CHAIRLIFT has released a new video for "Bruises," a song more twee than its title.

NEW RELEASES from Sonic Youth, Rhett Miller, Kasabian, the Low Anthem and more are streaming in full this week via Spinner.

SONIC YOUTH, btw, is essentially taking over PitchforkTV this week.

SONGS OF THE WEEK: The logical extension of NPR's Song of the Day.

GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS played a Tiny Desk Concert for Bob Boilen at NPR.

GUIDED BY VOICES: "Auditorium/Motor Away" are your Twofer Tuesday.

BIG STAR drummer Jody Stephens tells Billboard about an upcoming box set with four discs worth of unreleased demos, alternate takes, rarities, and live cuts.

JENS LEKMAN talks to Straight about finishing his next album, and to the Santa Barbara Independent about moving from Sweden to Australia. (Thx, Chromewaves.)

CAT POWER: Flavorpill covers the biography Chan Marshall doesn't want you to read.

ROSE ELINOR DOUGAL: The former Pipette talks about her upcoming solo LP with Under The Radar.

DAVID CARRADINE, according to TMZ, the purported photo of the late actor tends to support the auto-erotica scenario.

LINDSAY LOHAN complained of feeling 'caged' and curled up in a ball on the floor of a London club, according to the ever-reliable Daily Mirror.

PETE DOHERTY was arrested in Switzerland after being accused of taking drugs on a British Airways flight.

BRET MICHAELS of Poison was injured at the Tony Awards after missing his mark in a production number. Let's go to the video.

BRITNEY SPEARS: The News of the World as entirely gratuitous topless photos of the pop wreck, taken during the 2007 video shoot for "Gimme More."

CONAN O'BRIEN addresses the similarity of his new Tonight Show set to the original Super Mario Bros. video game. (thanks, Lance.)

HEATHER GRAHAM explains the joys of tantric sex, playing poker, growing old disgracefully and why asking her to help you with your tax returns after a night of passion is a relationship killer.

STEPHEN COLBERT did his shtick for US troops in Iraq. The idea for taping the show here came about last summer, he said, at the suggestion of Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and a guest on "The Colbert Report."

KORTH KOREA sentenced two US journalists to 12 years in a labor camp Monday.

OUR FRIENDS, THE SAUDIS showed a movie for the first time in 30 years. Women were not invited.

PAKISTAN: Pres. Zardari said there is a possibility that its nuclear arsenal could fall into the hands of the Taliban if democracy "fails" in his country and the world doesn't help.

HAMSTER runs a dog agility course.

A FROG that constantly changes colour is being worshipped as a god in India.

A LION escaped from its cage in a China zoo and swam a river for nearly 400 meters before it tried to climb up into the campus of Rudong Shiyan Elementary School.

A CUB in Wisconsin was spotted with a bird feeder stuck on its head.  Silly old bear!