STEPHEN COLBERT joined MAVIS STAPLES, BEN FOLDS, BRITTANY HOWARD, BUDDY GUY and more on Sly Stone's "Everyday People."

ROBERT FORSTER: The Go-Betweens founder streams Songs to Play.

LOU BARLOW performs in the WNYC Soundcheck studio.sh

SHEARWATER assembled a sampler of their catalogfor fans old and new.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED:Tracks from JR JR, Givers, Thunderb^tch and more highlight the latest edition.

KNICKERBOCKERS: "Lies." Someday you're gonna be lonely.

YO LA TENGO's Ira Kaplan, interviewed by Luna's Dean Wareham.

RICHARD HAWLEY talks to The Guardian about his roots, his love of folk music... and his beloved dogs.

SAINTSENECA talks to Stereogum about quantum physics and pop structures.

AL STEWART, circa 1966 (well before The Year of the Cat) is profiled at Aquarium Drunkard.

RONDA ROUSEY: The UFC fighter is starring in MGM's reboot of the 1980s cult classic Road House.

QUEEN ELIZABETH II hits for the cycle.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE talks to the New York Times about how the Hunger Games changed her life.

JON HAMM & JENNIFER WESTFELDT's split was over the issue of kids.

BRUNO MARS has been invited to perform in and "curate" the halftime show for SuperBowl 50.

CAITLYN JENNER opened up to Matt Lauer about life as a woman, criticism she's faced and even what she thinks about those Caitlyn Jenner Halloween costumes.

BEVERLY JOHNSON has found it in her heart to forgive Bill Cosby.

RUSSIA has started to build a huge military base housing ammunition depots and barracks for several thousand soldiers near the Ukrainian border, a project that suggests the Kremlin is digging in for a prolonged stand-off with Kiev.

IRANIAN Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said in a speech that was posted to Twitter that “God willing,” Israel will cease to exist in the next 25 years.

THE ISLAMIC STATE & AL QAEDA: More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military's Central Command have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda's branch in Syria were being inappropriately altered by senior officials, The Daily Beast has learned.

A RARE PINK DOLPHIN, possibly pregnant, was spotted again off the Louisiana coast.

GENETICALLY MODIFIED, GLOW-IN-THE-DARK CHICKENS may fight avian flu.

THE NATIONAL ZOO's baby panda is starting to look more like a panda.

A CAPUCHIN MONKEY learns touse  tools...to pick its nose.