STEVIE NICKS plays a solo piano version of "Gypsy" for Rolling Stone, marking her firs solo cover in decades. SPOON & WHITE DENIM play Austin City Limits. PHANTOM POSSE advance streams Home. SCOTT WALKER: Aquarium Drunkard posts three tracks from We Had It All, including his cover of "Sundown." THE JULIANA HATFIELD THREE drops "Ordinary Guy" ahead of Whatever, My Love. FAITH HEALER drops "Again" ahead of Cosmic Troubles. SAM COOKE & JACKIE WILSON unexpectedly meet up on "Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha.
POPS STAPLES: The New Yorker covers his bleated finale, with an assist from Jeff Tweedy and Mavis. THE VILLAGE VOICE PAZZ & JOP POLL is online. POP ZEUS: Michael "Mikey" Hodges was killed in a motorcycle crash; his final, ironically-titled piece of lo-fi power pop can be streamed at NPR. RICK SPRINGFIELD is currently in Syracuse being retried for allegedly knocking a woman unconscious with his butt during a 2004 concert at the New York State Fair. BILL COSBY: The woman claiming Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion just over six years ago is filing criminal charges. GWYNETH PALTROW dishes on ex-beaus Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck. BRADLEY COOPER apparently does not think himself that handsome. KRISTEN STEWART wants you to know that she really does care. JAMES CAMERON iss delaying the first Avatar sequel for a year to work on the scripts. BEN-HUR: Rodrigo Santoro is in negotiations to portray Jesus in the retelling of the classic period sword-and-sandals epic. SPIDER-MAN may appear in The Avengers: Infinity War, Part 1, despitethe rights to the character being held by Sony. THE RAZZIES nominations are out. Congrats, Transformers: Age of Extinction? FRANCE: Parisians lined up Wednesday to empty the newsstands of the new issue of Charlie Hebdo, a week after Islamic extremists attacked the satirical newspaper's office, and French justice officials began cracking down by arresting dozens of people who glorified terrorism or made racist or anti-Semitic remarks. Um, that last bit isn't very free speechy. THE UNITED STATES: The FBI arrested an Ohio man for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired attack on the U.S. Capitol, where he hoped to set off a series of bombs aimed at lawmakers, whom he allegedly considered enemies. American airports are increasing security measures across the country in the wake of dual terrorist attacks in Paris and the publication by al Qaeda of what counterterrorism experts say appears to be the most detailed, and potentially lethal, bomb recipe ever to be sent to their followers. American, French, and British officials jointly canceled six US-bound flights from France, England, and Scotland on Jan. 11 and Jan. 12 due to security concerns. SYRIA: More than three months of U.S. airstrikes in Syria have failed to prevent Islamic State militants from expanding their control in that country. SAUDI ARABIA is building a 600-mile-long “Great Wall” - a combined fence and ditch - to separates the country from Iraq to the north. SIX HUNGRY PIT BULLS obey a four-year-old. CAN PIGS EMPATHIZE? Scientists investigate. A GIANT HIPPO stalks a safari speedboat. A 28-LB RAINBOW TROUT is not the one that got away.
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