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SUPER FURRY ANIMALS dropped a video for "Bing Bong," their first single in seven years.

WOLF PARADE is streaming its EP 4 via Spotify.

BRAIDS stream the Companion EP.

SPORT is streaming Slow.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from The 1975, SOAK, and My Morning Jacket highlight the latest edition.

KATHLEEN HANNA covers Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark."

THE SAINTS: "(I'm Stranded)."

LOU REED remastered his solo albums for a new box set, his final project before his death. Thanks, Lou!

MIRACLE LEGION joins the pantheon of The Guardian's Cult Heroes.

YEASAYER's Anand Wilder talks to Drowned In Sound about the band's new record, his songwriting process, Phife Dawg, and more.

GUY CLARK: The “godfather” of Nashville songwriters, known for hits such as "L.A. Freeway," has died at the age of 74. Here's a lovely 2013 profile from the Austin Chronicle.

TONY BARROW: The Beatles’ first press officer, the man who came up with the phrase “the Fab Four”, has died at the age of 80.

CAMERON DIAZ talks to Harper's Bazzar about the joys of marriage, banishing tube tops, and The Longevity Book​.

KIM KARDASHIAN was accused of being a secret agent trying to promote “un-Islamic” social media use by officials in Iran.

ADRIEN BRODY is not concerned about the lingering allegations against Woody Allen.

J.K. ROWLING defended Donald Trump's right to be offensive.

CIARA lost big to FUTURE in her child custody case.

COURTNEY STODDEN  is pregnant and expecting her first child with husband Doug Hutchison.

SHANE BLACK claims Marvel vetoed a female villain in Iron Man 3 because it thought the toys wouldn't sell. Did they sell many Guy Pearces?

24: LEGACY has a trailer online.

DEFEATING ISIS: What's next for US troops in Iraq.

A BABY ALPACA is rescued from a hole.

A GERMAN SHEPHERD rescued a 7-year-old girl from a venomous Eastern diamondback rattlesnake.

GREAT WHITE WHALES are disappearing.

CICADAS are noisy, but good for the envirronment.

A SHORT DAY for me, but I have a few things for y'all...

PET SOUNDS: the Brian Wilson-helmed Beach Boys classic --  the second-greatest LP of all time, according to Rolling Stone -- turned 50 yesterday. The Toronto Star has a handy explainer of its greatness.  The HuffPost interviewed Brian Wilson and Al jardine.  At the time of its release, Capitol was not a fan of the album; it got more love in the UK, which makes this BBC documentary all the more appropos viewing (as well as the late, great George Martin dissecting "God Only Knows" with Brian). TIME has outtakes from the iconic cover photoshoot. NPR covered "Good Vibrations," the song started, but not completed, for Pet Sounds.

BLONDE ON BLONDE, one of Bob Dylan's best albums -- the ninth-greatest LP of all time, according to Rolling Stone -- also turned 50 yesterday. Rob Sheffield, Evan Robert Marshall and Billboard essay its greatness, including the evolution in Dylan's songwriting since Highway 61 Revisited.

SINEAD O'CONNOR was lost and found in Wilmette, IL.

TEGAN & SARA dropped "Stop Desire" ahead of Love Me To Death.

VARIOUS ARTISTS: A Tribute To ’90s Tribute Albums.

PRINCE: Inside His Final Days.

MARGOT ROBBIE is attached to star in and produce a Harley Quinn spinoff,  said to feature Harley and a number of other female characters from the DC Comics library.

WENDELL PIERCE, best known as Det. William ‘Bunk’ Moreland from HBO’s The Wire, was arrested around 4 a.m. on Sunday, after a dispute with a Bernie Sanders supporter.

HENRY CAVILL has split with his teenage girlfriend. Shocka.

STEVEN SPIELBERG talks about The BFG with the NYT.

SUSAN SARANDON is on Woody Allen's case.

