BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE breaks out "Texico B^tches" for Fallon.

LAURA VEIRS did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter.

SANDY DENNY is one of NPR's 50 Great Voices.

JACKIE DeSHANNON gets a feature plus tracks from Fresh Air, marking her induction into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame today. "When You Walk in the Room" is a personal fave of mine.

MAGIC BULLETS songwriter Corey Cunningham talks to SF Weekly about the band's sophomore LP, which is streaming via Spinner through the weekend.

MAGIC KIDS, otoh, drop the chamber-poppy "Summer" from their upcoming Memphis album.

DEVO got "Fresh" at the Ed Sullivan Theater. ICYMI, here's video of the album listening party for cats.

TOM WAITS makes his mixtape suggestions to MOJO. (Thx, LHB.)

DEAN WAREHAM is doing an entire tour of Galaxie 500 material, but it's not a reunion.

BTO: Tim Bachman, one of the founding members of the 1970s band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, is facing child sex charges.

OZZY OSBOURNE is set to undergo genomic testing to see how he is still alive after years of abusing his body with drugs and alcohol.

MEGAN FOX & BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN are engaged again. But they've lost the ring.

MILEY CYRUS fires on Perez Hilton for posting an upskirt pic of the teenager on Twitter.

CHRIS KLEIN (American Pie) was busted on suspicion of DUI, with a BAC three times the legal limit. And he could be looking at jail time, based on his record.

CHARLIE SHEEN's wife, Brooke Mueller, is headed back to rehab.

ROBERT PATTINSON & KRISTEN STEWART are dunzo. Or they have a love nest. Pick 'em!

CLIVE OWEN & NICOLE KIDMAN will play Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn in an HBO pic produced by James Gandolfini.

IRAQ has accused Iranian forces of entering Iraqi territory and shelling Kurdish rebel positions in the north.

AF-PAK: The United States has presented evidence to Pakistan that a militant faction aligned with the Taliban and based in Pakistan orchestrated brazen attacks last month in Afghanistan. Gen. Petraeus told the US Senate that Pres. Obama's directive calling for the start of a conditions-based drawdown of US troops from Afghanistan in July 2011 shouldn't be considered as an exit date.  Meanwhile, Pakistan and Afghanistan are waiting for each other to make the next move against the Taliban.

MACROPINNO MICROSTOMA: A fish with a see-thru head.

MONKEYS ENJOY TELEVISION, scientists say.

A PYTHON nearly urinates on Princes William and Harry.

GIANT EARTHWORMS lose on appeal.

COW forced to marry boy who took advantage of her, and then drowned.