MUMFORD & SONS, MACCABEES, HAIM and more cover The Band's "The Weight."

DAN DEACON is advance streaming America.

SEAN ROWE is advance streaming The Salesman and the Shark.

SWANS are advance streaming The Seer.

THE TEMPTATIONS: "Psychedelic Shack." That's where it's at.

THE LUMINEERS are profiled by the Nashville Scene.

THE RAVEONETTES: Sune Rose Wagner talks to Drowned In Sound about festivals, Observator, and more...

THE VACCINES get a beefy profile from The Guardian.

PU$SY RIOT were convicted of hooliganism in Moscow on Friday and sentenced to two years in a penal colony.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Expendables 2 top your chart with 28.8 million -- less that the original's debut, but more than enough that worldwide receipts will produce a third in the series.  The Bourne Legacy places with 17 million, but plummets 55 percent from its debut.  ParaNorman shows in its debut with 14 million, almost exactly on trend with Laika's prior adaptation of Coraline.  The Campaign drops to the fourth slot with 13.9 million, off a steep 50 percent from its opening (though it may yet profit on a 55 million budget).  Sparkle rounds out the Top 5 with 12 million against a 14 million budget.  Below the fold, The Dark Knight Rises drops to sixth, but crosses the 400 million mark domestically (and has taken in another 450 million overseas). The Odd Life of Timothy Green debuts in seventh place with 10.9 million, but 15 million since its Wednesday opening; that might be a good enough start to eke out a profit on its 40 million budget.

TONY SCOTT, director of Top Gun, True Romance, Enemy of the State, Spy Game, and Unstoppable (among others), jumped off the Vincent Thomas bridge near Long Beachon Sunday and died from his injuries.

ROBERT PATTINSON's friends -- including Sienna Miller and Tom Sturridge -- have been "begging Rob to end it for good," according to US Weekly.

JOHN MAYER & KATY PERRY were caught canoodling on camera at a pool party in Beverly Hills August 4.

EMMA WATSON is profiled by the New York Times magazine.

SHIA LaBEOUF claims he'll be having real sex while filming Lars von Trier's next project, Nymphomaniac.

ANDREW GARFIELD & EMMA STONE were caught... wait for it... speeding.

THE TONIGHT SHOW downisizes. Ouch.

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA talks to The Rumpus about TWIXT, genre films, ethics, his classics and much more.

IRAQ has been helping Iran skirt economic sanctions for months.

A BOSTON TERRIER and his big red ball.

KITTENS sent to Gitmo. And they're innocent.

A RANDY DOLPHIN dry humps an innocent girl after diving on top of her from his pool. Video at the link.

SMOKE, the Iraqi donkey whose journey from a desert battleground to a peaceful retirement in the United States captured the attention of the world, has died in Nebraska.