MICHAEL STIPE & BILLY BRAGG sing The Only Ones' "Another Girl, Another Planet" in the Czech Republic, as Natalie Merchant dances.

NEW RELEASES: Radiohead remixes, Dan Mangan, Misfits, Indigo Girls, Talkdemonic and more are streaming this week via Spinner.

ANDREW BIRD is advance streaming the Norman soundtrack via the Facebook.

RYAN ADAMS stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

PETER GABRIEL also stopped by World Cafe for a chat and excerpts from New Blood, which contains re-imaginings of some of his best-known songs.

AEROSMITH: The Increasingly Killer Show.

THE MOODY BLUES "Ride My Seesaw" on French TV for Twofer "Tuesday Afternoon."

FLORENCE & THE MACHINE: Ms. Welch talks to Billboard about the temptation of mainstream pop and more...

THE JAYHAWKS: Gary Louris and Mark Olson talk to the Boston Globe about the band's third lease on life.

THE MOST INEXPLICABLY POPULAR SONGS, according to The A.V. Club.

MERGE RECORDS gets a profile at Salon.

ASHTON KUTCHER yelled for vodka as he languished naked in a hot tub with four similarly bare young women, according to a witness present at the actor's lavish San Diego hotel suite on the night he is alleged to have cheated on wife Demi Moore.

SETH ROGEN wed his longtime girlfriend, writer Lauren Miller.

JENNA FISCHER  and husband Lee Kirk welcomed son Weston Lee on Sept. 24.

MADONNA reprtedly will perform during the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on February 5, 2012.

KRISTEN STEWART is the cover story for the new GQ UK.

TUPAC SHAKUR: Posthumous sex tape.

KANYE WEST: Not a big hit at Fashion Week.

YEMEN is mired in a contest between the president and his rivals that risks tipping a dirt-poor nation bordering oil giant Saudi Arabia into civil war and economic collapse.

AFGHANISTAN: Pres. Karzai accused Pakistan of failing to support his country in combating terrorism, regretting Islamabad's non-cooperation in ridding the region of the scourge.  Karzai has said he plans to hold a grand assembly of elders, or loya jirga, to decide the country's peace strategy in the near future.  The BBC visits villages where the Taliban still rules.

MAMA KOALA to the rescue.

THE SWARM: Florida officials are abuzz as to how millions of honey bees were killed in Brevard County.

AN 8-FT CROCODILE turned bright orange after eating the water filter from its tank.

THE CUTE MEERKAT and the MICRO-PIG- named Timon and Pumbaa after the Lion King characters - have struck up the most unlikely of friendships...Mass hysteria!