PANDA BEAR dropped a video for a new Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper track called “Boys Latin” on Adult Swim.

JOHNNY GREENWOOD streams the Inherent Vice soundtrack.

D'ANGELO & THE VANGUARD streams Black Messiah, which isn't really my bag, but there may be some of you late 20th century R & B fans.

SHOVELS & ROPE play a live in-studio set at KEXP.

THE SHIVAS channel vintage 1960's Northwest rock 'n' roll in this bouncy set for Audioasis.

MODEST MOUSE drops "Lampshades on Fire" off their forthcoming album Strangers to Ourselves.

CHRISSIE HYNDE drops an alternate version of the seasonal "2000 Miles."

SHE & HIM get animated for their take on "Baby, It's Cold Outside," which Zooey originally sang in Elf.

HENRY ROLLINS visits...Uzbekistan.

WKRP IN PERPETUITY: What the new Shout Factory box set says about late 70s radio.

THE 100 BEST TRACKS of 2014, according to Pitchfork.

AQUARIUM DRUNKARD's 2014 Year In Review.

CHRIS HEMSWORTH: The Manliest Man in Hollywood?

AMAL CLOONEY is  Barbara Walters' most fascinating person of 2014.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON talked to Walters about her bod, and motherhood.

CHRIS PRATT & CHANNING TATUM are planning a Ghostbusters spinoff?

GABY HOFFMAN became a mom last month when she gave birth to her first child.

SCOTT STAPP: The Creed frontman placed a call to the dean of his kid's school last month, warning that ISIS will attack the people of Florida, and he knows that because the terrorists are members of his family. Dude.

KNIGHT OF CUPS, the next picture from director Terrence Malick, has a trailer online.

AUSTRALIA: Police stormed a cafe in downtown Sydney where Man Haron Monis, an Iranian self-styled cleric and known criminal, was holding hostages for 16 hours after forcing them to display an Islamist flag at the cafe window. Monis and two hostages were killed and a number of hostages were injured; others managed to escape. During the siege, Monis, a convert from Shia to Sunni Islam, had demanded that an Islamic State flag be delivered to the cafe.

ATTACKING ISIS from a floating city.

SYRIA's army seized an area north of Aleppo on Sunday and killed insurgents as fierce battles raged over the strategic territory, a group monitoring the war and state media reported.

A CAT gives a dog a head massage. (Thx, Zoey!)

GERONIMO THE BEAVER parachuted into Idaho’s backcountry in 1950.

ROBOTUNA: The US military has been developing a robotic tuna that can infiltrate enemy territory.

WHEN COWS ATTACK: One dead in British Columbia.