This week Carole King, Diane Warren, and the Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt — all of whom appear on the _New York Times_ ' hotly-debated new list of the 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters — each wrote five-by-five mini puzzles for the publication's digital crossword section. Jeff Tweedy, despite admirably voting for himself, did not make the list. He did, however, get to write a full-sized…

Hayley Williams is in the thick of her first solo tour, and she just wrapped up three nights at New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom, during which she brought out surprise guest Jason Isbell for a rendition of his song "Cover Me Up." Last night on _The Late Show With Stephen Colbert_ , she and her backing band teamed up with another somewhat unlikely collaborator but a Colbert regular, Jeff…