AL QAEDA and ISIS may have a showdown in Syria.

YOU MAY KNOW IT AS BURMA: The United States plans to renew the bulk of its sanctions against Myanmar when they expire this week, but will make some changes aimed at boosting investment and trade, according to several senior U.S. officials and congressional aides.

LIBYA: In a move fraught with risk, the United States and other world powers said Monday they would supply Libya's internationally recognized government with weapons to counter the Islamic State and other militant groups gaining footholds in the chaos-wracked country's lawless regions.

A FANCY CAT attended prom.

THE SWARM: Beekeepers were busy trying to make the streets of a Northern California town safe again after a deadly swarm of bees wreaked havoc this past weekend, trapping people inside their homes and cars and dive bombing pedestrians.

THE AVETT BROTHERS drop a video for "Ain't No Man."

MARK KOZELEK is streaming an album of piano covers, Mark Kozelek Sings Favorites.

BIRD OF YOUTH advance streams Get Off. Liking this.

MUTUAL BENEFIT advance streams Skip A Sinking Stone.

DAVID BOWIE, BBC Guest DJ, circa May 1979.

PETER BJORN & JOHN share "Dominos" ahead of Breakin’ Point.

BILLY CORGAN covers the Velvet Underground's "Who Loves The Sun?" at his Chicago teahouse.

RADIOHEAD: Every song, ranked by Vulture.

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS frontman Anthony Kiedis was sent to an area hospital hours before a headlining slot at KROQ's annual Weenie Roast with extreme stomach pain.

LUSH: How the shoegazers came back.

HE SOLD HIS CDs: Can he live without them?

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Captain America: Civil War repeats atop the chart with 72.6MM on a 59 percent drop similar to The Avengers: Age of Ultron and Iron Man 3. It should remain strong next weekend. The Jungle Book places strong with 17.8MM on a leggy 28 percent drop in its fifth weekend. The debut of Money Monster shows with 15MM against a 27MM budget; it's unlikely to profit in North America but do well enough globally tomake a decent profit.  The Darkness debuted in the fourth slot with 5.1MM, which is probably okay against a 5MM budget.  Mother's Day rounds out the Top Five with 3.3MM, plummeting 71 percent in the post-holiday frame.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE has risen to the top of producers' shortlist to join Sandra Bullock in the female-centric reboot of the hit Ocean's 11 franchise.

JAMES McAVOY has grown close to his X-Men co-star Alexandra Shipp after splitting from wife Anne-Marie Duff.

MICHAEL B. JORDAN will reteam with his Creed director Ryan Coogler for Marvel Studios' Black Panther.

VANESSA HUDGENS agreed to pay a grand in restitution for carving a heart into a red rock wall in Sedona, Arizona, during a Valentine's Day trip with boyfriend Austin Butler.

JUSTIN BIEBER has had “an epiphany” about centering himself with religion and nature.

MADELEINE LEBEAU, the last surviving cast member of 1942 film Casablanca, has died at the age of 92. As Yvonne, she may have constituted an entire second front. Not too long before making the film, she herself had escaped Nazi-occupied France with her then-husband, actor Marcel Dalio.

ZOMBIE DOG? This is no way to gain re-rentry.

THOUSANDS OF LADYBUGS were released in an Oklahoma high school.

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF RED CRABS invaded California beaches.

ROMANIA's POISON CAVE harbors an array of strange beasts.

AERIAL EAST dropped a video for the pre-rock-vintage "Crazy Now."

DEVON WELSH (fmr Majical Cloudz) streams his first solo release, Down the Mountain.

THE NUMERATORS advance stream Strange.

KVELETRAK streams Nattesferd, which is not strictly my bag, but probably in Pate bassist Mike Kelly's bag.

THE CURE debuted two new songs in Nawlins.

TANYA DONNELLY shares “Wild Love” ahead of Swan Song Series.

