SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS drop a video for "Stranger to My Happiness."

GRIZZLY BEAR: Watch the final show of the Shields tour in full.

BIG UPS are advance streaming Eighteen Hours Of Static.

RON SEXSMITH played a mini-set for World Cafe's "Sense of Place" series.

MOBY stopped by World Cafe for a chat and unpluggedy mini-set.

ST VINCENT drops "Digital Witness" ahead of her self-titled third LP.

TALKING HEADS: "Theme," a previously unheard 1976 instrumental, surfaces online.

LOVE TRACTOR plows through "Paint" and "Fun To Be Happy" in Athens, GA, circa 1983, for an instrumental Twofer Tuesday.

STEPHEN MALKMUS talks to BuzzFeed about how his taste in music has changed over the years, and how he made his new album, Wig Out At Jagbags.

THE AVETT BROS' acendency is essayed by Rolling Stone. Is it a thinkpiece?

THE KINKS: A reunion is closer than ever, says Ray Davies.

THE PITCHFORK READERS POLL of 2013.

MILEY CYRUS: Kellan Lutz denies dating rumors, concidental to the opening of his Hercules movie.

DREW BARRYMORE talks to Marie Claire about her estrangement from her mother, seders, and more.

EMMA WATSON has split from her long-term boyfriend.

EMMA ROBERTS got engaged to boyfriend Evan Peters.

LINDSAY LOHAN may not be writing a tell-all, but her mother reportedly is.

STEVEN SEAGAL is considering a run for the Arizona governor's office.

LARRY D. MANN, who voiced Yukon Cornelius in the animated Christmas favorite Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, has died. He was 91.

THE UNITED STATES: A judge sentenced an American woman who called herself Jihad Jane to 10 years in prison - at least a decade less than prosecutors had sought for her role in a failed plot to kill a Swedish artist who had depicted the head of the Muslim Prophet Mohammad on a dog.

SAUDI ARABIA and other Gulf states are funding Armies elsewhere in the Middle East.

IRAQ: Al Qaeda gunmen seeking to form a radical Islamic state out of the chaos of Syria's civil war are fighting hard to reconquer the province they once controlled in neighboring Iraq, stirring fears the conflict is exporting ever more instability.

A DOG in a BATMAN ONESIE: Let's go to the video.

JASPER THE TABBY disappears for weeks at a time, by taking public transportation.

A DOG rescued treading water had been missing for two years. That's stamina.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A two-headed calf.