CAMERA OBSCURA drops a video for "Break It To You Gently."

TELEKINESIS stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

LISSIE stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

DAUGHN GIBSON stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

NO AGE stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

TEARS FOR FEARS covers Arcade Fire's "Ready To Start."

HUES CORP: "Rock The Boat". And rock on with your bad self.

FATHER JOHN MISTY gets a meaty profile from Magnet. (Thx, Chromewaves.)

KATHLEEN HANNA talks to Stereogum about The Julie Ruin, riot grrl, and the illness that derailed her life.

TY SEGALL talks to All Songs Considered about the weighty themes that inspired and appear on Sleeper.

READY, STEADY GO! The making of the pioneering 1960s TV pop show.

LINDSAY LOHAN drew under 1 million viewers to the premiere telecast of “Oprah's Next Chapter”. Ouch.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE and his former *NSYNC band members are set to reunite for a special performance on the VMAs Sunday night at the Barclays Center, sources tell Page Six.

SIMON COWELL breaks his silence on his impeding fatherhood.

KANYE WEST turned down American Idol.

LILY TOMLIN may marry Jane Wagner, who have been together for 42 years.

ELMORE LEONARD, the prolific crime novelist whose louche characters, deadpan dialogue and immaculate prose style in novels like "Get Shorty," “Fifty-Two Pickup,” "Freaky Deaky" and "Glitz" established him as a modern master of American genre writing, died on Tuesday at his home in Bloomfield Township, Mich. He was 87.  He would undoubtedly have found the NYT obit overwritten.

FRENCH Interior Minister Valls played down reports of a recent al Qaeda threat to European railways, saying French intelligence has found no evidence to support the alleged threat, but added that France is vigilant. Even though intelligence indicated no specific threat to France, but perhaps a general threat in northern Europe, France stepped up policing on its rail lines in the wake of the threat.

TURKEY: Citing evidence found on YouTube, Turkey’s Islamist prime minister claimed that Israel was behind the military takeover in Egypt last month.

SYRIA: Regime forces launched an assault in Deir al-Zor, trying to regain territory seized by a coalition headed by the Al Nusrah Front and the Qatar-backed Ahfad al-Rasul Brigade.

EGYPT: A wave of attacks on the Christian minority washes over the country, as Islamists set upon homes and churches, shops and schools, youth clubs and at least one orphanage, killing at least three people, according to an Egyptian human rights group. The authorities stood by and watched.  Now, the Egyptian defense minister has ordered the repair and reconstruction of all churches that suffered damage in the country’s violent demonstrations.Security forces arrested the General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie, overnight. Following Badie's arrest, the MB appointed Mahmoud Ezzat as the group's temporary leader.

PAKISTAN's ex-military ruler General Pervez Musharraf was formally indicted by a court Tuesday for his alleged role in the 2007 assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto.

DOG PLAYS (Fetch) WITH HIMSELF.

A CENSORED KANGAROO sparks Facebook rage Down Under.

TWO WOLVES kill 176 sheep in Idaho Falls.

BAZINGA: It's a new breed of jellyfish.