BEST COAST unveiled a new song, "Gone Again," over at Adult Swim.

BON IVER is advance streaming the semi-self-titled sophomore LP. Justin Vernon also gets a meaty profile at The Guardian and briefer one at the New Zealand Herald.

EMMY THE GREAT is advance streaming Virtue and gives The Guardian a track-bt-track tour.

YACHT is advance streaming Shangri-La.

SONS & DAUGHTERS are advance streaming Mirror Mirror.

SHE & HIM cover "Oh, Boy!" for the upcoming Buddy Holly tribute LP.

KIM & KELLEY DEAL turned 50 on Friday, so I'm going to check out "Cannonball" and feel old.

THE DECEMBERISTS: Colin Meloy clarifies that the band's hiatus is not a breakup.

THE JAYHAWKS talk to Rolling Stone about Mockingbird Time, the first LP recorded with the classic Gary Louris and Mark Olson-led line-up since 1995's Tomorrow The Green Grass.

MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle likes to frighten his listeners.

CLARENCE CLEMONS has suffered a stroke.

JACK WHITE & KAREN ELSON celebrated their sixth anniversary by throwing a divorce party.

SLY STONE has cocaine charges pending. Shocka!

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Super 8 takes the top slot with 37 million, which looks like a potentially big payoff against a 37 million budget. The studio thought this would come in at 20-30 million.  A pause between blockbusters, but a healthy one.  X-Men: First Class drops a notch with 25 million.  The 55 percent drop is not unusual for a blockbuster (and less than the last to X-movies), but the studio likely hoped for better, given the good reviews and word-of-mouth for the 60s-era mutants. The Hangover Part II showed with 18.5 million onl a reasonable 41 percent drop.  Kung Fu Panda 2 was not far behind with 16.6 million on a 30 percent drop -- but there's still a big difference between making 216.5 million on an 80 million budget (Hangover Pt II) and making 127 million on a 150 million budget (Panda).  Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger tides rounds out the Top 5 with another 10.8 million. It's is a long shot to match its 250 million production budget in Norrth America, but the 615 million overseas haul guarantees more Capt. Jack Sparrow.

BRADGELINA contributed 500K to the Community Foundation of the Ozarks, to bolster the recovery effort in Joplin, MO.

LILY ALLEN is married... and pregnant.

BRITNEY SPEARS is getting married for the third time, according to the uber-reliable Sun. Gossip Cop notes that The Sun reported the same thing in October 2009.

SELENA GOMEZ has had health issues after appearing on the Tonight Show. Anyone surprised?

TRACY MORGAN apologized for an anti-gay rant during his weekend gig at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.

RUSSELL CROWE is now eating crow after ranting on Twitter about his views on circumcision. Director-actor Eli Roth defends Crowe against claims of anti-Semitism.

FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF was released 25 years ago this weekend, prompting a look at its 25 contributions to pop culture lore.

THE ARAB SPRING turns into summer's bloody turmoil.

IRAN's air force chief claimed that US-made F-14 fighters are still operational as engineers are "reverse engineering" parts for the warplanes.

SYRIAN troops have begun their assault on Jisr al Shoughour, where an army mutiny last week resulted in the deaths of 120 troops.

AFGHANISTAN: Afghan officials claimed Pakistan will target sanctuaries of Taliban leaders who refuse to engage in peace talks with the Afghan government. CIA Director Leon Panetta confronted Pakistani intelligence officials face to face with what the US believes is evidence of collusion between Pakistani security officials and militants staging attacks in Afghanistan.

A LITTLE BLUE PENGUIN is released back into the wild, to the strains of Dusty Springfield.

KENYAN BABOON adopts a Bush Baby...Mass hysteria!

COW tazed by police in Pelham, NH.

RARE TWIN GIBBONS born at the Omaha Zoo.

50 PHOTOS of Basset Hounds running.