BELLE & SEBASTIAN play songs from their new LP for Pitchfork's One Week Only feature. Stuart Murdoch talks to Morning Edition about Write About Love.

CARIBOU stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

THE BUDOS BAND stopped by KUT's Studio 1 for a chat and mini-set.

PETE YORN and BRAD (ft Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard) played the World Cafe Live on Friday; you can stream the gigs on demand.

JOHN LENNON: David Sheff talks to Weekend Edition Saturday about the three weeks of interviews he conducted shortly before the shooting.

SOLOMON BURKE has died of natural causes at the age of 70 in the Netherlands.  Here he is on Top of the Pops in 2003, with one of his soul signatures, "Everybody Needs Someone to Love."

GUIDED BY VOICES: Tobin Spout talks to the Chicago Tribune about the reunion tour.

SUFJAN STEVENS talks to the Irish Times about crisis, liberation and, er, knitting.

SMITH WESTERNS: Cullen Omori talks to Pitchfork about the band's new LP, the experience of jumping to a bigger label, and their favorite tourmates.

O-HI-O: A noisy, violent altercation and four pistol shots took place about 70 seconds before Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on antiwar protesters at Kent State University, according to a new analysis of a 40-year-old audiotape of the event.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Social Network (probably) repeated at No.1 with 15.5 million on a reasonable 31 percent drop that will keep its Oscar buzz alive.  TSN has taken in 46 million so against a 50 million budget.  Life As We Know It is the estimated No. 2 with a 14.6 million debut against a 38 million budget.  That's a very typical rom-com opening; Katehrine Heigl is about one more blah pic away from career problems. Secretariat shows with 12.6 million against a 35 million budget; whether it has Seabiscuit legs is definitely an open question.  Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole takes the fourth slot with 7 million; its domestic haul is 39.4 million against an 80 million budget.  Wes Craven's My Soul to Take rounds out the Top Five with 6.9 million against a 25 million budget.  Overall, a very soft weekend.

KIM KARDASHIAN got into a bar fight with a jealous girlfriend.

LINDSAY LOHAN's ex-con dad is reportedly leveraging a threatened conservatorship suit for family therapy.

BEN HARPER & LAURA DERN are divorcing.

DEMI MOORE & ASHTON KUTCHER jetted off to Israel for a a "spiritual journey."

KELSEY GRAMMER and girlfriend Kayte Walsh suffered a miscarriage.

JODIE FOSTER reportedly left a teenager battered, bruised and scarred after she allegedly clawed his arm during a confrontation in a Los Angeles parking lot.

GWYNETH PALTROW talks about the casting couch with Elle magazine.

DENISE RICHARDS is writing her memoirs already.

THE 50 MOST UNDERRATED FILMS, according to the Telegraph.

TERROR in the UK: MI5 is hunting a cell of British terrorists connected to an al-Qaeda commander who boasted of Mumbai-style attacks in Europe.

IRAN acknowledged Saturday that some personnel at the country's nuclear facilities were lured by promises of money to pass secrets to the West but insisted increased security and worker privileges have put a stop to the spying.

PAKISTAN: A senior al Qaeda leader who serves as al Qaeda's ambassador to Iran, and is wanted by the US, is reported to have been killed in a Predator airstrike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan two days ago. The report has not been confirmed.

COLUMBUS DAY:  I get it as a holiday, so I thought a few words might be in order. Over the course of my life, I have seen the image of Columbus swing from unvarnished hero to genocidal criminal. Columbus was certainly no sweetheart, but at the end of the 15th Century, it is fair to say that Europeans often did not treat each other all that well. Moreover, before the furriners showed up, Native North and South Americans engaged in tribal massacre, infanticide, scalping, human sacrifice, and the ritual skinning of slaves for their priests to wear. It was a far less civilized time all 'round. But the West is civilized today in part because of Columbus. Some four centuries-plus later, we all are still struggling to become more civilized, but focusing criticism o­n the more-civilized while giving the less civilized a pass is not particularly useful to that struggle.

A BABY SKUNK: Let's go to the video of the little stinker.

AN ESCAPED ALLIGATOR sobers up in a French drunk tank.

CAT SURVIVES HOUSE FIRE in Golden, Colorado. Was it the water?

HIP-HOP PIGS may combat poverty in Rwanda.