THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS performs Destiny's Child's "Bills, Bills, Bills" for the A.V. Club Undercover. RYAN ADAMS drops a three-track single on Spotify. WIN WIN advance streams Primaries. CLASS ACTRESS: Dance music isn't really my genre, but the Movies EP is exec produced by Giorgio Moroder and sounds it. SONGS OF THE SUMMER, 1962-2015, streaming via NPR on Spotify. IRON & WINE and BEN BRIDWELL cover Talking Heads' "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)". BELLE & SEBASTIAN played "Allie" and "Suki in the Graveyard" for Seth Meyers. The latter is one of my fave tracks from the band, tho this take is a little subdued to start. DAVID BOWIE announced the first in a series of career-spanning box sets. WOLF ALICE talks to The Guardian about taking years to make a debut LP. LOW: Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker talk to Stereogum about their long, slow trip and their upcoming LP. JENNY HVAL talks to Pitchfork about a particular form of soft rock. KIM KARDASHIAN & KANYE WEST underwent an IVF gender-selection process this spring to predetermine baby No. 2's sex. DIDDY is now also charged with making terrorist threats during the alleged fight with a UCLA football coach. BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN is in hospice care and family members are now just waiting for the inevitable. BRIAN WILLIAMS is getting a frosty welcome at MSNBC. WILL ARNETT has split from girlfriend Arielle Vandenberg. SHIA LeBEOUF received 20 stitches and 13 staples to his head and finger following a bloody onset injury while filming a movie in North Dakota. SPIDER-MAN: Marvel and Sony have found their Peter Parker — The Impossible actor Tom Holland. EGYPT reportedly intends to establish a free trade zone with the Eurasian Economic Union, comprising Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia, by the end of 2016. Losing economic influence with Egypt would represent a major reversal of bipartisan US policy dating back to the Nixon and carter administrations. Meanwhile, Muslim Brotherhood clerics call for the overthrow of the current government. AFGHANISTAN: Do you think it couldn't get much worse? SAUDI diplomats in Khartoum believed Iran shipped advanced nuclear equipment including centrifuges to Sudan in 2012, according to a document leaked last week that WikiLeaks says is a cable from the embassy. IRAN's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ruled out freezing sensitive nuclear work in the country for a long time and said sanctions imposed on it should be lifted as soon it reaches a final deal with major powers, state TV reported. Also, the deal would be unlikely to improve the world’s ability to react to a sudden effort by Iran to build a bomb. So maybe not surprising that five former members of President Obama's inner circle of Iran advisers have written an open letter expressing concern that a pending accord to stem Iran's nuclear program "may fall short of meeting the administration's own standard of a ‘good' agreement" and laying out a series of minimum requirements that Iran must agree to in coming days for them to support a final deal. A PUG's EYE VIEW of Dodger Stadium. MOOSE RIDE sparks an investigation in Canada. A NOTORIOUS INVASIVE WORM has invaded the US. No word on whether it raps. A FLUORESCENT LAMB ended up mistakenly being eaten in France.
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