MAXIMO PARK multiplies and and beefs up a new-wave synth in the video for "Our Velocity," from the band's upcoming Our Earthly Pleasures album.

NEW RELEASES: Peter Bjorn and John, Bloc Party, Apples in Stereo, Loney Dear and Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter are among those streaming in full from Spinner. The charming Eleni Mandell releases Miracle of Five, which is streaming in full this week at TheBooth. Longtime Americana duo Over the Rhine releases Discount Fireworks. And Richard Lloyd's Fields of Fire returns as a two-disc "deluxe" edition, with o­ne disc a straight-up remastered version of the original and the other a radically different "revisitation," with different arrangements, songs in a different sequence, plus two bonus tracks.

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE wanna take you higher with super-deluxe re-issues of the band's first seven albums o­n March 20th.

APPLE and APPLE have settled their trademark tiff, possibly setting the stage for the Beatles to invade iTunes.

BOB DYLAN: Andy Kershaw tracked down the man who yelled "Judas!" at Bob & The Band at the Royal Albert Hall (actually the Manchester's Free Trade Hall ) o­n their notorious UK tour in May 1966. Heather Browne is streaming that bit of history.

THE ARTIST CURRENTLY KNOWN AS PRINCE gets an in-depth career survey at PopMatters (w/ embedded video of "Kiss"). You can see his SuperBowl halftime show via Spinner. Not bad for a 48-year-old who needs a hip replacement. I've always been partial to "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man," which I think was inspired by fellow Minnesotan Paul Westerberg. I'm pretty sure Westerberg thinks so, too, as I saw The Replacements cover it.

WHAM! may yet inflict a reunion album and tour o­n an unsuspecting public.

SMASHING PUMPKINS' reunion probably will not include original members James Iha o­n guitar and D'Arcy Wretzky o­n bass. Manager Paul Geary also told MTV that Billy Corgan & Co. previously turned down seven-figure offers to reunite.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: The Captain's dead blog got ready for the SuperBowl with Born to Run outtakes, which you can jukebox via the ol' HM.

PETE DOHERTY-KATE MOSS UPDATE: The troubled singer shockingly was denied a gun license. Meanwhile, the supposedly sober supermodel reportedly looked "tipsy" in new portraits taken for the National Portrait Gallery, but you can judge for yourself at the link.

JESSICA SIMPSON has decided to try the tranny hooker look, going so far as to model her O-face for everyone.

RYAN O'NEAL, defending his weekend arrest o­n assault charges, accuses his son Griffin of "wildly swinging a fireplace poker" at him and allegedly injuring Griffin's pregnant girlfriend.

ALANIS MORISSETE & RYAN GOSLING have called off their engagement. It's apparently a mutual decision, so we may not even get a jagged little pill out of it.

ANDY DICK was removed by security o­n Jimmy Kimmel Live because he wouldn't stop groping Ivanka Trump. Video at the link.

JESSICA BIEL and ALYSSA MILANO are both after Justin Timberlake? Did he have a secret SuperBowl assignation with SCARLETT JOHANSSON? It's good to be JT.

LINDSAY LOHAN popped out of rehab and popped into the Hollywood bar scene. Though she was not seen drinking alcohol, she was seen with the French Hotel, which can't be a good thing.

TOM-KAT UPDATE: Cruise again displayed his complete lack of rhythm during a Marc Anthony-Jennifer Lopez duet at a SuperBowl party hosted by Ocean Drive magazine. Video at the link.

BEN AFFLECK says his role in Smokin' Aces made him give up smoking, though he apparently will continue making bad movies.

FACTORY GIRL: Filmmaker Chuck Wein joins Bob Dylan o­n the list of those threatening to sue for libel if changes are not made to the Edie Sedgwick biopic.

KIRSTEN DUNST has been seen with every dark-haired, scruffy guy in Hollywood lately.

CHARLIZE THERON has stepped from in front of the camera to behind it to make a documentary o­n Cuba, particularly Cuban hip-hoppers. Theron said she didn't set out to make the film with an agenda in mind, but found that many of the young people she met questioned Fidel Castro's regime.

RICK MORANIS got an op-ed published in The New York Times. I have to think the paper didn't get that Moranis is mocking the paper's core readership.

OUR FRIENDS, THE SAUDIS: A Saudi Arabian judge sentenced 20 foreigners to receive lashes and prison for attending a party where alcohol was served and men and women danced, a newspaper reported Sunday. An Islamic school in Britain with a Saudi curriculum teaches children as young as five that Jews are "repugnant" and "apes" and that Christians are "pigs."

IRAQ in the MEDIA: The NBC Nightly News did a piece asking, "Iraq has heroes, so where are their medals? The main subject of the story is Marine Corps Reserve Cpl. Todd Corbin, who was awarded the Navy Cross for his bravery. NBC did not mention he received the award in April 2006, or that NBC News failed to cover it at the time. Better late than never. For example, 1st Lt. Brian Chontosh got the Navy Cross with no coverage from NBC. Sgt. Willie L. Copeland, III got the Navy Cross with no coverage from NBC. Lance Corporal Dominic D. Esquibel? Nope, nothing from the Peacock. The list goes o­n, but you get the idea. NBC News might want to try a story headlined, "Iraq has heroes with medals, so why no mass media coverage?"

IRAQ: The new US-Iraqi effort to stabilize Baghdad will begin soon, and o­n a scale never seen during four years of war, American officers said. A command center in Baghdad began operations Monday, as three divisions of the Iraqi Army have redeployed in the city. Iraqi troops set up new checkpoints and an Iraqi general took command, as some have begun complaining that the security drive has been too slow in starting. Meanwhile, the US Senate could not muster a majority, let alone the necessary 60 votes, to force a vote o­n a nonbinding measure expressing disagreement with "the surge" without allowing competing measures. Outside Baghdad, two key members of al-Sadr's political and military organization were killed, a sign that top ranks of the group continue to come under attack from both Sunni insurgents and US and Iraqi forces.

A ROTTWEILER helps rear two lambs born in need of extra love and attention in Wales. NTTAWWT.

CROCODILE angered when Aussie schoolkids try to take a swimming class in his pool.

A WHOOPING CRANE believed killed with 17 others in severe Florida storms may be alive, because a signal transmitting from the bird indicates it survived.

PUPPY BOWL III gets in-depth coverage from the Wshington Post.

VIVI the WHIPPET, who bolted from her crate at Kennedy Airport after the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, remains missing after almost a year. Folks are losing hope that she will be found.