THE WAR ON DRUGS played “An Ocean In Between The Waves" for Fallon.

LITTLE BRUTES stream their Desire EP.

BRANDI CARLILE stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

FLY GOLDEN EAGLE stpped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

BELLE & SEBASTIAN drops “The Cat With The Cream” ahead of Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance.

OF MONTEAL drops “Empyrean Abattoir,” ahead of Aureate Gloom.

SWERVEDRIVER drops “Setting Sun” ahead of I Wasn’t Born To Lose You, the band's first studio recording since 1998.

THE DODOS drop “Retriever” ahead of Individ.

THE FIVE AMERICANS: "I See The Light."

ROBIN GUTHRIE talks to PopMatters about the Cocteau Twins and the future.

JOHN LURIE talks to Aquarium Drunkard about his internet radio show.

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BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH  and his fiancée Sophie Hunter are expecting their first child together.

BLAKE LIVELY talks motherhood at People.

BILL COSBY's TV wife, Phylicia Rashad, defends the comic against serial accusations of misconduct.

MERYL STREEP & JESSICA CHASTAIN respond to  Russell Crowe's commentsin an Australian magazine interview about not believing that there is ageism in Hollywood, particularly for actresses.

BRADGELINA are off to meet the Pope.

JOHN TRAVOLTA is returning to television in FX's highly anticipated American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson.

STEVE KROFT gets his own expose.

FRANCE: The police organized an enormous manhunt across the Paris region on Wednesday for three suspects they said were involved in a brazen and methodical midday slaughter at a satirical newspaper that had lampooned Islam. The terrorist attack by masked gunmen on the newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, left 12 people dead — including the top editor, prominent cartoonists and police officers — and was among the deadliest in postwar France. Officials said late Wednesday that the suspects had been identified and that two were brothers. One of the police officials said they were linked to a Yemeni terrorist network, and Cedric Le Bechec, a witness who encountered the escaping gunmen, quoted the attackers as saying: "You can tell the media that it's al-Qaida in Yemen."Other sources report both returned from Syria this summer.  Many news outlets shied away from publishing the controversial images of the paper's satirical cartoons of Mohammed.

A FOX pinpoints field mice buried deep beneath the snow.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A Whale With One-Tone Testicles.

RUSSIA's MEDICINAL LEECHES: Grown on the world's largest leech farm, slimy parasites treat a host of ailments, taking a bite out of health problems.

DOZENS OF PUPPIES have been snatched from the jaws of death in a grim South Korean farm where dogs were crammed into tiny cages and killed for their meat aged just one year old.