STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS got Jack Black to be their "Senator." (content warning.)

NEW RELEASES from the Decemberists, Beach Boys, Girl in a Coma, Phantogram and more are streaming this week via Spinner.

CASS McCOMBS is advance streaming Humor Risk, his second LP this year.

MOOGFEST: NPR is streaming sets from Atlas Sound, Moby, Tangerine Dream, CANT, Tim Heckler and The Field.

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN: A collection of their cover songs.

KAREN O drops a new "Duet."

GUIDED BY VOICES drops "Doughnut For a Snowman."

SUPERCHUNK covers the Misfits' "Where Eagles Dare."

THE FLAMING LIPS are streaming a 24-hour-long song.

THE MAMAS & PAPAS: All the leaves are brown so it's "California Dreamin'" and "Nowhere Man" for Twofer Tuesday.

WILD FLAG's Carrie Brownstein talks to Austinist about the genesis of the band and the current state of music.

DAWES is profiled in USA Today.

TOMMY STINSON answers the inevitable Replacements reunion question.

AMY WINEHOUSE: The Inevitable Posthumous Release is in the works.

KIM KARDASHIAN will divorce Kris Humphries after 72 days of wedded less-than-bliss.  Our short national honeymoon is over.

LINDSAY LOHAN will concede she violated her probation by getting kicked out of her community service program at her next court appearance tomorrow, but is hoping for minimal jail time.

JESSICA SIMSPON kinda sorta admitted she's preganant via Twitter. Couldn't get that big payday she wanted for the story?

TAYLOR SWIFT is prepared to go to war with a gossip website, claiming she was wrongly identified in a "leaked" nude photo.

MAD MEL UPDATE: Gibson returned to the restaurant that triggered an anti-Semiticly fueled DUI arrest that changed his life ... but this time without incident.

BILL MURRAY has joined Charlie Sheen and Mary Elizabeth Winstead in the cast of Roman Coppola's A Glimpse Into the Mind of Charles Swan III.

WINONA RYDER turned 40 over the weekend. Get off my lawn.

BEAVIS & BUTTHEAD: Their triumphant return, icymi.

THE SECRET WAR: How the US hunted al Qaeda in Africa.

KENYA INVADES SOMALIA in pursuit of Islamist terrorists, probably bombed a refugee camp instead.

IRAN's  top diplomat bitingly questioned reported US plans to build up American military forces across Mideast countries after withdrawing from Iraq.

AFGHANISTAN: The United States wants Afghanistan's neighbors to pledge to respect its sovereignty at regional talks this week.

SLINKY CAT takes the stairs.

BONE-EATING ZOMBIE WORMS have been found in a three-million-year-old fossil from Italy, say researchers.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A militant rodent may get the death penalty in Sweden.

DOG EATS BIRD, arson ensues.

THESE MOSQUITOES are genetically engineered to kill - their own children.