CAROLINE SAYS shares a video for "Sweet Home Alabama" (not that one).

LISSIE stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set including new stuff.

THE WILDWOODS' mini-set at Daytrotter.

THE DUSTBOWL REVIVAL: Bluegrass meets soul at the World Cafe.

ARCADE FIRE shares a demo for "Put Your Money On Me."

BAT FANGS share "Boy of Summer." (singular)

LOS ROSAS share "Christa" and "Lost Cat" for Twofer Tuesday.

THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS: "Fall" and "Sleep Comes Down" for Twofer Tuesday.

THE MONKEES get 108 minutes of discussion on Political Beats with guest Bruce Walker.

THE PAZZ & JOP POLL is out, without much fanfare, or individual critics' lists. Another once-great institution declines.  And at the risk of going all "get off my lawn on you," the Top 10 from 1971 onward suggests things really went downhill in this century.

SMASHING PUMPKINS are recording with Rick Rubin.

THE NUMBER ONES essays Lloyd Price's "Stagger Lee."

TOM HANKS is starring in a biopic of Mr. Rogers.

JENNIFER HUDSON will star in an Aretha Franklin biopic.

NICOLE EGGERT has accused former Charles in Charge co-star Scott Baio of repeatedly molesting her when she was a minor.

KATE WINSLET is doing the modified limited hang-out.

GRAMMYS ratings hit an all-time low in the key demo, down 24 percent from last year.  And yet it was also the most watched primetime entertainment show since last year’s Oscars.

STAR WARS is looking a little less stellar, as such things go.

RODNEY DANGERFIELD gets posthumous respect from the NYT.

PACHYDERMS WITHOUT BORDERS: An Elephant caught by surveillance cameras crossing a border checkpoint from China into Laos – and then returning across the border into China a couple hours later.

AN ELK stopped by police in Idaho.

BRINGING A 17-FOOT PYTHON to the Chicagoland Fishing, Travel and Outdoor Expo may have been a bad idea.

THE ELUSIVE PALLAS CAT is eluding staff at a zoo in Utah.

SLEIGH BELLS shares their "Favorite Transgressions."

THE FALL: Peel Session, August 26, 1981.

THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS play Mountain Stage.

DJANGO DJANGO's Marble Skies is one of this week's new streaming releases.

LORD HURON shares "Ancient Names (Part I)" and "Ancient Names (Part II)."

PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS: "Indian Reservation (Cherokee People)."

DREAM WIFE gives a track-by-track tour of their self-titled debut.

PRINCE: "Mindblowing" previously unreleased material is coming soon.

LAURIE ANDERSON's cultural highlights.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Platters' timelessly gorgeous "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Maze Runner: The Death Cure is the first 2018 release to top the chart with 23.5MM.  Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle places with with 16.4MM on another leggy 16 percent drop, making it the fifth-biggest film of 2017 so far.  Hostiles leaps up to show with 10.2MM, well above estimates in the mid-single-digits.  The Greatest Showman climbs into fourth with 9.5MM on a very leggy 11 percent drop and looks to defy critical and financial expectations.  The Post rounds out the Top Five with 8.9MM.  Below the fold, both 12 Strong and Den of Thieves were stronger than expected this weekend; perhaps some were slotting in a movie before Super Bowl Sunday crushes the grosses.

THE GRAMMYS went to these folks. Congrats.

LORDE reportedly declined to sing at the Grammys because they wouldn't let her perform alone like all the male album nominees.

JAMES FRANCO was digitally scrubbed from the Vanity Fair Hollywood cover.

JEREMY PIVEN is accused of sexual misconduct by three more women.

THE WONDER YEARS was ended by a harassment suit?

REBA McINTYRE is Colonel Sanders.

DARREN ARONOFSKY & SUKI WATERHOUSE deny they're an item.

DANE COOK's new galpal is 19.

SHAKIRA is under investigation for possible tax evasion.

TOM CRUISE joins Instagram. Respect his bio.

THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO is getting a reboot.

THE DEATH OF STALIN is showing in Moscow over government objections.

MORT WALKER, cartoonist and creator of "Beetle Bailey" and "Hi and Lois," and co-creator of "Hagar the Horrible," died in his Stamford home Saturday at 94.

A CAT gets a brain freeze.

52 BABOONS escaped a Paris zoo.

A VULTURE long thought to be male laid an egg.

AMERICA's OLDEST LIVING TREE KANGAROO lives in Rhode Island.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVIAL! Live at the Royal Albert Hall, circa 1970.  Your setlist includes; "Born on the Bayou," "Green River," "Tombstone shadow," "Travelin' Band," "Fortunate Son," "Commotion," "Midnight Special," "Bad Moon Rising," "Proud Mary," "Night Time is the Right Time," "Good Golly Miss Molly," and "Keep On Chooglin'."

KYLE CRAFT advance streams Full Circle Nightmare.

SUNWATCHERS advance stream II.

JULIAN LAGE advance steams Modern Lore.

CAPTAIN SQUEEGEE streams the Harmony Cure EP.

BECK covers the Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting For The Man."

ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS don't want to go to "Chelsea."

RUSH: A band who sparked the teenage imagination like few others.

HOW DAVID BOWIE helped my autistic son become himself. Also, the making of Station to Station.

MGMT talks to Rolling Stone about their upcoming LP... and their debut.

THE NUMBER ONES tackles the first Phil Spector hit, "To Know Him Is To Love Him," and David Seville's “The Chipmunk Song.”

