BOB GELDOF, by his own admission, is responsible for two of the worst songs in history: "'Do They Know It's Christmas?" and "We Are The World."

BON IVER played a couple -- including some Leon Russell -- for NPR Music's 10th Anniversary Concert.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: The Year In Music 2017.

LITHUANIA streams White Reindeer.

SQUEEZE share a video for “Patchouli.”

PEARL JAM gets a 2-hour, 23-minute long survey on Political Beats with guest Josh Jordan.

DESTROYER: Dan Bejar talks to Under the Radar about ken.

MORRISSEY claims he was misquoted by Der Spiegel about... well, everything.

APPLE denies reports that it is retiring the iTunes Music Store from 2019.

THE GOLDEN GLOBES nominations went to these folks. Congrats.

AMAZON STUDIOS struggles to find a new head in the Post-Weinstein world.

MARIO BATALI steps away from his restaurant empire amid sexual misconduct allegations.

A PROMINENT AGENT at CAA is facing accusations that he offered an actor sex in exchange for access to directors and a movie star.

READY PLAYER ONE has a trailer online.

ADRIANNA LIMA is not ditching Victorias Secret, despite recently saying she won't be taking off her clothes anymore for an "empty cause."

THE LAST JEDI is getting good early buzz, including from some not high on The Force Awakens.

IT'S STAR WARS TIME, AGAIN: Has the franchise become that unpleasant uncle you have to see each December?

HOW THE POST Became the Hottest Screenplay in Hollywood.

SWIMMING with One of the World's Oldest Sharks.

A PLAGUE OF BATS overruns a Queensland town.

...AND THERE WERE EEELS all over the highway. In fact, my hovercraft is full of eels.

THOROUGHBREADS may be trained to run, but not to outrun Califonia's wildfires.

THE NATIONAL covers Leonard Cohen's "Memories" in Montreal.

COURTNEY BARNETT & KURT VILE play a Tiny Desk Concert.

KING KRULE stopepd by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

CHRISTMAS JAMBREE: A Vintage Jamaican Yuletide Mixtape.

GUIDED BY VOICES returns with "Space Gun."

PATSY CLINE & FERLIN HUSKY: "Let It Snow!"

OTIS REDDING: In memory of the man and his musical revolution, 50 years later. This 2011 piece from The Atlantic is also on point.

THE GUMMY AWARDS voting is open.

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE: Josh Homme apologizes for kicking a photographer in the face at a KROQ concert.

AEROSMITH's Steven Tyler has opened a women’s shelter for abused girls.

MEAT LOAF, as quoted -- several times -- by the Senate Banking Committee.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Coco threepeats atop the chart with 18.3MM on a leggy 33 percent drop, roughly on a Moana trajectory, but from a lower opening base; it will beat out the Cars franchise, but remain at the bottom end of Pixar pics.  It will likely get crushed -- like everything else -- by The Last Jedi next weekend, but then is a decent bet to pick up steam in the heart of the holiday season.  Justice League places again 9.6MM on a 42 percent drop; it breaks the 200MM mark domestic, but let's recall Wonder Woman broke 400MM domestic.  Wonder shows again with 8.5MM and breaks the 100MM mark (on a reported 20MM budget, as opposed to Justice League's reported 300MM production tab).  The Disaster Artist expanded its screens and took the fourth slot with 6.4MM.  Thor: Ragnarok rounds out the Top Five with another 6.3MM tossed on its enormous pile of receipts.

DUSTIN HOFFMAN was accused of 'abusive' sexual harassment on Broadway.

JESSICA CHASTAIN says a famous actor told her to ‘calm down’ about Harvey Weinstein.

SAMANTHA FOX claims DAVID CASSIDY assaulted her in a bathroom.

ARMIE HAMMER apologized for making comments about the allegations against Casey Affleck.

JESSICA JONES shares a trailer for Season Two.

THE TERROR, Ridley Scott’s new AMC drama, shares a trailer online.

ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, from James cameron and robert Rodriguez, shares a trailer online.

