already well in the black against a 30MM budget.  Sing showed with 13.8MM on a 33 percent drop, and is approaching 400MM worldwide against a 75MM production budget.  Rogue One slipped to the fourth slot with 13.8MM on a 38 percent drop that's not bad considering it lost almost 1000 screens this weekend; it's also now the biggest-grossing film released in 2016.  The Bye Bye Man rounded out the Top Five with 13.4MM, which means a movie with bad reviews and abysmal Cinemascores may well make a tidy profit.  This is what happens when you go over a month without a horror film.  Below the fold, the expansion of Patriot's Day opens as a disappointing sixth with 12MM, though good reviews and an A+ Cinemascore suggests it might find its legs in the typically abysmal dumping grounds of January.  Monster Trucks had a seventh-place 10.5MM debut; the studio already took a 100MM writedown on this one.

STAR WARS: Lucasfilm assures fans that it "has no plans to digitally recreate Carrie Fisher’s performance as Princess or General Leia Organa."

TWIN PEAKS: Kyle MacLachlan returns as Agent Cooper in the latest teaser trailer.

JOHNNY DEPP & AMBER HEARD are officially divorced.

PRINCE HARRY introduced his girlfriend, Meghan Markle, to sister-in-law Duchess Kate and niece Princess Charlotte.

ROBIN THICKE lost a round in his custody dispute with Paula Patton.

MICHAEL JACKSON's family's objections sunk a TV episode featuring Joseph Finnes as the pop icon.

DICK GAUTIER, who starred on Broadway in the original production of Bye, Bye Birdie and then famously played Hymie the Robot on the sitcom Get Smart, has died after a long illness. He was 85.

WILLIAM PETER BLATTY, the author whose best-selling book “The Exorcist” was both a milestone in horror fiction and a turning point in his own career, died of multiple myeloma on Thursday in Bethesda, Md. He was 89.  Not included in the NYT obit is the story of how Blatty knew someone who was so repulsed by the book that he threw it off the end of the Brighton pier; Blatty bought another copy, ran it under the tap, and placed it in the man's desk.

A SNORING DOG, confronted.

FISHCICLES at the Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge from 2015.

A FROZEN FOX was cut from an icy Danube.

A RANDY TORTOISE has been outfitted with wheels after wearing out his back legs doing the Wild Thing.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with R.E.M.!  Live in Germany circa 1985, more complete than what has previously turned up on the Tube. Songs include "Feeling Gravity's Pull," "Harbourcoat," "Sitting Still," "Maps & Legends," "Fall On Me," "Green Grow The Rushes," "Driver 8," "Hyena," "So. Central Rain," CCR's "Have You Ever Seen The Rain," "Can't Get There From Here," Roger Miller's "King Of The Road," "Seven Chinese Bros.," "Auctioneer," "Old Man Kinsey," "Little America," "Pretty Persuasion, " "Theme From Two Steps Onward," Aerosmith's "Toys In The Attic," and Television's "See No Evil." Plus, previously unlinked here: "Second Guessing," "Ghost Riders In The Sky," "(Don't Go Back to) Rockville," "We Walk/ Behind Closed Doors" and "Paint It Black."

AUSTRA advance streams Future Politics.

FRED THOMAS (of Saturday Looks Good To Me) advance streams Changer.

THE END IS AT HAND: Three volumes of outsider Jesus People Movement psychedelia, from Aquarium Drunkard.

IGGY POP drops "GOLD" from the soundtrack of the same name, produced by Danger Mouse.

THE COURTNEYS share "Tour" ahead of The Courtneys II.

SLOWDIVE shares "Star Roving," their first new song in over two decades.

LAURA MARLING shares "Wild Fire."

THE DIG shares "Simple Love" ahead of Bloodshot Tokyo.

ART BRUT get you off to a "Good Weekend."

HOW THE BUZZCOCKS invented indie (with help from the Sex Pistols, a Renault and the Quo).

THE FLAMING LIPS: Wayne Coyne talks Miley Cyrus, LSD and A$AP Rocky.

THE BEST PUNK ALBUMS of the 2000s, according to Paste.

STREAMING became the primary mode of music consumption in the U.S. in 2016.

NOW SHOWING: Patriot's Day expands wide scoring 79 percent on the ol Tomatometer.  Live By Night also expands wide, scoring 34 percent.  Monster Trucks debuts scoring 26 pecent, while The Bye Bye Man opens scoring 14 percent, and Sleepless opens without critics' screenings.  Martin Scorsese's Silence reaches near-wide, scoring 85 percent.

KIM KARDASHIAN: The first suspects in her robbery case have been officially charged.

PETER DINKLAGE in early talks for a key role in Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War.

DEADPOOL writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick discuss awards season and the sequel at Deadline.

MICHAEL JACKSON's family is less than thrilled with Joseph Finnes playing the music icon. Quelle surprise.

THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS get screenwriters.

POLAND: US troops have begun arriving under a planned Nato operation to reassure the alliance's Eastern European allies in the face of mounting Russian aggression.

IRAQ: Thousands of terror victims go unnamed.

RED PANDA CUBS, playing in the snow.

FISH FRAUD is rampant in Los Angeles.

BIGFOOT was spotted in Ireland, presumably on vacation.

COYOTES ATTACKED a man walking his Beagles in Morris County, NJ.