LOCAL NATIVES: The video for "Heavy Feet" features blind model airplane pilots.

RICHARD THOMPSON stopped by WNYC Soundcheck to play and talk bird-watching and hockey.

EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS & TUNE-YARDS play Austin City Limits.

PSYCHIC ILLS are advance streaming One Track Mind.

BLOOD RED SHOES are advance streaming their Water EP.

BARBARA EDEN covers "Spinning Wheel." You're welcome. (Thx, Steve Craven)

ADAM GREEN &  BINKI SHAPIRO talk to The Guardian about film-making on ketamine, van songs and "romantic dysfunction."

FOALS guitarist Jimmy Smith talks to Consequence of Sound about what makes the band bigger than the sum of its parts. Singer/guitarist Yannis Philippakistalks talks to Filter about the recording of Holy Fire.

THE INDIEPOCALYPSE: Do the chart-topping Macklemore and Ryan Lewis mark "a global shift in how culture is made," or are they Lisa Loeb redux?

SLEATER-KINNEY, ranked by Stereogum. 

LINDSAY LOHAN: Opening a Mexican restaurant in Tribeca?

VIVIENNE JOLIE-PITT got paid 3K for her debut film role in Maleficent. I smell nepotism.

CHRIS BROWN: The police chief who signed off on the singer's alleged community service has resigned.

JAMIE-LYNN SIEGLER and Cutter Dykstra just got engaged, and here's the pregnancy announcement.

JENNIFER LOPEZ slapped down a Grammys crasher who tried to interrupt Adele's winning moment.

BRUCE WILLIS is profiled by GQ while shoooting his seventy-third movie.

THE UNITED STATES' National Intelligence Estimate stated that the US is being targeted by sustained cyber-espionage efforts that are undermining US economic competitiveness.

TUNISIA: The leader of the Islamist party Ennahda, Rached Ghannouchi, rejected Prime Minister Jebali's proposal for a cabinet of technocrats and said the new coalition government must include politicians as well. Ghannouchi said he expected that Jebali, also an Ennahda party leader, would remain prime minister of the new coalition.

IRAN and HEZBOLLAH, its Lebanese proxy, are building a network of militias inside Syria to preserve and protect their interests in the event that Assad’s government falls or is forced to retreat from Damascus, according to US and Middle Eastern officials.

EGYPT: The United States expressed concern on Tuesday about growing political polarization in its major ally Egypt and a "climate of impunity" over abuses by police and security forces in the most populous Arab nation.

A CHAMELEON and a toddler.

DOGS helping CHEETAHS calm down and get it on... Mass hysteria!

CATS nab a Peeping Tom, allegedly.

A SEA TURTLE hat lost her front legs to a shark attack donned the latest in artificial flipper technology in Japan.

BEST IN SHOW: That would be Banana Joe, the affenpinscher who won at the Westminster Kennel Club.