POKEY LaFARGE shares a video for "Must Be a Reason."

SON VOLT played a full set for WFUV Live.

THE XX stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

JULIA JACKLIN played a Tiny Desk Concert.

LOCAL NATIVES return with a new single, “The Only Heirs.” But the flip side, "I Saw You Close Your Eyes" has more cowbell.

ELTON JOHN revealed the first official videos for  “Rocket Man,” “Tiny Dancer,” and “Bennie And The Jets” -- the winners pf a contest -- in time for Threefer Tuesday.

HENRY ROLLINS & IAN MacKAYE share an audio history of Punk.

GRIZZLY BEAR talks to Pitchfork about streaming music's stimulus overload, the radio's disappointing lack of cool, weird guitar music, and their new record.

EMMY THE GREAT: I spent four weeks in Xiamen, southern China, interviewing people and incorporating their stories into my new album. Here's what I learned ...

MP3: The rumors of its death are greatly exaggerated.

THE DARK UNIVERSE: Universal dropped a massive press release with images, videos, website likes and a deluge of details, many of them admittedly aspirational and theoretical, concerning their shared Monsters universe.

JUSTICE LEAGUE: Director Zack Snyder's daughter died by suicide in March, prompting him to take a break from work and Joss Whedon to finish the film.

ATOMIC BLONDE has a new (restricted) trailer online.

UNCHARTED: Sony Pictures is bullish enough on its upcoming Spider-Man Homecoming star Tom Holland that the studio is doubling down on the young actor by building a second major franchise around him.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON 's appearance on “Saturday Night Live” was such a hit, she ended up making out with “Weekend Update” co-host Colin Jost at the afterparty.

KATY PERRY is getting a staggering 25MM to judge American Idol, according to sources familiar with the negotiation.

A WAITRESS AND ASPIRING ACTRESS was sacked after bosses found her naked in Pirates of the Caribbean star Orlando Bloom's room.

JESSICA SIMPSON has stopped having kids.

THE UNITED KINGDOM: Police confirmed a 'number of fatalities' after an explosion at a Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. NBC News reprted that forensic evidence at the scene including a body found at the blast site indicates that this was a suicide attack.

CHINA systematically dismantled C.I.A. spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources over two years and crippling intelligence gathering there for years afterward.

A SEA LION pulled a girl off a dock, and people freaked out worldwide. Follow the sign that say, "Don't feed the sea lions."  The More You Know.  Whoosh.

THE BOBCATS are cute; They're also multiplying and possibly coming to your town.

DANG DIRTY APES: Two fossils of an ape-like creature which had human-like teeth have been found in Bulgaria and Greece, dating to 7.2 million years ago.

OPERATION GIT-MEOW:  The mission to save Gitmo's feral cats.