PARMA VIOLETS dropped a video for "Rattlesnake Highway."

OF MONTREAL advance streams Lousy With Sylvianbriar.

COURTNEY BARNETT advance streams The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas.

PARQUET COURTS advance stream the Tally All The Things That You Broke EP.

LISSIE advance streams Back To Forever.

THE DEAD WEATHER drop a snippet of “Open Up (That’s Enough)”, the A-side to an upcoming single.

PAVEMENT: "Cut Your Hair." NO BIG HAIR!

DAVID LOWERY's crusade for musicians in the internet age is chronicled by the New York Times.

WIRE is profiled at Drowned In Sound.

KINGS OF LEON talk to the Daily Herald about fighting, making up and more.

CHVRCHES' Lauren Mayberry talks to The Guardian about online misogyny.

MIA FARROW tells Vanity Fair her biological son with Woody Allen, Ronan Farrow, may actually be the son of Frank Sinatra.  Ronan sticks the landing.

KIM & KHLOE KARDASHIAN fighting over Lamar Odom?

CORY MONTEITH was shooting heroin and downing champagne in his hotel room on the night of his death.

TOM CLANCY, whose complex, adrenaline-fueled military novels spawned a new genre of thrillers and made him one of the world’s best-known and best-selling authors, died on Tuesday in Baltimore. He was 66.

CASEY CASEM's wife won't let his kids see him? Insert long-distance dedication joke here.

THE JACKSON FAMILY loses their case against Dr. Conrad Murray.

SYRIA: Sources say the recent formation of the Army of Islam, including some 50 Islamist rebel groups but not the al Qaeda-affiliated Al Nusrah Front and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, has come at the urging of Saudi Arabia. ISIL, whose ranks are swelling with non-Syrians, is seeking to consolidate control in the north. An analyst said jihadists have secured more territory in Syria than they did in Afghanistan or Iraq.

LIBYA: Gunmen attacked the Russian Embassy in Tripoli with RPGs and other weapons. The gunmen attempted to enter the compound, the Russian foreign ministry stated, claiming the attack had been repelled. Libyan media said the embassy was looted and burned, and blamed a crowd of attackers, some armed, who were angered by the killing of a senior revolutionary commander by his Russian girlfriend or wife.

EGYPT: The Muslim Brotherhood said it has no plans to backtrack on its call for the reinstatement of Mohammed Morsi as the country's president.

IRAQ: Al Qaeda in Iraq shot down an Iraqi Army helicopter as the military was conducting an operation in the desert near Bayji; four Iraqi soldiers and were killed.

A BABOON  get's "handsy" during a live news report.

JELLYFISH shut down a Swedish nuclear plant.

A PYTHON regurgitates two cats.

THE CRAB BITE was bad; the flesh-eating bacteria was worse.