CAT POWER may have halted her Eurotour, but she played "Cherokee" for Conan.

THE EVENS: Ian MacKaye and Amy Farina are advance streaming The Odds.

BEN GIBBARD stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

MATT & KIM recorded a few tracks live exclusively for The Current.

JULIE DOIRON is advance streaming So Many Days.

DAVID BOWIE & CHER duet on a bizarre 1975 medley of "Young Americans," "Song Sung Blue," "One," "Da Doo Ron Ron," "Wedding Bell Blues," "Maybe Baby" and "Day Tripper," to name but a few.

PATTERSON HOOD talks to Glide about how a book became a song, his admiration for Jim Dickinson and how political leaders could learn from the misjudgments of those in power before them.

TIFT MERRITT is profiled by PopMatters.

CRYSTAL CASTLES: Alice Glass and Ethan Kath talk to Pitchfork about their new album's themes of oppression, and why their beyond-dire outlook is based on much more than a goth-tinted hallucination.

MICHAEL NESMITH talks "Daydream Believer" and Monkeeing around on social media with the L.A. Times.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Skyfall tops the chart with 87.8 million, a well-above-record opening for 007; the Christmas season comes early for the cineplex. Fun fact: about 44.5 million of the 200 million budget was paid for by Heineken, which Bond drinks in the film; I would love to know how much the computer, the car, and clothiers paid.  Bond has already raked in over 518 million worldwide.  Wreck-It Ralph is a distant second with 33 million, but that's still a leggy performance on a mere 33 percent drop.  Flight shows with 15.1 million on a 39 percent drop that's maybe not so bad with Bond dominating adults.  Argo takes the fourth slot with 6.7 million on another leggy 33 percent drop.  The same could be said of Taken 2, which rounds out the Top 5 with 4 million.

LINDSAY LOHAN has officially pulled out of her “20/20” interview with Barbara Walters because her new PR team didn't want questions about the ongoing investigation in her car crash.

ARIEL WINTER: Authorities have serious doubts about allegations made by the mother of 14-year-old "Modern Family" actress Ariel Winter; they think the mother is making up stories of an illicit sexual relationship to save face after she was stripped of custody.

JUSTIN BIEBER & SELENA GOMEZ broke up. A nation grieves.

JONAH HILL is a rude, arrogant a-hole who treated CNN anchor Don Lemon like “the help” when he tried to shake the actor's hand during a recent run-in at a hotel, according to Don.

STORAGE WARS: Is the show faked?

MARK WAHLBERG has agreed to join Transformers 4.

STAR WARS VII may be in the hands of screenwriter Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3, Hunger Games, Little Miss Sunshine).

WORLD WAR Z has a trailer online, full of fast zombies.

VETERANS' DAY: Today is the observation of the anniversary of the end of WWI; thank a vet today, and read the excellent 2009 piece by the WaPo's David Ignatius that may be more true today.

THE UNITED STATES Air Force stationed a detachment of 10 troops at a base in central Poland to support US fighter plane squadrons that come to Poland to train Polish pilots on F-16s. Poland has long requested a US military presence, and this is the first permanent posting of US soldiers on Polish soil.

SYRIA: The leader of the Free Syrian Army has called on the outside world to back the rebels before they all "turn into terrorists."

IRAQ: Al Qaeda in Iraq killed the head of the Awakening forces in Abu Ghraib, as well as his wife and son. Security forces recaptured nine al Qaeda fighters who had escaped from prison and captured two fighters near a weapons depot in Abu Ghraib.

A BABY ELEPHANT plays in water for the first time.

A 26-FT ANACONDA is this diver's companion.

A CARNIVOROUS SPONGE has been spotted in deep ocean waters off California's Monterey Bay.

TENTACLED SNAKES were born at the Smithsonian's National Zoo.