GASLIGHT ANTHEM dropped "45" ahead of their next LP. Stone Pony FTW.

DEER TICK stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set including a cover of The Replacements "Kiss Me On The Bus."

IMAGINARY CITIES also stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO's My Life In the Bush of Ghosts demos surface.

CAN is advance streaming selections from The Lost Tapes collection.

SUPERCHUNK drops "This Summer" as a single. The flip side will be a cover of Bananarama's "Cruel Summer."

THURSTON MOORE covers Michael Chapman's "It Didn't Work Out."

SEALS & CROFT: "Summer Breeze." Because it's that time of year in this hemisphere.

JENS LEKMAN talks to Pitchfork about his forthcoming album (and how he failed making it, sort of).

RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON are essayed at Oxford American, with embedded audio and video; if you're on teh Facebook, you'll be able to stream their classic Shoot Out The Lights. (via Friend of Pate Sylvia Hauser.)

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO talks to Aquarium Drunkard about his latest album, Big Station, which again finds him working with Chuck Prophet and Tony Visconti.

THE 10 BEST MIKE WATT SONGS, according to PopMatters.

LINDSAY LOHAN was driving with an open container of alcohol when she crashed into a truck Friday on the Pacific Coast Highway... but according to cops she had no alcohol in her system.

CHARLIZE THERON has shaved her head for her role as Furiosa in Mad Max 4: Fury Road.

ALYSON HANNIGAN and husband Alexis Denisof welcomed their second daughter.

COURTNEY COX & DAVID ARQUETTE are officially headed for divorce.

KOBE & VANESSA BRYANT are working on a full reconciliation.

ZHYANG ZIYI: The "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" star has filed suit against two media outlets for defamation over stories alleging she received millions of yuan to have sex with suspended Politburo member Bo Xilai and other Chinese leaders.

ANN RUTHERFORD, who achieved immortality as Scarlett O'Hara's sister Carreen in Gone with the Wind, has died at 94.

HENRY HILL, the former mobster whose life story became the basis for the movie "Goodfellas," died Tuesday at the age of 69.

YEMEN: Al Qaeda's Yemeni affiliate has posted several messages on jihadist forums in a recruitment campaign directed at supporters already living in the West.

SYRIAN troops are using children as young as nine-years-old as human shields, forcing them to ride on top of government tanks to deter opposition attacks, a UN report has stated.

IRAN: European Union officials said on Monday that Iran has agreed to discuss a proposal from six world powers to curb its production of high-grade uranium at a meeting in Moscow next week in an apparent deescalation of tensions ahead of the talks. Uh-huh.

SPIDER-CAT walks down a fridge.

A WEIRD DOG is mistaken for an escaped genetically modified pig or a strangely colored mini-horse.

A TREED BEAR closes a Winter Park, FL museum.

TEN BIZARRE BATS, courtesy of the Pets Lady.