MARIN COURTNEY (Real Estate) drops "Northern Highway" ahead of Many Moons. 

THE MEKONS stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set. 

CRAIG FINN played a mini-set at KUTX. 

CAYUCAS also played a mini-set at KUTX. 

JAMES McMURTRY? Also on KUTX. 

BATTLES drops "FF Bada" ahead of La Di Da Di. 

GARY PUCKETT & THE UNION GAP with the in-retrospect-remarkably-creepy "Young Girl."

WILCO's Jeff Twedy and Nels Cline took part in a Reddit AMA. 

YO LA TENGO: The Aquarium Drunkard interview. 

WHY DOES MUSIC GIVE US THE CHILLS? The Guardian investigates. 

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS is headed to Broadway with help from David Bowie, Tyler and Perry, Cyndi Lauper, TMBG and more. 

TOM BRADY & GISELLE BUNDCHEN reportedly have marital woes. 

AVRIL LEVIGNE & CHAD KROEGER are separating after two years of marriage. 

DANIEL CRAIG talks James Bond at Esquire UK. 

TAYLOR SWIFT is under fire because her new video glamorizes colonialism. 

ROSIE O'DONNELL & TATUM O'NEAL are not dating.

JANICE DICKINSON collapsed in the Big Brother house on live TV. 

BRYAN CRANSTON's transformation into LBJ is pretty remarkable. 

CATE BLANCHETT will star in a Lucille Ball biopic written by Aaron Sorkin.

DEAN JONES, whose boyish good looks and all-American manner made him Disney’s favourite young actor for such lighthearted films as That Darn Cat! and The Love Bug, died from complications resulting from Parkinson’s disease in Los Angeles on Tuesday. He was 84. Thought he was great in Other People’s Money.

SYRIA: Twelve migrants thought to be Syrian refugees were feared to have drowned off the coast of the Greek island of Kos on Wednesday after the boats carrying them sank. A number of bodies washed ashore on a beach in the Turkish resort town of Bodrum, probably connected to the disaster. Meanwhile, CIA and U.S. Special Operations forces have launched a secret campaign to hunt terrorism suspects in Syria as part of a targeted killing program that is run separately from the broader U.S. military offensive against the Islamic State, U.S. officials said.

SAUDI ARABIA is in advanced discussions with the U.S. government about buying two frigates based on a coastal warship that Lockheed Martin Corp is building for the U.S. Navy, and could reach agreement by the end of the year, according to sources familiar with the talks. My favorite part of the story is when the reporter notes this is happening "despite" the Iranian nuclear deal.

SHAKES THE CAT has a neurological disorder. But she doesn't let it stop her.

MOSCOW's LONELY ORANGUTAN will break your heart. 

STARFISH face a robot attack (designed to save the Great Barrier Reef). 

SEA SNAKE vs POISON FISH: Who you got?