JON PRATT: Pate's frontman dropped "Silvertone" on his website, mixing Westerberg with The Who, Tommy James...and Pate. THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH played a mini-set on CBS This Morning. MICHAEL SHANNON: The acclaimed actor joined a band of mostly Chicago-area musicians for a mini-set including songs by The Smiths and the Velvet Underground. BEN BROWNING (Cut Copy) advance streams his full-length solo debut, Turns. Still synthy, but classically melodic. CITIZEN advance streams the gnarly Everybody Is Going to Heaven. GARDENS & VILLA drops "Fixations," ahead of Music For Dogs. PHILLY BOY ROY, a/k/a indie drummer Jon Wurster, covers Styx's "Renegade" and eats pizza from Lou Malnati's. YO LA TENGO: Ira Kaplan talks to Newsweek about Stuff Like That There, which is a sequel of sorts to Fakebook. VAN MORRISON talks to The Guardian about his childhood, his parents’ love of music, about hearing the blues in Belfast, and about his dream of becoming … a vet. MARK KOZELEK emailed The Guardian, then called the interviewer a "b^tch" onstage. THE SEX PISTOLS will now be helping to oil the wheels of the capitalist machine as the band’s name and artwork are to feature on a range of credit cards. AMBER HEARD: Mrs. Johnny Depp shows her true colors in ELLE's July issue. CHARLIE SHEEN was taken by ambulance to a local hospital after eating bad clams. CHRIS PRATT clarified his remark that his prior weight made him impotent. MILEY CYRUS phones Paper from the middle of the jungle. CHRIS BROWN reportedly got burned by friends who told him Karrueche Tran was dying to get back together with him — which led to the nightclub blowup that made Chris look like an obsessed ex-BF. VINCENT BUGLIOSI, the former Los Angeles deputy district attorney who prosecuted the Manson family, passed away Monday night at a Los Angeles hospital following a battle with cancer. He was 80. VINCENT MUSETTO, author of classic New York Post headlines, has passed away at 74. THE ISLAMIC STATE: What if they won? Meanwhile, American intelligence agencies have extracted valuable information about the Islamic State’s leadership structure, financial operations and security measures by analyzing materials seized during a Delta Force commando raid last month that killed a leader of the terrorist group in eastern Syria, according to United States officials. Also, ISIS’s victory in Ramadi may mean containment is the best the US can do now. IRAN is spending billions of dollars a year to prop up the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, according to the U.N.'s envoy to Syria and other outside experts. These estimates are far higher than what the Obama administration, busy negotiating a nuclear deal with the Tehran government, has implied Iran spends on its policy to destabilize the Middle East. BARRY THE DOG loves his bicycle; he loves to ride his bike. FIGO, a service dog, jumped between her owner and an oncoming bus. "WORM BALLS" baffle Texas park rangers. A BABY KOALA clung to its mother during life-saving surgery.
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