ANOTHER RECORD TRAFFIC DAY on Saturday. Thanks for stopping by!

RAY & DAVE DAVIES shared a stage for the first time in almost 20 years. The song? "You Really Got Me," of course.

SON LITTLE played a Tiny Desk Concert.

DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE (incl Gillian Welch) stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

T. REX: T. Rexmas!

EL PERRO DEL MAR drops her cover of RHCP's "Breaking The Girl," an outtake from her last LP.

SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS are dreaming of a "White Christmas."

THE BEATLES may be streaming on Christmas Eve. (They will be here, per usual.)

KEITH RICHARDS, Lord of the Undead, turned 72; NME rounded up some of the most insane stories from his life and aferlife.

AQUARIUM DUNKARD's 2015 Year In Review.

THE TOP 40 ALBUMS of 2015, according to The Guardian.

SCOTT WEILAND died of a toxic mix of drugs that included cocaine, according to a medical examiner's office in Minnesota. Shocka.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The little film that could, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, shatters the domestic record of Jurassic World (209MM) to open with 238MM, and possibly more like 241-46MM. If it's that higher number. The Force Awakens may move above 517MM worldwide to edge out the dinosaurs' 525MM global record as well. This positions Disney to make as much as 2 Billion in ticket sales against a 200MM production budget (and undoubtedly yuge marketing budget), but with estimates for merch sales ranging from 3-5 Billion through the holiday season, Disney's 4 Billion purchase of Lucasfilm will likely be recouped on this film alone (and does not account for additional valuable assets like Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound).  Alvin and the Chipmunks The Road Chip placed light-years distant with 14MM, far less than the previous intallmet's 23MM, but let's face it--it's amazing families went to see anything but TFA this weekend, and it's still going to do well enough while kids are on vacation to spawn a fourth film. Sisters showed with 13.4MM and with 30MM budget, this is likely to do alright as counter-programming against the Star Wars juggernaut...if Joy and Daddy's Home don't nudge it out next weekend.  The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 skids from the top slot to fourth with 5.7MM, but a 595MM worldwide total leaves no one hungry. Creed rounds out the Top Five with 5M; it may have reached profit on the big screen and could even stage a slight rally through year's end.

NME announced its first list of People of the Year.

LAMAR ODOM made a huge stride in his recovery this week ... taking steps for the first time without assistance.

GWEN STEFANI & BLAKE SHELTON met each other's parents.

CAITLYN JENNER is Barbara Walters' most fascinating person of 2015.

MADONNA legally declared that Sean Penn never struck her during their relationship in the 1980s.

DANIEL CRAIG's secret role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. {Spoiler Warning, obvsly.]

THE ISLAMIC STATE may have stolen "tens of thousands" of blank passports that it could use to smuggle its fighters into Europe as refugees, a German newspaper reported Sunday.

RUSSIA is trying its hand at creating its own private military company -- in Syria and Ukraine.

IRAN: Changes to a U.S. visa waiver program that impose travel restrictions on those who visit Iran contradict the landmark nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday.

IRAQ: An airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition this past week killed 10 Iraqi troops, the Iraqi government said Saturday, in an apparent friendly fire incident in which the U.S. defense secretary says both sides shared responsibility.

A REHABILITATED AMUR TIGER gave birth for the first time in the wild.

BJORN THE REINDEER cantered down a high street in Carlton, Nottingham, pursued by a crowd of people after a car horn startled him at a Christmas event.

AN INTERNATIONAL TEAM of scientists and conservationists has undertaken a first-of-its-kind effort to revive two extinct tortoise species -- not using high-tech genetic engineering, but by breeding living creatures related to the ones now gone.

DOGS HUNTING COYOTES: Coyote coursing has spawned a subculture in Nebraska, but it has come under fire by animal activists.