THE SUBMARINES release a video for "Submarine Symphonika," which you may have heard in the latest iPhone ad.

NEW RELEASES: Animal Collective, Elvis Presley, Jimmy Buffett, John Vanderslice, Lifter Puller and more are streaming in full this week via Spinner.

SMASHING PUMPKINS: Billy Corgan releases "A Song for a Son" -- the first from his 44-trackTeargarden by Kaleidyscope.

GOV'T MULE played the World Cafe on Friday; you can stream the gig now via NPR.

PATRICK WATSON talked about his varied influences -- from contemporary indie rock, to 1940s cartoon music and impressionist composers -- on All Things Considered.

EDDIE VEDDER is engaged.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & the E STREET BAND told Paris last year that "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town."  But I still like the vintage video from Passaic, NJ in 1978.

SLY STONE has a record deal for a 2010 release.

CAT POWER talks to Australia's Courier Mail about writing her next album.

TOO MUCH JOY frontman Tom Quirk posts "My .47 Royalty Statement: How Major Labels Cook the Books with Digital Downloads."

VINYL and TURNTABLE sales continue to rise, though many of the latter now run iPods.

WHAT DO Fleet Foxes, Shrley Bassey, Muse and 2 Pac have in common?

TIGER WOODS: And then there were ten, including a former adult film starlet. Allegedly. Some claim Tiger's driver was uncovered. Radar claims that Mrs. Woods has moved out of the house.

ALEXA RAY JOEL was released from the hospital.

LINDSAY LOHAN spent the night at How I Met Your Mother star Jason Segel's pad in West Hollywood. And just did a ménage à trois magazine photo shoot, inspired by Johnny Depp and Kate Moss.

BRITNEY SPEARS' team has taken the first step toward ending the conservatorship.

DRACULA: After the Twilight saga, Summit Entertainment plans to revisit Dracula with Brad Pitt.

A BRADGELINA statue is intended to inspire "sexual healing for the room's occupants." So what's wrong with Marvin Gaye?

HARRY POTTER and the DEATHLY HALLOWS will feature a "very sexy" love scene in which actor Daniel Radcliffe appears nude alongside co-star Emma Watson.

THE BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS went to these folks.

THE MOST UNFAIRLY OVERLOOKED FILMS OF THE DECADE, according to Cinema Blend.

TERROR in the USA: New federal charges filed Monday allege that a Chicago man, who was arrested in October for planning terrorist attacks against a Danish newspaper and two of its employees, also conducted extensive surveillance of targets in Mumbai for more than two years preceding the November 2008 terrorist attack on India's largest city that killed approximately 170 people, including six Americans, and injured hundreds more.

IRAN: Security forces and militiamen clashed with thousands of protesters shouting "death to the dictator" outside Tehran University on Monday, beating them with batons and firing tear gas.  Journalists were banned from covering these events, and the regime slowed Internet access to a crawl. Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad claims the US is attempting to thwart the return of mankind's savior.

IRAQ: political leaders have resolved the election dispute.

FEEDING A WILD TURTLE: Let's go to the video.

COWS busted in house-licking incident.

CAT IN HART FLAT haz plague?

KIKI THE TORTOISE, whose energetic lovemaking made him a favourite with the French public, succumbs to an infection at age 146.