THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with ELTON JOHN! Half of a live show captured by the OGWT on Christmas Eve, 1974.  Your setlist includes: "Grimsby" (incomplete), "Rocket Man," "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," "Daniel,"…

DARLENE LOVE's final "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" for Letterman. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & STEVE EARLE performed a special set for charity. POM PON SQUAD covered Nada Surf's "Popular" with Matthew Caws and remade…

PATSY CLINE & FERLIN HUSKY: "Let It Snow!" ELTON JOHN visits World Cafe. IDLES plays KEXP. BIG THIEF shares "No Reason" and "Spud Infinity."   MICHAEL NESMITH Made It Fun, by Jack Handey.…

BOB GELDOF, by his own admission, is responsible for two of the worst songs in history: "'Do They Know It's Christmas?" and "We Are The World." ROBERT PLANT & ALLISON KRAUSS play a…

MICHAEL NESMITH, who rocketed to fame as the contemplative, wool-cap-wearing member of the Monkees in 1966, then went on to a diverse career that included making one of the rock era’s earliest…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with AIMEE MANN's CHRISTMAS CAROL (profanity warnings): Part One has your Scrooge-y set-up with Michael Penn. Part Two features The Office's John Krasinski. Part Three has Michael Cera.…

SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS: “Ain’t No Chimneys In The Projects.”  NEIL YOUNG breaks down Barn on World Cafe. THE BLACK ANGELS play KEXP. PARQUET COURTS share "Marathon of Anger."  And it's…

THE RAVEONETTES' 2011 video for 2001's "The Christmas Song." MY MORNING JACKET plays CBS This Morning. TEENAGE FANCLUB joins SUPERCHUNK for "Endless Summer." COURTNEY BARNETT plays "If I Don't Hear From You Tonight"…

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. SNAIL MAIL has a virtual session at The…

JON PRATT, Pate's frontman, is "Stealing five for a pork pie with Wes." NEW RELEASES: Pitchfork has 'em, but I dunno, gang. BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Modern Nature, Can, and the Bush…