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.