CRAIG FINN joined TITUS ANDRONICUS at Shea Stadium (not that Shea Stadium) for enocres including the Replacements' "Bast^rds of Young" and Billy Joel's "You may Be Right."

LORD HURON played the Newport Folk Festival.

ASHLEY MONROE played live at WNYC.

DWIGHT YOAKUM stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a sesssion, including his cover of Elvis Presley's "Little Sister."

WRECKLESS ERIC palyed the trifecta for KUTX.

THE CHILLS drop "America Says Hello" ahead of Silver Bullets,  their first in 19 years.

COWTOWN drops "Castle Greyscale" as a demo.

TOTO: "Hold the Line." Guilty pleasure.

JEFF TWEEDY spoke with Pitchfork Editor-in-Chief Mark Richardson at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art.

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN: Jim Reid tells The Quietus why the time was right to revisit Psychocandy.(Thx, Frank Yang.)

CHRISTOPER PAUL STERLING lists five albums close to his heart for Tidal.

US MUSIC SPENDING plummeted 71 percent since 1999. And there's much more at the link.

BEN AFFLECK is denying a report that he's begun a romance with Christine Ouzounian, a woman who once nannied for his and Jennifer Garner's three children.

GISELE BUNDCHEN: Wearing a burqua to hide cosmetic surgery? Or does she just not want to talk about Tom Brady?

MICHELLE WILLIAMS and author Jonathan Safran Foer are dating.

BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN's  boyfriend, Nick Gordon, is in the crosshairs of prosecutors who want to charge him with involuntary manslaughter.

CHANNING TATUM may be leaving Marvel's Gambit movie.

MARRIED WITH CHILDREN may get a spin-off.

13 HOURS: Michael Bay's thriller about...Benghazi has a red band trailer online.

THE 100 BEST MOVIES, according to actors selected by TimeOut (the individual Top Tens are also online). The top film is...not usually mentioned as such.

FRANCE deployed more than 100 riot police officers to Calais to bolster security as hundreds of migrants have been trying night after night to rush the railway tunnel leading to England — at times with fatal consequences.

RUSSIA vetoed an United Nations Security Council resolution that aimed to establish an international tribunal with powers to prosecute those responsible for the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine last year.

IRAN intends to construct at least four new nuclear plants in the country within a decade, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said on Tuesday. The director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, during a talk on the Iranian nuclear deal, called the Middle East’s Sunni Arab nations “Israel’s allies.” US Defense Secretary Ash Carter made clear on Wednesday that the nuclear deal with Iran puts no limits on the U.S. military posture in the Middle East and that “no target” in Iran would be “out of reach” of the United States if Iran was aggressive toward its neighbors or cheated on the agreement.

AFGHANISTAN said on Wednesday that Mullah Omar, the elusive leader of the Taliban movement fighting to topple the government, died more than two years ago.

A BABY ELEPHANT cavorts with birds.

A BURMESE PYTHON measuring 18 feet and 3 inches and weighing 133 pounds was captured by researchers in the Everglades.

CECIL THE LION's death caused hundreds of protesters to descend on a Minnesota dentist.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT makes inroads at the White House.