MATTHEW SWEET does a session at Laundro-Matinee and talks to Spinner about the 20th anniversary of "Girlfriend." Get off my lawn.

CULTS play World Cafe Live in Philadelphia for this turn-of-year encore link. 

MAYER HAWTHORNE plays a mini-set at World Cafe in this turn-of-year encore link.

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART play a mini-set at The Current in this turn-of-year encore link.

GILLIAN WELCH & DAVE RAWLINGS play a mini-set at World Cafe in this turn-of-year encore link.

THE WHO: "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" (with some great Moon moments) and Pate fave "The Kids Are Alright" are your first Twofer 2012.

CEE-LO GREEN altered a lyric to "Imagine" on New Years Eve. Lennon fans were outrageously outraged.

THE PITCHFORK GUIDE to Winter 2012.

CLOUD CULT: Craig Minowa talks to Glide about touring, classical influences and environmentalism.

MORRISSEY turns up on Google Earth.

KATY PERRY & RUSSELL BRAND were infatuated with each other when they tied the knot, but the honeymoon ended very quickly.  Both Perry and Brand have been seen around since their split.

LeBRON JAMES got engaged at a New Year's Eve dinner and party at the Shelborne hotel in South Beach.

ARETHA FRANKLIN and William "Willie" Wilkerson are engaged.

RICKY MARTIN plans to marry his boyfriend this month.

ELTON JOHN would like Justin Timberlake to play him in his biopic. JT has played John previously.

LINDSAY LOHAN: Police were called to her Venice Beach pad -- by her for a change.

MARTIN SCORSESE is considering 3-D for his next two projects.

THE OSCAR BALLOT is confusing voters.

ROBERT ANDERSON, movie sword master from Errol Flynn through Darth Vader, has died at 89.

IRAN's currency value has fallen more than 10 percent in less than a week to record lows, after a US move to tighten financial sanctions against the Islamic theocracy.

PAKISTAN: By year's end, it became clear that 2011 was a year in which Pakistan transformed from being an key ally in the war on terror, to being the front line in the war on terror.

AFGHANISTAN: More than 380 insurgents, including 19 commanders, reconciled with the government in Badghis province.

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: A bonobo ape is cooking in Des Moines.

THE BIRDS: Snow geese numbers are increasing exponentially.

WAR HORSES: Winston Churchill intervened to secure the safe return of tens of thousands of them stranded in Europe after the First World War.

KILLER WHALE vs SHARKS: Who you got?