BESNARD LAKES drop a trippy, creepy video for "People Of The Sticks."

NEW RELEASES from Todd Rundgren, Pyyramids, Young Man and more are streaming via Spinner.

JIM JAMES stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

BOAT play a quick set from their 5th studio record "Pretend to be Brave", live at KEXP. 

JAMIE LIDELL stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

THE NATIONAL drops "Demons" ahead of Trouble Will Find Me.

THE DUKES OF STRATOSPHEARE: The psychedelic front group for XTC play "The Mole From the Ministry" and "You're A Good Man, Albert Brown" for Twofer Tuesday.

BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB: Robert Levon Been talks to Drowned in Sound, where the conversation turned from the difficulty of choosing setlists to making a guest appearance with his late father's old band The Call in three weeks time.

THE ROLLING STONES: Mick Jagger talks to the Chicago Tribune about arena shows, Mick Taylor, setlists and more.

PHOENIX talks to SPIN about Bankrupt!, brainstorms, and staying humble on the road.

ANDY JOHNS, the veteran producer and engineer who worked on classic albums by Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Van Halen and many others, has died at the age of 61.

HALLE BERRY calls her second pregnancy the biggest surprise of her life. 

RHIANNA & CHRIS BROWN: Finally dunzo?

AMANDA BYNES as asked to leave a gymnastics class after further episodes of bizarre behavior, according to Page Six.

LINDSAY LOHAN: Could Coachella be fatal?

JENNA JAMESON could be charged with battery.

RUSSELL BRAND was SWATted.

ANNETTE FUNICELLO, best known as a child performer on the original “Mickey Mouse Club” and for her beach movies with Frankie Avalon, died from complications of multiple sclerosis on Monday.  She was 70.

MARGARET THATCHER, one of the most influential political figures of the 20th Century, died following a stroke. Morrissey and Billy Bragg were not fans of The Iron Lady; Andrew Sullivan was.

MALI: A force of 1000 French troops has begun sweeping a valley north of Gao to rid the area of remaining Islamist militants. On the first day of the operation, no militants were found but 340 artillery shells and high-caliber rockets were discovered and neutralized.

TURKEY: Police clashed with thousands of demonstrators in Istanbul who protested the proceedings against 275 military officials, politicians, and academics accused of plotting a coup against the Erdogan goverment.

SYRIA: Syrian rebels and the Kurdish YPG militia are said to be fighting together against the regime in Aleppo. A UN team is waiting for the go-ahead to examine allegations of chemical weapons use.

EGYPT: Clashes broke out in Cairo at Egypt's main Coptic Christian cathedral after assailants attacked the funeral of four Copts killed in earlier sectarian violence. One person has been killed and at least 80 wounded in the latest violence.

A DUCKLING imprints on a cat.

AN 18 LB. AFRICAN LEOPARD TORTOISE who went missing from an Iowa museum has been found alive in an elevator in the building.

BATS are into oral.

POODLES are not ferrets on steroids.