THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with ELTON JOHN! Half of a live show captured by the OGWT on Christmas Eve, 1974.  Your setlist includes: "Grimsby" (incomplete), "Rocket Man," "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," "Daniel," Grey Seal,"  "Bennie And The Jets," "I Saw Her Standing There," "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me," "Honky Cat," "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting," "Crocodile Rock," "The B^tch Is Back," "Your Song," and "White Christmas."

YO LA TENGO welcomed DAMON & NAOMI for covers of the Beastie Boys and Simon & Garfunkel on night seven of their Hannukah run.

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER plays World Cafe.

SLEATER-KINNEY ( and FRED ARMISEN) play "Say It Like You Mean It" on Kimmel.

JOHN OATES, a/k/a the Anteater, on the possibility of working with Daryl Hall again.

VAMPIRE WEEKEND has finished a fifth LP.

THE 50 TOP SONGS of 2023, according to Clash.

THE 50 BEST ALBUMS of 2023, according to Consequence.

BEVERLY HILLS COP 4 has a trailer online.

IF, with Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Steve Carell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Matt Damon, Alan S Kim and Emily Blunt, has a trailer online.

ANDRE BRAUGHER, essayed by Alan Sepinwall.

JONATHAN MAJORS' disturbing text messages and an audio recording were made public by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

OLIVIA RODRIGO & LOUIS PARTRIDGE: Caught canoodling.

TARA REID, on Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, 90s nostalgia, Tom Brady, and more.

ZAC EFRON wrestles with his legacy.

ADAM DRIVER, on what was supposed to happen to Kylo Ren.

A BULL ON THE TRACKS caused delays between Newark Penn Station and NY Penn Station.

BONITA leaves the shelter after 500 days.

A THANKFUL ELEPHANT, pulled out of a ditch.