ISLANDS has released a video for "Creeper." That time of year, I guess.

RYAN ADAMS: Cardinology is still streaming in full via iLike today (and ending today).

JOHNNY CASH: All Aboard: A Tribute to Johnny Cash is streaming in full via PunkNews.

THE FLAMING LIPS have released an unheard track, "Space Bible With Volume Lumps," from the Christmas On Mars soundtrack.

GUNS 'N' ROSES is streaming the title track to "Chinese Democracy" via Q104.3 -- and that free can of Dr. Pepper gets just a little closer.

CALEXICO frontman Joey Burns plays three songs -- "Two Silver Trees," "Writer's Minor Holiday" and "Man Made Lake" -- for a LIveDaily Session.  Scroll down there for an interview with Burns.

OF MONTREAL: Kevin Barnes talks to Paste about the influence of the Outback Steakhouse commercial on the band's new album.

TIMES NEW VIKING is distilled into its component influences at Drowned in Sound. Mostly GbV, but with some other inspired candidates.

MORRISSEY is reportedly writing an autobiography. 

BJORK talks to Pitchfork about "Náttúra" (a new collaboration between Björk and Thom Yorke) and the Náttúra Campaign (the Icelandic environmental movement she co-founded).

WILLIAM SHATNER discusses his snub from George Takei's wedding, suggesting that the former Mr. Sulu has a festering psychosis.

MADONNA & GUY RITCHIE taunted each other in recent years, friends of the couple reveal in the latest issue of Us Weekly. Meanwhile, a source tells Us that Ritchie has already moved on with British actress Kelly Reilly, who is starring in his upcoming drama Sherlock Holmes.

DAVID DUCHOVNY is suing the Daily Mail over the tennis coach story.  But the suit is filed in L.A., instead of the UK, where the libel laws would favor him.  Curious.

CHARLIE SHEEN and wife Brooke are expecting twins.

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: Alyson Hannigan is pregnant. She met her husband on the set of Bffy the Vampire Slayer, not at band camp.

JENNIFER ANISTON & JOHN MAYER, otoh, are denying that wacky pregnancy rumor.

WILL SMITH is gay, according to a Hollywood madam? Gawker isn't buying it.

THE SPIRIT: Frank Miller talks about the origin of Will Eisner's hero in the latest promo video for Miller's movie adapatation.

DANCING WITH THE STARS may be hazardous to your health.

GROUNDHOG DAY: A Victorian house transformed into a bed-and-breakfast in the 1993 classic could soon play the same role on a permanent basis.

GARY BUSEY tells Access Hollywood he once snorted cocaine off his dog -- and explains why that's not very healthy.

WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S: Young Hollywood enjoyed the pool at the Roosevelt Hotel over the weekend - oblivious to the fact that the hotel staff never drained the water after a dead body was found in the pool a week earlier, sources told the NYP.

IRAN: Senior Tehran officials are recommending a preemptive strike against Israel to prevent an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear reactors, a senior Islamic Republic official told foreign diplomats two weeks ago in London, according to Haaretz. Iranian speaker of parliament Ali Larijani declared that Iran was proud of its support for the Palestinian Hamas and Lebanese Hezbollah movements, rejecting claims that it could be considered support for terrorism. 

IRAQ: Baghdad will demand changes to the wording of the proposed US-Iraq security pact, but will not seek to renegotiate the "backbone" of the agreement, Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Wednesday. Tribes in the Al Sakhriya region between Anbar Province and Karbala are launching a wide scale campaign after AQI started to displace families living therein. Iraqi forces arrested 21 insurgents in Mosul, 13 in Kirkuk, and seven AQI fighters in Diyala. Coalition forces captured an AQI bomb maker in Tikrit.

ORPHAN MONKEY at a Chinese zoo gets a guard dog to stop it being bullied by bigger primates.

SWIMMING WITH SHARKS: Still a bad choice.

CHEETA the CHIMP's critically-acclaimed autobiography apparently was ghost-written.

FEED THE BIRDS? An 80-year-old woman has been threatened with prosecution by her local council in Coventry unless she cuts back on feeding the birds in her garden.

SNAKE MASSAGE?  Mmmm... no thanks.