NEON INDIAN & FRIENDS cover Prince's "Pop Life."

NADA SURF stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

SONNY & THE SUNSETS advance stream Moods Baby Moods.

SWANNING streams Drawing Down The Moon.

SPEEDY ORTIZ drops "Emma O" ahead of the Foiled Again EP.

DEERHOOF shared the surprisingly garage-punky “That Ain’t No Life To Me” ahead of The Magic.

STEVE GUNN drops "Park Bench Smile" ahead of Eyes on the Lines.

COURTNEY BARNETT rocked through “Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go To The Party” and “Pedestrian At Best” on Saturday night.

MATTHEW SWEET: An oral history of the making of Girlfriend.

ROCK AND ROLL IS DEAD, according to Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist Flea. And Lenny Kravitz.

BLEACHED is profiled at Aquarium Drunkard.

TEN SURREAL MOMENTS when '90s rock met mainstream television.

BEAUTY & THE BEAST: Disney's live action remake has an early teaser trailer online.

X-MEN APOCALYPSE: Oscar Isaac and director Bryan Singer address the Internet's initial not-great reaction to Apocalypse.

MADONNA responded to critics of her Prince tribute at the Billboard Music Awards.

ANGELINA JOLIE is set to join the London School of Economics as a visiting professor for the new masters course on women, peace and security for the 2016-2017 school year.

ARIANNA GRANDE stares into the harsh face of stardom at Billboard.

PAWN STARS: Chumlee told a judge on Monday he's taking a plea deal that would spare him jail time in a case stemming from the discovery of guns, marijuana and other drugs at his Las Vegas home.

STAR TREK BEYOND director Justin Lin pushed Paramount to drop a lawsuit against a fan-made Star Trek film.

AUSTRIA: A leftwing, independent candidate has narrowly prevented Austria from becoming the first EU country to elect a far-right head of state after a knife-edge contest ended with his opponent conceding defeat.

IRAQ: Clashes have been reported near Falluja hours after Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of a military operation to retake it from so-called Islamic State.

IRAN: Ahmad Karimpour, a senior adviser to the Revolutionary Guards’ elite unit al-Quds Force, said if Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei gave the order to destroy Israel, the Iranian military could do so in less than eight minutes. 

KIDS vs DOGS: Who you got?

GRIZZLIES & POLAR BEARS, now mating.

WHEN SHARKS ATTACK: An 11-year-old girl and a  57-year-old woman were attacked of the Florida coast in recent days.

LIONS were shot dead after a man stripped naked and jumped into a lion enclosure at a zoo in Chile.