BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN covers Lorde's "Royals."

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set. 

BAND OF HORSES plays an unpluggedy mini-set for the KEXP Midday Show..

GOLDEN GARDENS play dream-pop from their last EP at KEXP.

LAURA CANTRELL stopped by WFUV's Studio A to play new songs from No Way There From Here.

OF MONTREAL dropped "Jigsaw Puzzle," a Record Store Day release.

CHRISTOPHER OWENS drops "It Comes Back to You" from a mystery album.

FAITH NO MORE: "We Care A Lot."

BECK's albums, ranked by Paste.

SPINAL TAP, from Rock's Backpages (and the "Where Are They Now?" file).

JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN: Joan Wasser talks to Drowned In Sound about her many collaborators.

THE TOP 5 GEN X ANTHEMS, according to The Guardian.

JUSTIN BIEBER's jail urine test video will be made public, but it's not easy to censor.

SELENA GOMEZ claims she's closing the door on Bieber.

KIM KARDASHIAN & KAYNE WEST will tie the knot on May 24 in Paris.

JARED LETO has already damaged his Oscar.

SHAILENE WOODLEY, hitting big screens in Divergent, is profiled by the Hollwood Reporter.

THANDIE NEWTON gave birth to her first son, her third child.

KELSEY GRAMMER is going to be a dad again, his sixth, his wife's second.

UKRAINE: The US, Great Britain and Germany are not yet on the same page regarding sanctions against Russia for invading Crimea. Ukraine's new prime minister vigorously defended the legality of his government against attacks coming from Russia, but said Wednesday that Ukraine would be willing to consider granting more autonomy to Crimea.

VENEZUELA's President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday he was breaking diplomatic and commercial relations with the Panamanian government due to a "conspiracy" against him. The US House of Representatives voiced near-unanimous condemnation of Venezuela's government and its "inexcusable" deadly crackdown on opposition leaders and protesters.

EGYPT:  A government-appointed panel blamed Muslim Brotherhood supporters for the deaths of hundreds of people at protests in August.

IRAN: Israeli naval forces intercepted a cargo vessel near Port Sudan that was carrying a weapons shipment from Iran destined for Gaza.

A DOLPHIN STAMPEDE, filmed by drone.

"FURIOUS" HORSE RIDING was the charge, based on a law from 1847. "Furious" refers to the speed of the ride, not the mood of the horse.

PRE-HISTORIC FISH come to Texas, courtesy of...Don Henley?

SEX WITH A PIT BULL: Always a bad idea for humans, but really don't do it in front of the neighbors.