SHOVELS & ROPE joined "St. Anne's Parade" for a video.

VETIVER played for KEXP at Pickathon.

WOODS played a mini-set in the KEXP studio.

BLIND PILOT stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

WILCO shares “Someone to Lose” ahead of Schmilco.

BON IVER shares "33 'God'" ahead of 22, A Million.

CROWDED HOUSE, which hit the Top Ten twice in 1987 with "Don't Dream It's Over" and "Something So Strong," are your Twofer Tuesday.

HALL & OATES: The Ultimate Test of Musical Taste?

STURGILL SIMPSON is mad that country’s ACM Awards are now naming an award after Merle Haggard.

ANGEL OLSEN talks to The Guardian about her new album and why it's bigger than gender and sex.

WHY THE LONG PLAY FACE? A Tumblr mixing movies (mostly Star Wars) with LP covers. (Thx, Jeff B)

GENE WILDER, who regularly stole the show in such comedic gems as The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Stir Crazy, died Monday at his home in Stamford, Conn. His nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman said he died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 83.  His family closed the announcment with "We are the Music-Makers, We are the Dreamers of Dreams." But as much as I love "Pure Imagination," my fave Wilder musical moment has to be "Puttin' on the Ritz." Wilder was hysterical...and wet. And Pauline Kael knew it. Lastly, here's Wilder at the 92nd St Y circa 2013.

DEATHSTROKE appears in a video posted by Ben Affleck, or Batfleck.

TAYLOR SWIFT was dismissed as a prospective juror in an aggravated rape/kidnapping case because she told the judge she has a pending civil case that also involves sexual assault.

RYAN LOCHTE will not return to Rio to face charges.

IGGY AZALEA & FRENCH MONTANA are dating.

IRAN has deployed the Russian-supplied S-300 surface-to-air missile defense system around its Fordow underground uranium enrichment facility. Nothing to see here, move along.

THE ISLAMIC STATE: For years, Jesse Morton advocated a violent vision of Islam, inspiring recruits to commit acts of terror. He explained why he had recanted and joined a think tank that researches radicalization.

ETTORE the LABRADOR clearly has a guilty conscience.

GOAT YOGA: Every once in awhile, you stumble upon a phrase that immediately incites you to learn more...

323 DEER were killed by lightning in Norway.

DOG PERSON or CAT PERSON? Your personality gives it away.

CAR SEAT HEADREST made their late-night TV debut playing “Fill In The Blank” for Colbert.

TODD SNIDER returns to the World Cafe with Hard Working Americans.

CLEO PARKER (Girlpool) streams a new EP called Looking Pretty At The Wall.

SINGLE MOTHERS stream a new five-song EP called Meltdown.

SON LITTLE covers “State Trooper” from Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska.

LOCAL NATIVES drop "Coins" ahead of Sunlit Youth.

THE PIPETTES: "Your Kisses are Wasted On Me." Before it all went wrong. Sigh.

R.E.M. will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their seminal 1991 LP Out of Time with a deluxe reissue featuring unreleased demos, live performances and music videos.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE: Rock's most iconic landmarks.

LAURA MARLING has started a podcast, including and interview of HAIM.

TEN GREAT DUOS Who Couldn't Keep It Together.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Don't Breathe tops the chart with 26.1MM against a 9.9MM budget, well above estimates of 9-10MM.  Suicide Squad places with 12.1MM, dropping 42 percent, but finding some legs in the late-summer doldrums.  Kubo and the Two Strings shows with 7.9MM on a higher-than-expected 37 percent drop, making overseas grosses crucial.  Sausage Party holds on to the fourth slot with 7.7MM on a 51 percent drop; 80MM ttal for an R-rated animated comedy against a 19MM budget ain't bad.  The debut of Mechanic: Resurrection rounds out the Top Five with 7.5MMagainst a 40MM budget. Given that the first Mechanic seemed uprofitable, you may want to read about the Statham business.

THE MTV VMAs went to these people. Everyone loved Beyonce, because it's the law. It was a homecoming for Britney Spears (whose latest is getting good reviews). Rhianna and Drake kissed. And Kanye rambled, as he does.

DENISE RICHARDS & BROOKE MUELLER accept big child support cuts as Charlie Sheen runs into legal/financial difficulties.

DWYANE WADE's cousin was killed in a crossfire in Chicago on Friday afternoon.

ANNA CHLUMSKY and husband Shaun So welcomed daughter Clara Elizabeth So on Thursday.

NATE PARKER, director of Birth of a Nation, talked about consent, male privilege, and how he feels about being called a rapist.

LUPITA NYONG'O is dating GQ Style fashion editor Mobolaji Dawodu.

JAMES & THE GIANT PEACH may be made as a live-action film written by Nick Hornby and directed by Sam Mendes?

FRANCE's highest administrative court has stopped a town in France from banning the wearing of the burkini, a ruling expected to set a precedent across the country.

VENEZUELA, a country of 130MM, had 193 new car sales in July.

IRAQ: The fight for Mosul is redrawing the map of the North.

THIS GOLDEN RETRIEVER is not winning the game show.

DOGS from the Louisiana flood seek new homes in Maryland.

AN OKLAHOMA POLICE DOG found five bags of methamphetamine hidden inside a box of Twinkies snack cakes.

