FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE take  "A Dip In The Ocean" at the Ed Sullivan Theater. Chris Collingwood talks to the Boston Globe about getting back into balance.

NEWPORT FOLK FEST: Streaming sets from The Decemberists, Delta Spirit, Felice Bros, Tegan & Sara, Gillian Welch, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Cave Singers, Justin Townes Earle, Wanda Jackson and more via NPR.

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS play a Tiny Desk Concert and talk to All Things Considered about rocking in their 50s. 

THE ETTES did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter.

FRIGHTENED RABBIT streams two new songs from its current EP, one featuring Camera Obscura's Tracyanne Campbell.

ARCADE FIRE: The Daily Beast is streaming the deluxe edition of The Suburbs.

ELVIS COSTELLO joins THE POLICE on Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love."

BOB MOULD talks to eMusic about looking like a jerk in his own book, breaching his wall of privacy and crafting the final word on the Hüsker reunion.

OMD: Andy McCluskey talks about the reunion with Contactmusic.

ARCHERS OF LOAF: Eric Bachmann talks to Exclaim about  the reunion, the trend of '90s bands coming back for a victory lap, specific plans to tour each of the band's reissues, what lies ahead for the band and why Archers fans are like Republicans.

FANFARLO frontman Simon Balthazar talks to Paste about the band's sophomore LP, due in early 2012.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: It's Cowboys and Aliens and Smurfs in a photo finish at 36.2 million, as the former fell short of expectations and the latter exceeded them.  The Smurfs did best of Friday, so the actuals may put C & A ahead at the end.  Captain America skids 62 percent and makes 24.9 million; the good reviews suggest the steady stream of new product (here, Cowboys and Aliens) is cannibalizing the audience.  Even so, Cap should end up well in the black by the end of his run worldwide. Harry Potter drops another 54 percent (with 21.9 million), much the same as Deathly Hallows Pt 1 did; the big finale is already closing in on a billion worldwide. Crazy, Stupid Love rounds out the Top Five with 19.3 million agaist a reported 40 million budget.

AMY WINEHOUSE's dad handed out her clothes to her fans. Another semi-sad sidebar: Winehouse was in the middle of adopting a poor St Lucian girl before she died.

ANGELINA JOLIE talked to the Financial Times about how becoming a mom of six has changed her relationship with work.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON declines an invite to the USMC Ball, but sends a bottle of Moet & Chandon.

HUGH HEFNER gets an apology from ex-fiancee Crystal Harris for making derogatory remarks about him during her appearance on The Howard Stern show.

MICHAEL DOUGLAS is caught smoking again after surviving throat cancer.

THE SADDEST MOVIE scene in the world, plus IndieWire's list of sad movies.

YEMEN: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula killed two Army colonels and five soldiers in attacks in Zinjibar; seven AQAP fighters were also killed during the fighting.

SYRIAN tanks firing shells and machineguns stormed the city of Hama on Sunday, killing 80 civilians, rights activists said, in one of the bloodiest days in a popular revolt against Assad.

EGYPT: Tens of thousands of Egyptian Islamists poured into Tahrir Square on Friday calling for a state bound by strict religious law and delivering a persuasive show of force in a turbulent country showing deep divisions and growing signs of polarization.  Meanwhile, women are again being pushed aside in the nation's politics.

TURKEY's entire top brass quit on Friday night, leaving one America's strongest military's allies leaderless as the country's Islamic government confronts senior officers for conspiring against the prime minister.

PAKISTAN: Taliban militants broke into shops in eastern Pakistan and set fire to fabric for women's clothing that they said was un-Islamic because it did not properly cover the body. Pres Obama's top adviser on Pakistan said Friday that the United States had six months to deliver "a knockout blow" to Al Qaeda's senior leadership while the group was still in turmoil after the killing of Osama bin Laden.

IRAQ: The security situation in Iraq is more dangerous than it was a year ago, according to a government watchdog report issued Saturday that cites more attacks on US troops, a continuing wave of assassinations targeting Iraqi officials and a growing number of indirect rocket strikes on Baghdad's Green Zone.

A HUMPBACK WHALE says Thank You.

KITLER is overlooked for adoption because she bears an uncanny resemblance to the Nazi leader. Aw.

