WAND shares a video for "Plum."

PHOENIX stopped by World Cafe for a chat and a five-song mini-set.

SUN KIL MOON is streaming Yellow Kitchen, a collaboration with Parquet Courts bassist Sean Yeaton.

PILL is streaming their new EP, Aggressive Advertising.

DEERHOOF shares "I Will Spite Survive."

JOHNNY MAESTRO: "The Worst That Could Happen." A great self-indulgent song written by Jimmy Webb, sung by the man who made it a hit with the Brooklyn Bridge

THE BYRDS' Chris Hillman will release his first studio album in over a decade, Bidin’ My Time. It was produced by Tom Petty. 

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE: Kevin Drew talks to Pitchfork about the last seven years, both what's changed (technology's unrelenting narcissism) and what hasn't (the dependability of true companionship).

AFGHAN WHIGS guitarist Dave Rosser has died after a battle with cancer.

JUDAS PRIEST's Rob Halford discusses Rolling Stone's Greatest Metal Albums list.

GEORGE LUCAS' billion-dollar museum got approved in L.A.

RHIANNA's new fling is believed to be Hassan Jameel, the heir to Saudi Arabia's largest Toyota distributor.

BEN AFFLECK & JENNIFER GARNER take a post-divorce vacay together.

BILL COSBY's "town hall" tour is unlikely to happen before his retrial on sex assault charges in Pennsylvania, one of his lawyers said Tuesday.

LINDSAY LOHAN has launched an exclusive lifestyle page on the internet.

JOHNNY GALECKI's large ranch in southern California burned down in a sizeable wildfire on Monday night.

MICHAEL BOND, the genial British author who created Paddington Bear, the polite, good-natured but disaster-prone little hero of children’s novels, picture and activity books, television series, and films, died at his home in London on Tuesday. He was 91.

VENEZUELA:  The rogue police officer behind a helicopter attack on Venezuelan government buildings is an action film star who paints himself as a James Bond-*****-Rambo figure on social media.

A HOMEOWNER removes a Black Mamba under his TV.

PUMAS may be the top carnivores in much of California’s mountains, but there’s still one predator they fear above all else: humans.

ENDANGERED RED PANDAS have given birth to a pair of rare cubs.

BRUCE vs ORCA: Who You Got?