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TWEEDY plays "World Away" for Conan.

LOST BOY? advance streams Canned. 

THE STAVES advance stream If I Was. 

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR advance streams Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress. 

WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE advance streams Radium Death.

BRIAN WILSON is joined by former Beach Boys bandmates Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin on "Sail Away." 

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MAGAZINE: "Shot By Both Sides" on TOTP.

LOWER DENS: Jana Hunter takes All Songs Considered on a track-by-track tour of Escape From Evil. 

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle talks to ABC Online about his debut novel Wolf in White Van. (Thx, LHB.)

THIN WHITE ROPE, a band I used to spin as a DJ, are named Cult Heroes at The Guardian. 

MARVIN GAYE's TOP TEN, according to Stereogum. 

ANGELINA JOLIE wrote about having her fallopian tubes and ovaries removed. 

MILEY CYRUS & PATRICK SCHWARZENEGGER are still an item, apparently. 

VIN DIESEL predicts that Furious 7 will win Best Picture.  Take that bet.

JON HAMM just got out of rehab, which is more than you can say for Don Draper.

PRETTY WOMAN has a 25th anniversary cast reunion. 

THE X-FILES returns for a six-episode event series which will be helmed by creator/executive producer Chris Carter with stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. 

MATEUS WARD (Weeds) is rumored to have auditioned to be Marvel's new Spider-Man.

NATO and Swedish QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) interceptors were scrambled to identify and shadow a formation of two Russian Air Force Tu-22M Backfire bombers escorted by two Su-27 Flanker aircraft.

IRAN: An Iranian official on Tuesday rebuked the chief of the U.N. atomic agency for demanding snap inspections of Iran's nuclear sites, saying the request hindered efforts to reach an agreement with world powers, state TV reported. 

SYRIA: he Islamic State group has trained more than 400 children in Syria as fighters in 2015 alone, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said Tuesday.

AFGHANISTAN: The United States will halt the withdrawal of 9800 troops from Afghanistan, half of whom were scheduled to leave in the months ahead, and instead keep them in the country through the end of 2015.

FRITZ tries to catch food. Emphasis on tries. In slo-mo.

A SEA LION PUP wriggled onto a surfboard to ride the California waves. 

WOOLY MAMMOTH GENES have been spliced into an unsuspecting elephant. They spared no expense. 

A SUPER-SALAMANDER lived during the rise of dinosaurs was among Earth’s top predators more than 200 million years ago. 

JACK WHITE backs ROBERT PLANT on "The Lemon Song."

RYLEY WALKER'S Primrose Green is streaming at NPR.

SIMON JOYNER is advance streaming Grass, Branch & Bone.

COURTNEY BARNETT plays Stubb's BBQ in Austin.

SETH AVETT & JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD cover Elliott Smith at The Current.

BUILT TO SPILL shared "Never Be the Same", a new song from their forthcoming Untethered Moon LP.

BLUR drops “Lonesome Street” ahead of The Magic Whip.

MODEST MOUSE played "The Ground Walks, With Time In A Box" and "Coyotes," on CBS This Morning.

DAVID CROSBY hit a jogger with his car at approximately 50 mph Sunday evening. 

ELVIS COSTELLO is publishing his memoirs this Fall.

LAURA MARLING discusses Short Movie at Exclaim.

JIMI HENDRIX's “Foxy Lady” Revealed?

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION has a trailer online.  And Disney will refrain from referring to Star Wars: Rogue One this summer in most promotional materials aimed at the general consumer.

MILA KUNIS admiited she married Ashton Kutcher.

VIN DIESEL surprised audiences at a public screening of Furious 7 and broke down while paying tribute to the late Paul Walker.  He also named his daughter after Walker.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE says X-Men: Apocalypse will be her last turn as Mystique.

SCOTT DISICK's stint in rehab includes clubbing.

CANDICE BERGEN is happily acknowledging and embracing her weight gain.