A SHEEP delayed a minor-league baseball game.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with GRAM PARSONS! As a member of both The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, and as a solo artist, Parsons anticipated the so-called country rock of the 1970s and the alt-country movement that began around 1990. There is not a lot of GP video floating around, but "Christine's Tune" is a good place to start, though the video for "Older Guys" is great because someone made them go out to christen Judge Smails' sloop. The Hell's Angels make an unfortunate cameo in the clip of "Six Days o­n the Road" from the infamous Altamont festival in 1969. The posthumous video for "Sin City" is nice also. BONUS: Dwight Yoakum covers "Wheels" at a Parsons tribute concert. DOUBLE BONUS: Frequent duet partner Emmylou Harris covers "Return of the Grievous Angel" with alt-country icon Ryan Adams (and Buddy Miller o­n bass) at a different tribute.

THE FRIGHTNRS advance streams Nothing More To Say.

JAMES VINCENT McMORROW advance streams We Move.

ELUVIUM advance streams False Readings On.

Y LA BAMBA advance streams Ojos Del Sol.

LED ZEPPELIN shares "Sunshine Woman" from their BBC Sessions.

DWIGHT YOAKUM has a bluegrass take on his "These Arms."

THE RAVEONETTES drop their latest single, "A Good Fight."

R.E.M.: "Don't Go Back to Rockville," very unplugged.

THE BEST MUSIC VIDEOS of the 1970s, according to Pitchfork.

THE BEATLES: Giles Martin talks to All Songs Considered about improving the band's live recordings.

TEN GREAT "FORGOTTEN" DYLAN SONGS, remembered by Paste.

UB40, STIFF LITTLE FINGERS, and YES: The bands that split in half.

NOW SHOWING: This weeken's wide releases are Don't Breathe, which is currently scoring 90 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and Mechanic: Resurrection, which was not screened for critics. Near-wide, Hands of Stone is scoring 41 percent, while Southside With You scores 91 percent.

JOHNNY DEPP is heaping praise on Amber Heard for donating her 7MM divorce settlement to charity. Heard has just fired back that if he really cares, he'll ante up 14MM.

DUANE "THE ROCK" JOHNSON is rocking Forbes' highest-paid actor list.

THE FBI is now on the hunt for the hackers who violated SNL's Leslie Jones.

JENNIFER GARNER & BEN AFFLECK celebrated his birthday together.

CHRIS ROCK: Newly divorced, already engaged?

BRITNEY SPEARS is apparently not happy that Lifetime is making a TV movie about her life.

RYAN LOCHTE  is going on Dancing with the Stars.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR shares a DVD bonus.

DARK UNIVERSE a/k/a "JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK" will be directed by Doug Liman.

WHY STRANGER THINGS WORKS and Ghostbusters and Ben-Hur reboots don't.

NORTH KOREA test-fired a submarine-launched missile 500 kilometres (around 300 miles) towards Japan, marking what weapons analysts called a clear step forward for its nuclear strike ambitions.

COLOMBIA: The  government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, said they had done what many believed would be impossible: reached a peace pact.

TOOTER TURTLE desperately seeks Mr Wizard.

A SEX TIGER arrives at the National Zoo. Sixty percent of the time, he works all the time.

STONED RATS make lazier choices. They learned it from you.

BEE Whiz.

SOME BUSINESS. SOME FAMILY BUSINESS. I should be back with a full boatload for y'all of Friday.

TEGAN & SARA share "Fade Out," from The Intervention soundtrack.

OKKERVIL RIVER stopped by WFUV for a chat and mini-set.

MIRACLE LEGION also  stopped by WFUV for a chat and mini-set.

YOUNG GUN SILVER FOX: Would you like some...yacht rock?

SHARON VAN ETTEN is sharing “Not Myself,” which was written for the victims of the Orlando night club shooting.

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS: "I'm an Adult Now."

DINOSAUR JRs albums, ranked by J Mascis at Noisey. He's got it about right.

CASS McCOMBS talks to Flaunt about his eighth studio album.

JONI MITCHELL made her first public appearance since being hospitalized in 2015 following a brain aneurysm.

TOOTS THIELEMANS, the jazz harmonica great whose work in movies like Drugstore Cowboy and The Getaway, as well as on the end credits of Sesame Street, has died at 94.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE repeats atop the latest Forbes list of the World's Highest-Paid Actresses.

IAN McKELLEN turned down 1.5MM to officiate Sean Parker's wedding as Gandalf.

SCOTT EASTWOOD talks about the death of his girlfriend.

EMMA STONE & ANDREW GARFIELD were spotted together but are not together, reportedly.

HOLLYWOOD GAVE UP ON YOU: The Summer Films of 2016.

THE TOP 100 FILMS of the 2000s, according to a BBC panel. I like Lynch, but no.

STEVEN HILL, a versatile character actor in theater, films and television who achieved his greatest success late in life as grumpy District Attorney Adam Schiff on TV's long-running Law & Order, died Tuesday. He was 94.

RUSSIA probably has a mole inside the NSA.

IRAQI police stopped a child suspected in a suicide bombing attempt for ISIS.

A CAT adopts a BABY SQUIRREL MONKEY... mass hysteria!

THE GREAT AUK may be resurrected using genetic information extracted from fossils and preserved organs.They'll spare no expense.

THE CINCINNATI ZOO  has deactivated its Twitter page after months of mockery and abuse over the death of the gorilla Harambe.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A suicide rodent delayed a flight at the Buffalo airport.