SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS: “Ain’t No Chimneys In The Projects.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to the Car Seat Headrest live LP, and Wings of Desire.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has 2024’s best reissues and box sets.

SHANE MacGOWAN's FUNERAL: Nick Cave sings "A Rainy Night in Soho," while Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neill sing "Fairytale of New York."  As did hundreds in the streets of Dublin.

THE KILLERS: How ‘Mr. Brightside' Became a Generation's Anthem.

THE 50 BEST ALBUMS of 2023, according to NPR.

STEVEN HYDEN's Favorite Albums Of 2023.

WHAT WERE WE LISTENING TO on our Walkmans in 1985?  Oh, those Brits.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Boy and the Heron tops the chart with 12.8MM, a record debut fo Hayao Miyazaki.  Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes places with 9.4MM on a very respectable 33 percent drop.  Godzilla Minus One shows with 8.3MM on a very respectable 31 percent drop.  Big weekend for Japanese cinema!

RYAN O'NEAL, who became an instant movie star in the hit film “Love Story,” the highest-grossing movie of 1970, but who was later known as much for the troubles of his personal life as for his acting in his later career, died on Friday. He was 82.

KEANU REEVES' Los Angeles home 'burglarized by multiple men wearing ski masks' who smashed his windows, stole a firearm and fled the scene.  Would not want to be them.

JONATHAN MAJORS appears to admit attacking his ex-gf in text messages.

SKYDANCE is thinking about buying Paramount.

JULIA STILES made a surprise cameo on SNL.

MEGXIT: Queen Elizabeth II wanted effective security for Harry and Megan.

KEVIN COSTNER and... Jewel?

WILL SMITH: "The Slap" saved his marriage?

CHRLIE SHEEN: Nearly six years sober, he claims.

THE 20 BEST MOVIES of 2023, according to Rolling Stone.  Becoming a low-key story how many of these lists low-rank or omit Oppenheimer.

THE YEAR IN BOX OFFICE: Scott Mendelson on 2023's lessons for box office watchers.

A WHITE GATOR born in Florida may be one of eight in existence.

WORK SMARTER, Not Harder.

A RESCUED BEAR takes a bath.

A DOGGO plays volleyball.