SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS: “Ain’t No Chimneys In The Projects.”

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Weyes Blood, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Taken by Trees, Nina Hagen, reissues from Echo & The Bunnymen and Haircut 100, and more.

SPOON got "Wild" for Colbert.

THE 50 BEST ALBUMS of 2022, according to NME.

DANNY ELFMAN, on The Nightmare Before Christmas, miming as a rocker in Rodney Dangerfield films, and more.

PATTI LaBELLE was ushered offstage after a bomb threat in Milwaukee.

IKE & TINA TURNER's son Ronnie has died at 62.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Terror Squad's New York rap anthem "Lean Back," a dance song about not dancing.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: With no new releases, the total haul was 38MM, near a low for the year.  Wakanda Forever remains tops with 11.1MM on a 37 percent drop.  Violent Night places with 8.7MM on a 40 percent drop.  Strange World shows with 3.6MM on a 29 percent drop.

WONDER WOMAN 3: Did director Patty Jenkins walk off the project?

WHAT TAYLOR SWIFT really wants to do is direct.

THE BACKSTREET BOYS' holiday special was canceled by ABC after Nick Carter was accused of rape.

WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS has a trailer online.

BRAD PITT sold a majority stake in his producion company which values it in the low hundreds of millions.

QUEER: Luca Guadagnino has been looking to mount a feature take of the William S. Burroughs novel with Daniel Craig in the lead.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE clarified remarks she made in an interview with Viola Davis as part of Variety’s Actors on Actors series.

JIMMY FALLON, GWYNETH PALTROW, JUSTIN BIEBER and other celebs are being sued for promoting Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible tokens.

MISSION: Impawsible.

DOG & COW, living together...

CATS & DOGS, living together...

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. Part Four has John C. Reilly.

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF, Live at Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club.

METRIC plays KEXP.

LANA DEL REY shares “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.” And it refers to Nilsson.

RICHARD DAWSON: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.

THE BEST INDIE ALBUMS of 2022, according to Uproxx.

CELINE DION was diagnosed with stiff person syndrome.

THE STRANGLERS' Jet Black has passed away at 84.

TOP GUN: MAVERICK was named best film of 2022 by the National Board of Review.

JAMES GUNN responded to the chaotic reports about Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 3 not moving forward and other DC changes.

NICK CARTER is being accused of raping an underage autistic girl back in 2001; he denies the accusation.

TRACY FLICK CAN'T WIN: It's a sequel.

MICHELLE YEOH will play Madame Morrible in the planned "Wicked" movies.

JACKIE CHAN is currently in talks to make a fourth "Rush Hour" movie.

THE BEST MOVIES of 2022, according to The Ringer.

IS THERE SUCH A THING as too smol?

A DOGGO's amazing stick trick.

THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT: Surprising move from the referee.

IF YOU MISSED WEDNESDAY'S POST, IT'S DOWN BELOW...

THE RAVEONETTES' 2011 video for 2001's "The Christmas Song."

STEVE EARLE plays the new City Winery at Pier 57 on the Hudson River.

ALEX G plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

SHANE MacGOWAN's wife shared an update on the frontman's condition after he was admitted to the hospital last Friday.

THE 10 BEST ROCK ALBUMS of 2022, according to NPR.

25 GREAT EPs from 2022, according to Stereogum.

THE GO! TEAM's Ian Parton lists a few of his favorite things.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Juvenile and the late Soulja Slim's elegiac sex-jam "Slow Motion."

WONDER WOMAN 3 is dead in its current incarnation. And maybe Henry Cavill as Superman and Jason Momoa as Aquaman too. And Black Adam.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE & VIOLA DAVIS, on female action heroes, motherhood, and more.

CHARLIZE THERON, on the pretenses of stardom.

WINNIE THE POOH is joining the protests against China's "zero-COVID" policy.

BILL COSBY has been served with a new lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault, filed by five women.

TONI COLLETTE and her husband, David Galafassi, have separated after 19 years of marriage.

THE ROYALS: King Charles had an egg thrown at him. Again.

VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY is TIME's Man of the Year.

AVATAR 2's early buzz is pretty hot.

"RESTAURANT BEAR" freed in Albania is fat and depressed, rescuer says.

OTTERS, chasing a butterfly.

A GOLDEN RETRIEVER's version of peek-a-boo.

THE RAMONES: "Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)."

OSEES play KEXP.

NEIL DIAMOND retired from performing five years ago because of Parkinsons, but he sang at the open of his Neil-themed musical.

SPARKLEHORSE: The unreleased "It Will Never Stop" was unearthed by his brother.

THE 50 BEST ALBUMS of 2022, according to Stereogum.

THE 50 BEST ALBUMS of 2022, according to Pitchfork.

TAYLOR SWIFT FANS are suing Ticketmaster over its concert sales fiasco.

HAMISH KILGOUR, co-founder of influential New Zealand indie-rock band The Clean, was found dead Tuesday in Christchurch after being reported missing on Nov. 27.

JIM STEWART, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential Stax Records with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped build the soulful "Memphis sound," has died at age 92.

KIRSTIE ALLEY's Cheers co-stars pay tribute.

THE HOLIDAY's director Nancy Meyers squashes rumors of a sequel.

THE WHITE LOTUS is snowballing in viewership.

ROBERT DOWNEY JR., on his father, Tarantino's critique of the MCU, and more.

JOHN WICK 4 is the hardest movie Keanu has made, according to him.

BRENDAN FRASER says that speaking out about his sexual assault allegations in public derailed his career.

THE MCU, as designed by Wes Anderson.

DECEMBER 7, 1941: A "date which will live in infamy." I'll be watching Tora! Tora! Tora!  BTW, the first nation invaded by the US after entering WWII was Morocco, then Algeria, iirc. War is strange. 

CATS & DOGS, living together...

DOGS & CATS, living together...

A CORGI, a smile, and a wink (sort of).

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.

AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS play KEXP.

KENNY LOGGINS brings 80s soundtracks to World Cafe.

TENACIOUS D covers Chris Issak's "Wicked Game."

THE POGUES frontman Shane MacGowan is back in the hospital.

IGGY POP, profiled at NME.

THE TOP 100 SONGS of 2022, according to Pitchfork.

THE BEST INDIE LPs of 2022, according to PopMatters.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Usher's messy soap-opera jam "Confessions Part II."

KIRSTIE ALLEY, a two-time Emmy-winning actor who rose to fame with her role as Rebecca Howe in the NBC comedy series "Cheers," has died after a battle with cancer. She was 71.

GMA3 benched anchors T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach after their affair became public. 

RIAN JOHNSON on Glass Onion, Richard Roundtree, and more.

QUENTIN TARANTINO addressed a recent so-called “wish list” of actors that he wanted for roles in Pulp Fiction, and revealed he pushed back against studio wishes to cast Johnny Depp.

YOU PEOPLE has a trailer online.

PAULINA PORIZKOVA, on her new book, being Instagram's "crying woman," Ric Okasek and the fashion industry.

LOTR: How The Battle Of Helm's Deep Was Filmed.

THE BEST TV SHOWS of 2022, according to The Ringer.

RACCOON ATTACK: A mother fends off an aggressive raccoon that attacked her 5-year-old daughter while waiting for the school bus outside her home in Connecticut. 

A CAT, watching Tom & Jerry.

DOGGOS: Don't stop them now.

CATS & DOGS, living together...