FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE:  Adam Schlesinger amuses The A.V. Club with tales of working on the movie Music And Lyrics, opening for Jessica Simpson, and fighting to receive less credit for his work.  Chris Collingwood, who worked as a psychiatric counselor before co-founding the band, tells the San Francisco Examiner about becoming a psychiatric patient -- he was blindsided a few months ago by recurring acid-trippy visions of "my ex-girlfriend, pulling puppies out of her head, puppies that weren't actually there."  The band just posted the video for "Someone To Love" at TheirSpace. 

THIN LIZZY:  It's not exactly "live," and to modern ears, its tightly scripted songs likely won't seem terribly "dangerous." Yet Live and Dangerous, a 1978 double album, is the best existing document of the under-appreciated Irish hard-rock band -- according to Tom Moon, who made it NPR's Shadow Classic this week.  You can stream three songs, including you-know-what.

BLUR will reconvene in the studio this summer and make a new album with founding guitarist Graham Coxon, Alex James has confirmed.

YOU'RE COVERED:  Heather Browne has posted scads of versions of Sam Cooke's "Bring It On Home To Me," all streamable.  Pretending Life Is Like A Song has eight versions of "That's Entertainment" you can stream via the ol' HM.

THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT?  London's Independent sits in on rehearsals for the Paul Weller-less Jam tour.

THE AMERICAN BREED does some wonderfully bad lip-syncing in this wonderfully cheap clip for "Bend Me, Shape Me."

SONIC YOUTH gets a lengthy profile from Filter magazine, celebrating 25 years of Kool Kulture.  RTWT.

BUFFALO TOM is back together after nine years with "Three Easy Pieces," which you can download or stream from the "'Gum Mix" at the link.

JOAN BAEZ, folk singer and anti-war activist, says she doesn't know why she was not allowed to perform for recovering soldiers recently at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.  John "Cougar" Mellencamp had apparently been invited and tried to stick her on the bill at the last minute.  Baez has a theory though: "There might have been one, there might have been 50 (soldiers) that thought I was a traitor."  Or it might have to do with the fact that she is tight with groups like Code Pink, which paraded coffins around Walter Reed.  If she wanted to sing now because she sincerely believes she "might have contributed to a better welcome home for those soldiers fresh from Vietnam," she might want to talk to her friends about taking the same attitude.

THE POLYPHONIC SPREE is previewing its upcoming Fragile Army album as an eight-minute mash-up.

BRITNEY SPEARS performed live late Tuesday night for the first time in nearly three years for screaming fans at the House of Blues in San Diego.  The 14-minute set had the pop tart lip-syncing her way through "... Baby One More Time," "Do Somethin'," "I'm a Slave 4 U," "Breathe on Me" and "Toxic."  Oh, and some recent topless pics have surfaced on the 'net, too.

TOM-KAT UPDATE:  Holmes has been "flirting" with her "Mad Money" co-star Adam Rothenberg, according to Life & Style, which reports that the twosome has been throwing more into their romantic performances than the movie script calls for.  Star magazine has similar scoop, plus word that when Cruise leaves the Louisiana set to fly back to L.A., she moves back to a house she set up in Southern Trace to be closer to the cast.

LINDSAY LOHAN:  Star magazine joins the ranks of those claiming the recently rehabbed starlet is already back off the wagon, having been spotted downing champagne and other alcohol at the West Hollywood hotspot Winston's on April 19.

REESE & RYAN BREAK-UPDATE:  Reports of Witherspoon breaking it off with co-star Jake Gyllenhaal may be a bit premature, as the two were spotted driving together on the 101 Freeway in L.A. last Friday night.

BRADGELINA:  After Jolie made her directorial debut at the Tribeca Film Festival with her documentary A Place in Time, she gave a lapdance to Olivier Martinez, a participant in the documentary and her costar in the 2004 thriller Taking Lives, with whom she reportedly had a fling at the time.

EX-CIA CHIEF GEORGE TENET and RON JEREMY were high school classmates.

TOBEY MAGUIRE "seems like he's an excellent dad," according to Spider-Man series co-star James Franco.  And not gay, according to a new tell-all on the tabloid biz.  NTTAWWT.  BONUS:  Will Spider-Man 3 underachieve?

IRON MAN:  Yesterday, I linked to a pic of Tony Stark's "Mark I" armor; now Entertainment Weekly shows us the "Mark III" armor... and it rocks, too.

JESSICA ALBA, who last week topped FHM magazine's 100 sexiest women poll, has revealed she dresses down to hide away at premieres.

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY says she was "devastated" when images of her appeared in magazine articles about the "skinny celebrity" debate.  Apparently so, as she now claims she would love to have a body like The Gossip frontwoman Beth Ditto.  And saying that the "celebrity thing is completely crazy. I think I just have to move away or give it up altogether."

TURKEY:  The country's Constitutional Court annulled the first round of voting for a new President in the Turkish Parliament, effectively forcing early elections -- but that vote will not necessarily resolve the standoff between the Islamic Justice and Development Party (AKP) and th secular establishment, including the military. If the AKP is returned with a stronger majority, some analysts are not ruling out the possibility of the military mounting a coup.

IRAN:  A meeting of 130 nations on how to shore up the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was suspended after Iran raised objections. Iran claims it is capable of mass producing the machines used for enriching uranium. Former nuke negotiator Hossein Mousavian, an ally of former President Rafsanjani, was arrested and may be tried for espionage.  Pres. Ahmadinejad was accused of indecency after he publicly embraced and kissed on the hand an elderly woman who used to be his schoolteacher.

IRAQ:  Confusion reigns over the report of AQI head Abu Ayyub al-Masri's death.  Prime Minister al-Maliki urged US Secretary of State Rice to talk with Iraq's neighbors for "the stability of Iraq and the region." Politics make for strange bedfellows as former Prime Minister Allawi's bloc is negotiating with the Sadrist bloc over forming a new opposition bloc in the parliament.  The Anbar Salvation Council has formed an expeditionary unit or units, designed to operate outside of Anbar's provincial boundaries, apparently with the approval of the Iraqi government.  Experts say pulling US forces from Iraq could trigger a catastrophe, affecting not just Iraq but its neighbors in the Middle East, with far-reaching global implications.

A WAYWARD GATOR blocked all eastbound lanes of Loop 410 in San Antonio, TX, while at least 10 officers and one game warden spent an hour Sunday morning poking, prodding, singing to him and eventually lassoing him.

SEX-CRAZED TOADS killed prime carp worth £20,000 at a fishing lake by dragging them down into an underwater orgy.

THE PACIFIC CHORUS FROG is now the official amphibian of Washington state.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT:  Louisiana strikes back.

SHEEP-DOG SCAM UPDATE:  A Japanese film star has denied reports she was conned into buying a lamb disguised as a poodle.

THE SWARM:  The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Medical Center shut down the emergency room Monday, as officials waited for a beekeeper to come vacuum up the 7,000 insects.