JON PRATT: Pate's frontman gets soulful on "Testify," with a guitar that once belonged to a member of the Wrecking Crew.

LUCY DACUS, Live at Brooklyn Steel.

PHOEBE BRIDGERS, Live at Brooklyn Steel.

JULIEN BAKER, Live at Brooklyn Steel.

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

JOE OSBORN, a bassist for the legendary Wrecking Crew, who played on tunes as silly as The Monkees theme and as sublime as Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” died of pancreatic cancer on Dec. 14 at 81.

THE CLASH gets two and a half hours of discussion and analysis on Political Beats with guest CJ Ciaramella of Reason magazine.

THE GUMMY AWARDS winners are announced.

THE BEST COVER SONGS of 2018, according to Cover Me.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Shocking Blue's English-as-a-second-language pop nugget "Venus" and Sly & The Family Stone's irony-laced funk anthem "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)."

WOODY ALLEN is accused of having a hidden eight-year "affair" with 16-year-old model Babi Christina Engelhardt in 1976.

LES MOONVES will not be getting his 120MM million severance, as CBS concluded after a months-long investigation that there is, indeed, merit to numerous claims that its former CEO sexually harassed several women over the course of decades.

GEOFFREY RUSH has denied new allegations of inappropriate behavior, amid an ongoing defamation battle with an Australian newspaper that published sexual harassment claims. And here's why Yael Stone is terrified to talk about Geoffrey Rush.

MORTAL ENGINES is expected to lose at least 100MM.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, VOL. 3 has a script, and it may be making people cry.

PRINCE HARRY will miss out on the traditional Boxing Day pheasant shoot with his brother Prince William at Sandringham to avoid upsetting his animal-loving wife Meghan.

THIS DOG loves her wheelchair cause it means she gets to play outside.

BEAGLEY FIELD: A mass of silliness.

DOG: Been Caught Stealing.

NEW JERSEY is first state to ban wild animal circus acts.