SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS drop a video for “Ain’t No Chimneys In The Projects.” IRON & WINE: Sam Beam graced KEXP with his southern charm and shared songs from Iron & Wine's new album Ghost On Ghost, along with some all time favorites. MINOR ALPS: Matthew Caws and Julianna Hatfield come together for their first ever performance as Minor Alps in celebration of Barsuk's 15th anniversary. NPR MUSIC is streaming their 100 Favorite Songs of 2013. MARK McGUIRE is streaming The Sounds of Xmas. WOODEN SHJIPS drops a video for "Everybody Knows." JOHN LYDON (a/k/a Johnny Rotten) talks to Clash about Virgin (his former label), the general state of the music industry and the world in general. (Thx, LHB.) ROBERT POLLARD talks to Rolling Stone about songwriting, writer's block, and the future of Guided by Voices. TOTO keyboardist and "Africa" lead vocalist David Paich was not thrilled that CBS used the song in a piece about Nelson Mandela's memorial. MORRISSEY's solo albums, ranked by Stereogum. PAUL WALKER died after the speeding Porsche in which he was riding hydroplaned on reflective plastic markers in the street ... at least that's what his family and accident reconstruction experts believe. POPE FRANCIS is Time's Man of the Year. Sorry, Miley. THE SAG AWARDS nominations went to these folks. ASHTON KUTCHER & MILA KUNIS share a PDA at Sun Records in Memphis. DREW BARRYMORE is having a second girl. MADONNA and Brahim Zaibat have split after three years. PETER SELLERS: Two of the comedian's early shorts, long thought lost, were discovered in a London dumpster. IRAN: The White House says that an Iranian ballistic missile test would not invalidate a recently signed nuclear accord meant to temporarily halt some of Iran’s most controversial nuclear work. SYRIA: The top Syrian rebel commander supported by the West was run out of his headquarters in northern Syria over the weekend and fled to Turkey and then Doha after Islamist fighters took over facilities run by Western-backed opposition, U.S. officials said Wednesday. IRAQ: Al Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have increased attacks on strategic targets in parts of western Iraq in the past three months in a bid to make their putative state a reality, security officials and analysts say. LAMB CAM: Let's go to the video. MAN BITES DOG. Naked man, police dog. SQUIRT THE SNAKE is mourned by a Celebrity Apprentice. A DOG hit by a car is rescued on a busy highway by an 11-year-old.
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