BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE's latest video is for "Texico B^tches."

THE DECEMBERISTS: Colin Meloy stops by WFUV to preview new tracks from the upcoming The King Is Dead album.

JINGLE JAMS: NPR's annual Holiday Mix.

10 DEPRESSING CHRISTMAS SONGS, with embedded audio, including Prince's "Another Lonely Christmas." Plus, 5 Depressing Blues Songs for Christmas.

BEACH BOYS: Roio has 3 discs of SMiLE outtakes.

SUFJAN STEVENS: "Put the Lights on the Tree."

THE TOP 100 TRACKS of 2010, according to Pitchfork.

BELLE & SEBASTIAN: Stuart Murdoch talked to Pitchfork about his new book and everything else he has going on.

THE 20 BEST REISSUES of 2010, according to PopMatters.

LIZ PHAIR does a Q & A with OMG. (Thx, LHB.)

SCARLETT JOHANSSON & RYAN REYNOLDS have decided to end their marriage after a bit over two years.

MICHAEL C. HALL and Jennifer Carpenter (both of Dexter) are divorcing after two years of marriage. I'm guessing this won't attract as much attention as Scar-Jo and Ryan.

CHARLIE SHEEN will not be prosecuted over what is now being euphemized as "The Plaza Hotel incident" back in October.

LINDSAY LOHAN has turned down an offer to appear on Dancing With the Stars, her stage mom Dina tells RadarOnline.

LIZ HURLEY's alleged love interest speaks out after her separation announcement.

JENNIFER CONNELLY & PAUL BETTANY are having a baby. It's their second, her third.

HUGH JACKMAN sustained a minor facial injury while making a dramatic entrance to a taping of Oprah Winfrey's talk show at the Sydney Opera House on Tuesday.

THE GOLDEN GLOBES nominations are announced. The King's Speech leads with seven, with The Social Network, Black Swan, The Fighter and Inception also named for Best Drama.  Mad Men,'The Good Wife, Boardwalk Empire, The Walking Dead and 'Dexter were nominated for Best TV Drama (Breaking Bad snubbed).

SNOW WHITE: Dueling films target Charlize Theron and Julia Roberts for the Evil Queen.

THE 2010 BLACK LIST: Film executive Franklin Leonard's hot unproduced screenplay pecking order. Diablo Cody's Juno, Nancy Oliver's Lars And The Real Girl, Scott Neustader's and Michael Weber's 500 Days Of Summer, are just some of the screenplays which appeared on The Black List and then were made.

KOREA: South Korea said on Tuesday it suspects the North has been secretly enriching uranium at more locations besides its main nuclear site -- which could mean it has more material for building nuclear bombs. The head of South Korea's army resigned in the wake of the revelations.

IRAN: Ahmadinejad has designated Ali Akbar Salehi, his nuclear chief and ally, as 'caretaker' foreign minister, replacing Manouchehr Mottaki.

IRAQ: "The biggest story about Iraq may be what hasn't happened."

THE CAT DIARIES: Friskies marketing, but still cute.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A calf with five legs.

A CAT saves his house from fire by opening a window.

PIGS try to go whee-whee-whee all the way home after their truck overturns.

OVER 11 MILLION SERVED: Thanks to everyone for stopping by! 

PAUL McCARTNEY cranked out some Wings staples, Beatles classics, including a tribute to John Lennon, on late night TV Saturday. A more-than-Twofer Tuesday.

NEW RELEASES? No, but top 2010 albums from The National, Titus Andronicus, Superchunk, Broken Social Scene, MGMT, Beach House, Caribou, Deerhunter, the Budos Band and more are streaming via Spinner.

THE BLACK KEYS stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

THE 50 BEST SONGS of 2010, according to Spinner, with embedded audio. BONUS: 100 Favorite Songs of 2010 from Said the Gramophone.

ROYAL THUNDER is advance streaming their self-titled debut. Again, not necessarily my bag, but maybe yours.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN brings "Merry Christmas Baby" and a vintage take on "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" for Twofer Tuesday.

JENNY & JOHNNY talk about their collaboration with BBC 6 Music. (Thx, LHB.)

MARC BOLAN & T.REX: A Prefix primer on T.Rex's best work and why Marc Bolan was one of the best rock stars who never made it.

THE BEST ALBUMS of 2010, according to Prefix.

RICHARD HELL reviews Jim Carroll's final book.

LINDSAY LOHAN is deeply hurt by Gwyneth Paltrow mocking her on national TV, and mad at CNN for calling her... provocative.

