JON PRATT plays a solo version of the Pate classic "Chalk It Up to Fate" on his new telecaster.

CRAIG FINN stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

JOHN GRANT visited The Current for a chat and mini-set.

FLORIST advance streams their Holdly EP.

PINKISH BLACK advance streams Bottom of the Morning. A trippier take on the Joy Division sound?

SPRING KING uncorks "Who Are You?", which is not a cover.

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD covers Mazzy Star's "Mary of Silence" ahead of Global Chakra Rhythms.

WE FIVE were on my mind when I woke up this morning, introduced by no less than Fred Astaire.

SLEATER-KINNEY's Carrie Brownstein talks to Fresh Air about her new memoir, Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl.

JAY FARRAR talks to Stereogum about two decades of Son Volt.

KURT VILE talks to PopMatters about returning to Boston (where he lived for about two years in the early aughts), recording his latest album, and striking up a friendship with Kim Gordon.

STEVE MARTIN talks to Pitchfork about the soundtrack of his life.

HALLE BERRY & OLIVIER MARTINEZ are calling it quits after more than two years of marriage. There's a prenup.

ADELE gave her first interview in three years to i-D magazine.

DANIEL CRAIG corrected a journalist who referred to Monica Bellucci's character in new Bond film Spectre as "an older woman".

SANDRA BULLCOK has a new man and she's not afraid to show him off.

COMMON will star opposite Keanu Reeves as the villain in John Wick 2.

SYRIA: The body of the first Russian serviceman confirmed dead in four weeks of air strikes in Syria was delivered on Tuesday to his parents, who said they were not convinced by the military's account that their 19-year-old son had hanged himself.

THE ISLAMIC STATE: Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday that the U.S. will begin "direct action on the ground" against ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria, aiming to intensify pressure on the militants as progress against them remains elusive. 

RED PANDA CUBS made their public debut at the Lincoln Park Zoo.

AN INJURED DEER made its way to a hospital emergency room, but the ending is not happy.

A LONELY BEAR was spotted on the surface of Mars.

SOME PENGUINS are projectile poopers. [Warning: Autoplay video of same.]