SLOAN plays Gary Numan's "Cars" for The A.V. Club Undercover. And nail it, imho.

WILCO: Highlights from the Solid Sound Festival, including new songs and a cover of Split Enz's "I Got You," with Neil Finn.

BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS stopped by WFUV for a chat and mini-set.

TUNE-YARDS plays a session at Morning Becomes Eclectic.

MATT POND PA drops "Love to Get Used" from the Spring Fools EP.

THE BEATLES: Off-White (1968 demos from George Harrison's house in Esher).

EVERY MOTHER'S SON: "Come On Down to My Boat," baby.

RICHARD THOMPSON received an OBE from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace yesterday. (via Jon Hahn.)

FRIENDLY FIRES: Ed Macfarlane talks to BlackBook about the importance of drinking before shows, losing his bassist to another band, and reconciling with New York. (Thx, Chromewaves.)

THE HORRORS take The Quietus on a track-by-track tour of Skying.

PASTE magazine relaunches as a multimedia application.

FEIST was the unlikely subject of a fight between Shia LaBeouf and Michael Bay on the set of Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON opens today, scoring 35 percent on the ol' Tomatometer (as if it matters).

SHIA LeBEOUF: Hollywood's Last Bad Boy? The juice in that piece is that he hooked up with Megan Fox, but didn't know if she was with Brian Austin Green at the time.

BLOW-UP: GQ has an oral history of Michael Bay, the most explosive director of all time. And the beat goes on.

TOM HANKS & JULIA ROBERTS showed up at Grauman's Chinese Theatre for the premiere of their new movie Larry Crowne...but it wasn't exactly a mob scene.

MAD MEL UPDATE: Gibson and soon-to-be ex-wife Robyn have settled their divorce case.

HALLE BERRY went to family court, complaining her baby daddy, Gabriel Aubry, violated the custody agreement they struck over their daughter Nahla.

EMMA STONE talks to Vanity Fair about dropping out of High School, adjusting to fame, and her hardest H'wood moment to date.

A STAR IS BORN: Clint Eastwood hopes to team Leo Dicaprio with Beyoncé, who's already set for the musical.

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: Anne Hathaway's Catwoman costume reportedly will hew closer to the comic than past movies.

YEMEN: Wounded Pres Saleh, not seen in public since an attack on his palace in early June, is well enough to return soon to Yemen and will make a media appearance within the next couple of days. The ancient port city of Aden is now virtually surrounded by roving gangs of Islamist militia fighters - some linked to Al Qaeda - who have captured at least two towns, stormed prisons and looted banks and military depots in the south.

EGYPT: One of the country's richest men has been accused of mocking Islam after tweeting cartoons of Mickey and Minnie Mouse wearing conservative Muslim attire.

AFGHANISTAN: Analysts across the political spectrum say there is no clarity about what troops will be fighting for in the years to come.

DOZER the goldendoodle is running half-marathons now.

TWO DOLPHIN CALVES pass away at the Baltimore Zoo.

SAN FRANCISCO considers banning all pet sales.

AN INFLATABLE SHARK is among a treasure trove of hundreds of new species may have been discovered in the Philippines.