THE SHINS breakout a new song, "Double Bubble" at the Hollywood Palladium.

CONOR OBERST has an hour-long documentary available to stream or download via Causecast.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from Fairport Convention, Dinosaur, Jr., Passion Pit and more are featured in the latest edition of the long-running NPR series.

THE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS and THE MINUS 5 are advance streaming new albums for your e-mail address. Oterwise it's :30 samples. (Thx, Ken!)

GRIZZLY BEAR is advance streaming "Two Weeks" from their upcoming LP, after months of seeing live versions.

RICK ASTLEY turns up for karaoke night in Athens, GA.

briTUNES: NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams launches a web-only music interview series, starting with a feature on Deer Tick.

THAO NGUYEN yuks it up with Metromix.

ANVIL is the real-tife Spinal Tap -- and their drummer is named Robb Reiner. Yes, really.

CHAN POLING, formerly of The Suburbs, is writing musicals.

LINDSAY LOHAN laughs off pregnancy rumors.

BRITNEY SPEARS: Fmr "magnager" Sam Lufti may have to pay the legal costs of getting a restraining order against him.

MISS CALIFORNIA was given a reprieve by Donald Trump, who generally likes giving reprieves to pageant winners, iirc.

TWILIGHT SEQUEL script found in the trash. The punchline writes itself, but the woman who found it returned it to the studio.

GINNIFER GOODWIN talks to W magazine about her good-girl rep and being asked inane dating questions while promoting He's Just Not That Into You: "I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy relationships."

TERMINATOR: SALVATION has given an exclusive action clip and behind-the-scenes clip to... Pizza Hut. And many things blow up.

STAR TREK: io9 learns about the Shatner scene cut from the reboot, but it has a spoiler for what is in the movie, so caveat clicker.  Also, there's a theory now explaining an unusual musical choice in the reboot.  BTW, the movie made three million more than the Sunday estimates, taking the opening weekend to 79.2 million.

TERROR in the USA: It took three trials, three juries and nearly three years, but federal prosecutors finally succeeded Tuesday in convicting five Miami men of plotting to start an anti-government insurrection by destroying Chicago's Sears Tower and bombing FBI offices. One man was acquitted.

IRAN's Revolutionary Guards have begun deploying mobile launchers for surface-to-air and surface-to-sea missiles in the Strait of Hurmuz and other areas in the Gulf, according to an Iranian official, quoted anonymously in the Saudi daily Al-Watan. Shaker of salt.

PAKISTAN: US officials are skeptical of the high Taliban casualty reports as the Interior Minister claimed 700 Taliban fighters have been killed in four days of fighting in Swat.

IRAQ: Michael J. Totten starts a series asking Iraqis and Americans if the worst in Iraq is over or if the dramatic reduction in violence is just a long lull. Anthony Cordesman warns that it is Iraq that now risks becoming the "forgotten war."

KITTEH in a BATHTUB: Let's go to the video. (Thx, Lance!)

GIANT JELLYFISH washes up on the North Devon coast.  Or the UK is being invaded by giant blancmanges.

A FOX CUB survived being trapped in a snare for two weeks after his mother brought him food every day.

A PARROT is about to cost 1000 workers their jobs in New South Wales because the Federal Government has ordered a timber industry to be shut down to protect the bird.

DOG & KITTENS, living together... mass hysteria.