PARTS & LABOR sorta play Kanye West's "Runaway" for The A.V. Club Undercover.

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

FRIENDLY FIRES stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

ANNA CALVI also stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

RICHARD BUCKNER: Captain's Dead reposts the box set.

JOHN DOE drops "Never Enough" from the upcoming Keeper.

MORRISSEY played three new songs on BBC2.

THE BONGOS: "Numbers With Wings" was nominated for Best Direction at the first MTV Video Awards.

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS: John Flansburgh talks to SoundSpike about returning to (somewhat) grown-up music. (Thx, LHB.)

CULTS: Brian Oblivion talks to TimeOutNY about buzz breeding anxiety. The duo is also profiled by the Boston Globe.

DAWES bassist Wylie Gelber tells the DePaulia that making their debut LP mellower than their live show was purely intentional.

RAY DAVIES talks to the Wall Street Journal about songwriting, his singing style, performing the "Village Green Preservation Society" album in full and more...

CLARENCE CLEMONS is showing improvement after his stroke, inlcuding movement on his left side. Springsteen posted a note on his website.

ALAN "MR. FABULOUS" RUBIN, trumpet player for the classic SNL house band and Blues Brothers, died June 8 following a battle with lung cancer.

NATALIE PORTMAN and fiancé Benjamin Millepied welcomed a baby boy into the world. The child was immediately whisked to a remote planet, to prevent George Lucas from discovering it.

ARNOLD & MARIA: Mildred Baena, the housekeeper who had a child with Schwarzenegger, speaks out for the first time.

JENNIFER ANISTON: Homewrecker?

HUGH HEFNER tweets that his wedding is off.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE is coming clean about smoking pot in the latest Playboy interview.

JESSICA SIMPSON has signed on to judge NBC's Fashion Star.

CHRIS EVANS, a/k/a Captain America, gets a GQ writer wasted.

SARAH JESSICA PARKER really wanted off jury duty.

SEAN BEAN (Game of Thrones and much more) was stabbed in the arm in a fight over a model.

COMIC-CON is losing its appeal for some movie studios.

YEMEN: The CIA plans to target al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula using unmanned Predator and Reapers aircraft.

SYRIAN forces are continuing the crackdown on anti-regime elements in the north.

IRAN's foreign ministry spokesman warned the US against launching "a military intervention in any country of the region, including Syria." China is encouraginging Iran to continue negotiations over its nuclear program.

AFGHANISTAN: The Afghan war is returning to the place it began: the violent eastern borderlands with Pakistan, where the Taliban and al-Qaeda slipped out of American reach a decade ago and have organized their insurgency ever since.

SURFING GEESE catch a wave. Everybody's heard about the birds.

PSYCHIC SHEEP saves shepherd.

A GOLDEN RETRIEVER loves cleaning so much that he sweeps the streets while walking with his owner.

AFRICAN DWARF CROCODILES were uncovered by police in the spare bedroom of a suburban London house.