DARREN SHARPER: The five-time Pro Bowler will spend the next two decades behind bars for drugging and raping multiple women in Louisiana.

YEMEN could be the next Syria. Houthi rebel fighters have taken control of crucial installations in Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest city.

IRAN:  Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has cancer. After him are men even less likely to comply with a nuclear deal.

PONIES fend off a Wild Boar.

DOLPHINS have dark secrets. Just ask George C. Scott.

38 ROYAL PYTHONS, which included eight pregnant females, were taken from a house in St Helens.

THE SWARM: A bee attack during a baseball game in St. George forced players and spectators to flee and sent one man to the hospital.

SPOON played "Rainy Taxi" and "“I Just Don’t Understand” on Kimmel, icymi.

FATHER JOHN MISTY plays and chats on World Cafe Live.

TWIN SHADOW stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

STEVE EARLE stopped by New York's legendary Electric Lady Studios for a chat and a set on WFUV including "Hey Joe."

JACKSON BROWNE stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

LEONARD COHEN drops "Never Gave Nobody Trouble" ahead of Can't Forget: A Souvenir of the Grand Tour, a live album featuring rarities.

JIMMY WEBB, one of America's master songwriters, plays "Elvis and Me" on Steve Dahl's 1991 NYE PPV event.

COURTNEY BARNETT gets a lengthy profile at Pitchfork.

THE BEST ALT-COUNTRY of 2015 (So Far), according to The Guardian.

WARPAINT has a raft of new material, but no album coming.

MADONNA, ranked by Stereogum.

GWYNETH PALTROW wants you to know she's  "incredibly close to the common woman."

KATIE HOLMES: Not speaking to Tom Cruise. Not dating Jamie Foxx.

JUDE LAW and his ex Catherine Harding have welcomed a baby girl.

KIM KARASHIAN may be having too much sex.

DOLCE & GABBANA told CNN they respect how all people live after the uproar over their comments about children born through in vitro fertilization.

ASHLEY JUDD wants to press charges against internet trolls.

LIBYA: Brigade 166, a coalition of "both moderate and extremist Islamists" from Misurata, has launched a campaign to drive the Islamic State from Sirte. rmy chief Khalifa Haftar pledged to retake Benghazi from Islamist forces within a month.

SYRIA's military took control of a village north of partly insurgent-held Aleppo on Wednesday, state media and a monitoring group said, giving it increased control of an area which armed groups have used as a supply route into the city.

IRAN: With less than a week to the deadline for an Iran nuclear deal, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry worked with top Iranian and European officials Wednesday to try to close gaps blocking agreement.

IRAQ: Iranian-backed militias rampaged through central Iraq in reprisal against the native Sunni population.

A COW takes her first steps with prostheic legs.

MAN'S BEST FRIEND:  It's Science.

THE FOX who thinks he's a hound.

MANATEES hit Florida in record numbers for Spring Break.

KEVIN DREW backed ANDY KIM on "Sister OK" at the Ed Sullivan Theater.

VETIVER is advance streaming Complete Strangers.

COURTNEY BARNETT advance streams Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit via iTunes radio.

THE PUNCH BROS played a Tiny Desk Concert.

THE NATIONAL played with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at the MusicNOW Festival.

DJANGO DJANGO drops “Reflections" ahead of Born Under Saturn.

THOSE DARLINS cover The Vibrators' "Sweet Sweet Heart."

ELVIS PERKINS gets a hand from Alec Ounsworth on a cover of Ounsworth's "Mexican Ritual."

THE MOODY BLUES hit the charts with "Go Now" before going psychedelic.

KIM GORDON talks to NME about her memoir, Lana Del Rey, and "extreme noise cleansing."

SETH AVETT & JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD  talk about Ellito Smith at the NY Observer. (Thx, LHB.)

VIET CONG addresses the controversy over the band's name.

GEORGE MARTIN, as profiled by The Guardian on March 13, 1969.

