THE DECEMBERISTS drop a video for "Make You Better," ft. Nick Offerman, tht mashes up the OGWT with Rockpalast, two shows known to regular Pate visitors.

AC/DC is streaming Rock or Bust via iTunes radio.

SONGS FOR STUFFING: A Thanksgiving Mix.

JENNY LEWIS stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

ALT-J stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set. 

AMERICAN WRESTLERS drops "I Can Do No Wrong", the first single from their upcoming debut. Very indie-psych.

HOLY drops "Golden Fog" ahead of their debut EP Silver Of Your Heart.  This one's more garage-psych.

THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS cover "Six Days on the Road."

GENE CLARK: The late Byrd and cursed singer-songwriter is essayed at Grantland.

RICHARD HAWLEY talks about his solo career at Drowned In Sound.

PRINCE has deleted his Twitter and Facebook accounts and pulled his music off theTube.

JONI MITCHELL is taking credit for halting an film adaptation of Girls Like Us, a biography that detailed the rise of Mitchell, Carole King, and Carly Simon. The movie had planned to cast Taylor Swift as Mitchell.

NOW SHOWING: The Thanksgiving weekend's wide releases are Penguins of Madagascar, which is currently scoring 57 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and Horrible Bosses 2, scoring 28 percent.

JURASSIC WORLD has a trailer online.

BILL COSBY reportedly traded the National Enquirer a story about his then-23-year-old daughter Erinn’s battle with drug and alcohol abuse to stay out of the tabloid himself.

ANGELINA JOLIE talks about married life. And maybe had a marital spat.

HALLE BERRY is accusing her ex Gabriel Aubry of causing their daughter ‘psychological damage’ by dyeing her hair blonde.

SHIA LeBEOUF showed a judge he is successfully rehabbing himself after getting arrested for disorderly conduct.

LINDSAY LOHAN has a surprise stepmom, Kate Major.

HONG KONG authorities cleared street barricades from a pro-democracy protest camp in the volatile Mong Kok district for a second day Wednesday after a night of clashes in which police arrested 116 people.

RUSSIA: hough it went entirely unnoticed in the Western press, all major Russian news outlets – RIA Novosti, Sputnik, RT, and others – were only too happy to report on what US Secretary of State John Kerry said last week to the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in private: “Just ignore Obama’s statements." State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke, when asked about Mr Lavrov’s revelation, called the latter’s words an “incorrect characterization” by Mr. Lavrov.

MARU searches for ever more boxes.

A CAT vanished on Halloween and  made the journey from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Maine.

ARTHUR the DOG tagged along on the 430-mile Adventure Racing World Championship.

A CIRCUS RHINO took a break on the streets of Luckenwalde, Germany.