PAUL McCARTNEY visited Fallon to play "Lady Madonna" and  "Save Us."

DEAN WAREHAM (Galaxie 500, Dean & Britta) advance streams his Emancipated Hearts mini-album.

RED FANG advance streams Whales and Leeches.

FALL OUT BOY returns to hardcore on the Ryan Adams-produced Pax Am Days.

SUPERCHUNK plays a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR. 

DAVID BOWIE, with a stripped-down "Sound and Vision."

TALKING HEADS released Remain In Light 33 years ago yesterday. How did I get here?

THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN: Travis Morrison spoke to Westword about his love of Harry Nilsson and Talking Heads, and how making music is a lot like computer programming. (Thx, Chromewaves.)

JOAN JETT did a Reddit Ask Me Anything.

SHAKE APPEAL: Pitchfork launches a new column on garage rock.

THE POGUES guitarist Philip Chevron has died at the age of 56 after a recurrence of cancer.

MILEY CYRUS gets another long letter from Sinead O'Connor.

TOM HANKS was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

KRIS AND BRUCE JENNER have separated after 22 years of marriage, but have no plans to divorce.

KIM KARDASHIAN isn't bowing to Kanye West's pressure to tie the knot again.

DEMI LOVATO: The X Factor judge had a lesbian fling, according to an Aussie DJ.

QUENTIN TARANTINO's Top 10 Films of 2013 (So Far).

SYRIA: In Aleppo, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launched rockets at Efrin city and detained three citizens of Azaz, which it has taken over. ISIL clashed with a rebel group in Raqqah, seizing its base and several of its members. Regime airstrikes in Idlib attempted to repel an assault on two military bases by rebel forces that include Islamist groups. Regime sources said a Saudi officer in the Al Nusrah Front was killed near Aleppo in September. The OCPW has deployed a second team of experts to continue with the disposal of Syria's chemical weapon.

LEBANON: Security forces arrested three members of a terrorist network that was allegedly planning assassinations as well as bombings in major cities in Lebanon; 12 bombs each weighing between 150 and 200 kg were seized.

EGYPT: The Obama administration is expected to announce curbs on most nonessential military aid to Egypt within a few days. The interim government revoked the permit for the Muslim Brotherhood's NGO.

IRAN's President Hassan Rouhani bragged on Iranian state television just four months ago that he and the regime utterly flouted a 2003 agreement with the IAEA in which it promised to suspend all uranium enrichment and certain other nuclear activities.

IRAQ: Al Qaeda in Iraq killed five policemen in separate IED attacks in Ramadi and Fallujah. Tribal leaders in Diyala denounced al Qaeda.

A DACHSHUND on a treadmill; the New York Times is on it.

THE ANTECHNIUS, a mouse-like mammal, has so much sex it disintegrates.

SNAKES ON A BUS: More than 300, plus 10 badgers.

TARANTULA LOVEFEST 2013: Poised to terrify.