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WILD BEASTS take some sort of trip to "Mecca."
BROKEN BELLS play a full set Live On Letterman.
BOB MOULD stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.
OWEN PALLETT performs in the WNYC Soundcheck studio.
CENTRO-MATIC plays a mini-set at KUTX.
GASLIGHT ANTHEM goes "Rollin' and Tumblin'" ahead of Get Hurt.
CONNECTIONS "Beat The Sky" ahead of Into Sixes.
THE PIPETTES: "Your Kisses are Wasted On Me." Before it all went wrong. Sigh.
PRINCE: Purple Rain turns 30 this week; Stereogum ranks his albums.
RICHARD REED PARRY of Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre talks to Drowned In Sound about Music for Heart and Breath, the irritations of playing wearing a stethoscope, and why nobody should care about Metallica playing Glastonbury.
SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS announces a postumous album.
THE 50 BEST LPs of 2014 (So Far), according to Pretty Much Amazing.
GARY OLDMAN 's apology was not accepted by the Anti-Defamation League.
GEORGE CLOONEY wants to be Governor or Senator or something.
ADAM LEVINE insists he never had sex with Lindsay Lohan.
CHRIS BROWN rejected a plea bargain in his Washington assault case.
MADONNA was wearing Islamic garb on Instagram.
THE GEORGE LUCAS MUSEUM will be built in Chicago. Yay?
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD gives a first look to Entertainment Weekly.
NORTH KOREA has threatened a "resolute and merciless" response against the US unless it bans a film about an attempt to assassinate the country's leader, Kim Jong-un.
UKRAINE: Russia's upper house of parliament voted Wednesday to revoke the right of President Vladimir Putin to use troops in Ukraine as efforts continue to calm a separatist uprising in Ukraine's east.
VENEZUELA: University students and government opponents protested in Caracas on Tuesday, demanding the release of people who have been arrested in street demonstrations in recent months.
IRAQ: Sunni militants in Iraq took control of several small oil fields and targeted one of the country’s largest air bases Wednesday, while a suicide bomb blast rocked an outdoor market just south of the capital of Baghdad.
A GREAT WHITE SHARK was spotted off of Cape Cod, right at the height of tourist season.
REGINA THE OCTOPUS predicts US-Germany tie, meaning Americans will advance to 2nd round of World Cup. That's just science.
