ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN cover the Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting For The Man," unplugged.

JACK WHITE played a full set at the historic Fonda Theater in Hollywood, Calif.

THE PROMISE RING's Nothing Feels Good is one of the Jade Tree catalog streaming via Bandcamp.

DONNIE & JOE EMERSON are advance streaming Still Dreamin' Wild: The Lost Recordings 1979-81. Here's a refresher on the lads.

THE ALLAH-LAs drop "501-415" ahead of Worship the Sun.

GUIDED BY VOICES: "Every other lo-fi indie band from the mid-'90s onward sounds like them." (Thx, LHB.)

NEKO CASE talks festival fashion with The New York Times.

ALEX CHILTON biographer Holly George-Warren talks to World Cafe.

BRIAN WILSON: "Songs in contention" for inclusion on his next album feature appearances from Frank Ocean, Lana Del Rey, Zooey Deschanel, and country singer Kacey Musgraves.

ANNA KENDRICK is this month's Elle cover story.

GRUMPY CAT is starring in a Lifetime Christmas movie.

ADAM LEVINE is reaching out to some of his ex-girlfriends to make amends as  he preps for his July wedding to model Behati Prinsloo.

LEA MICHELE's new boyfriend is just a (former) gigolo.

BILL MURRAY crashed another wedding...photo.

CASEY CASEM's family is pulling the plug.

SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR has a new trailer online.

IRAQ: Al-Qaeda-inspired militants pushed deeper into Iraq's Sunni heartland Wednesday, swiftly conquering Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit as soldiers and security forces abandoned their posts and yielded ground once controlled by U.S. forces. As many as 500000 people have been forced to flee Mosul after hundreds of Islamist militants took control. Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki secretly asked the Obama administration to consider carrying out airstrikes against extremist staging areas, according to Iraqi and American officials.

SYRIA: The Assad regime began freeing inmates from prisons in Damascus and Hama after declaring an amnesty for all crimes except terrorism; it extends to foreigners who entered Syria for terrorism, so long as they surrender within 30 days.

UKRAINE: Russia on Wednesday offered to restore the discounted gas price it granted Ukraine under the ousted pro-Russian president, but Ukraine demanded an even better deal and called for arbitration to settle the dispute.

VENEZUELA's attorney general ordered the arrests Wednesday of three government opponents, including a former presidential candidate and a former state oil company executive, who are wanted for questioning in an alleged plot to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro.

A CHEETAH CUB and a PUPPY, playing together... mass hysteria!

THE SWARM: Giant moths have descended on Malaysia, invading homes and even disrupting a national football match.

17 PIT BULL PUPS were dognapped in Florida. A scarred Cruella DeVille was unavailable for comment.

DATE OF THE DOLPHIN? A female animal researcher has admitted to sex with a male dolphin during a 1960s NASA-funded experiment.