SHARON VAN ETTEN drops a video for "Leonard."

CHAINS OF LOVE are advance streaming Strange Grey Days. It hits almost all of my genre hot-buttons. (Thx, Chromewaves.)

ISLANDS stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

THE PUNCH BROTHERS stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

EMELI SANDE stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

BEACH HOUSE drops "Myth," perhaps from their upcoming LP.

S / S / S: Serengeti, Sufjan Stevens, and Son Lux drop "Museum Day" from their upcoming collaboration.

KENNY ROGERS & THE FIRST EDITION: "I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)." Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Yeah.

BJORK gets a lengthy profile in New York magazine.

WHITE RABBITS: Alex Even talks to Washingtonian about the band's tour, the new album, his can't-miss DC food fixes, and why this week's concert will be way better than one of their last local shows. (Thx, LHB.)

THE WOODEN SKY: Gavin Gardiner talks to The A.V. Club about the band's early days.

THE LIBERTINES tentatively agreed to release a 'lost' album featuring songs that were recorded before the band signed to Rough Trade in 2001.

WHITNEY HOUSTON's will reveals (as generally expected) that her daughter Bobbi Kristina gets everything.

JESSICA SIMPSON imitates Demi Moore on the cover of Elle and reveals she's having a girl.

AMANDA SEYFRIED & JOSH HARTNET have been quietly dating since January.

SIENNA MILLER has opened up about expecting her first child.

SNOOKI confirms she's pregnant and engaged.

HULK HOGAN sex tape being shopped.

ROBERT B. SHERMAN, the Disney composer who -- with brother -- Richard composed scores for films including "The Jungle Book," ''The Aristocats," ''Mary Poppins" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang., and wrote the most-played tune on Earth, "It's a Small World (After All)," died in London at age 86.

YEMEN: The slaying of nearly 200 Yemeni soldiers by al-Qaeda militants in a brazen weekend attack poses the first major test to the country's newly elected president, who has vowed to crush the terror network and purge military commanders still loyal to his predecessor. The Interior Ministry has deployed two units to Al Huta, the provincial capital of Lahj. The Yemeni Army is preparing to launch a "decisive battle" in Abyan with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

LIBYA: In a symbolic gesture of defiance, militia and tribal chiefs from eastern Libya gathered here on Tuesday to demand a return to the loose federation that prevailed before Gaddafi took power four decades ago.

NORTH KOREA has made progress in recent months on a home-built reactor that experts fear could be used to bolster the communist state's nuclear weapons program, satellite images show.

THIS PUPPY is really excited about eating.

SPIDERS spin for their lives as floodwaters rise in New South Wales.

A JAPANESE ZOO has turned to rhythmical banging on traditional drumsto encourage sex among lust-lacking alligators.

CHUPACABRAS WITH FANGS blamed for Mexican sheep deaths.