ARIEL PINK's HAUNTED GRAFFITI drops a video for the winsome "Only In My Deams."

CAT POWER is advance streaming Sun.

STARS are advance streaming The North.

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE is advance streaming Centipede Hz.

DEERHOOF is advance streaming Breakup Song.

MADNESS frontman Suggs learned his estranged father had died by looking up his own page on Wikipedia. Pretty much have to go "One Step Beyond" for that story.

STEVIE JACKSON (Belle & Sebastian) talks to PopMatters about his excellently-titled solo LP, (I Can't Get No) Stevie Jackson.

THE ENGLISH BEAT: Dave Wakeling talks to PopMatters about the Complete Beat box set, touring with The Clash and the possibilities of a “Three Tenors” type tour with Roger and Roland Gift.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle spins tunes with Stereogum in a Turntable interview.

THE 20 WORST HIPSTER BANDS, according to L.A. Weekly. Ouch.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Expendables 2 repeats at No.1 on your chart with 13.5 million; a 53 percent drop would seem ominous -- it may not clear 100 million stateside -- but for the worldwide appeal of these 80s action star.The Bourne Legacy places with 9.3 million on another sizeable 46 percent drop; this one may clear 100 million domestic, but that's positively anemic for a Bourne flick.  ParaNorman shows with 8.5 million -- but that 39 percent drop is much bigger than Coraline's 12 percent in a similar frame.  The Campaign holds at No.4 with 7.4 million; it's modest budget will make it a modest hit. The Dark Knight Rises to round out the Top 5 with 7.2 million, but dropped 34 percent as it lost 551 screen; it ccontinues to lag the Dark Knight significantly in the US, but has outgrossed TDK overseas. Below the fold, Premium Rush, Hit and Run, and The Apparition debuted in 7th, 10th, and 12th, respectively.

PRINCE HARRY: The shocking Vegas snapshots may just be the beginning.

KATIE HOLMES walked away with nothing other than rather modest child support in her divorce from Tom Cruise.

KRISTEN STEWART surfaced for the first time since her cheating scandal broke and RadarOnline reports that it was Jodie Foster who put her up to it.

TONY SCOTT did not explain why he decided to take his own life in the suicide note he left for loved ones ... but did offer a final emotional farewell.

KATY PERRY & JOHN MAYER have stopped dating. Apocalypse averted.

RANDY TRAVIS was "extremely intoxicated" in a church fight.

KIRSTEN DUNST's new comedy is so raunchy she won't let her dad see it.

NEIL ARMSTRONG, the first man to walk on the moon, died Saturday, weeks after heart surgery and days after his 82nd birthday. NASA promptly posted a feature on the pioneer.  And yes, there are kids on Twitter who didn't know who he was. Get. Off. My. Lawn. (In fairness to those kids, NBC News had some trouble with it at first.)

LEBANON: A Sunni cleric who reportedly led an Islamist militia was shot and killed by a sniper during clashes between Sunnis and Alawites in Tripoli. Seeking to prevent the Syrian conflict from spilling further into Lebanon, the government deployed hundreds of soldiers along with tanks to Tripoli to quell the fighting.

SYRIA: With one week left to go, August is already the deadliest month in Syria's 17-month crisis. Opposition activists report more than 3700 people killed -- mostly civilians -- in just the past few weeks.

AFGHANISTAN: A group of angry Afghan villagers have got the Taliban scrambling after they mounted an unlikely rebellion against the insurgents in eastern Afghanistan -- and won.  However, these sorts of uprising canbecome, shall we say, complicated.

JESSI-CAT helps a boy overcome selective mutism.

HELIUM-HUFFING GIBBONS sing like sopranos.

A MOUNTAIN LION ended up in downtown Reno by Harrah’s on Virginia Street.

THE JAPANESE SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY has eyes in its butt.