WE ARE SCIENTISTS drop a groovy clip for "Sprinkles."

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set. 

SUZANNE VEGA played the City Winery for WFUV Live.

DAN WILSON stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set. 

QUILT played a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR.

PERFECTPUSSY's cover of Springsteen's "Candy's Room" is, um, out there.

THE THRILLS visit "Big Sur."

SUPER-EARTH is the new name (for now) for Peter Buck, Corin Tucker, Scott McCaughey, Bill Rieflin, and Kurt Bloch.

THE SCORPIONS' longtime drummer has been jailed for a month for swearing at Muslims, gesturing indecently and dropping his trousers while drunk at Dubai airport.

COURTNEY BARNETT talks to Stereogum about her new/old record, and what she plans on doing next.

JONI MITCHELL: Ten of the Best, according to The Guardian.

EMMA STONE is the latest celeb to wage a lip sync battle with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show.

BOB HOSKINS, who was best known for roles in The Long Good Friday and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, died of pneumonia at the age of 71.

LINDSAY LOHAN is dating a 39-year-old married man who has two children. 

JENNIFER LAWRENCE was so drunk after the Oscars that Miley Cyrus told her to pull it together.

ZAC EFRON talks to THR about trying to reinvent his career as an adult, and fighting on skid row.

SELENA GOMEZ has ended her small feud with Kylie and Kendall Jenner, who were texting her ex, Justin Bieber.

MIRANDA KERR talks about the breakdown of her marriage to Orlando Bloom.

UKRAINE: In the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk, makeshift barricades, concertina wire and masked men in camouflage greeted visitors to the regional administration building Wednesday.

VENEZUELA will raise the minimum wage and pensions by thirty percent; official figures put the level of annual inflation at 56.2 percent for 2013. A month after airlines thought they were about to receive the almost 4 billion in revenue trapped in Venezuela, the government has been seeking meetings with carriers to try to negotiate discounts on how much of the money it will repay.

BRUNEI: The Sultan of Brunei announced that the first phase of the implementation of sharia law in Brunei will begin tomorrow. The new penal code, which will be adopted in three phases by the end of next year, will provide for punishments including stoning, flogging, and amputation of limbs.

THE UNITED STATES State Department's latest annual Country Reports on Terrorism said a growing number of terrorist groups are threatening the US, and noted a 43% increase in the number of terrorist attacks worldwide in 2013 from 2012.

TINY HAMSTERS, eating tiny burritos.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Okay, I'll let the attacks on selfies slide.

A DEAD BLUE WHALE may explode in a Newfoundland town. The sea was angry that day, my friends.

A TINY BEAR CUB named Boo Boo debated whether to get his hair done. He's now headed to rehab.