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide release is Maze Runner; The Death Cure, which is currently scoring 41 percent on the ol' Tomatometer.  Hostiles expands wide scoring 71 percent.

VANITY FAIR goes behind the scenes of its annual Hollywood issue cover shoot.

CASEY AFFLECK has withdrawn from presenting the Best Actress Award at the upcoming Oscars.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN and Georgina Chapman Sell at Huge Loss in the Hamptons.

RUSSELL SIMMONS faces another sexual assault lawsuit.

NELLY is accused of assault by two more women.

DAVID COPPERFIELD is accused of drugging and assaulting a 17-year-old model.

JESSICA CHASTAIN helped OCTAVIA SPENCER get paid.

MINKA KELLY & JESSE WILLIAMS are dunzo.

CAPTAIN MARVEL: Brie Larson is snapped in costume.

SHAZAM! gets a 2019 release date.

MURPHY BROWN  and its original star Candice Bergen are returning to CBS.

A COW surprised Polish naturalists by spending the winter living with a herd of wild bison in the primeval Bialowieza Forest.

SALSA, a retired rescue dog for the Oklahoma City Fire Department, is overjoyed when she is freed by the fire department after getting stuck under her house.

GRUMPY CAT sued a coffee company... and won.

A PIT BULL Alerts Owner To Propane Gas Leak Inside Long Island Home.

MARK E. SMITH, lead singer and main force behind prolific post-punk band The Fall, has died, according to a statement from the band. He was 60, and kept swinging to the end. Here's his final interview.  The NYT obit is really 12 essential tracks.  In 2015, Stereogum ranked The Fall's already voluminous catalog. That same year, the BBC charted all of Smith's multitudinous bandmates (The Guardian tried to track them all down in 2005, but there have been many since).  Here are some of the many tributes from other musicians.  And here he is sportscasting.

GEORGE CLINTON & THE P-FUNK ALL-STARS play a Tiny Desk Concert.

TORI AMOS visited World Cafe.

PETER CASE played Daytrotter (from 10/17, but it popped up on my radar and is new to me).

DEERHOOF covers Madonna's "Live To Tell."

JOHN HIATT: It's been a "Slow Turning."

ELTON JOHN announced a three-year long farewell tour.

CHARLOTTE GAINSBOROURG talks to Aquarium Drunkard about her new LP and her directorial debut.

WHY SHOEGAZE defied the odds to leave a musical legacy that continues today.

38 ESSENTIAL 80s SONGS about nuclear anxiety.

JAMES FRANCO continues to struggle after several women accused him of sexually inappropriate behavior. 

MICHAEL SHANNON talks to GQ about the impossible task of negotiating with a doomsday prophet, Harvey Weinstein, and the time he yelled at Ethan Coen.

MERYL STREEP is joining Big Little Lies.

PACIFIC RIM UPRISING has a new trailer online.

JON HAMM talks to Uproxx about the movie biz.

THE DARK UNIVERSE franchise has been struck another blow, with the planned Invisible Man movie losing its writer.

GRANDMA THE CLOWN has resigned from the world-renowned Big Apple Circus after it was revealed that he pressured a 16-year-old aerialist into posing for pornographic photos in 2004.

CINNAMON, the fire-breathing alpaca.

ARE THOSE STOLEN EXOTIC FISH in your pants, or...oh.

A PITBULL is sprung from police custody after 18 months.

SCIENTISTS CLONE MONKEYS: I'm sure it's fine.

THE WAR ON DRUGS brought "Pain" to Jimmy Fallon.

THE DREAM SYNDICATE talks plays live via World Cafe.

DESTROYER stops by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED brings new tracks from David Byrne, Gaz Coombes, Trace Mountains and more.

THE DAMNED return with "Standing On The Edge Of Tomorrow."

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA shares "American Guilt."

SAM COOKE & JACKIE WILSON unexpectedly meet up on "Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha."

PERFUME GENIUS & MARY MARGARET O'HARA, discussing the merits of gibberish, the urge to create and translate those creations to a wider audience and how close-minded perceptions have affected their work and self-image.

THE NUMBER ONES takes on the Kingston Trio's "Tom Dooley" and the beginning of the folk boom.

SOUND OPINIONS interviews Lori Majewski about her 2014 book Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and the Songs That Defined the 1980s.

HUGH MASEKELA, who recorded more than 40 solo albums and collaborated with artists ranging from Harry Belafonte to Paul Simon, has died at 78. I can't dig it.

THE OSCARS nominations went to these folks. Congrats! Also, people loved Tiffany Haddish mispronouncing their names.  And here are your snubs.

RYAN REYNOLDS has a new first-look deal with Fox, including a Clue reboot from the writers of Deadpool.

DARREN ARONOFSKY,  following the end of his year long relationship with actress Jennifer Lawrence, steps out with Suki Waterhouse.

AMBER HEARD & ELON MUSK: Together again?

MAISIE WILLIAMS will be Sophie Turner's bridesmaid.  It's a nice day for a... red wedding.

MARK WAHLBERG denied steroid use.

PETER JACKSON has restored, colorized and 3-D converted footage from the First World War.

URSULA K. LeGUIN, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea series, died on Monday at her home in Portland, Ore. She was 88.

TWO DOGS awakened their owners to save an elderly woman sitting outside their home in only a nightgown from freezing to death.

MAN BITES DOG: A police dog, no less.

ANOTHER HORSE punched by a Philly Eagles fan, who is only pawn in game of life.

A HUGE SNAPPING TURTLE swimming under a frozen Arkansas lake has been captured on camera.