JOHN LENNON: "(Just Like) Starting Over." I remember when Howard Cosell delivered the bad news on Monday Night Football.

JAMES VINCENT McMORROW stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

PAVO PAVO, with influences ranging from Brian Wilson and Beach House to Monteverdi,plays WNYC Soundcheck.

WORLD CAFE highlights the Grammy nominees that have played on the show.

THE RAMONES: "Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)."

RYAN ADAMS was interviewed by, and played a song written for, internet-famous cat Lil Bub.

NEIL DIAMOND talks to Rolling Stone about his 50th-anniversary tour, new Christmas LP, memories of The Last Waltz, and more...

SLEIGH BELLS: Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller are profiled by Drowned In Sound.

THE BEST SOUTHERN RECORDS of 2016, according to Bitter Southerner.

BRANGELEXIT:  Brad Pitt's effort to seal his and Angelina Jolie's custody battle from the public was rejected by a judge Wednesday morning.

KIM KARDASHIAN & KANYE WEST: Marital strain and possible divorce are the latest rumors.

THE KARDASHIAN SISTERS are going to war to block Blac Chyna from cashing in on the family name.

RUSSELL CROWE will not be charged for bear-hugging Azealia Banks and removing her from his Beverly Hills Hotel suite.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON talks to the New York Times about how women’s roles in real life are changing their roles in film.

MINKA KELLY is dating Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother).

JOHNNY DEPP repeats as Hollywood's Most Overpaid Actor, according to the latest Forbes list.

STEVEN YEUN is expecting a baby with his wife, Joana Pak, in case you were wondering why they got hitched after all these years.

SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING has a teaser trailer online. A full trailer premieres tonight on Kimmel.

FIFTY SHADES DARKER has a second trailer online.

ROBOT REINDEER are taking Rudolph's job.

A MASSIVE HUNTSMAN SPIDER eats a lizard.

A THERAPY PIG reports for duty at SFO.

RACCOONS have overrun the USS Sequoia, the former presidential boat. I blame the squirrels.

FRED THOMAS (Saturday Looks Good To Me) shares an appropriately fernetic video for "Voiceover."

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS stopped by World Cafe Live.

MEXRISSEY, a Latino Morrissey cover band stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: The Year In Music 2016.

PATSY CLINE & FERLIN HUSKY: "Let It Snow!"

REDD KROSS: Steven McDonald ranks the band's albums for Noisey. He's wrong about Third Eye, btw.

THE TOP 10 NEIL YOUNG SONGS, according to Consequence of Sound.

MP3s affect music's emotional impact?

THE GUMMY AWARDS voting is open.

BRANGELEXIT: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's custody agreement has been approved by a judge. Is her endgame London?

PRINCE HARRY made a major detour from the Caribbean to see girlfriend Meghan Markle in Canada.

NAOMI JUDD reveals she suffered in the grip of a deep depression and was suffering panic attacks despite heavy medication, multiple therapies and two stays in psychiatric wards.

FLORENCE HENDERSON's death certificate reveals a history of heart disease.

THE CIRCLE, ft Tom Hanks and Emma Watson, has a trailer online.

PETER VAUGHAN, best known for roles in Game of Thrones and Straw Dogs, has died at the age of 93.

DECEMBER 7, 1941: A "date which will live in infamy." I'll be watching Tora! Tora! Tora! this weekend. BTW, the first nation invaded by the US after entering WWII was Morocco, then Algeria, iirc. War is strange.

IRAN has shipped 11 tons of heavy water abroad to bring its stock back under a limit set by its landmark nuclear deal with major powers, according to a diplomat citing a confidential U.N. nuclear watchdog report.

A SEAGULL, trained to tap dance.

A PARROT wearing goggles and flying through lasers is allowing scientists to trace the patterns its wings make.

A ROCK-LOVING ORANGUTAN went ape on the observation windows of her St. Louis zoo enclosure, forcing nearly 200K in repairs and the temporary closure of the exhibit.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A militant rodent is stealing Christmas in Seattle.

CYNDI LAUPER & BILLY CORGAN sang a duet of the Crystals’ 1961 hit “There’s No Other (Like My Baby)" for a benefit concert.

AMANDA SHIRES stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

STOVE is advance streaming The Meat That Fell Out EP.

PINEGROVE played a Tiny Desk Concert.

GRANDADDY shares "A Lost Machine" ahead of Last Place.

GLAM XMAS:  Wizzard's awesome "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" and Slade's "Merry Christmas Everybody" (1973's UK Xmas No. 1) are your Twofer Tuesday.

BOB DYLAN isn't picking up his Nobel Prize in person, but is submittinga written "speech" and Patti Smith will perform.

JOHNNY MARR talks to Salon about his autobiography.

STING talks about returning to rock (and more) at Rolling Stone.

THE BEST MUSIC of 2016, according to NPR.

BRANGELEXIT: Brad Pitt's child custody arrangement with Angelina Jolie is in the hands of a therapist.

JONAH HILL was shaken but uninjured in a Los Angeles auto accident.

JIMMY KIMMEL has been set as Oscar host.

STEVEN YEUN (The Walking Dead) married his longtime girlfriend, Joana Pak, in a romantic wedding ceremony in Los Angeles on Saturday.

