CHVRCHES dropped a video for "Empty Threat."

FOO FIGHTERS offer their St. Cecilia to stream and download.

TY SEGALL advance streams TY REX, a collection of T-Rex covers.

MAC McCAUGHAN is streaming an instrumental version of his solo LP Non-Believers, which he's calling Staring At Your Hologram.

SELF-DEFENSE FAMILY advance streams their When The Barn Caves In EP.

TIM FITE is streaming Resist.

LEON BRIDGES drops "So Long" from the Concussion soundtrack.

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

EAGLES OF DEATH METAL are talking to VICE about the Paris attacks.

HOW PAUL McCARTNEY Learned to Talk About John Lennon.

THE POGUES: Shane MacGowan's dental work is the subject of an upcoming documentary.

MAVIS STAPLES talked to Garden and Gun magazine about her career.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 topped the chart with 101MM, which is a series low, but nothing to sneeze at. The Hunger Games and The Avengers are the only two franchises to have all of their parts open above 100MM.  Spectre places with 14.6MM, dropping 57 percent in the face of Katniss & Co.; 007 has already earned 600MM worldwide and thus should have no problem, even with its 240-250MM production budget.  The Peanuts Movie shows with 12.8MM on a 47 percent drop, and is going to need worldwide receipts to profit in theatres, esp given that Pixar's The Good Dinosaur arrives next weekend.  The Night Before debuts in the fourth slot with 10.1MM, suggesting it should have been released last weekend or next weekend, instead of as counter-programming to The Hunger Games. The Secret in Their Eyes rounds out the Top Five with 6.6MM, which looks like a disappointment, though the 20MM production cost suggests not a big disappointment, if the cast brings in some overseas receipts.

SOFIA VERGARA & JOE MANGANIELLO tied the knot Sunday during a romantic wedding at The Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

ANGELINA JOLIE PITT loves menopause.

ADELE claims that her success is due in part to...Sarah Palin?

JUSTIN BIEBER & SELENA GOMEZ may be together again.

MARK HAMILL faces a financial penalty if he discloses apoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

SAUDI ARABIA has executed at least 175 people in the past year, at a rate of one every two days, according to a report by Amnesty International.

THE ISLAMIC STATE: Were US intelligence assessments changed to suggest air campaign vs ISIS was going better than it was?

MALI: At least 27 people were reported dead on Friday after Malian commandos stormed a luxury hotel in the capital Bamako with at least 170 people inside, many of them foreigners, that had been seized by Islamist gunmen.

FRANCE: During the Paris attacks, a police commissioner and his driver sped to the Bataclan concert hall and charged inside, shooting one of the gunmen before the attacker had a chance to use his high-powered rifle. Then they retreated so that special-operations teams could assemble.

BELGIAN police made 16 arrests in anti-terror raids but suspected Paris attacks gunman Salah Abdeslam remains at large, the authorities have said.

THIS DOG will smile for the camera.

DOGS may be DNA tested at a Florida condo community.

A RED PANDA escaped from and was recaptured by a Northern California zoo.

A RAT took a selfie on the NYC subway.

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. Other bands associated with the scene not featured include Green On Red -- sometimes likened to The Doors for songs like "Two Lovers" and "Change" -- and The Bangs, a/k/a The Bangles, with an early track, "The Real World." DOUBLE BONUS:  The Guardian Music Blog has a link-rich piece on the Rain Parade and other Paisley Underground bands.

KISSISSIPPI advance streams their We Have No Future, We're All Doomed EP.

SQUEEZE stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

FFS played the Edinburgh Festival Theatre.

SHAWN COLVIN stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

DAVID BOWIE dropped a video for the ten-minute title track for "Blackstar."

BLITZEN TRAPPER's talks to PopMatters about his love for The Replacements, among other things.

JOSH RITTER is interviewed by American Songwriter.

SHIRLEY BASSEY has said that modern women are not empowered and claimed that she does not believe female staff should be hired to carry out traditionally male jobs.

FIFTY ALBUMS from 1985 That Still Sound Great.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, currently scoring 72 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; The Night Before, currently scoring 65 percent; and Secret In Their Eyes, scoring 28 percent.

CHARLIE SHEEN will be writing his memoirs. If his letter evealing his HIV diagnosis is any indicator, he will need a team of editors. Or a ghost writer.

ADELE will not be streaming her new album, because she has many fans and she can get them to buy it.

JARED FOGLE: The former Subway spokesman was sentenced to 188 months (more than 15 years) in prison Thursday. 

AMY SCHUMER tried the "Don't you know who I am?" thing at a NYC gym.

KATE BECKINSALE & LEN WISEMAN may be in marital trouble.

THE HOBBIT: Peter Jackson admitted he started shooting the saga without adequate preparation.

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS has a new TV spot featuring John Boyega's character, a First Order stormtrooper called Finn.

TURKEY: Fans at a soccer match with Greece  booed, hissed and chanted phrases such as "Allahu akbar" during a moment of silence for the Paris terror attacks. Where is Aaron Rodgers when you need him?

