BRENDAN BENSON and CORY CHISEL cover Tom Petty's "American Girl." Throw in a vintage TP take from the OGWT, and you have Twofer Tuesday.

NEW RELEASES: Surfer Blood, Vampire Weekend, OK Go, Freedy Johnson, etc. were still streaming via Spinner, last I checked...

FOUR TET is advance streaming the There Is Love In You album this week.

LAURA VEIRS stopped by Oregon Public Broadcasting for a chat and mini-set in audio and video.

SPOON: Britt Daniel talks to the NY Post, while the band's album is advance streaming via NPR and The Guardian.

SMASHING PUMPKINS is streaming a new song, "A Song for a Son."

PANDA BEAR debuted all sorts on new material in Berlin.

GIRLS' latest video is for "Morning Light."

FINAL FANTASY: After a career working in the shadows, is the world ready for Owen Pallett's divisive solo album about a farmer's fictitious world of Spectrum?

KEN STRINGFELLOW (Posies, Big Star, REM) is profiled by... the Jakarta Times? Man gets around.

BRIAN ENO talks to The Guardian (and the BBC) about gospel, Abba and the death of the record.

PRAVDA RECORDS, Pate's label, celebrates 25 years. Congrats!

CONAN O'BRIEN may yet get to take Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and (ahem) the bear with him as part of his deal to exit the Tonight Show.

TIGER WOODS is planning to return to the PGA tour in the Spring, according to RadarOnline.  Meanwhile there's more smoke behind the rehab rumor.

DEMI MOORE tweeted that she skipped the Golden Globes because she was "Feeling sick and having a bad hair day!"

KATE BOSWORTH and ALEXANDER SKARSGARD were caught canoodling in the crowded bar area of the Beverly Hilton's pool area at HBO's Golden Globes party.

JENNIFER LOPEZ has nabbed a guest spot on Glee.

JENNIFER ANISTON and GERARD BUTLER romance rumors reignite, just in time for the release of their upcoming movie The Bounty Hunter.

YEMEN: The Yemeni government said it has captured the deputy leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

IRAN has appointed a Qods Force commander as Ambassador to Iraq.  Meanwhile, US intell agencies are quietly revising their widely disputed assertion that Iran has no active program to design or build a nuclear bomb.

PUPPY cries like a baby.

A CHAMPION LABRADOR fetches a deadly copperhead snake.

A GECKO that fits on a pencil eraser.

FIVE PENGUIN CHICKS debut at the Omaha Zoo.

AN ELEPHANT CALF is born at the Melbourne Zoo.