ANDRE, a 171-pound sea turtle, is fitted with a set of braces... for his shell.

ROSE: The World's Most Beautiful Cow.

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with SLY & THE FAMILY STONE! Watch 'em rip through a medley of "Everyday People" and "Dance to the Music," plus "Hot Fun in the Summertime," "Don't Call Me N*gger, Whitey," and "I Want to Take You Higher" on network TV, circa 1969.

THURSTON MOORE stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session... and plays the UBS Forum.

KEN STRINGFELLOW stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

4 AD REVISITED: Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) & Brendan Perry (Dead Can Dance) perform on the air at KEXP.

NIRVANA: The Nevermind Sessions.

FLAMING LIPS & LIGHTNING BOLT have a joint EP which has turned up online.

NEWPORT FOLK FEST: Tracks from Earl Scruggs, Tegan & Sara, Gillian Welch, Wanda Jackson and more are part of a streaming preview at NPR.

DIAMOND KNIGHTS: "Destination Diamonds".  For the 70s vibe in the heat of late July.

MICK JAGGER: Closet Conservative?

THE FIVE BEST MUSIC STREAMING SERVICES, according to Lifehacker.

CREEM: Don't call it a comeback yet.

THE PERIODIC TABLE of Heavy Metals.

CUTOUT BIN: From the Clash to KC & the Sunshine Band, from fIREHOSE to Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, from Eddie Cochran to the Sweet, plus the Ramones, Yardbirds, Tommy Keene, the Hues Corp. and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are now streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are: Cowboys & Aliens, which is currently scoring 43 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; The Smurfs, currently scoring 11 percent; and Crazy, Stupid Love, scoring 74 percent.

AMY WINEHOUSE: Sudden abstinence from alcohol might have been what led to her death, according to a report. Hmm.

JENNIFER LOPEZ is expected to close her American Idol deal this week.

JOSH GROBAN talks to GQ about kissing Emma Stone in Crazy Stupid Love (which got cut from the film) and more...

DENISE RICHARDS opens up about her series of botched boob jobs... and her Hollywood lesbian experience, just in time for Gratuitous Friday.

FRIENDS: An even friendlier show than I remembered.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 4 moves back to Dec. 21, supposedly based on bullish sentiment.

THE 10 GREATEST UNMADE MOVIES, according to PopMatters.

TERROR in the USA: A US serviceman is in custody after he allegedly admitted he was planning an attack on the US Army base at Fort Hood, TX, the same base where 13 people were killed in a 2009 terror attack.

LIBYA: Rebel officials have recalled Abdel Fattah Younes, who is leading the military campaign against Gaddafi, from the front line. Younes defected to the rebel side in February, was being questioned after rumors circulated that he was suspected of having had secret talks with Gaddafi's government.

IRAN has nominated a senior leader in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps to lead OPEC.

IRAQ:  Pres. Talibani pardoned 50 Mahdi Army fighters and leaders. The Mahdi Army's Promised Day Brigade claimed it carried out five attacks over the past week against US forces in Baghdad, Dhi Qar, Wasit, and Maysan.

PUPPY fakes its own death.

AN ORPHAN ZEBRA only eats when his keeper wears stripes. Aw.

THE STORK delivered five babies to a nest in Burgenland, Austria, which experts are claiming is a sensation.

HORDES OF BATS: A drought in Texas, where 1.5 million bats are living under a bridge in Austin, has fuelled a bat frenzy with locals gathering each night to view the nocturnal creatures.

VIVIAN GIRLS "Take It As It Comes." Fab Shangri-La-esque pop.

LLOYD COLE stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

MOONFACE: Wolf Parade frontman Jason Krug is streaming his solo album, Organ Music not Vibraphone like I'd Hoped.

STROKED: Stereogum unloads a tribute album to The Strokes' This Is It.

THE DEATH SET did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter. The opening to "Can You Seen Straight?" may seem familiar to you.

WILCO & BILLY BRAGG: Mermaid Avenue Demos.

JOE HENRY drops and discusses "Odetta" from his upcoming Reverie.

GIANT DRAG drops "Meowch" in advance of Waking Up Is Hard To Do.

CAMERON CROWE unveils the trailer for Pearl Jam Twenty.

FLEET FOXES: Robin Pecknold talks to The Current about the evolution of the band and its music.

