LEON BRIDGES played “Smooth Sailin'” and "River" on SNL, icymi for Twofer Tuesday.

80s RE-COVERED: Acts like ABC, Wang Chung, Belinda Carlisle, and Heaven 17 cover songs by acts like Radiohead, Blur, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Carole King.

STEVE EARLE chats and performs in the WNYC Soundcheck studios.

SHAKEY GRAVES played a Tiny Desk Concert.

THEE OH SEES drop "Fortress" as a forthcoming single.

KIM WILDE drunkenly warbles "Kids In America" and "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" on the subway.

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: Pitchfork defends the oft-maligned Doug Yule.

CASS McCOMBS talks to Aquarium Drunkard about A Folk Set Apart.

THE MOST-COVERED CHRISTMAS SONGS, as well as the most soundtracked and streamed.

DAVID DYE's TOP 10 ALBUMS of 2015.

STAR TREK BEYOND dropped a  first trailer online.

KIM KARDASHIAN & KANYE WEST may have had their final baby.

BILL COSBY is counter-suing seven of his many accusers.

LEONARDO DiCAPRIO talks to Wired about fame, the climate, The Revenant, and more...

BRADLEY COOPER denied that Beyoncé is onboard his A Star is Born remake.

SERENA WILLIAMS is Sports Illustrated's Sportsperson of the Year.

PETE ROSE's application for reinstatement to major league baseball was rejected Monday by Commissioner Rob Manfred.

MELANIE GRIFFTH invited people to insult her on Instagram.

UKRAINE: Russian military involvement in Syria has not significantly decreased its capabilities in eastern Ukraine.

THE ISLAMIC STATE is slaughtering babies with Down's syndrome in a barbaric echo of the Nazis, according to reports.

SAN BERNADINO: Fearing a civil liberties backlash and "bad public relations" for the Obama administration, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson refused in early 2014 to end a secret U.S. policy that prohibited immigration officials from reviewing the social media messages of all foreign citizens applying for U.S. visas, a former senior department official said. Law enforcement sources confirmed to CBS News that Malik made radical postings on Facebook as far back as 2012 -- the year before she married Syed Farook and moved to the U.S.  DHS is now is working on a plan to scrutinize social media posts as part of its visa application process.

TURKEYS attack a Falmouth mail carrier daily.

A HYENA learns a valuable lesson about eating an elephant.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: The snake goes in the nose and out the mouth.

A SEAL photobombs a diver in Antarctica.