TOM HARDY is profiled by Esquire.

LAST TANGO IN PARIS  director Bernardo Bertolucci said Monday that the outcry over the rape scene was based on a “ridiculous misunderstanding” of what actually happened.

TRANSFORMERS 5 has a trailer online.

ROGUE ONE has new clips online, at least one of which is a little spoilery.

A HUGE MOOSE turned to toxic car exhaust for warmth.

A ZOOKEEPER punched a kangaroo to save his dog.

A 14-FT PYTHON was caught after devouring three deer.

A MASSIVE STRAY GOAT rampaged through an Irish town.

CAR SEAT HEADREST brought "Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales" to Fallon.

CONOR OBERST stopped by WFUV's Studio A.

KEVIN DEVINE brings the power pop and indie folk to WNYC Soundcheck.

MOUNT MORIAH also visited WNYC Soundcheck.

THE FEELIES share "Been Replaced" ahead of In Between.

DROPKICK MURPHYS cover “You’ll Never Walk Alone."

THE KINKS, with the evergreen "Father Christmas."

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS: Patterson Hood talks to Oregon Music News about the new album, a solo residency, America, and more.

THE ROLLING STONES discuss Bob Dylan's reaction to the Nobel Prize, tho Keith Richards would later have the best line: wanting one for chemistry.

THE 2016 PITCHFORK READERS' POLL is open for voting.

THE TOP 50 ALBUMS  of 2016, according to American Songwriter.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Moana repeated atop the chart 28.4MM on a 50 percent drop, not a surprise given the lack of big new releases. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them placed with 18.6MM on a 59 percent drop, but it's likely into the black already with over 600MM worldwide.  Arrival showed with 7.3MM on a 36 percent drop, rising from the fifth slot -- a leggy showing based on well-deserved word-of-mouth. Allied took the forth slot with 77MM on a 45 percent drop and 29MM total is likely big trouble against an 85MM budget, even if overseas markets deliver big. Doctor Strange rounded out the Top Five with 6.5MM on a 53 percent drop, but is likely well in the black already with 634MM worldwide.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 has a second trailer online.

THE MUMMY reboot with Tom Cruise has a trailer online.

EMERALD CITY has a trailer online.

KANYE WEST is out of the hospital but living apart from his wife Kim Kardashian and their two kids after being hospitalized, and it all stems from the rapper's erratic pattern of taking his meds.

AMY SCHUMER will star in Sony's live-action Barbie movie.

LAST TANGO IN PARIS: Director Bernardo Bertolucci confessed that he and Marlon Brando conspired against actress Maria Schneider during a rape scene that itself was not consensual.

ANDREW SACHS, a British television star known best for playing Spanish waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers, has died. He was 86.

ALICE DRUMMOND, who had roles in films like Ghostbusters, Awakenings and Doubt, died on Wednesday in the Bronx at 88.

A HIPPO attacks a car. NSFW language, as you might imagine.

A 112-LB CATFISH, caught in North Carolina.

BEAR PROPAGANDA: Don't believe it.

HELPING HANDS: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with ELTON JOHN! Half of a live show captured by the OGWT on Christmas Eve, 1974.  Your setlist includes: "Grimsby" (incompete), "Rocket Man," "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," "Daniel," Grey Seal,"  "Bennie And The Jets," "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds," "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."

MARIA TAYLOR advance streams In The Next Life.

STAR SLINGER streams the We Could Be More EP, ft Dawn Richard, James Vincent McMorrow, Sam Sparro, Sara Z, and Tunji Ige.

LOW shares “Some Hearts (At Christmas Time)."

LOS CAMPESINOS! & THE MELVINS also share Christmas songs from an Amazon comp.

HAMILTON LEITHAUSER + ROSTAM share a cover of Dylan's "Mr Tambourine Man."

THE RAVEONETTES' 2011 video for 2001's "The Christmas Song."

PRINCE's estate now has a dollar value: 200 million, twice the monetary worth of David Bowie's estate.

KELLEY DEAL of The Breeders talks to the Creative Independent about having multiple outlets.

1983: The Year Goth Broke.

THE 50 BEST ALBUMS of 2016, according to Stereogum.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide release is Incarnate, which hasn't been screened for critics -- though Believe is openinging sorta wide, also without advance screenings.

MILA KUNIS & ASHTON KUTCHER welcome their second child.

IRINA SHAYK & BRADLEY COOPER are expecting a child?

KANYE WEST is out of UCLA Medical Center after more than a week of treatment for his mental breakdown.

HILARY DUFF and Jason Walsh have split.

BUZZ ALDRIN, 86, was evacuated from the South Pole Thursday. I'd say that trip was a bad idea, but Aldrin could probably still deck me.

GILMORE GIRLS creator and EP Amy Sherman-Palladino and EP Dan Palladino tell THR when they planned to end the original series and why the last four words of the revival "felt even more right" nine years later.

COLOMBIA's Congress has approved a historic peace agreement that will lead to the disarming of rebels in the 52-year conflict.

A BEAR is rescued from a septic tank.

A CAT is rescued from a frozen puddle.

A ROGUE BEAVER trashed a store selling artificial Christmas trees.

SQUIRREL vs SNAKE: Who You Got?