MILEY CYRUS: Ever since that video of her smoking a bong full of it came out -- despite an effort to suppress it -- sales of the herbal drug are sky high. Also, a childhood pal claims Miley was a real-life Mean Girl in school.

JENNIFER GREY underwent surgery last week to repair a ruptured disc in her back, suffered on the first night of the Dancing With the Stars finale. Nobody puts Baby in a corner, but she can put herself in a hospital.

NICOLE RICHIE did not invite the French Hotel to her wedding.

CAMERON DIAZ & A-ROD take their relationship public.

ZAK EFRON & VANESSA HUDGENS are dunzo. I blame Glee!

CHELSEA HANDLER: Dating 50 Cent... or just messing with people?

KELSEY GRAMMER sex tape? It's in the ever-reliable Star, so...

THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE announced its Top 10 Films and TV Shows for 2010.

CRITIC'S CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS: Black Swan received an unprecedented 12 nominations. True Grit, The King's Speech, Inception and The Social Network also did well.

TRUE GRIT, btw, has clips online.

PIRATES of the CARIBBEAN:ON STRANGER TIDES has an official trailer online.

YOGI BEAR opens on Friday -- here's the alternate ending, in which Boo Boo kills Yogi.

TERROR in SWEDEN: The Stockholm bomber was thrown out of a mosque in Luton three years ago following a row over his extremist beliefs, it has emerged. The suicide bomber ,who targeted Christmas shoppers, carried three sets of bombs and is believed to have had accomplices as the attack was "well planned".

IRAN: Ahmadinejad routinely ignores parliament's laws and undercuts its authority, leading some politicians and analysts to fear the country is slipping toward dictatorship.

IRAQI security forces are enabling progress in the country, a senior US military officer in Iraq said Monday.

A LIONESS trusts a man with her newborn cubs.

10 WEIRDEST NEW ANIMALS of 2010, courtesy of National Geographic.

CHICKEN MANURE ends a crash landing Down Under.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Yet another toilet infiltration.

SHE & HIM played their take on Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You" on Conan, and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" with Conan. Both clips at P-Fork.

R.E.M.: Stream "Merry Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" and three instrumental tracks from their upcoming LP.

MENOMENA stopped by the World cafe for a chat and mini-set.

DAWN LANDES did three free songs for Daytrotter. Recommended.

THE VEILS debut three advance tracks via Drowned In Sound.

THE BEATLES: Aquarium Drunkard has the Fab Four's Christmas fan-club singles.

JOHNNY CASH, with June Carter Cash, family and friends, on "The 12 Days Of Christmas." Fish, meet barrel... Bang!

JOHN LYDON (a/k/a Johnny Rotten) talks about his Scrapbook, airport security and more with the San Francisco Chronicle.

WARPAINT is profiled by the L.A. Times. Fun fact: Shannyn Sossamon was first on the list of Warpaint's revolving door of drummers.

THE TOP 40 METAL ALBUMS of 2010, according to Decibel. Not my bag, but it may appeal to Pate bassist Mike Kelly.

VINYL: Don't call it a comeback.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader tops the chart with 24.5 million -- but that's a lot less than either The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe or Prince Caspian.  Overseas sales will likely ensure a decent profit on this Narnias 150 million production budget, but the franchise may be over.  The Tourist debuted in second with 17 million, but with Depp and Jolie starring, this has to be considered a big ouch against a 100 million budget.  Again, international sales will save this from being a big loss, but it's a giant waste of star power. Tangled - which crossed the 100 million mark before the weekend - had a decent hold in the third slot with 14.6 million; it should continue to hold well through the end of the year, unless Yogi Bear turns out better than I suspect. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 comes in at No. 4 with 8.5 million, suffering a 50 drop, but still marginally ahead of Goblet of Fire, as the franchise goes.  No tears, as Harry has pulled in 778 million worldwide so far on a reported 200 million budget.  Unstoppable hangs on to round out the Top Five with 3.8 million; its 74.2 million domestic total to date is not as strong as The Book of Eli, but still one of Denzel's stronger showings.  Below the fold, Black Swan comes in sixth with 3.3 million on a tiny 94 screens.

MILEY CYRUS celebrated her 18th birthday by smoking the legal hallucinogen salvia with a bong. Billy Ray Cyrus is "so sad." It may end up in a Salvia ban.

