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

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you toward The Who, IDLES, Emily Yacina, and more.

INDIE BASEMENT will point you to the Just Joans, Go-Betweens, Proper Ornaments and more.

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

DAVE GROHL saves every paycheck and still drives a family car.

RAPHAEL SADDIQ talks to All Songs Considered about his brothers' battle with addiction, the origins of D'Angelo's "Untitled (How Does It Feel)," and what it's like to play two Tiny Desk concerts 10 years apart.

VOTING FOR ALBUMS OF THE YEAR is open at Stereogum and NPR.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Bee Gees' all-conquering disco howler "Night Fever."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Frozen II threepeats atop the chart with another 34.7MM on a 60 percent drop, in what has become the traditionally dead post-hilday weekend.It will likely break the billion-dollar mark worldwide by next weekend.  Knives Out places with 14.2MM on a 47 percent drop; it's likely well in the black against a mere 40MM budget (the cast must have worked cheap).  The real question is whether its legs hold up with a Jumanji and a Star Wars coming.  Ford v Ferrari shows with 6.5MM on a 50 percent drop. This one could still make a bit of money, even against a 97MM budget, but awards season iay be the decifding factor in that total.  Queen & Slim holds on to the fourth slot with 6.5MM on a 45 percent drop and 26MM total so far against a 20MM budget.  A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood rounds out the Top Five with 5.2MM on a 56 percent drop; it has a 43MM total so far against a 25MM budget.  Below the fold, this weekend's sole wide release, Playmobil, earned the grand sum of 670K from over 2000 screens. Ouch.

WONDER WOMAN 1984 has a trailer online.

CAROLL SPINNEY, who performed both Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street, has died at 85.

RENE AUBERJONOIS, the original Father Mulcahy and best known for his roles in "Boston Legal" and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," died at his home in Los Angeles due to metastatic lung cancer. He was 79.

RON LEIBMAN, the Tony Award-winning acor who also played Rachel's dad on Friends, died Friday of pneumonia in New York City. He was 82.

ROBERT WALKER, JR.,  the son of actors Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones who starred as Charlie X on Star Trek, died Thursday in Malibu, his wife, Dawn, reported. He was 79.

JUICE WRLD, an up-and-coming rapper who penned the hit 2018 single “Lucid Dreams,” has died of a seizure at the age of 21.

BEYONCE is not doing a Las Vegas residency, her rep has confirmed to Variety. 

NOAH BAUMBACH shares the soundtrack of his life.

HOW JOHN TRAVOLTA discovered the meaning of "awkward."

NICOLAS CAGE got his chance to play Superman, but it apparently did not work out again.

AN OSTRICH feeds from a car.

FRESHWATER MUSSELS, nature’s 'Brita Filter,’ are dying at hotspots around the country and nobody knows why.

A DOG learns to pet a cat.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with A CHRISTMAS SHINDIG! The full episode has gone dark, but still-available clips from 1964 include The Beach Boys' "Dance, Dance, Dance," Bobby Sherman and Donna Loren singing "Keep on Searching," the Righteous Brothers doing "The Jerk" and an awesome milk commercial, Adam Faith with "Watch Your Step," and "Santa Claus Is Back In Town", Bobby Sherman with "Sleigh Ride," Donna Loren returning with a Spector-esque, but rougher "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," and The Beach Boys deliver a set including "Little Saint Nick," "Monster Mash" (yes, really) "Papa Oom Mow Mow," "Johnny B. Goode," and "We Three Kings."

JAY SOM visits KEXP.

HOT CHIP visits KEXP.

PHISH, Live at Nassau Coleseum, Dec. 1, 2019. Including Talking Heads' "Cities."

THE KINKS, with the evergreen "Father Christmas."

1973: The Death Rattle, but fans Almost Famous knew that.

25 GREAT EPs from 2019, according to Stereogum.

DEPECHE MODE's 1980s seduction of Eastern Europe, and late stage capitalism.

CMJ is relaunching in 2020.

THE RAMONES' heirs settle a long-running trademark dispute.

NOW SHOWING:This weekend's sole wide release is Playmobil, which is currently scoring 23 percent onb the ol' Tomatometer.  But Dark Waters expands wide scoring 92 percent.

R KELLY Is Charged With Using Bribes to Marry Aaliyah at Age 15. Meanwhile, Joycelyn Savage asserted she had been "hacked," and that a series of online accusations published last month that said that the R&B singer had sexually and physically abused her were false.

MULAN has a trailer online.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE apologized to JESSICA BIEL after his "strong lapse in judgment" with a co-star. She'll stand by him.

JOHNNY DEPP's reps have now denied he is working on the musical that will blame Jackson's sex abuse allegations on a glove that feeds on "virgin boy blood."

FELICITY JONES and husband Charles Guard are expecting their first child.

WATCHING BRAD PITT: Is he watching us?

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.

TOFFI tried her best; the couch is canceled.

