SUPERCHUNK has a catty new video for "Crossed Wires."

JOSEPH ARTHUR is advance streaming The Graduation Ceremony. 

RA RA RIOT does a mini-set in audio and video for Laundro-Matinee.

JAMES BLAKE stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

GRANT LEE BUFFALO, Live at Shepherds Bush Empire, London, October 11th 1994.

BLACK LIPS share a "New Direction," produced by Mark Ronson.

THE LEFT BANKE: "Walk Away Renee."

REMEMBERING JOEY RAMONE, who would have turned 60 today, at the Village Voice.

OKKERVIL RIVER: Will Scheff shares his relief over the reception given the band's new LP. (Thx, Chromewaves.)

VAN DYKE PARKS talks to DIY about about projects old and new, and tantalizes us with details of the long-awaited official release of the original ‘Smile'. (Thx, LHB.)

YO LA TENGO: Ira Kaplan talks to the Wall Street Journal about the Wheel of Fortune tour.

ARNOLD/MARIA SPLIT: The mother of Schwarzenegger's love child threatened to go public with sordid details of their illicit affair - all because the Governator terminated her employment.  The child was born just days after Shriver gave birth to their fourth child.  Shriver disses Arnold on her upcoming Oprah appearance.

BRAD PITT reflects on parenthood, both real and cinematic.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE (Winter's Bone, X-Men: First Class) is profiled by Elle... and appears as The Hunger Games' Katniss Everdeen on the cover of the new Entertainment Weekly.

LARS VON TRIER: The Danish director giving a shocking press conference in Cannes for his new film Melancholia in which he admitted to being a Nazi, to understanding Hitler and speculated that his next movie could be The Final Solution. Melancholia stars Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg were mortified, especially when he suggested making a pron film with them.  Von Trier later apologized, but the post-premiere party for the film was cancelled.

RACHEL McADAMS and MICHAEL SHEEN finally confirm they are dating.

LADY GAGA tops the Forbes Celebrity 100 list of the most powerful people in the entertainment business this year.

JEFF CONAWAY, who gained fame from his roles in the film "Grease" and the TV series "Taxi" before succumbing to substance abuse that landed him on reality shows dealing with rehabilitation ("Celebrity Rehab" and "Celebrity Fit Club"), is in critical condition following an apparent overdose.

ZSA ZSA GABOR slipped into a coma after being rushed to an L.A. hospital yesterday for emergency stomach surgery.

AL QAEDA's interim emir is reportedly Saif al Adel, a longtime member of al Qaeda and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Al Adel has a decades-long relationship with Iran and was protected by the Iranians after 9/11.

YEMEN: The US has urged President Saleh to sign the agreement with the opposition and step down.

SYRIA: Pres. Obama imposed tough sanctions against Assad and six other senior Syrian officials in an effort to stop the regime's fierce crackdown on protests. The sanctions also target two top Iranian officials whose unit was a "conduit for Iranian material support" to Syrian intelligence.

IRAN:  The UN nuclear agency is investigating reports from its experts that their cellphones and laptops may have been hacked into by Iranian officials looking for confidential information while the equipment was left unattended during inspection tours in the Islamic Republic.

IRAQ: Security forces detained al Qaeda's military leader, top judge, and two other commanders in Salahadin, and captured al Qaeda's governor in Kirkuk.

BABY OTTER vs STUFFED WALRUS: Who you got?

THE RED-CRESTED TREE RAT returns, 113 years after the last known sighting.

PONY EXPRESS? Not so fast.

WHEN A TURKEY ATTACKS: "Feathers, poo and papers ... it's a mess."