FLEET FOXES & JOANNA NEWSOM played a full set on Austin City Limits.

NEW RELEASES from Nada Surf, Craig Finn, Chairlift, Dion, First Aid Kit, and more are streaming this week at Spinner.

LEONARD COHEN is advance streaming Old Ideas.

ADAM ACURAGI is advance streaming Like a Fire That Consumes All Before It...

GOTYE is advance streaming Making Mirrors.

ANDREW BIRD drops "Eyeoneye" as the single from his upcoming LP.

BRENDAN BENSON drops "Bad For Me" in advance of Give Me My Change.

CONOR OBERST joins FIRST AID KIT on "King of the World."

JACKIE DeSHANNON: A rare French TV clip of "Put A Little Love In Your Heart" and "What Is This?" for Twofer Tuesday.

WILCO's Jeff Tweedy talks touring and evolving sounds with the San Francisco Chronicle.

ROBIN GIBB has opted to undergo an intense eight-week chemotherapy course, in an attempt to battle his life-threatening liver cancer.

EARL SCRUGGS was essayed at The New Yorker by Steve Martin.

J MASCIS has a bobblehead now.

HEIDI KLUM & SEAL confirmed the end of their seven-year marriage in a joint statement.  Apparently, the singer has a temper.

TRACY MORGAN was rushed to hospital in Park City, Utah, on Sunday after collapsing at the Sundance Film Festival.

KIM KARDASHIAN realized she had to get divorced after a session with psychic medium John Edward.

ARETHA FRANKLIN's wedding is off.

BRITNEY SPEARS may regain control over her finances as a wedding gift.

SIMON COWELL and fiancee Mezhgan Hussainy are "on a break" and have not seen each other for about a month.

HALLE BERRY's baby daddy Gabriel Aubry is being investigated for criminal child endangerment and battery - over an incident involving his and Halle's child.

REESE WITHERSPOON & RYAN REYNOLDS will star in a biopic of Margaret and Walter Keane, whose pop-eyed paintings became a sensation in the 1960s.

TERRY GILLIAM does a lightning round at The Guardian.

THE 40 BEST FILMS of 2011, according to PopMatters.

IRAN: The European Union banned Iranian oil imports. British and French naval ships joined the US carrier group in the Strait of Hormuz. The UN's nuclear watchdog agency confirmed it would send a mission to Iran by the end of January. Meanwhile, Iran's morality police are cracking down on the sale of Barbie dolls to protect the public from what they see as pernicious western culture eroding Islamic values.

SYRIA rejected an Arab League-sponsored plan for Assad to step down and hand over power to his deputy, calling it flagrant interference in Syria's internal affairs. The EU expanded sanctions. Russia signed a 550 million dollar deal to sell Syria 36 jet aircraft.

AFGHANISTAN: The EU has pledged 60 million Euros be used for reforms in government institutions.

THE BARK SIDE: It's an ad, but I couldn't help myself.

HEY, IS THAT A LOBSTER in your... oh, wait.

SNAKES in a SUV foil a carjacking.

TORTOISE LOVE: I've something and I can't get up.