EBBOT LUNDBERG, formerly of Soundtrack Of Our Lives, returns with "Backdrop People." 

PETER BJORN & JOHN -- minus John -- stopped by the WNYC Soundcheck stidio.

COMMON played a Tiny Desk Concert at the White House.

KINLEY advance streams Letters Never Sent.

THE GREYS drop a surprise second LP this year, Warm Shadow.

THEE OH SEES share "The Poem" ahead of An Odd Entrances.

GIRL RAY shares "Trouble."

THE FEELIES are "Slipping Into Something" that sounds inspired by Lou Reed.

ROD TEMPERTON, the British songwriter best known for Michael Jackson’s "Thriller" and Heatwave's "Boogie Nights," has died aged 66 following “a brief aggressive battle with cancer”.  BBC 2 once did an entire documentary on him.

PRINCE: The TODAY Show was given an exclusive sneak peek of Paisley Park.

THE RADIO DEPT talks to Brooklyn Vegan about politics, '90s techno, clashes with their label, Running Out of Love, and more.

LED ZEPPELIN III turns 46.

KIM KARDAHSIAN's robbers were caught on a shop's CCTV in a mirror before creeping past sleeping guard and escaping on push bikes.

BRANGELEXIT: Team Pitt notes Angeline and Brad reached a parenting plan, not a permanent joint custody agreement. Meanwhile, Angelina is moving to Malibu.

JACKIE, ft Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy, has a teaser trailer online.

DOCTOR STRANGE's latest sppt tends to corroborate a fan theory or two about the MCU version of the Sorcerer Supreme.

LAURA PREPON & BEN FOSTER are engaged after a whirlwind romance.

TORI SPELLING is expecting her fifth child with husband Dean McDermott.

DAVID LYNCH, ranked at Consequence of Sound.

STEPHEN KING wants you to chill about clowns, or is he just hoping they'll eat him last?

RUSSIA's Military Sophistication in the Arctic Sends Echoes of the Cold War.

A HOMELESS DOG gave birth to a litter on a Russian subway car.

A KANGAROO on the lam was caught in Indiana.

SUPER TERMITES could be invading Europe.

WHY BUY THE COW when you can kill it with a milk truck?