NICOLE RICHIE: There was frantic negotiating to land a 100K exclusive magazine deal for her wedding pics ahead of the big ceremony with Joel Madden Saturday.

LIZ HURLEY's three-year marriage to Arun Nayar is on the rocks.

KRISTEN STEWART & ROBERT PATTINSON are making no secret of their real-life romance while shooting the latest Twilight installment.

NEVE CAMPBELL dating the Old Spice guy?

WINONA RYDER, back on screens in Black Swan (and soon The Dilemma) talks to Elle about acting and not using the Internet.

THE HASSELHOFFS get cancelled after two episodes. Ouch.

THOR has a trailer online.

THE 10 WORST CHRISTMAS MOVIES, according to Film School Rejects.

THE TOP FILMS of 2010, according to the BFI poll and The Observer's Philip French.

GEN. DAVID PETRAEUS was Barbara Walters's Most Fascinating Person of 2010.

TERROR in SWEDEN: Two blasts rocked the center of Stockholm Saturday night in what Sweden's foreign minister called "a terrorist attack" that killed one person and wounding two.

IRAN is planning to place medium-range missiles on Venezuelan soil, based on western information sources, according to an article in the German daily, Die Welt.

A CAMEL falls onto audience members in the pews of a sanctuary Christmas performance.

RUDY the REINDEER is safe and sound after escaping from a live nativity scene at a central Florida church.  Was Santa bringing the frankinsense? Or was Rudy feeling upstaged by the camel?

CAT rescued from a tree. A hearty perennial.

MUTANT MAN-MONSTER... or a hoax?

SHE & HIM played their take on Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You" on Conan, and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" with Conan. Both clips at P-Fork.

R.E.M.: Stream "Merry Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" and three instrumental tracks from their upcoming LP.

MENOMENA stopped by the World cafe for a chat and mini-set.

DAWN LANDES did three free songs for Daytrotter. Recommended.

THE VEILS debut three advance tracks via Drowned In Sound.

THE BEATLES: Aquarium Drunkard has the Fab Four's Christmas fan-club singles.

JOHNNY CASH, with June Carter Cash, family and friends, on "The 12 Days Of Christmas." Fish, meet barrel... Bang!

JOHN LYDON (a/k/a Johnny Rotten) talks about his Scrapbook, airport security and more with the San Francisco Chronicle.

WARPAINT is profiled by the L.A. Times. Fun fact: Shannyn Sossamon was first on the list of Warpaint's revolving door of drummers.

THE TOP 40 METAL ALBUMS of 2010, according to Decibel. Not my bag, but it may appeal to Pate bassist Mike Kelly.

VINYL: Don't call it a comeback.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader tops the chart with 24.5 million -- but that's a lot less than either The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe or Prince Caspian.  Overseas sales will likely ensure a decent profit on this Narnias 150 million production budget, but the franchise may be over.  The Tourist debuted in second with 17 million, but with Depp and Jolie starring, this has to be considered a big ouch against a 100 million budget.  Again, international sales will save this from being a big loss, but it's a giant waste of star power. Tangled - which crossed the 100 million mark before the weekend - had a decent hold in the third slot with 14.6 million; it should continue to hold well through the end of the year, unless Yogi Bear turns out better than I suspect. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 comes in at No. 4 with 8.5 million, suffering a 50 drop, but still marginally ahead of Goblet of Fire, as the franchise goes.  No tears, as Harry has pulled in 778 million worldwide so far on a reported 200 million budget.  Unstoppable hangs on to round out the Top Five with 3.8 million; its 74.2 million domestic total to date is not as strong as The Book of Eli, but still one of Denzel's stronger showings.  Below the fold, Black Swan comes in sixth with 3.3 million on a tiny 94 screens.

MILEY CYRUS celebrated her 18th birthday by smoking the legal hallucinogen salvia with a bong. Billy Ray Cyrus is "so sad." It may end up in a Salvia ban.

NICOLE RICHIE: There was frantic negotiating to land a 100K exclusive magazine deal for her wedding pics ahead of the big ceremony with Joel Madden Saturday.

LIZ HURLEY's three-year marriage to Arun Nayar is on the rocks.

KRISTEN STEWART & ROBERT PATTINSON are making no secret of their real-life romance while shooting the latest Twilight installment.

NEVE CAMPBELL dating the Old Spice guy?

WINONA RYDER, back on screens in Black Swan (and soon The Dilemma) talks to Elle about acting and not using the Internet.

THE HASSELHOFFS get cancelled after two episodes. Ouch.

