NEW PR0NOGRAPHERS release a video for "Crash Years." (You might need to select the 480p version to get it to run properly.)

THE NATIONAL played a mini-set at World Cafe Live. Aaron Dessner and singer Matt Berninger spoke to Pitchfork about how the band has changed over the years, how embarrassing it is to be on stage, and how they feel about their "lost" albums.

GRAHAM PARKER also played a mini-set at World Cafe Live.

ARCADE FIRE: Live clips of new songs surface.

TEENAGE FANCLUB is streaming their Shadows, and is profiled at the Times of London.

BLACK MOUNTAIN reveals "Old Fangs" as an advance track from their upcoming Wilderness Heart.

PRINCE dropped "Hot Summer" in time for his 52nd birthday. Not a classic, but not bad, symbol-dude.

OWEN PALLETT covers "Game of Pricks," for The A.V. Club Undercover, which put me in mood of the Guided by Voices original classic, natch.

MOUNTAIN MAN: Inspired by the traditional folk, country and Appalachian stylings of Gillian Welch, this trio are the female Fleet Foxes.

MAVIS STAPLES talks to Pitchfork about her upcoming LP, which features production by and songs from Wilco's Jeff Tweedy.

SLEIGH BELLS talk to Exclaim about Spike Jonze, M.I.A. and being years ahead of their dreams.

RYAN ADAMS has written 11 new songs inspired by his recent trip to Ronnie James Dio's funeral.

LINDSAY LOHAN's court-ordered alcohol-monitoring bracelet was trigged Sunday evening during an MTV Movie Awards afterparty. Judge Marsha Revel issued a bench warrant for her arrest on Tuesday; new bail has been set at 200K. UPDATE: The bench warrant for Lindsay Lohan's arrest has been recalled. 

CHARLIE SHEEN's plea deal hit a snag.  Apparently, the woman who supervises the work release program said she wasn't going to honor the deal because she had problems with the way it was structured.

HEIDI MONTAG officially filed for legal separation from Spencer Pratt. The real deal, or doubling down on a hoax?

TOM CRUISE says a Les Grossman movie is in the works.

THE MTV MOVIE AWARDS ratings were down, despite appearances by much of the cast from the night's big winner -- "Twilight: New Moon" -- and the much-hyped debuts of trailers for the latest installments of both the "Twilight" and "Harry Potter" franchises. Oddly, the network apologized for the frequent profanity unleashed during the show.

GEMMA ARTERTON (Quantum of Solace, Prince of Persia) has wed on the sly.

MICHAEL FASSBENDER (Inglourious Basterds) will likely turn up as a villain in X Men: First Class or Spider-Man 4.

EMMYS ROUNDTABLE: Ty Burrell, Ted Danson, Aziz Ansari, Neil Patrick Harris, Ed Helms, and Jim Parsons talk comedy.

JAMES CAMERON says his comments last week that the British oil giant is a bunch of "morons" were "taken out of context."

NORTH KOREA: Kim Jong Il shook up his country's leadership ranks in a move that appeared part of a broad strategy to consolidate his power before he passes control to his son.

AFGHANISTAN: Afghan observers and Western officials are interpreting the forced resignations of Afghanistan's two top security officials as another worrying sign of President Hamid Karzai's increasingly impulsive decision making and deepening isolation from his backers, both within Afghanistan and abroad. The International Crisis Group is concerned about the Afghan military unimprovement.

IRAQ: President Jalal Talabani on Tuesday called the first session of Iraq's new parliament for June 14, more than three months after an inconclusive election that has yet to yield a government.

OVERTURNED TORTOISE AID: Let's go to the video.

A DECADES-OLD CHIMP-NAPPING STORY still makes for good reading.

A VET had to be rescued by firefighters after she became trapped when the horse she was sedating fell asleep on top of him.

A SURFER PUNCHES A SHARK, then reportedly rode a wave to safety in Western Australia.