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COMMUNIONS drops a video for “Forget It’s A Dream," and it seems oddly 80s to me.

PAUL WELLER played a Tiny Desk Concert.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED is Guest DJed by the soulful Leon Bridges.

ADULT MOM advance streams their debut LP, Momentary Lapse Of Happily.

BEAK> is streaming their debut EP.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS drop "Used to Haunt" from the Paper Towns soundtrack.

DEER TICK drops “Grandfather Song” as an outtake from their last LP.

NEW ORDER gets "Restless" ahead of Music Complete.

MATTHEW E WHITE covers Caole King for Aquarium Drunkard.

ELO: Because I "Can't Get It Out Of My Head."

DESTROYER's Dan Bejar reveals his inspirations to the New York Times Magazine.

THE POGUES launched their own Irish Whiskey.

BEACH HOUSE talks to NME about messages from the ether.

KEITH RICHARDS, Lord of the Undead, tokes up for breakfast, but is unsure whether to leagalize it.

TOM CRUISE performed The Weeknd's "Can't Feel My Face" (and some oldies) in a lip-sync battle with Jimmy Fallon.

IVANA TRUMP once accused the real estate tycoon of ‘rape,’ although she later clarified: not in the ‘criminal sense.’

BLAKE SHELTON to MIRANDA LAMVERT: Your stuff's on the porch.

BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN got extremely drunk the night before her mom died, fell asleep in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and flooded the room.

GWYENTH PALTROW is hawking expensive hip-hop themed pearly clutches.

AUSTRALIA is encouraged by UN Security Council support for an international criminal tribunal into last year's MH17 crash.

THE ISLAMIC STATE: An apparent Islamic State recruitment document found in Pakistan's lawless tribal lands reveals that the extremist group has grand ambitions of building a new terrorist army in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and triggering a war in India to provoke an Armageddon-like "end of the world."

IRAN wants its own officials to take soil samples at a site where it is alleged to have experimented with ways to detonate a nuclear weapon, and the U.N. agency probing the suspicions may agree provided it is allowed to monitor the process, two officials told The Associated Press Tuesday.

HOW TO SPEAK CAT: Kitty Communication.

AN AMERICAN MAN is being sought in connection with a case that has drawn international attention -- the killing of Cecil the lion -- Zimbabwean officials said Tuesday.

KILLER SEAGULLS terrorize the UK, Bodega Bay.

A RACOON was chillin' in the Mets clubhouse.

KEITH RICHARDS, Lord of the Undead, dropped a video for "Trouble."

JASON ISBELL played the Newport Folk Festival.  Isbell, btw, is topping the charts.

COURTNEY BARNETT played the Newport Folk Festival. 

TITUS ANDRONICUS performed in the WNYC Soundcheck studio. 

CALEXICO performed ina vineyard for Oregon Public Broadcasting. 

THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS: "Fall" and "Sleep Comes Down" for Twofer Tuesday.

LED ZEPPELIN: Jimmy Page discusses the band's fina years and more with The Guardian. 

NEIL YOUNG, THE DOORS, JOURNEY, and BONNIE RAITT return to the BBC. 

FOALS: Yannis Philippakis tells The 405 all the details of how some their latest workcame into being through subconscious imagery, intuition and not over-thinking the process. (Thx, Frank Yang.) 

PLAYLISTS are curating the future of music. 

BILL COSBY: New York magazine talked to his 35 accusers. The article was knocked offline by a hacker for much of Monday.

BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN's death is now a homicide investigation. 

JOE JACKSON: Miccael Jackson's dad (not the British new wave pianist)  suffered 3 heart attacks.

SHIA LaBEOUF and girlfriend Mia Goth were involved in a big fight in Europe on Friday evening, and ET has obtained exclusive video of the incident. 

BUGS BUNNY turned 75 years yesterday. Must be the vegan diet. 

THE ISLAMIC STATE is winning or losing, depending on whoch Obama Administration official you ask. 