PETER MURPHY talks to The Quietus about Bauhaus, Catholicism, Twilight, his Ninth solo LP, and more...

PAUL McCARTNEY: Greg Kot goes myth-busting.

WHO'S ON TOP IN MUSIC? It's gotten hard to say.

HUGH HEFNER denies a claim by ex-fiancee Crystal Harris that it would only last two secs. (We all assume HH is on the blue pill, yes?)

JESSE JAMES & KAT VON D reportedly fought over another woman before splitting up.  Sorta bad timing for Kat to get a tattoo of Jesse's face. Meanwhile, JJ  was awarded sole custody of his daughter on Monday.

ALEXANDER SKARSGARD & KATE BOSWORTH have called it quits after almost two years together.

KEVIN SMITH is developing a daily, half-hour, syndicated talk show that would blend celebrity chat and comedy.

SEX & THE CITY may be getting prequels.

THE TOP 10 ALIEN INVASION MOVIES, according to the Boston Herald.

INDIA & PAKISTAN agreed to a set of small but significant concessions to ease tensions in the disputed border region of Kashmir and pledged to work toward closer ties between their mutually wary, nuclear-armed countries.

EGYPT: A Newsweek/Daily Beast poll shows: the Muslim Brotherhood is poised to win the largest share of the vote in parliamentary elections; the man who appears to have a clear shot at the presidency, Amr Moussa, has made his name criticizing Israel; and a large majority of respondents favor amending or revoking the cornerstone of regional stability, the Camp David Accords.

YEMENI military officers claimed an al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula commander known as Ali Saeed Jamil was among 12 AQAP operatives killed during fighting in Zinibar.

IRAN: Gen. Dempsey said Iran would make a "serious miscalculation" if it attempted to carry out a mass casualty attack against US forces in Iraq. Iran's chief of police blamed the West for the current rise in crime.

IRAQ: An Al Qaeda bomb maker killed himself and two of his children in a premature detonation at his home in Kirkuk. Aw.

A KITTEN with a broken leg squeezes under a closed door and runs up stairs.

A GLOWING DOG, created by cloning, could help find cures for human diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

SIX ORPHAN GORILLAS are looking for homes, if you have some free space.

A MEXICAN MILK SNAKE terrorized a plus-size store in Coventry.

A GOLDEN RETIEVER thwarts a sexual assault.

BEIRUT joined THE NATIONAL on "Fake Empire" in Switzerland.

SUFJAN STEVENS stopped by WNYC for a chat and mini-set.

THE CALM BLUE SEA is advance streaming their less-than-calm self-titled debut.

WHISKEYTOWN: Forever Valentine Demos.

CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH drop "Maniac" as an advance track from Hysterical.

THE  PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART drop "Tomorrow Dies Today" as the flip side to their new single.

DAN PEEK, a founding member of folk rockers America, passed away on Sunday; the cause of death is still unknown.  Peek, who wrote the hit song "Lonely People," left the band in 1977 to pursue a solo career in Christian Rock.

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS: John Linnell talks to The A.V. Club about the band's recent A.V. Undercover taping, hating hooky songs, and the joys of turning music into objects.

PETE TOWNSHEND disputes Roger Daltrey's claim that The Who's guitarist is virtually deaf, and announces plans to properly tour Quadrophenia for the first time.

THE BBQ SHOW: Mark Sultan gives his side of the split with King Khan and talks solo album(s).

GENE SIMMONS proposes to Shannon Tweed. Only took 28 years.

AMY WINEHOUSE was cremated after a "moving yet humorous" memorial service.

JESSE JAMES & KAT VON D have called off their engagement and broken up.

CAREY MULLIGAN & MARCUS MUMFORD reportedly are getting engaged after just five months together.

SELMA BLAIR and her fashion designer boyfriend, Jason Bleick welcomed a baby boy on Monday.

LAURYN HILL gave birth to a baby boy over the weekend, her sixth child, according to several reports.

LINDSAY LOHAN and the FRENCH HOTEL have officially buried the hatchet on the old feud - and partied together in Malibu this weekend.

LISA MARIE PRESLEY - rocked by a heart-numbing emotional meltdown - turned to Scientology pal John Travolta to help get her life back on track, according to the ever-reliable National Enquirer.

