FLEET FOXES play "Sun Giant" and "Blue Ridge Mountain" in an abandoned wing of Paris's Grand Palais for a La Blogotheque TakeAway show.

TOM MORELLO, formerly of Rage Against the Machine, stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set you can stream on demand via MPR.

TIM FITE does the four free songs thing for Daytrotter, one perviously unreleased.

BISHOP ALLEN: Justin Rice talks to LAist about the band's giant pigeon costumes, "Click Click Click Click," Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and more. Streaming audio at the link.

THE LAYAWAYS released an album this week to little fanfare, but you can stream "Keep It To Yourself" and "All Around The World" via the ol' HM. (Thx, Sylvia!)

MEGAPUSS: Devendra Banhart, Greg Rogove of Priestbird, and Fabrizio Moretti of the Strokes have fun with this side project and this video for "Adam & Steve."

MINUS THE BEAR talks to San Diego CityBeat about dialing down the wackiness. (Thx, LHB.)

THE BREEDERS: Kim Deal explains to the San Francisco Bay Guardian why she feels a bit depressed.

THE HOLD STEADY: Tak Kubler talks to Boise Weekly about being surveilled by his mother via the Internet.

VASHTI BUNYAN is pofiled at length by Crawdaddy!

PAULA ABDUL: An unidentified woman in her 30s was found dead in her car outside of the American idol judge's L.A. home on Tuesday afternoon, say authorities. The woman was once a featured contestant on Idol, and may have been stalking Abdul.

ANGELINA JOLIE talks about The Changeling and motherhood with the L.A. Times. Meanwhile, her rep denies the latest round of pregnancy rumors.

CHEETAH GIRL Adrienne Bailon's "stolen nude photos" scandal was just a PR stunt. And not very cunning.

BRITNEY SPEARS: Fed-Ex has no plans to ask a family court to investigate his son's weekend health scare while in the pop wreck's care, his lawyer says.

ORLANDO BLOOM is reportedly getting hitched late next year.

SALMA HAYEK is addicted to breastfeeding.

BATMAN vs. BATMAN: The mayor of an oil-producing city in southeastern Turkey, which has the same name as the Caped Crusader, is suing director Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. for royalties from mega-grosser "The Dark Knight."

PAKISTAN: Islamabad scrambles to prevent bankruptcy. Seems like that should be getting more coverage.

AFGHANISTAN: The early phases of election registration in Afghanistan went smoothly enough that some defense officials admit to feeling suspicious. Human-rights advocates and some Western officials say the government appears to be increasingly influenced by Islamists, seven years after the Taliban regime was driven from power. Afghanistan's army is growing at record levels and now plans or leads nearly two-thirds of military operations. US troops continue their slog in the deadly contest for Afghanistan's borderlands.

IRAN: The military claims to have successfully tested a ballistic missile that can reach Israel and the European continent. The US denounced the purported test.

IRAQ: The Iraqi cabinet will vote on the pact to govern the presence of US troops in the country on either Saturday or Sunday. The Iraqi army began paying Sunni Sawha fighters at dozens of stations opened this week throughout Baghdad.  The village of Duhaim vows to keep AQI from returning.

THE SHIBA INUS PUPPY-CAM makes Time magazine. But the link in the piece didn't work for me, so you may prefer this adddress.

BUTCH the TORTOISE returns home following a mysterious six-week disappearance.  Butch is 150 years old, so six weeks probably does not seem like a long time.

CANADIAN GEESE attack British soccer team.

A PITBULL is caught trying to drive away from a car wash.

A FEMALE DOG is nursing a litter of kittens which were orphaned when their mother died in China. Awww...some pic at the link.