SAUDI ARABIA has resumed air strikes in Yemen, hours after a humanitarian truce came into effect.  Also,  Saudi Arabia's foreign minister on Monday denounced "aggressive statements" by Iran, intensifying the verbal sparring between the regional rivals after a global deal on Tehran's nuclear program.

THE SYRIAN ARMY has been forced to give up some areas in order to retain others in the war against rebels, now in its fifth year, President Bashar al-Assad has acknowledged. 

A PUG snores in his pool. 

DOGS get their own staircases in a home in Vietnam. 

OHIO ZOO OFFICIALS say they are pressing charges against a man who jumped a fence to pet cougars, then posted his video on YouTube. Petting cougars never works out.

A BISON attacked a selfie-seeker at Yellowstone.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE LOVIN' SPOONFUL! The obligatory "Summer in the City" because of course.  But let's do the other big hits: "Daydream," "Do You Believe in Magic," and "You Didn't Have To Be So Nice."  Also, the band gets some orchestral backing on "Darlin' Be Home Soon," which is lesser-known today, but which reached No. 15 on the Billboard charts in 1967.

THE MYNABIRDS advance steam Lovers Know.

RED RIVER DIALECT advance streams Tender Gold and Gentle Blue.

BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE advance streams At Least For Now.

LIANNE LA HAVAS advance streams Blood.

LED ZEPPELIN drops an alternate (and decidedly lesser, imho) version of "When The Levee Breaks."

WILCO lists their 17 favorite recent albums, including the reissue of Game Theory's Real Nighttime.

FAITH NO MORE ceebrates their contrariness with The Guardian.

THE KINKS visit a hair salon, circa 1964.

NEGATIVLAND's Don Joyce died Wednesday at 71.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are: Pixels, which is currently scoring 19 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Paper Towns, which is scoring 61 percent; and Southpaw, scoring 52 percent.

MIRANDA LAMBERT claims BLAKE SHELTON was way more into The Voice than her, and she felt like an abandoned wife.

DANIEL RADCLIFFE, a/k/a Harry Potter and the star of The Dogwalker, just turned 26. Here he is working magic on Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady."

KING ARTHUR: Entertainment Weekly looks at Guy Ritchie's upcoming reimagining of the legend.

KELLY RUTHERFORD lost her child custody bid.

JURASSIC WORLD 2: Director-writer Colin Trevorrow and co-writer Derek Connolly confirmed with ETonline that they will script the next installment.

THE REVENANT: Veteran crewmembers who have toiled on director Alejandro G. Inarritu's The Revenant say the director's follow-up to Birdman could turn out to be epic and Oscar-worthy. Some also say that making the film has been by far the worst experience of their careers — "a living hell," as one bluntly puts it.  Leonardo DiCaprio seems to have survived okay.

IRAQ has for the first time deployed soldiers trained by the U.S.-led coalition in their campaign to retake the city of Ramadi from Islamic State militants, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

IRAN:The UN's nuke watchdogs will be relying on Iran to take samples at Parchin and other sites for its "possible military dimensions" (PMD) investigation.  USA Today discusses four key questions about the nuke deal.

A DOG saved by CPR.

A FIVE-DAY-OLD SEAL became separated from its mother and stranded in a field of cows.

A CAT rescued from a fire now nurses other animals at the pet hospital.

ARMADILLOS rae spreading leprosy in Florida.

DUM DUM GIRLS released an alternate video for "Coming Down."

RICHARD THOMPSON performs in the WNYC Soundcheck studio.

GUSTER played Clearwater 2015.

ANTARCTIGO VESPUCCI advance streams the power-poppy Leavin’ La Vida Loca.

SAM PREKOP & ARCHER PREWITT (The Sea & Cake) stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

BLITZEN TRAPPER drops "Lonesome Angel" ahead of All Cross This Land. Very Laurel Canyon-y.

MARK LANEGAN: Brooklyn Vegan has his demo for "No Cross," as well as Lanegan and Beth Orton covering Marc Almond's 1988 UK hit "Your Kisses Burn."

FUZZ: Ty Segall's heavy power trio drops "Pollinate" and "Rat Race" ahead of II.

JASON ISBELL: Making the Ordinary Exceptional.