THE HEAD OF THE DISNEY MUSIC GROUP was arrested and charged with abusing two underaged girls.

DISNEY nears a deal for Fox assets, as the curtain draws close on the era of the ‘Big Six’ studios.

A WOMAN, and her dog-sized lizard.

FRANK, a wild turkey popular in Cuyohoga Falls, was struck by an automobile.

PESTS OR PALS: How to live in harmony with urban wildlife.

HELLO, IT'S THE POST OFFICE: Your Chickens Have Escaped.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with A CHRISTMAS SHINDIG! The full episode has gone dark, but still-available clips from 1964 include The Beach Boys' "Dance, Dance, Dance," Bobby Sherman and Donna Loren singing "Keep on Searching," the Righteous Brothers doing "The Jerk" and an awesome milk commercial, Adam Faith with "Watch Your Step," and "Santa Claus Is Back In Town", Bobby Sherman with "Sleigh Ride," Donna Loren returning with a Spector-esque, but rougher "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," and The Beach Boys deliver a set including "Little Saint Nick," "Monster Mash" (yes, really) "Papa Oom Mow Mow," "Johnny B. Goode," and "We Three Kings."

JEFF TWEEDY played a career-spanning, six-song set for NPR Music's 10th anniversary concert.

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

STARS stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

COMA CINEMA streams Loss Memory.

BUFFALO TOM shares "All Be Gone."

THE KINKS, with the evergreen "Father Christmas."

BELLE & SEBASTIAN guitarist Stevie Jackson ranks the band's catalog.

LISA LOEB talks to Stereogum about her Grammy-nominated children’s album, meeting David Bowie, and the origin of "Stay (I Missed You)."

SIMON RAYMONDE, of the Cocteau Twins and Bella Union, tals to The Creative Independent about preserverance.

THE BEST ALBUMS of 2017, according to Drowned in Sound.

NOW SHOWING: Just Getting Started is this weekend's wide release, and as of Thusday afternoon it either hasn't been screened or reviews are embargoed.  Meanwhile, The Disaster Artist expands near-wideat 94 percent, though it seems like it should have a cult audience.

BRYAN SINGER is being sued for allegedly forcing a 17-year-old boy to perform oral sex on him and then raping him, but Singer categorically denies the allegations. This is my shocked face.

DYLAN FARROW asks why the Weinstein scandal has yet to hi Woody Allen.

KEVIN SPACEY reportedly groped a former member of Norway's royal family at a banquet 10 years ago.

J.K. ROWLING defends casting Johnny Depp as Grindelwald in the Fantastic Beasts movies.

JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM posts a trailer online. There will be Goldblum.

THE DC UNIVERSE is getting a studio shakeup following the box office disappointment of Justice League, .

JOHN TRAVOLTA claims Lionsgate sold his Gotti biopic back to the producer because he found someone willing to bankroll a wider release.

PRINCE HARRY & MEGHAN MARKLE plot a pre-nuptual getaway.

QUENTIN TARANTINO's STAR TREK is apparently not a joke, and probably R-rated.

X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX gets the first look treatment from Entertainment Weekly.

THE PREDATOR will explore the greater details of why these extraterrestrial creatures came to Earth and what exactly they plan to do there.

LINDSAY LOHAN wants a Mean Girls sequel becacuse of course she would.

DAVID CASSIDY cut his estranged daughter out of his will.

A GOLDEN RETRIEVER knows the struggles of being the older sibling.

THE JELLYFISH APOCALYPSE: The stinging, gelatinous blobs could take over the world's oceans.

A NEWLY-DISCOVERED DINOSAUR is like a raptor with a swan's neck. So weird that experts thought it might be fake.

A 17-FT PYTHON that could 'pretty much kill any full-grown man' was caught in Everglades.

I FEEL TERRIBLE, especially because the true master of this domain was likely in the midst of the California wildfires on Wednesday.  As one wag quipped on Twitter: "One does not simply commute into Mordor." But I have things!

THE RAMONES: "Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)."

