HOPE SANDOVAL ( and KURT VILE) dropped a video for "Let Me Get There."

STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS cover Pavement, Meat Puppets, The Stranglers, The Replacements, Eric Clapton, Echo & The Bunnymen and more at Stephen's 50th birthday party.

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER advance streams Heart Like A Levee.

ZACHARY LUCKY advance streams Everywhere a Man Can Be. And when people say "Canadiana," I think they mean Gordon Lightfoot.

THE ORWELLS share "Buddy." A catchy 1:26.

THE MAVERICKS return with “All Over Again” ahead of All Night Live.

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN: Of the many bands carrying the torch of the Velvet Underground, you could do worse than these Brits, with "Just Like Honey" and "Never Understand" capturing a bit of the VU's musical range for Twofer Tuesday, not to mention some Phil Spector and Brian Wilson.

CURTIS MAYFIELD: Traveling Soul: The Life of Curtis Mayfield, co-written by his son Todd, is excerpted at Rolling Stone.

ELVIS COSTELLO is having a New York renaissance. Buried in the story is that he is currently writing songs for a musical of the 1957 Elia Kazan film, A Face in the Crowd.

JENNY HVAL talks to The Record about uncertainty.

CMJ: NYC's longest-running music marathon is dead, or mostly dead?

BRANGELEXIT: Brad Pitt is "still totally crushed" from the series of events that have unfolded since his estranged wife, Angelina Jolie, filed for divorce.

DAKOTA FANNING is profiled by Town & Country.

ZOSIA MAMET married her longtime boyfriend, Evan Jonigkeit, in a private wedding ceremony in upstate New York Sunday.

BEN AFFLECK talks about The Batman and Deathstroke.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES has a Depp-less teaser trailer online.

SHERLOCK: Is the fourth season the final season?

LUKE CAGE: Inside Marvel's hip-hop ballad of a bulletproof black man.

RUSSIA: Two U.S. officials traveling with diplomatic passports were drugged while attending a conference in Russia last year, and one of them was hospitalized, in what officials have concluded was part of a wider, escalating pattern of harassment of U.S. diplomats by Russia.

DONKEYS left their home somewhere in Arizona for some California grass.

AS DOG OWNERSHIP in China Grows by Leaps and Bounds, Chinese Are Saying ‘No' to Dog Meat.

A MASSIVE 31-LB CAT is attracting visitors at one New Hampshire hotel.

WHEN A GRIZZLY ATTACKS, TWICE: You document it on Facebook.