JASON ISBELL & AMANDA SHIRES covered Warren Zevon’s “Mutineer" for Letterman.

WARM SODA advance streams Symbolic Dream.

LORD HURON stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

TODD RUNDGREN, Hans-Peter Lindstrøm, and  Emil Nikolaisen are advance streaming Rundanns.

ELBOW drops "What Time Do You Call This?" from the Man Up soundtrack.

MATES OF STATE have a "Staring Contest" ahead of their You're Going To Make It EP.

MIKE VIOLA (Candy Butchers, The Wonders) drops "Stairway to Paradise."

FFS: The Franz Ferdinand/Sparks collab drops “Collaborations Don’t Work”.

THEM: "Baby, Please Don't Go" and a French TV take on "Gloria" for Twofer Tuesday.

DJANGO DJANGO talks to NME about mythology, the occult and their new LP.

WHY DO PEOPLE HATE NICKELBACK? NPR investigates.

MP3 BLOGS are still a Thing...just more niche.

SID TEPPER, the man behind hundreds of popular rock and pop hits sung by artists including Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra, died on 24 April, aged 96.

SESAME STREET dropped “Aveggies: Age of Bon Bon."

FULL HOUSE may be headed to Netflix, but an unauthorized tell-all is headed to Lifetime.

VANILLA ICE defends ADAM SANDLER.

NIKKI REED & IAN SOMERHALDER got hitched.

STANA KATIC (Castle) wed her longtime love Kris Brkljac at a private family monastery on the Dalmatian Coast in Croatia.

KHLOE KARDASHIAN & LAMAR ODOM are not talking reconciliation, but they don't want to close the door on the marriage either.

JAYNE MEADOWS ALLEN, award winning stage and screen actress, died peacefully of natural causes Sunday night at age 95. Folks will remember her for The Honeymooners, but as a kid, I dug her and Steve Allen on PBS's Meeting of Minds. 

AFGHANISTAN: Thousands of Taliban fighters attacked Afghan forces in the northern province of Kunduz in an effort to seize control of the provincial capital and outlying districts. Afghan officials have said that several areas of Kunduz are now under the jihadist group’s control.

IRAN: The world is "closer than ever" to reaching a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran but the work is far from over, with key issues unresolved, Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday told a global gathering on nuclear disarmament, where he and Iran's foreign minister met on the sidelines.

TOURIST FLIPS OFF A MONKEY, Suffers Consequences.

THE LANGUAGE OF CATS: How they're actually telling humans what to do.

A DOBERMAN who ingested nearly three wrist watches is recovering after undergoing a procedure to remove the pieces at the MSPCA's Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston.

A FOX in Chernobyl has made a large sandwich using cold meats and bread fed to him by a radio crew in the area.