YUCK dropped a video for "Lose My Breath" featuring kids and duckies.

THE SADIES bring their twang to the WNYC Soundcheck studios.

CAGE THE ELEPHANT stopped by WFUV's Studio A to play unpluggedy.

EMILY BELL stopped by KUTX for a mini-set.

SOUND OPINIONS presents Space Age Santa Sounds via Andy Cirzan.

MATTHEW DEAR, with TEGAN & SARA, cover Tears For Fears' "Pale Shelter."

TEARS FOR FEARS covers Aminal Collective's "My Girls."

THE BLACK LIPS drop "Boys In The Wood" ahead of Underneath The Rainbow.

GREGG ALLMAN joins THE NATIONAL to sing "Silver Bells" on the Colbert Report.

THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME will induct Kiss, Nirvana, Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates, Linda Ronstadt, Cat Stevens, and the E Street Band. Nirvana's Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl comment. The Replacements were robbed, as usual.

DEV HYNES (Blood Orange) lost his dog an his possessions in an apartment fire.

THE TALKING HEADS, ranked by The Awl.

MIDLAKE talks to The Line Of Best Fit about stepping up after losing frontman Tim Smith.

ANCHORMAN 2 hits theaters today, scoring a perhaps surprising 81 percent on the ol' Tomatometer (76 percent with top critics).  Note most of the positive reviews still deem it inferior to the original.

SHIA LaBEOUF apologized for plagarizing Daniel Clowes in his new short film.

BRADLEY COOPER is profiled by GQ.

BRUCE WILLIS has a fifth child on the way; it's his second with wife Emma Heming-Willis.

ORLANDO BLOOM talks swashbuckling, women, full frontal nudity and more at Elle.

LINDSAY LOHAN threatens to sing again.

KELLY ROWLAND got engaged to Tim Witherspoon.

DWAYNE "THE ROCK" JOHNSON tops the new Forbes list of Hollywood's top-grossing actors. Take that, Iron Man.

GILLIGAN'S ISLAND is headed to the big screen.

SYRIA: A Syrian National Coalition source said Western nations are now signaling that they may prefer the Assad regime to remain for a transitional period in order to avoid possible chaos and an Islamist takeover. The Islamic Front denied reports it was meeting with the US ambassador; an Islamic Front official claimed that the group will not fight against al Qaeda. The Al Nusrah Front and rebels are besieging the Aleppo Central Prison area. he OPCW said it was possible that the Dec. 31 deadline for moving all of Syria's chemical weapons out of the country may not be met, due to poor security.

LEBANON: An explosives-laden jeep detonated close to a Hezbollah military camp in Shouba near the Syrian border, killing the driver and injuring two Hezbollah fighters. The head of the Christian political party Lebanese Forces blamed Hezbollah's involvement in Syria for bringing suicide bombings to Lebanon. French Ambassador Patrice Paoli warned that Lebanon's ongoing political stalemate coupled with security challenges risked "total chaos."

SOUTH SUDAN: While the government claims that it has contained violence in Juba, 73 soldiers have been killed and the US has ordered the evacuation of all non-essential personnel.

IRAQ: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed 10 Shia pilgrims in attacks in Mahmudiyah and Baghdad.

WAFFLES THE TERRIBLE attempts to leap the chasm from the snow-covered slippery roof of a van to the top of an icy garage.

THE CTHURKEY: A horrifying Christmas meal.

ENDANGERED IGUANAS endangered by diarrhea, high blood sugar and cholesterol. Dang tourists.

A DOG abandoned on a trash heap makes a remarkable recovery.