YO LA TENGO: The video for "I'll Be Around" features... Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan.

VERONICA FALLS is advance streaming Waiting For Something To Happen.

DARKSTAR is advance streaming News From Nowhere.

DJANGO DJANGO stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

THE SOFT MOON stopped by KEXP to showcase their neo-shoegaze sound.

JOHN HIATT: It's been a "Slow Turning."

RIOT GRRRL: The Quietus looks back across two decades at the liberating musical and political movement and assesses what its legacy is today.

AIMEE MANN talks to Wears the Trousers about her new album, the economics of the biz, and more. (Thx, LHB.)

FREELANCE WHALES: Chick Criss talks to the Village Voice about being indie and poor.

JIM JAMES has a new solo LP coming, but he is also talking about what's next for Monsters Of Folk and My Morning Jacket.

PATTI ANDREWS, the last surviving member of the Andrews Sisters trio, died of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles on Wednesday, according to her management. She was 94.

LINDSAY LOHAN flew back to L.A. for her court date, only to be rejected by a swanky hotel and mocked by the judge hearing her case.

JIM NABORS, a/k/a Gomer Pyle, married his longtime male partner early this month. Surprise, surprise, surprise...

ALEC BALDWIN and his yoga instructor wife, Hilaria Thomas, are reportedly expecting a baby.

ASHLEY JUDD and Dario Franchitti are splitting after more than a decade of marriage.

MELISSA GILBERT & TIMOTHY BUSFIELD are engaged.

MANTI TE'O's fake dead girlfriend may be gay or something.

RON JEREMY was hospitalized following a heart aneurysm.

SAUDI ARABIA: The sheikh of the tribe which al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula deputy emir Said al Shihri belonged said the tribe would not bury the AQAP leader.

MALI: French and Malian troops secured the airport in Kidal. Islamist fighters had fled, offering no resistance.

FRANCE: The Interior Minister said France will deport several hardline imams who advocate global jihad, describing them as foreign-born Salafists who "target women, make remarks contrary to our values and refer to the need to fight against France."

TUNISIA: The government deployed special combat forces to areas near the Algerian and Libyan borders to protect Tunisia's oil and gas fields from terrorist attacks. Salafists continued their attacks on Sufi shrines, ransacking and desecrating the mausoleum of Sidi Ben Naji in Gafsa and the mausoleum of Sidi Baghdadi in Monastir, one day after the government announced plans to create a force to protect such sites.

ALGERIA: Acting on information from an al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb terrorist arrested in December 2012, authorities broke up an al Qaeda support cell in the Tiaret region on Monday.

EGYPT: The Holocaust was a U.S. intelligence hoax and the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis actually moved to the United States, said Fathi Shihab-Eddim, a senior figure close to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi responsible for appointing the editors of all state-run newspapers.

KITTY MEETS HEDGEHOG: Let's go to the video.

THAT CUDDLY KITTY Is Deadlier Than You Think.

KANGAROO DUNDEE left Sydney to open his own sanctuary in the Australian bush to care for more than 200 orphaned marsupials.

LION AND TIGER CUBS... snuggling together... Mass hysteria!