THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE HOLLIES!  Circa 1969, post Graham Nash, promoting The Hollies Sing Dylan. Selections include "Carrie Anne" (w/strings instead of steel drums), "Just Like A Woman," a medley of "Just One Look," "Bus Stop," "On A Carousel" and "Sorry, Suzanne," "Quit Your Lowdown," "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight," "Help Me Brother," "Stop Stop Stop," a cover of "A Taste of Honey," Peter, Paul & Mary's "Stewball," "The Mighty Quinn," and "Blowin' in the Wind."

NEW ORDER Stream the Power, Corruption & Lies tribute LP. (Thx, LHB.)

SALLIE FORD & THE SOUND OUTSIDE visit World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

TINARIWEN plays a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR.

DINOSAUR, JR.: Lou Barlow shares an EP from Deep Wound, his pre-Dino band with J Mascis.

ZEITGEIST 2011 is posted at the ol' HM.

LANA DEL REY: "National Anthem" and  "This Is What Makes Us Girls" have leaked online.

THE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS THEME: T.G.I.F.

CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG talks to Pitchfork about conjuring the ego, the differences between performing for a camera and an audience, and what her late father would think if he could see one of her shows.

LAURIE ANDERSON is interviewed by The Believer, and vice versa.

THE 50 GREATEST GUITAR SOLOS, according to NME, plus selections from a range of musicians.

FOO FIGHTERS' Dave Grohl is collaborating with members of... Ratt?  (For those keeping score, that's this week's second Ratt reference.)

CUTOUT BIN: From Marshall Crenshaw to OMD, from Mason Williams to Devo, from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings to Devo, plus The Jam, Jefferson Airplane, Guided by Voices, Merrilee Rush and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide release is The Devil Inside, which -- shocka -- was not screened in advance for critics.

DREW BARRYMORE is engaged to Chanel heir Will Kopelman.

MARC ANTHONY moves on from Jennifer Lopez with a 24-year-old Venezuelan model.

KATY PERRY & RUSSELL BRAND: The moving vans show up at their L.A. home.  And here's unfounded, yet entertaining rumors about their split.

KERI RUSSELL gave birth to a daughter on Dec. 27.

ARNOLD & MARIA: Not reconciling.

THE KARDASHIANS: Available soon in stores?

ALBERT BROOKS talks to ComingSoon about Drive, Judd Apatow, his novel and more...

STAR TREK: Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, The Hobbit) has been cast in a lead role in the next JJ Abrams voyage.

WHY, DAVID FINCHER? He explains.

THE 25 GREATEST HORROR FILMS You've Never Seen, according to Den of Geek. (How did they know?)

IRAN is mounting an aggressive campaign to fuel anti-American sentiment in Afghanistan and convince Afghan leaders that a robust, long-term security partnership with Washington would be counterproductive, Afghan officials and analysts say.

IRAQ: Attacks against Shia pilgrims before the Arbaeen holiday have killed over 60 civilians, the deadliest being a suicide attack against a security checkpoint that killed 44 and wounded dozens more in Nasiriya. The government's support for an Iranian-backed, militant militia, which only just swore off violence, has opened new sectarian fault lines in Iraq's political crisis while potentially empowering Iran at a moment of rising military and economic tensions between Tehran and Washington.

AFGHANISTAN: Pres. Karzai said he welcomed the Taliban's announcement that they planned to openly pursue negotiations with the US by setting up an office in Qatar... but he's not wild about the idea.

PIG & PUG, playing together...Mass hysteria!

DON'T HASSLE THE HOFF: UK scientists have found prodigious numbers of a new crab species on the Southern Ocean floor that they have dubbed "The Hoff" because of its hairy chest.

A GIANT TUNA fetches almost 750K at auction.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A militant rodent gets it on with a T-Rex. Bang a gong.