DESTROYER drops a video for "Bye Bye" from the Five Spanish Songs EP.

BLACK FLAG -- Greg Ginn's version of it, anyway --  is streaming What The... via Spoitify.

BLOOD ORANGE is advance streaming Cupid Deluxe via iTunes.

STEVE EARLE stopped by WFUV for a mini-set.

PAVEMENT: Live at Shepherd's Bush, 1997. 

PETER GABRIEL dropped a finished version of "Courage," which dates back to 1986.

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE: "Shoreline 7/4," from 2006. Because I was in the mood.

CHARLIE CHESTERMAN, frontman of Scruffy the Cat, lost his ongoing battle with cancer on Monday.

COLIN MELOY spoke to Rolling Stone about his new solo tour, new recordings and the future of the Decemberists.

THE SWANS: Michael Gira is profiled by Drowned In Sound.

OKKERVIL RIVER's Will Sheff tells Drowned In Sound The Silver Gymnasium is an album he feels he was “always training for.”

GWYNETH PALTROW wants to wage war on Vanity Fair. Too late, Goopy. Everyone knows now. 

MILEY CYRUS wrote her ex a letter for some reason or another.

LAMAR ODOM will not be prosecuted for damaging a photog's gear ... provided he keeps his nose clean and gets help with his anger issues. he also has not reconciled with Khloe Kardashian.

AMANDA BYNES will be home from treatment by Christmas.

DENISE RICHARDS has informed the L.A. County Dept. of Children and Family Services she will no longer care for the twins of Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller.

DAVID ARQUETTE's girlfriend is months pregnant.

SAUDI ARABIA: Meeting in Riyadh with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah yesterday, Secretary of State Kerry said the US would defend Saudi Arabia in the event of external attack, and offered to share information on negotiations over Iran's nuclear program.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Trial began in Abu Dhabi for 20 Egyptians and 10 Emiratis accused of trying to establish a UAE branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Prosecutors allege that a number of the defendants are members of al Isla, an Emirati group said to be a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. The defendants deny the charges against them and claim to have been tortured while in detention.

LEBANON: A judge charged Ali Eid, the leader of the pro-Assad Arab Democratic Party, along with another party member, for helping a suspect wanted for the deadly Aug. 23 car bombings in Tripoli to escape into Syria.

SYRIA: The US and Russia failed to agree on a date for peace talks. The OPCW said it prefers shipping Syria's chemical weapons outside the country for destruction. The Al Nusrah Front and 10 other battalions are launching an offensive to take over a scientific research center in Aleppo. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham confiscated historical artifacts, including mosaics, and destroyed a statue in Raqqah.

CORGIS, running at cameras in slow-motion.

A 20-LB CARP ran for Mayor of Ann Arbor; no word at press time on the results.

A GIANT FLESH-EATING PLATYPUS terrorized Australia (a long time ago).

MEOWTFIT OF THE DAY: Cats In Tights.