THE NATIONAL is streaming I Am Easy to Find, their short film directed by Mike Mills and starring Alicia Vikander.

PEDRO THE LION visits World Cafe.

HEATHER WOODS BRODERICK plays a Stereogum Session.

PURPLE MOUNTAINS, the new band from Silver Jews’ David Berman, shares “All My Happiness Is Gone,” Berman’s first new music since 2008.

MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND shares “Quiet Loud.”

V.V. LIGHTBODY shares "Baby, Honestly."

MEN I TRUST shares the mellow funk of "Norton Commander (All We Need)."

JENNY LEWIS launches her own strain of weed.

LINDA RONSTADT: Underrated?

CATE LE BON:  The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at John Denver's pastoral folk-pop amble "Sunshine On My Shoulders."

FELICITY HUFFMAN pleaded guilty Monday in the college admissions bribery scheme; prosecutors said they would recommend four months in prison, but the judge could choose not to put her behind bars.

BRITNEY SPEARS has joined the social media movement to free her from her conservatorship, and she told the judge as much Friday.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME originally had a much different story for Black Widow.

SEQUELS you didn't know were being made.

THE MATRIX 4 will not involve the Wachowskis, contra earlier reprorts.

DORIS DAY,  one of Hollywood’s most popular stars of the 1950s and ’60s who was Oscar-nommed for Pillow Talk and starred in her own TV show, has died. She was 97.

CATS, explained in eight seconds.

THE SWARM  terrorizes residents in the Bronx.

AN EXTINCT BIRD has "evolved" back into existence.