THOR has a trailer online.

THE 10 WORST CHRISTMAS MOVIES, according to Film School Rejects.

THE TOP FILMS of 2010, according to the BFI poll and The Observer's Philip French.

GEN. DAVID PETRAEUS was Barbara Walters's Most Fascinating Person of 2010.

TERROR in SWEDEN: Two blasts rocked the center of Stockholm Saturday night in what Sweden's foreign minister called "a terrorist attack" that killed one person and wounding two.

IRAN is planning to place medium-range missiles on Venezuelan soil, based on western information sources, according to an article in the German daily, Die Welt.

A CAMEL falls onto audience members in the pews of a sanctuary Christmas performance.

RUDY the REINDEER is safe and sound after escaping from a live nativity scene at a central Florida church.  Was Santa bringing the frankinsense? Or was Rudy feeling upstaged by the camel?

CAT rescued from a tree. A hearty perennial.

MUTANT MAN-MONSTER... or a hoax?

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with SHINDIG CHRISTMAS '64! Part One includes 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. Part Two includes Marvin Gaye with "How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You" and Adam Faith with "Watch Your Step," plus Bobby Sherman singing "Sleigh Ride" and Adam Faith returning with "Santa Claus Is Back In Town."  In Part Three, Donna Loren returns 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," and "Johnny B. Goode." Part Four brings Marvin Gaye with "Hitch Hike" and concludes with The Beach Boys on "We Three Kings."

DIRTY BEACHES did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter at Pop Montreal. Recommended for fans of the Jesus & Mary Chain, Jack Nitzsche, etc.

ADMIRAL RADLEY (ft members of Grandaddy and Earlimart) stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

THE BLACK LILLIES played a short set on the Mountain Stage.

DAVID BOWIE: Strange Fascination, circa '74.

RUDOLPH: (You Don't Have To Put On The Red Light).

THE DECEMBERISTS: Colin Meloy is working on a Broadway musical?

WIRE takes The Quietus on a track-by-track tour of their upcoming Red Barked Tree.

JOY DIVISION drummer Stephen Morris talks to The Quietus about the new box set and more...

LOS CAMPESINOS! launches a zine.

NICK CAVE and the Deathly Hallows.

CUTOUT BIN: From the Who to the Feelies, from James Brown to Joe Jackson, from the Kingsmen to Prefab Sprout, from CCR to Ariel Pink, plus the Cars, John Lennon, Elvis Presley, GbV and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which is currently scoring 49 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and The Tourist, which is scoring 15 percent.

LINDSAY LOHAN is secretly in talks to be a contestant on Dancing With the Stars.

JESSICA SIMPSON will definitely have a prenup with fiance Will Johnson.

WESLEY SNIPES is finally in federal custody to begin his 3 year prison sentence for tax evasion.

BLAKE LIVELY & RYAN GOSLING: More than friendly?

REESE WITHERSPOON, returning to the big screen after a two-year hiatus, is profiled by Entertainment Weekly.

NATALIE PORTMAN takes off her dress -- and a wig -- for the NYT Magazine.

THE HOBBIT: Orlando Bloom is near a deal to return as Elven archer Legolas.

JAMES FRANCO is headed back to General Hospital and to a Sal Mineo biopic.

THE WACHOWSKIS are returning to the Warner Bros. fold with a modern, urban take on the Robin Hood myth.

ALIEN PREQUEL(s): Deets from director Ridley Scott.

TERROR in the USA: Antonio Martinez, who is also known as Muhammad Hussain, attempted to detonate a car bomb outside an Armed Services recruitment center in Maryland.

NORTH KOREA: China has hit back at US criticism over North Korea saying military threats are not the answer.

IRAN's nuclear program is still in chaos despite its leaders' adamant claim that they have contained the computer worm that attacked their facilities, cybersecurity experts in the US and Europe say.

AFGHANISTAN: Coalition and Afghan special operations teams have hit hard at the Taliban and allied groups' leadership and rank and file during more than 7000 raids throughout Afghanistan over the past six months. More than 600 insurgent leaders were killed or captured. In addition, more than 2000 enemy fighters have been killed, and over 4100 fighters have been captured.

PENGUIN DILEMMA: Let's go to the video.

GIANT STORKS may have fed on real-life Hobbits.

A CHEETAH delayed Qantas flight QF675 from Melbourne.

A NEW SPECIES OF SNUB-NOSED MONKEY is discovered, then eaten.