TITUS ANDRONICUS: Patrick Stickles delves into the emotions of The Most Lamentable Tragedy with Exclaim.

THE CLIENTELE: Alasdair MacLean is interviewed by Music is Love about influences, peers, and geography. (Thx, Frank Yang.)

WAYNE CARSON,  a Grammy-winning songwriter whose hits included “Always on My Mind” and “The Letter,” died on Monday in Nashville. He was 72.

BLAKE SHELTON & MIRANDA LAMBER: Now it's her turn to leak charges of infidelity.

NICKI MINAJ & TAYLOR SWIFT got into a Twitter squabble over the VMAs, and it has become the pretext for Deep Thoughts.

KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN has met with top Hollywood divorce attorney, “disso queen” Laura Wasse.

SPECTRE has a boss new trailer online.

ASHTON KUTCHER & MILA KUNIS married well before their July 4th ceremony.

CHRIS BROWN's departure from Manila was delayed on Wednesday because of fraud allegations against him and his promoter for a cancelled concert last New Year’s Eve.

CHARLIZE THERON once invited Pres Obama to a strip club.

RUSSIA would take military "countermeasures" if Sweden were to join Nato, according to the Russian ambassodor.

IRAN: National Security Adviser Susan Rice on Wednesday acknowledged the existence of so-called “side” agreements between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Rice said the documents between Iran and the IAEA are not public, but the administration has been informed on their contents and will share details with members of Congress in a classified briefing on Capitol Hill. AFAIK, these types of agreements with the IAEA are common.However, the Obama administration’s claim that the Iran nuclear accord provides for airtight verification procedures is coming under challenge from nuclear experts with long experience in monitoring Tehran’s program.

FRANK, the Happiest Dog Ever. (Thx, Zoey.)

A BABY ELEPHANT busts a move.

A CAT awakens from his neutering, is not amused.

CROWS are massive jerks. And stare unamazed.

KURT VILE drops "Pretty Pimpin'" ahead of b'lieve i'm goin down.

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA visited WFUV's Studio A for a chat and mini-set.

BIG TALK advance streams Straight In, No Kissin'. 

SPILL advance streams their self-titled debut EP. 

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features tracks from Wilco, Sports, Palehound,  Night Beds and more in the latest edition.

TITUS ANDRONICUS: Patrick Stickles talks about his psychological damas and his new rock opera with Esquire. (Thx, Frank Yang.)

THE ZOMBIES (including the original members) will be touring Odessey & Oracle in the US this Fall.

DEF LEPPARD dismissed reports that US Presidential candidate Donald Trump will introduce the band at an upcoming live show. 

LYDIA LUNCH, still raging, rages against the commercialization of pop at The Guardian.

BLAKE SHELTON & MIRANDA LAMBERT: Did they divorce due to infidelity? Or was it that she didn't want kids? 

MELANIE GRIFFITH & ANTONIO BANDERAS finally divorced.

KHLOE KARDASHIAN & LAMAR ODOM finally divorced. 

THE MTV VMA nominations went to these folks. 

BENICIO DEL TORO has the offer to play the villain in Star Wars: Episode VIII.

E.L. DOCTOROW, a leading figure in contemporary American letters whose popular, critically admired and award-winning novels — including “Ragtime,” “Billy Bathgate” and “The March” — situated fictional characters in recognizable historical contexts, among identifiable historical figures and often within unconventional narrative forms, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 84 and had homes in Manhattan and Sag Harbor, N.Y.

THE 100 GREATEST AMERICAN FILMS, according to world film critics surveyed by the BBC. 

THE ISLAMIC STATE  is transforming into a functioning state that uses extreme violence — terror — as a tool.

IRAN: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said a speech by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday vowing to defy American policies in the region despite a deal with world powers over Tehran’s nuclear program was “very disturbing”. 

A CHAMELEON pops bubbles. 

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A "drunk" squirrel caused hundreds of pounds of damage at a private members' club in Worcestershire.

SNAILS slug it out in world championship racing.

A GRIZZLY BEAR pushes a woman trapped in a glass cage of emotion for a Japanese game show.