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?