VIN DIESEL welcomed a third child.  Will he name it Groot?

BRUCE JENNER got a nose job in advance of his sex change.

JIMMY KIMMEL has had two penis surgeries.

ELTON JOHN was snapped with a Dolce and Gabbana bag, two days after declaring a boycott of the designers.  Maybe he just had the bag left over.

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN is headed to the small screen.

YEMEN: The Pentagon is unable to account for more than 500 million in U.S. military aid given to Yemen, amid fears that the weaponry, aircraft and equipment is at risk of being seized by Iranian-backed rebels or al-Qaeda.

THE ISLAMIC STATE: A former U.S. Air Force veteran has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly trying to join ISIS, the brutal terrorist group wreaking havoc in Syria and Iraq, after watching their online propaganda videos.

IRAN has deployed advanced rockets and missiles to Iraq to help fight the Islamic State in Tikrit, a significant escalation of firepower and another sign of Iran's growing influence in Iraq.

A GOOSE goes too far imitating Steve Martin.

THOUSANDS OF SNOW GEESE migrating from Mexico to their Alaskan nesting grounds were found dead in Idaho: “Basically, they just fell out of the sky."

A RACCOON was rescued after getting its head stuck in a tree.

A DOG, Autotuned.

COURTNEY BARNETT plays "Depreston" on The Ellen Degeneres Show.

THE CRIBS advance stream For All My Sisters.

MODEST MOUSE is streaming five tracks from Strangers to Ourselves via Spotify.

MARINA & THE DIAMONDS stream Froot via Spotify.

THE NEW STRYCHNINES turned out to be most of Mudhoney, YFF Scott McCaughey, and more.

THE FEELIES: The Jonathan Demme-directed "Away" and a live take on "Deep Fascination" for Twofer Tuesday.

LEONARD COHEN defeated NICKELBACK at the Juno Awards, thereby avoiding world war on the Great White North.

GANG OF FOUR's Andy Gill has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the name of the group Viet Cong.

GLEN HANSARD talks about the late Jason Molina on Weekend Edition.

FROM THE JAMES GANG to THE ALL SAVED FREAK BAND: Dangerous Minds profiles Glenn Schwartz.

THE JUSTIN BIEBER ROAST'S 10 Meanest Jokes. NSFW language.

SHAILENE WOODLEY talks to The Observer about learning new life-skills, working on a biopic of Edward Snowden - and cleaning her teeth with clay.

KATE HUDSON & CHRIS MARTIN: It's all happening?

JESSICA LANGE is leaving American Horror Story.

PATRICK SCHWARZEEGGER  might be taking a wrecking ball to his relationship with Miley Cyrus.

COMMUNITY put a Season 6 teaser online.

YEMEN's dominant rebel Houthi group has released Prime Minister Khaled Bahah and all his cabinet ministers, after nearly two months under house arrest.

SYRIA: Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s remarks suggesting a willingness to negotiate with Bashar al-Assad to end Syria’s civil war ignited a storm of speculation over whether the United States has softened its opposition to the Syrian president.

IRAN: Executions in Iran have soared under president Rouhani, according to an Oslo-based Iranian human rights group, with an average of two now being carried out every day.

IRAQ: The operation to retake the city of Tikrit has stalled as troops suffer heavy casualties at the hands of Islamic State militants, raising concerns over whether the pro-government fighters are ready for major offensives.

AFGHANISTAN: The Obama administration is abandoning plans to cut the number of US forces in Afghanistan to 5500 by year's end, bowing to military leaders who want to keep more troops, including many into the 2016 fighting season, US officials say.

CIA cash ended up with al Qaeda.

CAT on CAT violence. Break the cycle.

LAST MAN STANDING: Naoto Matsumura continues to feed animals left in the Fukushima exclusion zone.

A STOLEN GOAT was to be part of a prom pitch.

SHELTER DOGS are trained to locate orcas, as well as the rarest gorilla species known to man.