DAVE THE DUCK had something removed after trying to mate 10 times a day.

A SINGLE-CELL CREATURE makes complex decisions without a nervous system. Same, tbh.

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

BECK brings new material to Morning Becomes Eclectic.

THE GO-BETWEENS: Hear rarities and live tracks from volume two of 'G Stands For Go-Betweens.'

MIKAL CRONIN visits KUTX.

THE JAMES HUNTER SIX shares "I Can Change Your Mind."

CARIBOU shares "You and I."

TOM PETTY, playing a countrified "Refugee"at The Bridge School Benefit in 1988.

THE TOP 100 ALBUMS & SONGS of the 2010s, according to Rolling Stone. And the latter is... odd.

ALTAMONT AT 50: Part of the argument Joel Selvin makes in his 2016 history of that day is that the Rolling Stones — with their own self-interest in mind — have successfully shaped way we understand Altamont, by means of the documentary film Gimme Shelter.

GRIMES, interviewed by Lana Del Rey and Brit Marling.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Andy Gibb's sleazy-but-angsty "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water," a footnote to an absurdly dominant Bee Gees run.

NO TIME TO DIE has a trailer online.

STAR WARS is getting LGBTQ representation, as if the whole C-3PO and R2-D2 thing wasn't highly charged.

KATE BECKINSALE wants yyou to know she is not too old for bikini photos.

JASON MOMOA apologizes to CHRIS PRATTabout a plastic water bottle.

THE BEST TV SHOWS of 2019, according to The Ringer.

2019: The End of a TV Era?

McMILLIONS has a trailer online. I knew this would be turned into entertainment.

A HEARTSICK TIGER traveled a whopping 800 miles in search of a soulmate and food. Take that, Proclaimers!

CATS HAVE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; we're just bad at reading them.

DOG starts house fire by switching on microwave.

GLAM CHOPS: Art Brut's Eddie Argos has a "Countdown to Christmas."

CRAIG FINN, Live at Rockwwell Music Hall.

DEVENDRA BANHART visits WFUV Live.

SHERYL CROW plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

M WARD shares “Migration of Souls.”

TAME IMPALA shares “Posthumous Forgiveness.”

BIG THIEF plays "Not" and Cattails" for Stereogum.

ELO: Jeff Lynne talks to All Songs Considered.

ALTAMONT'S mystery Moog player, revealed.

THE TOP 100 SONGS of 2010, according to Treble.

THE BEST ALBUMS of 2019, according to Stereogum.

ANTHONY HOPKINS interviews BRAD PITT.

BLACK WIDOW has a teaser trailer online.

THE ROCK talks about remarrying.

GABRIELLE UNION is set to sit down with NBC this week over what really happened on America's Got Talent and why she was sacked from the Simon Cowell-created show.

PLANET OF THE APES is getting yet another reboot.

GRETA GERWIG tells Uproxx why all roads lead to Little Women.

ARMIE HAMMER milks a goat.

D.C. FONTANA, who helped craft the lore of “Star Trek” and developed one of its signature characters, Spock, as the first female writer for the 1960s television series, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Burbank, Calif. She was 80 and lived in Los Angeles.

THIS CAT loves massaging pigs.

A SEAL with the hiccups.

SCIENTSTS used loudspeakers to make dead coral reefs sound healthy. Fish flocked to them.

A DEAD WHALE explodes with 220 pounds of trash in its stomach.

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.

WHITNEY visits The Current.

LIAM GALLAGHER visits World Cafe.

BLACK UHURU plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

REGINA SPEKTOR shares “One Little Soldier.”

RICHARD ASHCROFT covers "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."

DOLLY PARTON sang "Jolene" on TV lask week, icymi.

THE LAST WALTZ, undubbed. Well, two-thirds of it, anyway.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS ALBUMS, according to Rolling Stone and Paste.

BILLIE EILISH didn't know VAN HALEN. A kerfuffle ensued.

IRVING BURGIE, a songwriter whose adaptation of the traditional Jamaican folk song "Day-O" became one of the definitive calypso songs of the 20th century, died on Friday. He was 95.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Bee Gees' iconic disco smash "Stayin' Alive."

TAYLOR SWIFT, on intellectual property and the weirdness of Cats.

KATE MIDDLETON spent two days quietly getting some work experience on a maternity ward of a major London hospital.

SHELLEY MORRISON, a character actress best known for playing the feisty maid Rosario Salazar on “Will & Grace,” has died at 83.

JOHN WATERS picks his Top 10 films of the year.

THE BEST TV SHOWS of the 2010s, according to Uproxx.

SHOULD SUPERMAN be "relevant"? Neil Gaiman thinks not.

LIL BUB, one of the internet's most famous and distinctive cats, has passed away.

AN 18000-YEAR-OLD PUPPY buried in a lump of frozen mud has been found in Russia. Scientists hope it can help explain the connection between dogs and wolves.

THEMBA THE LION, caught sneezing.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT wages war on Christmas.