JOHN LEGEND & THE ROOTS cover Arcade Fire's "Wake Up" for American Express' Unstaged series, shot by Spike Lee. 

NEW RELEASES: Albums from Ben Folds & Nick Hornby, Deerhunter, Klaxons, The Avett Bros., Bad Religion, KT Tunstall, Marcy Playground, Neil Young, Eric Clapton and more are streaming via Spinner. Albums from David Bowie, Gin Blossoms, Electric Six, Doobie Bros and... UFO are streaming via AOL Music.

SUFJAN STEVENS is advance streaming The Age of Adz.

THE CORIN TUCKER BAND is advance steaming 1000 Years.

TRAMPLED BY TURTLES stopped by The Current booth at the Minnesota State Fair for a live performance.

SOUNDTRACK FOR A BREAKUP, courtesy of Nerve.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: The Guardian essays the making of Darkness on the Edge of Town -- and The Promise, a documentary about it. So why not try "Candy's Room" and "Darkness on the Edge of Town" live in Passaic, NJ, circa 1978 as a Twofer Tuesday appetizer?

THE HOLD STEADY's Craig Finn talks musical influences with the Louisville Courier-Journal, starting with The Replacements, natch.

JON LANGFORD talks to the L.A. Times about his new solo album and The Mekons: "We've been saying we should pretend we've split up and then re-form. That seems to be the way to generate a lot of cash..."

CAITLIN ROSE talks to the Herald Scotland about the buzz that has built up around Rose's debut album, Own Side Now.

PERFUME GENIUS: Mike Hadreas and his survival somgs are blurbed by the Portland Mercury.

LINDSAY LOHAN, who reportedly had trouble making bail,  is "in denial" about being a drug addict, according to RadarOnline. But she is doing some image rehab at a local shelter.

DEMI MOORE & ASHTON KUTCHER: His alleged one-night-stand woman reportedly shot a home-made sex tape when she was 19 years old. Shocka.

MAD MEL UPDATE: A child custody agreement signed by Gibson and baby mama Oksana Grigorieva - but later repudiated by her - gives the actor joint and unsupervised custody of their child.

DENISE RICHARDS needs to lay off the Botox.

GEORGE LOPEZ is getting divorced after 17 years of marriage.

GLORIA STEWART, perhaps best known for playing the modern-day Rose in Titanic, died at 100 years old.

THE SOCIAL NETWORK posted an exclusive clip at Yahoo Movies.

AFGHANISTAN: Gen. Petraeus said Monday that high-level Taliban leaders had reached out to senior Afghan government officials in the context of starting reconciliation discussions that could pave the way to end the fighting in Afghanistan.

IRAQ: A Shi'ite-led political bloc missed its own deadline on Monday to choose a nominee for prime minister. Hundreds of police officers, formerly members of an American-backed Sunni paramilitary force, will be stripped of their ranks in the Sunni Arab province of Anbar, tribal leaders and Anbar police said Sunday.

A SLEEPY BABY BUNNY: Let's go to the video. Awwwzzzz...

ROGUE POODLE disrupts commuter trains in Oakland.

SMELLY BIRDS endanger themselves Down Under.

PINK PUSSYCAT MYSTERY not all that mysterious.