WIRE recruited Jeff and Sam Tweedy, Bob Weston (Mission of Burma) and many more to help perform the art-punkers' "Pink Flag" in Chicago.

VILLAGERS stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

PATRICK WATSON stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

CHRISTOPHER PAUL STELLING performs in the WNYC Soundcheck studio.

HOP ALONG performs in the WNYC Soundcheck studio.

CRAIG FINN of The Hold Steady drops  "Newmyer's Roof," ahead of his solo LP, Faith In The Future.

EARLY GHOST drops a groovy new single “Now I Always Wonder If I Like It Here.”

PARQUET COURTS drops a cover of Joey Pizza Slice’s “Pretty Girls."

THE MUSIC EXPLOSION: "Little Bit O'Soul."

WOLF ALICE: The Best of What's Next.

LUNA: Dean Wareham's reunion tour diary.

THE NATIONAL's Bryce Dressner talks to Drowned In Sound about his solo work.

TORTOISE: Doug McCombs gives a rare interview to Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite.

SEAN PENN & CHARLIZE THERON have broken off their engagement and called it quits.

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD's main stunt doubles got married after meeting on set.

EMMA STONE talks to the WSJ about working with Woody Allen, the story behind that Andrew Garfield paper bag and her next project: a musical with Ryan Gosling.

BEN AFFLECK & JENNIFER GARNER: Trouble In Paradise?

THE WALKING DEAD'S Emily Kinney and Norman Reedus are seeing each other.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE & CHRIS PRATT are banking big paydays to make Passengers.

TOMMY CHONG is battling cancer once again.

RUSSIA announced that it will expand its nuclear arsenal, sparking concerns about a renewed arms race as old Cold War rivals Moscow and Washington plan to increase their military capacity amid rising tensions over Ukraine.

IRAN and six powers are still apart on all main elements of a nuclear deal with less than two weeks to go to their June 30 target date and will likely have to extend their negotiations, two diplomats tell The Associated Press.. US Secretary of State John Kerry signaled for the first time on Tuesday that the United States was prepared to ease economic sanctions on Iran without fully resolving evidence suggesting that Iran's scientists have been involved in secret work on nuclear weapons. The supposed framework actually required the IAEA's concerns about PMDs to be addressed before sanctions relief.

IRAQ: The U.S. will fall way short of meeting its goal of training 24000 Iraqi forces to fight Islamic State militants by this fall, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday on Capitol Hill.

A BABY CHICK with separation anxiety.

A CHEETAH EXHIBIT is not a place to drop your son. The More You Know.

CHINESE POLICE DOGS form a chow line.

A CHIHUAHUA PUP taken in a burglary has been reunited with its owners after the search for her went viral on Facebook.