CINCO DE MAYO STARTS HERE: 

...with LOS LOBOS: "I Got Loaded" (with an added snippet of "Turn On Your Lovelight") from their fabulous first full-lengther, How Will the Wolf Survive? "Don't Worry Baby," "Evangeline," "Our Last Night," and "A Matter of Time" were on that album, too.

PEE WEE HERMAN: "Tequila." Obvs.

HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS: Rare video of "A Taste of Honey" from 1967.

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO reels off about a minute of "Whole Lotta Love" before covering "All the Young Dudes."

JIMMY BUFFETT: Margaritaville. Obvs.

LIZ PHAIR: "Cinco de Mayo." Obvs.

THE DECEMBERISTS' keyboardist, Jenny Conlee, has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Our best wishes for a full and speedy recovery.

NEKO CASE is interviewed in a Julie Klausner podcast about art school, walruses, Neko's crush on Michael Palin, and the myth of "Backstage Johnnies." (Thx, LHB.)

BRANDI CARLILE talks to Glide about all aspects of her career, ranging from beginning in Seattle up to the new studio album she's already recorded, her strong bond with the Indigo Girls, her love for recreating synth-based 80s music and why she's carrying on Dolly Parton's well-deserved diva flame.

GOOGLE should buy the music industry.

CHEAP TRICK brings you the Mariachi mash-up of "Surrender."

CHARLIE SHEEN may not get an Emmy nomination, unless he exploits a loophole in the rules. Vanity Fair denied paying him a million for an interview.

MAD MEL WATCH: Gibson's ex-girlfriend dropped her domestic violence accusations against the actor during a court hearing Wednesday morning, according to sources close to both Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva.

MARIE OSMOND remarried her first husband Wednesday in Las Vegas.

JESSE JAMES details every painful moment of telling Sandra Bullock about his cheating in his new book, American Outlaw.  And he told Howard Stern that Kat Von D. is hotter in bed than Bullock. Uber-klassy.

SUPERMAN: The newest Man of Steel, Henry Cavill, got engaged to his showjumper girlfriend, Ellen Whitaker, after popping the question on a trip to Hollywood. The classic Perry White, Jackie Cooper, who  survived Hollywood's notorious graveyard of child stardom and flourished as an adult in television and modern pictures, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles at 88.

ROTTEN TOMATOES is owned by Flixter, which was just bought by Warner Bros.  People are raising questions about the WB possibly gaming the Tomatometer, but I think that's easier imagined than done.  A whistleblower could rat the studio out to the Internet.  Film critics might notice if their reviews were being misrepresented on the site.  Seems like the risk would outweigh the marginal benefits.

OSAMA BIN LADEN: Debunking 10 key myths surrounding al-Qaeda's former leader.

OUR FRIENDS, THE SAUDIS say an al-Qaeda member on the kingdom's most wanted list called from abroad and turned himself in.

INDONESIA: The Islamic Defenders Front met at its headquarters in Jakarta to hail Osama bin Laden's death as a martyr.

SYRIA: Security forces have rounded up hundreds of anti-regime protesters and have charged them with "degrading the prestige of the state," according to a human rights group.

PAKISTANI papers condemned the government for having failed to detect the presence of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, terming it a "great embarrassment."

A BABY PANDA rides a rocking horse. Sort of.

THE DOGS OF WAR: A fearless four-legged recruit joined US Special Forces as they stormed Osama Bin Laden's secret lair. Foreign Policy pays tribute with a big slideshow.

CAMEL SWALLOWS VET in pedicure mishap? It only looks that way.

A PARTIALLY PARALYZED KANGAROO will continue as a therapy animal to a depressed woman in Oklahoma.