TOM WAITS performs "Chicago" at the Ed Sullivan Theater.

HOLOGRAMS are streaming their self-titled debut LP.

THE WALKMEN stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

JD McPHERSON stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

PAVEMENT, Live at Mississippi Nights, Oct. 14, 1999.

THE KILLERS drop "Runaway" as the single from the upcoming Battle Born LP.

THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS are "Standing Next to Me."

MISSION OF BURMA talks to Rolling Stone about their second time around.

OF MONSTERS AND MEN: Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Ragnar "Raggi" þórhallsson talk America, influences and more with Filter.

LUSH: Emma Anderson does a ranging interview at Consequence of Sound.

SPIN is being purchased by Buzzmedia, which already owns Stereogum, Hype Machine, and Idolator.

TOM CRUISE & KATIE HOLMES: Why did their divorce get settled so quickly? Cruise "didn't want his family dragged through the mud," a source told People.  Likely the understatement of the year.

BRITNEY SPEARS stormed off the X Factor set after listening to a cover of one of her songs.  After all, who wants to listen to that?

SOFIA VERGARA & NICK LOEB are engaged.

JESSICA BIEL's engagement ring was totally Justin Timberlake's call.

THE HUNGER GAMES trilogy will be four films, in the grand tradition of Twilight, Harry Potter and Mammon.

FIFTY SHADES OF GREY will head to the big screen, led by the producers of The Social Network.

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES soundtrack is streaming at Empire.

THE UNITED STATES: Rezwan Ferdaus, a Muslim American with a degree in physics, will plead guilty to terror charges in exchange for a reduced sentence. Ferdaus was arrested last fall by federal agents posing as al Qaeda operatives as he plotted to use model airplanes packed with explosives to bomb the US Capitol and the Pentagon.

KENYA: Police said that two Iranian Qods Force members arrested June 19 were planning attacks in Kenya. They face terror charges for shipping over 200 pounds of RDX to Kenya; 33 pounds have been found.

EGYPT's Islamist-dominated parliament opened a new front in the country's leadership showdowns Tuesday by meeting in defiance of orders that disbanded the chamber and brought President Mohammed Morsi in conflict with both the powerful military and the highest court.

OTTERS hopping at the Chester Zoo.

TORI the ORANGUTAN needs to guit smoking, but zoo visitors enable her.  She wants to be like them.

DOGS may protect babies from infections.

LEON the LEMUR let an umbrella be his umbrella.