CASS McCOMBS performs "Windfall" at the Highland Park Masonic Lodge for Hobo FM.

LOS CAMPESINOS! play a Tiny Desk Concert.  And yet: This performance contains language not suitable for all audiences.

M.I.A. is advance streaming /\/\ /\ Y /\.

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

THE GRATEFUL DEAD & THE BEACH BOYS: Live at the Fillmore East, April 27, 1971.

MAVIS STAPLES drops "You Are Not Alone" (written by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy) as an advance track.

EELS drop "Spectacular Girl" as an advance track.

BOOKER T & THE MG's: "Green Onions," live in '68.

FAITH NO MORE frontman Mike Patton talks to PopMatters about the band's reunion, his storied career, and massages from men in togas.

THE SUBMARINES talk to SPIN about their upcoming album, Blake's relation to The Great Gatsby author F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the difficulties writing, recording, and touring with your spouse.

WILCO did not renew its contract with Nonesuch, and is forming their own label.

TED LEO is reportedly considering retiring in 2011, citing low record sales and an "unsustainable" model for doing business.

LINDSAY LOHAN may have come with a profane message on her fingernails for the Los Angeles Superior Court when she appeared for her probation revocation hearing -- and it could spell more jail time.

MAD MEL UPDATE: Gibson is caught on tape admitting that he hit the mother of his love child, according to RadarOnline.

MEGAN FOX & BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN: Wedding photo.

ANGELINA JOLIE talks family matters with Parade magazine to promote Salt.

CAMERON DIAZ talks to Harper's Bazaar about her booty, which is clearly of more interest than Knight & Day.

ELLE MACPHERSON admits using a banned substance.

ROB LOWE wants to buy Miramax?

AL QAEDA: Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, a Sudanese detainee held at Guantanamo, pled guilty to charges of conspiracy and material support for terrorism before a military commission Wednesday.

IRAN: The United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that the benefits of bombing Iran's nuclear program outweigh the short-term costs such an attack would impose.  He said Iran has not been deterred from supporting terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah now, when it doesn't have a nuclear arsenal. So why, he asked rhetorically, would Iran be more cautious in its support for terrorism if it did.

AFGHANISTAN: Why Kandahar locals turn to the Taliban.

THIS TORTOISE really digs having its shell brushed.

A 9-FT GATOR was euthanized in Oakland, FL.

SUPER SQUID Sex Organ Discovered. Hentai fans rejoice!

A ONE-ARMED, ONE-LEGGED MONKEY slaughters a man's chickens.