FANFARLO shows off "Shiny Things" in advance of Rooms Filled With Light.

NEW RELEASES from Expensive Looks, Run Dan Run, Garnd & Nobel and more are streaming this week at Spinner.

LAURA GIBSON is advance streaming La Grande.

THE BIG PINK is advance streaming Future This.

THE SHINS drop a "Simple Song" ahead of Port Of Morrow.

THE DOORS: "She Smells So Nice" is the first completely new and unreleased song from the band in 40 years.

BLACK DICE unleash "Pigs" ahead of Mr Impossible.

TUNE-YARDS played "Bizness" and "You Yes You" on Fallon in time for Twofer Tuesday.

NEBRASKA: Springsteen's stark solo LP turns 30 this month.

DAVID BROWNE talks to The Nervous Breakdown about his latest book, the '70-centric Fire and Rain. (Thx, LHB.)

COACHELLA 2012 lineup is announced, festival-goers.

RETROMANIA: Critics Ann Powers, Carl Wilson and Daphne Carr to participate in a Bookforum roundtable on the provocative Simon Reynolds book.

THE DESCENDANTS:  Finally got around to Alexander Payne's latest, a dramedic meditation on the legacies we leave.  The story here is not as strong as those in Election or Sideways, but the film nonetheless bears most of the tonal qualities of a Payne film.  There will be talk of George Clooney getting an Oscar nomination -- and he is quite good -- as Matt King, who has a multiplicity of family issues to address. But Shailene Woodley, as his first daughter Alexandra, has a breakout performance which will take her beyond The Secret Life of the American Teenager.  Also, don't let Clooney lie to you in the opening narration -- while he promises that Hawaii is not a paradise, the cinematography suggests otherwise.

BEYONCE & JAY-Z: Lenox Hill Hospital denied the couple took over an entire floor for the birth of their child, but parents complained they were blocked from visiting their babies in neonatal intensive care.

EVAN RACHEL WOOD & JAMIE BELL are engaged.

CHARLIE SHEEN says that last year's headline-making antics are indeed a thing of the past.

LISA LOEB and husband Roey Hershkovitz will welcome their second child in June.

SNOOP DOGG was busted in TX this weekend after a drug-sniffing dog uncovered marijuana on his tour bus.

KRISTY McNICHOL comes out.

TERROR in the USA: Authorities charged Sami Osmakac, a Kosovo-born naturalized US citizen, with planning a terror attack on various targets in the Tampa Bay area, including public areas and bridges.

IRAN's top nuclear official announced this weekend that the country was on the verge of starting production at its second major uranium enrichment site, in a defiant declaration that its nuclear program would continue despite new international sanctions restricting its oil revenue.

PAKISTAN: Fmr Pres Musharraf said he will return to Pakistan at the end of the month; Senior Special Prosecutor Chaudhry said Musharraf would be arrested upon his return.

AFGHANISTAN: Pres Karzai's spokesman said that the Taliban must agree to a ceasefire before peace talks can proceed. Karzai's spokesman also said the government would not cede provinces to the Taliban.

LION vs TODDLER: Who you got?

THE BRANDING VILLA in South Gosforth, Newcastle, is now selling a special beer designed for dogs so that drinkers' four-legged friends can also enjoy a tipple at the same time. It is also serving a Sunday roast covered in cat-flavored gravy.

GOAT-RIDING MONKEY Raids Farm.

A DOG was rescued from an Idaho mine shaft.

MAGPIES & BEARS mourn the death of Kim Jong Il.