THE NATIONAL drops a video for "I Need My Girl."

REAL ESTATE is advance streaming Atlas via iTunes.

THE MEN advance stream Tomorrow's Hits.

BART DAVENPORT advance streams Physical World.

JOHHNY GREENWOOD (Radiohead) & BRYCE DESSNER stream an orchestral split LP.

OFF! drops "Hypnotized" ahead of Wasted Years.

CLOUD NOTHINGS have "Psychic Trauma" ahead of Here and Nowhere Else.

THE GO-GOs are joined by The Bangles' Vicki Petersen for "We Got the Beat" on French TV in 1995.

BECK talks to The Guardian about the dark mood of Morning Phase.

THE "NEW RADIOHEAD": Pitchfork essays the bands who weren't.

SO YOU WANNA BE A ROCK N' ROLL STAR? Fill out this government application.

SHOULD YOU FEEL BAD about dumping your ex-favorite band?

HAROLD RAMIS, remembered by veteran character actor Stephen Tobolowsky (Groundhog Day's Ned Ryerson).

ROBIN THICKE canceled his Atlanta concert and flew to Canada to plead with Paula Patton to save their marriage.

JUSTIN BIEBER is headed to trial in his DUI case.

AMANDA BYNES got probation in her DUI plea deal.

PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN: Playwright David Bar Katz sued the National Enquirer over gay and drug rumors and settled with the creation of the American Playwriting Foundation, which will give out an annual prize of 45K for an unproduced play.

LINDSAY LOHAN has one less lawsuit to deal with.

JENNA FISCHER  is pregnant and expecting her second child with husband Lee Kirk this summer.

PAUL RUDD & JIMMY FALLON faced off for the first Tonight Show lip-sync battle.

UKRAINE: Can its revolutionaries become democrats? Dozens of pro-Russian protesters rallied Tuesday in the Crimean Peninsula city of Sevastopol, bitterly denouncing politicians in Kiev who are trying to form a new government, with some even calling for secession from Ukraine.

VENEZUELA: The United States has ordered three Venezuelan diplomats out of the country in reaction to similar action taken by Caracas, the State Department said Tuesday. President Nicolas Maduro claimed the government was gaining support ahead of a “peace conference” he called for tomorrow following two weeks of protests that have killed 14 people.

AFGHANISTAN: President Obama, apparently resigned to President Hamid Karzai's refusal to sign a long-term security agreement with the United States before he leaves office, told him in a phone call on Tuesday that he had instructed the Pentagon to begin planning for a complete withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

A MEERKAT LAUGHS: Let's go to the video.

URBAN HYENAS attack rough sleepers in Addis Ababa.

SURFIN' CROC: Everybody knows about the croc.

CAN YOUR CAT predict the weather?