SHE & HIM are "In the Sun." Zooey. Dancing.

IAN McCULLOCH of Echo and the Bunnymen did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter.

CURSIVE dropped a new track, "Discovering America," at the 'Gum.

THE BIRD & BEE are streaming "Sara Smile" from their Hall & Oates tribute via Entertainment Weekly.

CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS got a lengthy feature plus tracks on Fresh Air.

SPOON "Got Nuffin" but rawk at the Ed Sullivan Theater.

NEIL YOUNG & RONNIE VAN ZANDT: Thrasher's Wheat looks at the pseudo-feud between two classic rockers. (Thx, LHB.)

BASIA BULAT talks to the Portland Mercury about her autoharp and her Subaru commercial.

MAJOR RECORD LABELS are still important, say major record labels!

RADIO SILENCE: The Slow Death of Rock 'n Roll on the Airwaves.

TRON: LEGACY has new trailer online.

LINDSAY LOHAN is suing the financial company E-Trade, insisting that a boyfriend-stealing, "milkaholic" baby in its latest commercial - who happens to be named Lindsay - was modeled after her.

CHARLIE SHEEN will be out of rehab to resume taping his hit show Two and a Half Men on March 19.

TIGER WOODS and his wife were... wait for it... caught canoodling, according to the ever-reliable RadarOnline.

MICHAEL JACKSON enjoyed spending time with his children, cruising the Vegas strip and even ordering fast food through a drive through, but his life was filled with "stress, paranoia and pain," according to three of his former bodyguards.

CONAN O'BRIEN is following one person on Twitter -- and it has changed her life.

DAVID LETTERMAN: Robert "Joe" Halderman pleaded guilty to attempted grand larceny, acknowledging he tried to chisel two million from the late-night icon. The plea deal also spares Letterman the prospect of a trial that could have put his private life on display.

HEIDI MONTAG is poking fun at her own 10 plastic surgeries.

CAPTAIN AMERICA may well be John Krasinski -- which gives me the exact opposite feeling I had about Robert Downey, Jr., as Iron Man. Small wonder that Marvel is expanding its search.

THE REAL HURT LOCKER: Foreign Policy has a photo essay of an actual Iraq Bomb Disposal Unit.

AFGHANISTAN: Defense Secretary Gates says recent military offensives against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan had gained momentum but that a reconciliation effort proposed by Afghan Pres. Karzai was unlikely in the near term to cause senior Taliban leaders to lay down their arms.  Indeed, the Taliban has been fighting their allies Hezb-i-Islami -- which may prove to be a major boon to Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

BUCKING BULL escapes Texas rodeo.

RASCAL took the Ugliest Dog title in Del Mar, California this year. Slideshow of nominees at the link.

PABS: A chastity belt for dogs.

A GREAT WHITE SHARK is photographed painfully close to caged divers. Did no one see this movie?