WARPAINT explains and plays the the song that bears their name for The Guardian.

PJ HARVEY drops "Written On the Forehead" as an advance track to Let England Shake.

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART drop "The One," a B-side taken from their upcoming record.

JUNIP stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

NPR"s 50 FAVE ALBUMS, alphabetically, with streaming selections.

THE BEACH BOYS: It's the "Little Saint Nick," natch.

BEN KWELLER lists his favorite Hanukkah songs.

SUPERCHUNK: Mac McCaughan reflects on the re-emergence of his seminal '90s band with the Mpls City Pages, while Creative Loafing talks to Jon Wurster.

HUSKER DU biographer Andrew Earles talks to Chunklet about his book debut.

THE CLASH: Mick Jones and Paul Simonon are working on a new biopic based on the recording of London Calling.

THE JAYHAWKS are putting the band back together and talk about their first full lineup LP since 1995.

BRITNEY SPEARS: Ex-bf Jason Alexander tells the ever-relaible Star that the pop wreck confided to him that her agent-turned-bf JasonTrawick beat her - on multiple occasions. RadarOnline posted audio.  However, Britney's co-conservator says every aspect of the story -- including the audio -- is completely fabricated and that legal action will be taken.

JENNIFER LOPEZ is caught on hours of new video "exposing her genital area in public" and displaying other "deviant behavior", according to documents just filed in the singer's high-stakes legal fight to keep the tapes secret.

JAKE GYLLENHAAL & TAYLOR SWIFT: Spotted getting cozy again.

NEVE CAMPBELL super secretly filed for divorce from her husband John Light - 5 months ago.

TONY PARKER just lost his lawyer in his divorce case with Eva Longoria - because Tony's lawyer also reps the man who's married to the woman Tony was allegedly sexting.

MAD MEL UPDATE: Oksana Grigorieva's lawyers are trying to muzzle the lawyer who negotiated her multi-million dollar settlement with Mel Gibson from saying too much to the L.A. County Sheriff's Department.

HEATHER LOCKLEAR is currently hospitalized in California after coming down with a bacterial infection.

CHRISTINA AGUILERA has given her first interview about her new boyfriend Matthew Rutler.

KATY PERRY & RUSSELL BRAND, almost derailed by John Mayer?

RANDY QUAID and his wife are spending nights in their car, on the run from the same shadowy cabal-"the Hollywood Star Whackers"-who may have killed Heath Ledger, possibly sabotaged Jeremy Piven, and could now be targeting Lindsay Lohan.

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN talks to Entertainment Weekly about The Dark Knight Rises, an Inception videogame, and more...

IRAN: The attack on two of Iran's leading nuclear physicists is likely the work of a joint American and Israeli covert program to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, argues Reza Aslan.

AFGHANISTAN: The Pentagon has rolled out prototypes of its first-ever programmable "smart" grenade launcher, a shoulder-fired weapon that uses microchipped ammunition to target and kill the enemy, even when the enemy is hidden behind walls or other cover.

IRAQI security forces captured al Qaeda in Iraq's security minister and the terror group's military commander for the capital during separate raids in Ramadi and Baghdad over the past two weeks. Elite counterterrorism units in Iraq are running half as many operations this year as they have annually since 2008, in part because of a nationwide drop in violence. Leaked diplomatic cables provide new details on the US assessment of how Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps has promoted Tehran's influence in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion.

AN OSTRICH and a BABY GIRAFFE, playing tag...Mass hysteria!

NEEDY CHICKENS are getting sweaters knit for the holidays.

SNAKE at a computer terminal. Fatal.

KIBURI, a 10-day-old cheetah cub, meets the public for the first time at the San Diego Zoo.