CULTS took "The High Road" to the Tonight Show.

MAGIK MARKERS are streaming Surrender to the Fantasy.

DEATH GRIPS are advance streaming Government Plates. Not my bag, but Pate bassist Mike Kelly's probably. Plus, even my Dad has heard of their antics.

BLITZEN TRAPPER stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

NO AGE dropped by KEXP to play a progressive lo-fi set. 

NICK LOWE (as part of Rockpile) plays "So It Goes," circa 1978.

LOS LOBOS turns 40, talks to the L.A. Times at Lucy's El Adobe on Melrose. Get Off My Lawn.

DID GRUNGE REALLY MATTER? The A.V. Club suggests it became "an evolutionary dead end." I think the author underestimates what it did to the marketplace.

PAUL McGUINNESS, the only manager U2 has had in its 30+ year history, is stepping aside and Live Nation reportedly is set to buy Principle Management

THE TOP 100 ALBUMS of 1988, according to Slicing Up Eyeballs readers. 

ALEC BALDWIN's alleged stalker Genevieve Sabourin told a packed court room how the actor seduced her with the promise 'of the night of your life', then had sex with her only to leave in the morning before she woke up. The French-Canadian actress also described a kinky episode of phone-sex.

MARK WAHLBERG: Not a fan of actors comparing themselves to soldiers.

KIM KARDASHIAN & KANYE WEST: Already planning a second child?

LIAM HEMSWORTH talks Miley Cyrus and Eiza Gonzalez while promoting The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

CHRIS BROWN is suing a woman accusing him of battery.

JENNIFER ANISTON & JUSTIN THEROUX have reportedly put their wedding on hold again.

JONATHAN RHYS MYERS was made to wait for a substantial part of his 100K-per-episode Dracula pay until after production ended; the network was concerned about his addictions.

50 SHADES OF GREY: Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson are the cover story at Entertainment Weekly.

ANDY KAUFMAN: A woman claiming to be the comedian's daughter also claims his cancer death was a hoax.

THE UNITED STATES State Department designated the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram and its splinter group Ansaru as global terrorist organizations.

SYRIA: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham issued a call for all Muslims and factions to come to the front as the group lost many fighters in recent clashes in Aleppo, and threatened to disarm or take to sharia court those armed groups and fighters who do not respond to the call.

IRAN signed a pact with the IAEA giving it "managed access" to some of the country's nuclear facilities, but not to its most sensitive sites, including the Parchin complex.

LEBANON: In a rare public appearance, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned in Beirut that the failure to reach an agreement on the Iranian nuclear program would result in "war in the region."

CATS lunch with a baby monkey.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Militant rodents practice battle formations.

HERMAPHRODITE SEA SLUG stabs mate in head during sex.

A SWAN terrorized a newsstand.