SHEARWATER drops a video for "Breaking The Yearlings." KATHLEEN EDWARDS played a mini-set at World Cafe Live. CRAIG FINN played a TIny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR. He spoke to…

OF MONTREAL played the "Dour Percentage" on Fallon, bringing staging per usual. SLEIGH BELLS is advance streaming Reign of Terror at the NYT. DAMIEN JURADO is advance streaming Maraqupoa. THE FRONT BOTTOMS…

  PAUL WESTERBERG: "Valentine," solo circa 2004. NEW RELEASES from Tennis, Islands, Eisley, Polica, Phenominal Handclap Band, Cotton Mather, Field Music, Young Magic, Heartless Bast^rds, Rosie Thomas, and more are streaming this…

WHITNEY HOUSTON, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died.…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with ECHO and the BUNNYMEN!  Live at the Royal Albert Hall, circa July 1983.  Your setlist includes: "Going Up," "With A Hip" and "All That Jazz"; "All My Colours (Zimbo)" and "Silver";…

CULTS drops a video for "You Know What I Mean." FRANKIE ROSE advance streams Interstellar. ISLANDS advance streams A Sleep & A Forgetting. ROYAL BATHS streams the psych-garage Better Luck Next Life. SHELBY LYNNE stopped…

THE BLACK KEYS dropped "Gold On the Ceiling" on the MTV. TENNIS is streaming Young & Old, produced by the Black Keys' Patrick Carney. BETH JEANS HOUGHTON and the HOOVES OF DESTINY…

WILCO played a set at Austin City Limits, with Nick Lowe turning up at 46:30 to assist on his "Cruel to be Kind." NEW RELEASES from Paul McCartney, Sharon Van Etten, Band…

MAGNETIC FIELDS dropped a NSFW video for "Andrew In Drag." SHEARWATER is advance steaming Animal Joy. FIELD MUSIC is advance streaming Plumb. THE KILLS played DC's 9:30 Club; you can stream the…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: … with GARAGE ROCK! Recent sad news about the illness of Troggs singer Reg Presley and death of Music Machine singer Sean Bonniwell put me in the mood for a…