DEERHUNTER drops a video for "Living My Life."

ALEX BLEEKER & THE FREAKS advance stream Country Agenda, which Stereogum compares to the Grateful Dead, but really takes in a lot of Laurel canyon-style country-rock.

BEACH HOUSE drops three tracks from its surprise album, Thank Your Lucky Stars, dure Friday. 

ANDRA DAY played a Tiny Desk Concert. 

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from Florist, Motel Beds, and the Walkmen's Hamilton Leithauser and Paul Maroon, highlight the newest edition.

DJANGO DJANGO drops “Hold The Line,” which is not a Toto cover or a Major Lazer cover. 

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD drops “Radiating Fiber Plane” as the first single from the band’s forthcoming record Global Chakra Rhythms.  

PLIMSOULS: "A Million Miles Away." Classic power-pop. Can you tell Valley Girl was on cable?

PITCHFORK MEDIA has been purchased by Condé Nast, publisher of Vogue, GQ, and Vanity Fair.

THE VILLAGE VOICE has been sold to a company controlled by investor Peter Barbey of the Reading Eagle Company, a family-owned business that says it has been publishing newspapers since 1796. 

HUSKER DU is officially open for business. 

ETERNAL SUMMERS talks to Brooklyn Vegan about CMJ, touring Europe, songwriting and more. 

JENNIFER LAWRENCE delivers an essay on Hollywood's sexism. 

EMILIA CLARKE (Game of Thrones) is Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive. 

LAMAR ODOM was found unconscious at the Love Ranch, a legal brothel in Crystal, NV.  Sen. Pat Geary unavailable for comment.

HAYDEN PANETTIERE checked into a facility to battle postpartum depression following the birth of her first child, Kaya.

HUGH GRANT (confirming prior rumors) is expecting a fourth child, his second with TV producer Anna Eberstein.

QUENTIN TARANTINO, interviewed by Bret Easton Ellis. 

EDDIE MURPHY emerges for a lengthy profile by the Washington Post. 

SYRIA: Insurgent commanders say that since Russia began air attacks in support of the Syrian government, they are receiving for the first time bountiful supplies of powerful American-made antitank missiles. 

IRAN's parliament passed a bill on Tuesday approving its nuclear deal with world powers, signaling victory for the government over hardline opponents who worry the accord opens a door to wider rapprochement with the West. 

OVER 100 SHARKS were spotted off Miami Beach. 

THE GUADALCANAL MOUSTACHED KINGFISHER, an extremely rare bird, was found and promptly killed by a scientific expedition. 

HEDGEHOGS risk being wiped out in the UK if more is not done to prevent the garden mammal being needlessly killed, wildlife experts have warned. 

SEAWORLD in California has been banned from breeding and trading any animals held in captivity.