YEASAYER snagged Kristen Bell for their strange "Madder Red" video.

EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS play a mini-set at the UBS Forum for The Current.

KINGS GO FORTH stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set of classic-influenced soul.

BEACH FOSSILS do the four free songs thing for Daytrotter. The Boston Globe hails their lyrical nolstalgia and lo-fi production.

CADILLAC SKY goes beyond bluegrass for the World Cafe.

SMITH's smokin' cover of the Bacharach-David-Dixon classic, "Baby, It's You," will be familiar to fans of Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof.

BON IVER: Justin Vernon tells Pitchfork about working with Kanye West and Gayngs, plus a bit about his next LP.

ARCADE FIRE: The New York Times examines the inevitable charge of selling out.

BLITZEN TRAPPER: Eric Earley talks to Westword about Portland's reputation for producing musical talent and how one of his band's songs ended up on Chuck.

RICHIE HAYWARD, drummer and founding member of Little Feat, died Thursday from complications surrounding liver cancer and pneumonia, which he had been battling since 2009. He was 64. 

THE 50 BEST FICTIONAL BANDS, according to Paste.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Expendables top the chart with a better-than-expected 35 million (thought the reaction the trailer got in theaters should have let the gurus know). Eat Pray Love placed with 23.7 million, which is the best Julia Roberts opening (not counting ensemble movies) since America's Sweethearts in 2001.  Last weekend's champ, The Other Guys, dropped to the third spot with 18 million on a 49 percent drop that looks more like a typical cop buddy movie than a leggy Will Ferrell comedy.  Inception drops to the fourth slot with 11.3 million, but will break the 500 million mark worldwide this week.  Scott Pilgrim vs the World rounds out the Top Five with a slightly disappointing 10.5 million debut -- roughly matching a prior Michael Cera flick, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, but with a larger budget to recoup.

SCOTT PILGRIM vs THE WORLD, btw, was plenty entertaining, as long as you aren't expecting anything deep.  Director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) brings his usual snap and wit to the adaptation of the cult comic, adding the visual punch of comics (and classic video games) in a manner exceeding the CGI flourishes in Zombieland.  Michael Cera and Mary Elizabeth Winstead are their usual charming selves, well-supported by a cast including Anna Kendrick, Ellen Wong, Kieran Culkin, Brandon Routh and Jason Schwartzman.

LINDSAY LOHAN's mom says the actress will be moving away from California and back to New York after she gets out of drug rehabilitation -- which is likely to be early (shocka).

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS and his longtime partner, David Burtka, are going to become the parents of twins, via a surrogate, this October.

HILARY DUFF & MIKE COMRIE got hitched.

KATY PERRY crashed a high school prom. Alcohol may have been involved.

SHANIA TWAIN is in the running to be an American Idol judge.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON & RYAN REYNOLDS have bought a 2.8 million home in the L.A. area.

BRIGETTE BARDOT is furious over plans to produce a film based on her life.

IRAN Supplying the Taliban With Missile Tech? Meanwhile, Tehran appears to be quietly changing the sentences of Iranians awaiting death by stoning to hanging after international outcry following the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two.

PAKISTAN: The US military has stopped lobbying Pakistan to help root out one of the biggest militant threats to coalition forces in Afghanistan, US officials say, acknowledging that the failure to win better help from Islamabad threatens to damage a linchpin of their Afghan strategy.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A Clockwork Corn.

...AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: Luntik, the four-eared kitteh.

NY CAT FASHION SHOW: They will rise up against the humans. It's only a matter of time.

SEWER RATS tunnel in through a toilet in Akron, OH.

TOAD-LICKING at a Davenport, IA, restaurant.