KING KHAN & THE BBQ SHOW, n/k/a The Bad News Boys, drop a video for "We Are The Champion": "This was the first song we wrote for the album. Not the best song on the record, and not a single, but where our heads were at during the recording."

THE AFGHAN WHIGS stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH performed live in the KEXP Studio.

PHIL & DAVE ALVIN play a mini-set of Big Bill Broonzy covers at KUTX.

THE MAGIC NUMBERS share three songs off their upcoming LP, Alias.

REAL ESTATE covers the Nerves' "Paper Dolls."

THE KINKS: Esquire essays The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, dubbed "the best rock album you've never heard."

HENRY ROLLINS writes the inevitable apology for his column on depression.

SINKANE talks to Stereogum about his new album and his other endeavors.

PETE BEST talked to PopMatters about a lifetime of incredulous “What If’s.”

ZOOEY DESCHANEL was caught canoodling on camera with rumored new boyfriend Jacob Pechenik.

THE EMMYS --in a rare Monday appearance--went to these folks.

HAYDEN PANETTIERE is expecting a baby girl.

AMANDA PEET is expecting her third child with her husband David Benioff.

LENA DUNHAM excerpted her book at The New Yorker.

SHUTTER ISLAND may spawn a series on HBO.

UKRAINE: Amid reports of a surge in fighting between government forces and Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday that Moscow will be sending a second humanitarian convoy into the war-torn region as early as this week. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has dissolved Ukraine's parliament and announced an election on October 26.

NORWAY: Some 5,000 people protested in Oslo against the Islamic State, in a demonstration organized by Norwegian Muslim groups.

LIBYA: Islamist militias said Sunday they have consolidated their hold on Tripoli and its international airport, driving out rival militias to the outskirts of the capital following a weekslong battle for control of the strategic hub.

SYRIA: The United States is preparing military options, including surveillance flights, to pressure Islamic State in Syria, U.S. officials said on Monday, but they cautioned no decision had been made to expand U.S. action beyond the limited airstrikes under way in Iraq. The White House, however, refused to commit to asking for congressional authority for airstrikes in Syria.

LIONS vs CROCODILE: Who You Got?

A HARBOR SEAL napping on a Jet Ski.

CAMBODIAN RAT MEAT: A growing export market.

WAS A DOG run over by Google Street View?