COLDPLAY pays tribute to the late Adam Yauch.

NEW RELEASES from Damon Albarn, Kindness, Silversun Pickups, Rotal Headache and more are streaming this week via Spinner.

THE WALKMEN played World Cafe Live; you can stream the gig on demand.

EXITMUSIC is advance streaming Passage.

SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO is advance streaming Unpatterns and talks about their sounds with The Guardian.

BEN FOLDS FIVE posted a demo for "Do It Anyway" on the Facebook.

COCOROSIE drop "We Are On Fire" as a single.

MANFRED MANN covers Bob Dylan's "The Mighty Quinn" and "Just Like a Woman" for Twofer Tuesday.

REDD KROSS has announced their first new LP in 15 years.

THE PUNCH BROTHERS: Chris Thile talks to PopMatters about the band's breathrough album, famous fans and more...

LOWER DENS: Jana Hunter spoke with Paste about Nootropics, the concept of transhumanism and what she hopes people take away from their album.

BRAIDS talk to SPIN about their sophomore LP.

MATTHEW FOX was busted for DUI Friday in Oregon.

JACK OSBOURNE and his fiancee welcome a baby girl, named Pearl.

MILA KUNIS has a stalker problem. Again.

LINDSAY LOHAN settles a battery lawsuit brought by a former Betty Ford Clinic worker.

LINDA EVANGELISTA and her billionaire French baby-daddy this morning settled their bitterly contentious child support battle.

MEGAN FOX pregnancy rumors get the non-denial denial from Brian Austin Green.

THE AVENGERS: Actual receipts were 207.4 million, beating the record-breaking estimate.  The wordwide take is 654.8 million in 12 days.

FRANCE: The finance ministry froze the assets of a radical Tunisian cleric whom France seeks to deport for making "violently anti-Semitic remarks" and advocating that women who commit adultery be flogged to death.

YEMEN: The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a US-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.  Sunday's drone strike against Fahd Mohammad Ahmed Al-Quso was not a coincidence.

AFGHANISTAN: The US has been freeing detainees from its military prison in Afghanistan to promote good governance and contain violence in the country, outside the formal NATO-sponsored reintegration program, which forces militants to sever ties with the insurgency.

A SPEEDING OSTRICH sprinting down a busy main road in Saudi Arabia causes traffic chaos as it overtakes and dodges cars.

A CHIHUAHUA COSTUME PARTY fell short of a world record Saturday morning in Kansas City, but still looked very silly.

FUGITIVE MONKEY spotted in Winter Springs, FL.

MEOW, a 39-lb cat in a race against time to lose weight, died over the weekend after developing unexpected respiratory difficulties.