THE DREAM SYNDICATE stopped by The Current!

THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE stopped by The Current.

KING KRULE played a Tiny Desk Concert, and Jon Pratt digs it.

SUFJAN STEVENS shares a song about "Tonya Harding."

FATHER JOHN MISTY shares a video for the 13-minute epic, "Leaving LA."

JOHNNY HALLIDAY, France's biggest rock star, has died after a battle with lung cancer. He was 74.

DAVID BOWIE snag with DEVO, and the tapes likely exist.

JIMI HENDRIX gets another posthumous release, including 10 previously unheard recordings.

25 GREAT EPs from 2017, according to Stereogum.

STAR WARS: Princess Leia is the most popular character, Americans continue to prefer the originals, and more statistics.

CASABLANCA: The accidental classic turns 75. Here's looking at you, kid.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN: Six women have filed a proposed class action lawsuit against disgraced Hollywood mogul and his former company members.

JEFFREY TAMBOR now says he has not quit Transparent and has no plans to do so.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE gave a wide-ranging interview to Oprah.

EDGAR WRIGHT teases a sequel to Baby Driver.

DEXTER FLETCHER replaces BRYAN SINGER as director of Bohemian Rhapsody.

DECEMBER 7, 1941: A "date which will live in infamy." I'll be watching Tora! Tora! Tora! this weekend. BTW, the first nation invaded by the US after entering WWII was Morocco, then Algeria, iirc. War is strange.

AGGRESSIVE MANTIS SQUAD prepares for glory.

MOUNTAIN LIONS are so scared of humans that the sound of talk radio sends them running. Same, tbh.

SERVICE DOG causes chaos at Cats performance.

MUTANT RATS could be released in Britain to solve a rodent problem.  I'm sure it's fine.

U2 cover "Merry Christmas, Baby (Please Come Home)," ripped from the premiere, for extra retro goodness.

GRIZZLY BEAR stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

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

SPRINGTIME CARNIVORE covers Marshall Crenshaw and The Korgis for Aquarium Drunkard.

BEST COAST covers the Beach Boys' "Little Saint Nick."

TY SEGALL covers Hot Chocolate's "Every 1’s A Winner."

ST VINCENT performs "Slow Disco" in a fake church on Fallon.

NEIL YOUNG put his entire catalog online, free, at high quality. (minus the Geffen records, iirc)

RONNIE SPECTOR talks to Aquarium Drunkard about her amazing career in pop music.

VICTORIA WILLIAMS is profiled by All Songs Considered.

THE TOP 50 LPs of 2017, according to Stereogum.

DANNY MASTERSON has been booted from The Ranch, Netflix just announced, because of multiple rape allegations, but the actor vehemently denies the claims. Was this awkward moment the tipping point?

DUSTIN HOFFMAN & JOHN OLIVER sparred over sex harassment claims during a Q & A intended as a prologue to a 20th-anniversary screening of the film Wag the Dog.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN's Complicity Machine.

WHY DID BRYAN SINGER leave Bohemian Rhapsody? Experts claim to be baffled.

TERRY CREWS is suing the agent he claims groped him at a Hollywood party.

GOTTI: Lionsgate sold the John Travolta-starring mafia pic back to its producer just 10 days before its release date.

PRINCE WILLIAM is slated to take on the role as Prince Harry's best man in his 2018 wedding to Meghan Markle.

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI may include a surprise cameo; Spoiler Warning, obvsly.

QUENTIN TARANTINO hatching a Star Trek movie?

FOX BOSS James Murdoch is reportedly being considered as a potential successor to Bob Iger, chief executive of Walt Disney, if the two companies reach agreement on a possible takeover.

CHRISTINE KEELER, the model embroiled in the 1963 Profumo affair, has died aged 75, her son has said.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A militant rodent tried to steal Christmas.

A DOG in western Wisconsin brought home partial remains of a human skull Sunday.

A GIANT WOLF-COYOTE HYBRID has been spotted ‘hunting' a woman outside her home.