TALKING HEADS: A vintage clip of "Psycho Killer" from the OGWT.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to The Arcs, Effed Up, Eddie 9V, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Meg Baird, King Tuff, The Tubs, and more.

SMOKEY ROBINSON returns with “If We Don’t Have Each Other.”

PAUL McCARTNEY was almost hit by a car while recreating the iconic artwork for The Beatles’ ‘Abbey Road’ album. There's video.

KRISTEN STEWART is directing three boygenius videos.

NILE RODGERS is working with St. Vincent.

TOM VERLAINE,  whose band Television was one of the most influential to emerge from the New York punk rock scene centered on the nightclub CBGB — but whose exploratory guitar improvisations and poetic songwriting were never easily categorizable as punk, or for that matter as any other genre — died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 73. Hree's the Rolling Stone obit.  Read tributes from Blondie, Steve Albini, Lloyd Cole, Susanna Hoffs, The Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn, Nada Surf, Real Estate, and more. And check out Live At The Academy NYC 12.4.92. Or the NYT playlist of 13 essential Verlaine songs.

BARRETT STRONG, the Motown artist who sang the label’s first major hit “Money (That’s What I Want)” and co-wrote songs for the Temptations and others, including “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” "War," “Cloud Nine,” "Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World is Today),” “I Can’t Get Next to You,” “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” and “Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)” has died. He was 81. Here's the Billboard obit.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Avatar 2 continues its streak atop the chart with 15.7MM, and will pass The Avengers as the No.10 highest-grossing movie ever in North America this week. Puss In Boots 2 places with 10.6MM and will likely outgross the original.  A Man Called Otto shows with 6.8MM on a 23 percent drop.

THE ROYALS: King Charles reportedly wants Harry at his coronation.

GMA:  T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach are officially out after their affair was publicized.

JAY LENO is recovering from broken bones sustained during a motorcycle accident just two months after he was injured in a fire at his Los Angeles garage.

ALAN CUMMING returned his OBE over misgivings of being associated with the toxicity of empire.

ANNE HATHAWAY singing and dancing to "Lady Marmalade" at the after-party for the Valentino Haute Couture Paris Fashion Week show.

THE ACADEMY of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences confirmed Friday that it is "conducting a review of campaign procedures" in the wake of Andrea Riseborough's surprise Oscar nomination for the small indie film "To Leslie."

THE RAZZIES are dumb and bad.

ANNIE WERSCHLING, best known for her roles in the television shows 24, Bosch and Timeless, has died of cancer at 45.

A CAT, just trying to get through January.

A QUOKKA, eating a beetroot.

ANTEATERS: Freakier than you remember.

LAZY SUNDAY, without Narnia.