SYRIA: The Obama administration and European and Arab allies are seeking to peel Russia away from its alliance with Iran, a partnership that has bolstered Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, said senior diplomats involved in efforts to end Syria’s lengthy conflict. In October, Putin told leaders of Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E.that Russia would seek to diminish Iran’s role inside Syria as part of the campaign.

5000 DUCKLINGS storm their first pond.

PIGEONS are good at reading biopsies and mammograms.

A DEAD DEER was hung from a Florida high school flagpole.

A LARGE, ANGRY GOLDFISH scares the cats.

IRON & WINE covers GWAR's "Sick of You."

JENS LEKMAN streams Ghostwriting.

BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW streams SeeFu Lilac.

MIYA FOLICK advance streams her Strange Darling EP.

KINGSLEY FLOOD advance streams The Good Fight EP.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features music for healing.

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN: Psychocandy was released 30 years ago this week, so how about "Just Like Honey"?

EAGLES OF DEATH METAL issued a statement regarding the Paris terror attacks, which included an assault on their concert at the Bataclan.

CARLY SIMON confirmed that at least part of "You're So Vain" is about him.

SAVAGES talk to Billboard about the death of Rock and Roll.

BILLY GIBBONS (ZZ Top) talks to The Guardian about his first solo LP, which he's comfy calling “Hispanic-bionic boogie.”

CHARLIE SHEEN apparently did not inform his girlfriend, former adult film actress Bree Olson, of his HIV diagnosis.

DAVID BECKHAM was named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE felt guilty about her first sex scene.

ANGELINA JOLIE PITT looks forward to growing old with Brad.

ADELE denies turning down Beyoncé.

PIERCE BROSNAN critiques Spectre.

BAYWATCH: The movie reboot adds to its cast.

THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER'S WAR has a trailer online. Big names for what seems on the surface to be a bad idea.

THE ISLAMIC STATE released a propaganda video Wednesday that makes threats against New York.

FRANCE: Police unleashed 5000 rounds during a raid on a terror cell, capturing eight and with two fatalities, but authorities would not say Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian suspected of organizing last week’s deadly Paris attacks, was killed. The Washington Post reported he was killed, along with a female suicide bomber, who killed herself. Police sources said the raid was well-timed because the suspects were "about to move on some kind of operation."

HONDURAS detained five Syrian nationals who were trying to reach the United States using stolen Greek passports, but there are no signs of any links to last week's attacks in Paris, police said.

GERMANY: The jihadist attacks in Paris may be part of a wider series of strikes the Islamic State group plans in Europe, Germany's interior minister warned Wednesday.

CATS vs CUCUMBERS: These videos are critiqued by animal rights activists.

DIESEL, a decorated police dog, was among those killed in the French police raid on a suspected terror cell in Saint-Denis.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the giant Delmarva fox squirrel (Sciurus niger cinereus) has recovered and will no longer need the protection of the Endangered Species Act.

SNAKE WINE: In Southeast Asia, reptile-infused liquor reaches a whole new scream-inducing level.

I should be back tomorrow with the usual.

P.F. SLOAN, the songwriting great behind classic singles like Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction" (written at age 19) and Johnny Rivers' "Secret Agent Man," as well as the member of the Wrecking Crew who played the guitar into to "California Dreamin'", and a founding member of The Grass Roots, passed away Monday night after a short bout with pancreatic cancer, the musician's representative confirmed to Rolling Stone. Sloan, who was born Philip Schlein, was 70.  Weekend Edition caught up with Sloan in 2006.

SHOVELS & ROPE streams their cameo-laden covers LP, Busted Jukebox Vol. I.

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

WALT MINK's John Kimbrough stopped by The Current before the band's Mpls. reunion show.

CHRISTOPHER PAUL STELLING stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

THE DUKES OF STRATOSPHEARE: The psychedelic front group for XTC play "The Mole From the Ministry" and "You're A Good Man, Albert Brown" for Twofer Tuesday.

THE NATIONAL and their future plans get the cover story treatment from Stereogum.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS' John Darnielle talks pro wrestling (a subject of the band's latest LP) with The Argus. (Thx, LHB.)

SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS is profiled by Noisey.

THE 12 BEST NEKO CASE SONGS, according to Paste.

CHARLIE SHEEN reportedly is going on the Today show to discuss being HIV-positive, though he reportedly also claims the virus has been "undetectable" in his system.

KATE HUDSON is profiled at Harper's Bazaar.

KIM KARDASHIAN talks about her pregnancy complications.

MEMENTO: Christopher Nolan's pre-Batman classic is getting remade. I keep trying to forget it.

FRANCE has listed more than 10000 people suspected of being radicalised or potential security threats, including homegrown assailant Omar Ismail Mostefai who killed scores of people at Paris's Bataclan music on Friday.

A MASSIVE SCHOOL OF FISH fights off predators. (NSFW language; it's New Jersey)

A BLACK BEAR was rescued from a Winnie-the-Pooh scenario.

SHEEP GOO will be stinking up an Oregon town.

HOW LOST PETS navigate their way home.