THE AMERICAN BREED does some wonderfully bad lip-syncing in this wonderfully cheap clip for "Bend Me, Shape Me."

YACHT apologized for their sex tape hoax and their earlier non-apology for same.

X"S JOHN DOE discusses his book, Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk, at Rolling Stone.

ELBOW: Guy Harvey talks to The Quietus about his favorite albums.

DANNY FIELDS, a 60s and 70s scenester who made punk happen, is the latest of The Guardian's Cult Heroes.

KELLY RIPA talks to People about Michael Strahan's departure from Live! - and what's next for her. 

WOODY ALLEN: Ronan Farrow writes about the powerful PR machine that deters the media from investigating allegations of sexual abuse. But Allen had to sit through a joke about Roman Polanski at Cannes.

CHRIS EVANS is dating JENNY SLATE,his co-star in the upcoming Gifted.

EMMA WATSON denied avoiding tax last night after becoming the latest high-profile name listed in the Panama Papers offshore data leak.

MADONNA will pay homage to Prince at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards. Not a big fan, but I get it.

TIM BURTON would like to make a Beetlejuice sequel, but has no concrete plans.

MORLEY SAFER, who has been with the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes since 1970, is retiring.

GAME OF THRONES: George R.R. Martin has released a new chapter from his long-awaited book Winds of Winter, which is different from the HBO series.

GENDER BIAS IN HOLLYWOOD? The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has begun quietly expanding its investigation into gender discrimination in Hollywood.

VENEZUELA: Soldiers fired tear gas at stone-throwing protesters as Venezuela's opposition marched to pressure electoral authorities into allowing a recall referendum against unpopular leftist President Nicolas Maduro.

RUSSIA: The post-Cold War nuclear holiday is over.

GERMANY will increase the size of its armed forces for the first time since the end of the Cold War, the country’s top defense official said on Tuesday, as Russian saber-rattling and terror fears prod Europe’s big, pacifist power to beef up its military.

IRAQ: Video footage obtained by the Guardian shows the grueling firefight between US special forces, Kurdish commandoes and Islamic State fighters this week, in which a US Navy Seal was killed. No boots on the ground though, y'all.

A RUDE WOMBAT eats corn, has epic flatulence.

AN ESCAPED BULL in Arlington, TX, was captured by a lasso-wielding cowboy.

A COW stunned German villagers when it plummeted from the sky and damaged a house.Guess they missed Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

A MAMA GOOSE summoned the police to save its gosling.

TEGAN & SARA dropped a canine-heavy video for "100x."

MODERN BASEBALL is streaming Holy Ghost.

ANDREW BIRD stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

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

KING KHAN & THE SHRINES share  “Children of the World” as a single.

THE MELVINS cover The Beatles' "I Want to Tell You."

SPEEDY ORTIZ shares a "Death Note."

YACHT released a hoax sex tape and ignited a firestorm.

PRINCE had seen a Minneapolis-area doctor on the day before he died, and that doctor was at Prince's Paisley Park compound to deliver test results on the morning Prince was found dead, according to court records obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

WEEZER: Rivers Cuomo talks middle age, kids, and writing songs that resonate.

MINOR VICTORIES: Rachel Goswell talks to Stereogum about hearing loss, Mark Kozelek, and Slowdive's future.

OZZY OSBOURNE denied allegations that a relapse into drug and alcohol abuse was the cause of his split with wife Sharon Osbourne.

ORLANDO BLOOM & SELENA GOMEZ found love in the club — for at least one night.

KRISTEN STEWART talks to Variety about reinventing her carrer.

GWYNETH PALTROW's Goop features some pricey sex toys.

KRYPTON is coming to SyFy.

ADORABLE PUG PUPPIES swarm a toddler.

A PYTHON dropped from a hospital ceiling in Tacoma, WA.

CRABS find a new way to ruin sex on the beach.

ANIMALS TRAPPED in the Fort McMurray wildfire were rescued by a rebel pilot.