WHITE DENIM proves that an auto junkyard can be just as good as a garage as a place to "Shake Shake Shake."

NEW LED ZEPPELIN? Jason Bonham confirmed last week that he is indeed working on new material with Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones...

BECK gets a segment on NPR's Morning Edition, plus two tracks from his Modern Guilt LP.

THE M's did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter.

BOWERBIRDS guitarist-vocalist Phil Moore talks to Drowned In Sound about the band's uncomfortable relationship with modernity.

THE RAINMAKERS "Let My People Go-Go" from the grooveyard of forgotten favorites.

PAUL MAWHINNEY has the largest record collection in the world.  Let's go to the video.

SONIC YOUTH has officially left the Geffen label after 18 years, as Thurston Moore declines to disclose their new label.

LEON REDBONE sings a mini-set of classic Tin Pan Alley, pre-war blues and swing live on Mountain Stage.

THE DOORS & SANTANA have settled their lawsuits against the streaming-music site Wolfgang's Vault; claims by Grateful Dead Productions and the surviving members of Led Zeppelin remain pending.

KATE HUDSON is being sued for 17 offenses, including the misappropriation of trade secrets, fraud, and breach of contract and confidence... in connection with her line of hair-care products.

DR. DRE is in mourning after his son was been found dead at his home in Woodland Hills on Saturday morning.

KIRSTEN DUNST & JUSTIN LONG were... wait for it... caught canoodling in both NYC and L.A.

NICOLLETTE SHERIDAN & MICHAEL BOLTON are not engaged.

JENNA JAMESON is knocked up.

TOM-KAT UPDATE: Cruise's studio is being sued for 11 million by Nazi extras who spilled out of the back of a World War II troop carrier as it swung around a corner in central Berlin during the shooting of Valkyrie.

MICHAEL PHELPS & SAMANTHA RICE:  The Olympic swimmers were not lip-loccked, according to her.

ANDY DICK won't face a sexual battery charge from his arrest last month, according to the Riverside County District Attorney's office.

EIGHTIES SUPERMODELS, two decades older but mysteriously unwrinkled, are fronting major Fall fashion campaigns.  Then again, so are Wallace & Gromit.

FALL PREVIEW of movies. music, TV, etc., courtesy of New York magazine.

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY criticizes the trailer of her new film for suggesting that the period drama relates to the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. So we want to see that trailer, don't we?

SERENITY NOW? Creator Joss Whedon knocks down rumors of a sequel to the Firefly movie, though both he and Summer Glau would do one in a second.

TERROR in the UK: Britain's secret propaganda war against al-Qaeda.

IRAN has started designing a new 360-megawatt nuclear plant, according to a senior atomic official. Iran also has launched production of a mid-size submarine it says will be able to fire missiles and torpedoes.

IRAQ: During the past two weeks, Coalition and Iraqi forces captured three senior al Qaeda in Iraq leaders behind some of the deadliest violence of the past several years. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani dispelled reports of being seriously ill at a rare meeting with journalists at his home on Sunday.

KOMODO DRAGONS have turned into vicious man-eaters. The locals blame policies drafted by American-funded environmentalists for this frightening turn of events.

MONKEY LOVE is keeping the neighbors awake near the Bristol Zoo. Audio at the link.

WHALES LOSING THEIR BLUBBER? Blame (or credit) global warming.

ROBOT CAT BRAINS may be coming, courtesy of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

PAWLEE the COCKAPOO scared off three bears Sunday morning after they strayed into his owners' backyard.