JON PRATT: Pate's frontman gets a bit jazzy on "Stay," with lyrics from the poem "Hinterhof," by James Fenton.
DESTROYER stopped by WFUV Live for a chat and mini-set.
JOHN GRANT stopped by WFUV Live for a chat and mini-set.
THE MYNABIRDS: Laura Burhenn performed live for WNYC Soundcheck.
YOUTH LAGOON played a Tiny Desk Concert.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN shares the previously unreleased "Party Lights" ahead of The Ties That Bind: The River Collection.
THE ARCS vs THE INVENTORS dropped "Young," co-written by the Silver Jews’ David Berman, ahead of Record Storre Day's Black Friday.
CYNTHIA ROBINSON, trailblazing trumpeter and "hype woman" for Sly & the Family Stone, has passed away at age 69 after a battle with cancer. The Root collects recollections of her career from interviews. Enjoy her work with Sly & Co. Live at the Harlem Cultural Festival, circa June 29, 1969.
DAVID BOWIE: The Backstory of Blackstar.
YO LA TENGO's Ira Kaplan guested on Marc Maron's WTF Podcast. (NSFW, if the "WTF" wasn't a giveaway)
SAVAGES drummer Fay Milton talks to DIY about road-testing the band's new material in NYC.
CHRIS WALLA talks to Drowned In Sound about life after Death Cab.
NOW SHOWING: The holiday weekend's wide releases include Pixar's The Good Dinosaur, which is currently scoring 86 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Creed, currently scoring 95 percent; and Victor Frankenstein, scoring 20 percent.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE is Entertainment Weekly's Entertainer of the Year.
ADELE broke the single-week U.S. album sales record, according to Nielsen Music.
TOM CRUISE may star in…The Mummy?
GWEN STEFANI found an odd way to proclaim her love for Blake Shelton.
GWYNETH PALTROW & CHRIS MARTIN consciously re-coupled for a pre-Thanksgiving meal in New York. Nice for the kids.
IS THE "FAVOR MOVIE" provided to superstars falling out of favor in Hollywood?
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR has a trailer online.
THE ISLAMIC STATE's recent attacks in Paris and Beirut and the downing of a Russian airliner in Egypt were the first results of a centrally planned terrorism campaign by a wing of the Islamic State leadership that oversees "external" targets, according to American and European intelligence officials. Meanwhile, an Austrian teenager who became a poster girl for the Islamic State has reportedly been beaten to death by the group after she was caught trying to leave Syria.
TURKEY shot down a Russian fighter jet near the Syrian border (and nowhere near ISIS targets); the US and France urged a de-escalation of tensions.
IRAN: Four months after a historic accord with Tehran to limit its atomic ambitions, American officials and private security groups say they see a surge in sophisticated computer espionage by Iran, culminating in a series of cyberattacks against State Department officials over the past month.
IT'S A PUPPY CLOWN CAR.
MUTANT MOSQUITOS can help kill off malaria instead of spreading it.
MILLIONS OF SPIDERS invade a Memphis neighborhood.
TWO OLD CIRCUS ELEPHANTS are retiring to a sanctuary in India.