CHARLI XCX reels off a new wave cover of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off." 

FATHER JOHN MISTY streams I Love You, Honeybear.

SLUTEVER advance streams their Almost Famous EP.

IN TALL BUILDINGS advance streams Driver.

KRILL advance streams A Distant Fist Unclenching.

THE MINUS 5 drops “The History You Hate" --with Jeff Tweedy sitting in alongside Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck--ahead of Dungeon Golds.

THE GO! TEAM drops "Blowtorch" ahead of The Scene Between.

LORD HURON drops "Fool For Love" ahead of Strange Trails.

MORRIS DAY and the HAIM played "Jungle Love" for Kimmel.

BELLE & SEBASTIAN: Stuart Murdoch talks to Cool Hunting about the band's new record, the duplicity of naming influences and being a working musician in 2015. (Thx, Frank Yang.)

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN will likely record a new album.

KATHLEEN HANNA talks to the A.V. Club about buffalo chicken, Destiny's Child, and the sketchy things she did to McDonald's apple pies.

THE REPLACEMENTS hit the road for the first time since 1991.

JON STEWART is leaving The Daily Show. Was Jimmy Fallon getting too close?

BRIAN WILLIAMS is leaving the NBC Nightly News for six months (at least).

BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN, despite rumors, will not be taken off life support on the third anniversary of her mother Whitney Houston's death.

SHIRLEY MANSON: Garbage's frontwoman turned Kanye West's post-Grammys rant against him.

JOHN LEGEND defended Kanye West's Grammy antics, then backpedalled.

LEONARDO DiCAPRIO was spotted making out with a model in front of ex-fling Rhianna.

JENNIFER CARPENTER & SETH AVETT are expecting.

JUSTIN BIEBER has been taking lots of anger management classes recently but he hasn't done a single hour of community service because of a soccer injury.

UKRAINE: Rockets killed more than 10 civilians and soldiers deep in Ukrainian government-held territory on Tuesday and rebels pushed on with an assault on an army-held rail junction, setbacks that showed Kiev's position worsening on the eve of peace talks.

THE ISLAMIC STATE: Kayla Jean Mueller, an American aid worker captured in northern Syria in 2013. is dead, according to the Islamic State.

YEMEN: The United States is closing its embassy in Yemen amid political deadlock and deteriorating security conditions after the takeover of the country by Shiite rebels, two U.S. officials said.

JORDAN has deployed "thousands" of troops at its border with Iraq as it ramps up a campaign against ISIS militants who set a pilot ablaze, two Jordanian government officials told NBC News on Tuesday.

SYRIA receives “information” about air strikes by the US-led coalition against the Islamic State, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published on Tuesday.

COPY CAT learns dog tricks.

BATS take their revenge on Ozzy Osbourne.

A CURIOUS LIZARD goes Peeping Tom on some frogs.

WASPS use facial recognition to identify intruders.