TED LEO plays a new song, "One Polaroid A Day," at CMJ.

THE PIXIES: Captain's Dead has Doolittle from Brussels to stream or download.

FREELANCE WHALES gets a World Cafe twofer streaming via NPR.

CHOIR OF YOUNG BELIEVERS stripped down for mini-set from CMJ for KEXP.

DEER TICK stopped by Oregon Public Broadcasting for a chat and mini-set streaming in audio or video.

ERIN McKEOWN stopped by WFUV for a session streaming on demand.

TEGAN and SARA play "Hell."

RANDOM VINYL: The Current spins tracks from Prince, Pete Townshend, Johnny Cash, Simon and Garfunkel, and Haircut 100.

LED ZEPPELIN: Rarely seen photos from an upcoming book are posted at RS.

EL PERRO DEL MAR: Sarah Assbring talks to Interview about Bertolucci, why so many Swedes prefer singing in English, and her fears of opening up the creative process to the unknown.

FLOGGING MOLLY multi-instrumentalist Bridget Regan talks to ChartAttack about their most recent album, their Canadian excursion and their ongoing growth as a band.

MIKE DOUGHTY talks to Glide about the his album, his musical direction, the Question Jar shows and how his many projects fit together.

ENNIO MORRICONE: The legendary Italian maestro responsible for some of the most iconic film scores in history talks to PopMatters.

THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS: The latest from Terry Gilliam -- and the last from Heath Ledger -- has a bunch of clips online.

ANDRE AGASSI began regularly using crystal meth in the late 90s.

BRANGELINA EXPOSED: Us magazine teases highlights of the upcoming expose book.

KRISTEN STEWART and ROBERT PATTINSON: Dunzo?

JESSICA SIMPSON got a traditional bindi dot and a henna tattoo on her hand while in India filming her reality TV show The Price Of Beauty.

DITA VON TEESE went under the knife for a boob job at the age of 21 - because years of drug abuse had ravaged her body.

PEE-WEE HERMAN: 57-year-old Paul Reubens is profiled at Details.

THE SIXTH SENSE: Military researchers have found that two groups of personnel are particularly good at spotting buried roadside bombs: those with hunting backgrounds, who traipsed through the woods as youths looking to bag a deer or turkey; and those who grew up in tough urban neighborhoods, where it is often important to know what gang controls which block.

AFGHANISTAN: The NYT reports that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country's booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.  The Karzais fiecely deny the claim and blame it on enemies of the Afghan regime and the NYT.  True or not, it is likely believed in country, and the more interesting story may be who leaked it and why.

CAT LADIES, a documentary about you-know-who, has a trailer online.

BABY TAZMANIAN DEVILS! The Taronga Zoo is not sure about the father.  Pic at the link.

BOLIVIAN CIRCUS ANIMALS, freed under a new law, face an uncertain future.

KOI CARP, drinking from a baby bottle.

A 5-FT GATOR was found in a leech-filled swamp... in Massachusetts?