BEACH SLANG brought CRAIG FINN onstage for The Replacements' “Can’t Hardly Wait," as part of a charity performance of Pleased To Meet Me.  And a new generation of kids knows all the words. The band has also dropped “Punks In A Disco Bar” ahead of their sophomore LP, A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings.

TWIN PEAKS played a WFUV Live session.

FRANKIE LEE stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

HERON OBLIVION bring San Francisco psychedelia to World Cafe.

PREOCCUPATIONS (formerly Viet Cong) share the post-punk of "Degraded" ahead of their self-titled LP.

THE MOLES share “Dreamland” ahead of Tonight’s Music, the band's first LP in 22 years.

FRANKIE FORD takes folks on a "Sea Cruise", circa 1959.

GILES MARTIN, the son of Beatles producer George Martin, talks to The Guardian about his dad's legacy and his ongoing work with the Fabs' catalog.

KRISTIN KONTROL: Kristin Welchez (aka Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls) talks to The Current about paving a solo path for her new musical endeavor.

ARAB STRAP: Malcolm Middleton listed his favorite albums at The Quietus.

KATHLEEN HANNA talked to the New York Times about coming to terms with her own story and the current state of punk and feminism.

TAYLOR SWIFT secretly wrote ex-bf Calvin Harris' monster hit “This is What You Came For,” and their relationship fell apart because he disrespected her, according to her peeps. Meanwhile, Hiddleswift rumors accelerate.

LAMAR ODOM made it to NYC after his puking session on the plane because he beelined it for a strip club.

BEN AFFLECK & JENNIFER GARNER: Divorce on hold?

MARK RUFFALO shared a video from the set of Thor: Ragnarok.

KRISTEN STEWART would like to be the female James Bond, maybe.

GWYNETH PALTROW, a backstabber? Can't imagine it.

X-MEN are doing a pilot for 20th Century Fox Television.

LA LA LAND, a musical romance with Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, has a trailer online.

VENEZUELA: President Maduro put the armed forces in charge of a new food supply system aimed at alleviating crippling shortages, ceding yet more power to a military apparatus that is already involved in everything from banking to imports.

AREA PUP,  Lazy Cheerio Eater.

LARRY THE CAT will continue as No. 10 Downing Street's mouser under the new British government.

DINOSAURS more likely cooed than roared, but it's just not very cinematic.

A BEAR got stuck in a Subaru in Jefferson County, CO.