RAY CHARLES plays "What'd I Say" live; he recorded it on Feb. 18, 1959.

SUNFLOWER BEAN stops by The Current for a chat and miniset.

AIDA VICTORIA plays the World Cafe from Nashville.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features Palehound, Molly Sarlé, Sego and more.

THE DREAM SYNDICATE shares "Black Light."

THE BROTHER BROTHERS share a "Siren Song."

STRAND OF OAKS shares "Ruby."

THE PAISLEY UNDERGROUND: The Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn, The 3 O'Clock's Danny Benair and The Bangles' Vicki Peterson visit World Cafe to discuss their bands' new joint album.

RYAN ADAMS guitarist Todd Wisenbaker has condemned the singer-songwriter’s alleged history of abuse, calling Adams a “monster.”

THE GENIUS OF NILSSON, told through eight memorable covers.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Al Green's transcendent soul classic "Let's Stay Together."

JUSSIE SMOLLETT is under investigation by the FBI and the US Postal Inspection Service. His role on Empire is being slashed.

ARMIE HAMMER denies rumors he will be the next Batman.

LADY GAGA & CHRISTIAN CARINO ended their engagement.

KHLOE KARDSAHIAN & TRISTAN THOMPSON have called it quits 10 months after his cheating scandal.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: Amazon Prime hints at how far back the series will go.

THE 50 BEST MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS, according to Pitchfork.

EMMA THOMPSON, who had  begun recording one of the voice roles in the upcoming animated feature Luck, has quietly left the project because of concerns about working with John Lasseter.

KITBULL: A Pixar short dropped online.

KARL LAGERFELD, the most prolific designer of the 20th and 21st centuries and a man whose career formed the prototype of the modern luxury fashion industry, died on Tuesday in Paris. He was 85.

BRUNO GANZ, a Swiss-born actor who was best known for playing Adolf Hitler cooped up in his Berlin bunker in the highly-memed 2004 film Downfall and for portraying an angel in Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire in 1987, died Feb. 16 at his home in Zurich. He was 77.

A DOG joins in petting a cat.

BIG JUMP for a small dog.

INSECTS will not disappear over the next century, but there's more to the story.

JUSTICE the eagle is missing, and his partner, Liberty, had to spend her Valentine's Day fending off homewrecker Aaron Burrd.