YEMEN: Fighting in the south intensified in recent days as tribesmen in Abyan Province sided with government troops against Islamic militants.

LIBYA: France appears to have persuaded Britain to support a shift in attitude toward Gaddafi, suggesting that he could be allowed to remain in Libya in return for giving up power in a broader deal including a cease-fire.

AFGHANISTAN: The government disputed findings from a scathing US report that said Kabul officials are thwarting US efforts to protect American aid money from being stolen.

IRAN: The power struggle between Iran's leadership is a clash of goals includingAhmadinejad's opposition to the practice of spreading Iranian power abroad by arming Iraqi militias and trading drugs for arms with Afghanistan's Taliban, according to an unnamed Iranian source working in the country's Foreign Ministry.

IRAQ: Arrayed on a table in an air-conditioned room at the Victory Base complex are the killing tools from attacks on American soldiers over the last several months - the detritus of munitions smuggled in from Iran, according to the soldiers here whose job it is to conduct the forensic analysis of evidence collected from the battlefield.

PIT BULL and CHICKS, swimming together...

A RAMPAGING KANGAROO left a 94-year-old Australian woman recovering in the hospital.

CAT blamed in Pennsylvania stabbing incident.

PEI PEI the ORANGUTAN is missing his pregnant mate so much he has started to dig a tunnel in the hope of being reunited with her.

CULTS: "Go Outside" finally gets an official -- and Jonestown themed -- video.

NEW RELEASES from Little Dragon and Release the Sunbird, plus Roxette's Greatest Hits are smong those streaming this week at Spinner.

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE advance streams Sky Full of Holes.

GIVERS played a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR.

THE REPLACEMENTS, Live at CBGB, October 12, 1984.

THE CARS' new video for "Free" and their vintage video for "You Might Think" are your Twofer Tuesday.

KING KHAN talked to the L.A. Times about his nervous breakdown, current tour and future plans.

COLIN MELOY & CARSON ELLIS offer a download excerpt of the children's book, Wildwood.

DRIVING: A survey of motorists lists their Top 10 Driving tunes and albums.

THE BEST SONGS OF 2011 (So Far), according to Crawdaddy.

AMY WINEHOUSE: The cause of her death will remain a mystery for at least a few more weeks. A police source tells People (contrary to UK tabloid reports) there was no paraphernalia or sign of drugs in Winehouse's Camden home.

RUSSELL BRAND remembers Amy Winehouse... which is an achievement for him.

LINDSAY LOHAN: Despite being warned to finish her community service for shoplifting and drunken-driving convictions on Thursday, the troubled starlet is hoping to jet to St.-Tropez this Thursday and stay until Aug. 2. Meanhile, Li-Lo denies reports of being falling-down drunk Saturday niht.

KRISTIN CAVALLARI & JAY CUTLER: A friend of Cavallari, who knew the couple socially, says the Chicago Bears quarterback was "beyond controlling"  and didn't like Cavallari going out.

LEIGHTON MEESTER has sued her mother Constance for spending money on herself - money that the actress had been sending for the care of her brother Lex, who has medical issues.

MARIAH CAREY got a little wacky on HSN.

JURASSIC PARK 4: Confirmed by Spielberg at Comic-Con.

COMIC-CON: Whitney Matheson interviewed Kevin Smith, Val Kilmer, Rob Lowe and Paul Reubens.

YEMEN: US-trained counterterrorism forces from the Republican Guards are being deployed against tribesmen in Arhab,and are reported to have killed more than 40 people.

LIBYA: Opposition leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said Gadhafi and his family could remain in Libya as part of a political solution to the five-month-old conflict, provided they give up power and rebel leaders can determine where in Libya and under what conditions they remain.

IRAN accused the US and Israel of murdering a scientist who was involved with Iran's nuclear program.

AFGHANISTAN: A year-long military-led investigation has concluded that US taxpayer money has been indirectly funneled to the Taliban under a 2.16 billion dollar transportation contract that the United States has funded in part to promote Afghan businesses.

BUDDY the BULLDOG: Not a great swimmer. 

A DIVER risks the Pinnocchio treatment from a whale.

DEAD PARROT triggers a high-speed car chase. Maybe he was just resting.

A CHIPMUNK takes up a bad habit. Alvin!