PATE REUNION UPDATE:  Jon, Mike & Jon (and we hope Ron) will be retaking a stage somewhere near Iowa State University on July 5th, 2013, just one short decade after their last reunion gig.  Clear your calendar for something transcendent, a train wreck, or both!  If you're on the Facebook, check in with the event page.

DUCKTAILS premiered the video for "Letter of Intent" at Rolling Stone.

WOODPIGEON is streaming Thumbtacks and Glue. 

WAXAHATACHEE is advance streaming Cerulean Salt.

YOUTH LAGOON is advance streaming Wondrous Bughouse.

BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB is offering the Let The Day Begin EP in return for your email address.

DAMON HARRIS, who joined the Temptations when Eddie Kendricks left in 1971, has died after a fight with prostate cancer. He was 62.  He sang lead on "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone."  And when he died, all he left us was alone.

THE RASCALS are bringing their act to Broadway for a limited engagement in April.  It's “a hybrid of a rock ‘n’ roll concert and a Broadway show” written and produced by Steven Van Zandt.

STEVEN TYLER says he spent 5 to 6 million on cocaine. 

29 Musical Movie Moments. 

DIANE CHARLOTTE LAMPERT, an accomplished songwriter of the 1950s and 1960s who wrote lyrics to title songs for more than 20 movies, has died of heart faiulure at 88.  She also wrote pop songs including Brenda Lee's "Break It To Me Gently" (recently featured in our Cutout Bin), and "Nothin' Shakin'", which was covered by The Beatles (Live at the BBC).  The latter was an early form of sampling, too.

THE OSCARS went to these folks.  Except for Daniel Day-Lewis, a bad night for Lincoln, but Lincoln usually has bad night at the theater.

ONE OSCAR VOTER'S brutally honest ballot.

THE TOP 50 BEST PICTURE NOMINEES That Lost.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Hollywood cleared Oscars weekend so successfully that Identity Thief topped the chart with 14 million; it now has a 93.7 million total against a 35 million budget.  The debut of Snitch placed with 13 million.  Escape From Planet Earth edged up to show with 11 million, which takes it to near-breakeven with its budget.  Safe Haven drops 50 percent to the fourth slot with 10.6 million (and 48 million against a 28 million budget).  A Good Day To Die Hard skids 60 percent from last week's topper to round out the Top 5 with 10 million (and 51 million so far against a 92 million budget).  Below the fold, Dark Skies debuted in sixth place with 8.9 million, which ain't bad against a 3.5 million budget.

MEGAN FOX & MICHAEL BAY, together again... with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

TIGER WOODS AND ELIN NORDEGREN: Together again?  Or merely parenting?

JOSH BROLIN & DIANE LANE: She signed the divorce filing on Valentine's Day. Ouch.

LINDSAY LOHAN's lawsuit against rapper Pitbull was dismissed.

ETHAN HAWKE trashes the Oscars.

CLINT EASTWOOD was SWATted.  Eventually, one of these "pranks" will be fatal.

MALI: French, Chadian, and Tuareg MNLA forces, supported by US drones, continued to fight Islamist militants in northern Mali.

TUNISIA: Armed Salafists shot at National Guard troopers at a checkpoint in Sidi Bouzid, then fled to a mosque and continued shooting; one Salafist was killed in the gunbattle and two policemen were injured.

IRAN announced it had found new deposits of uranium ore and had identified the sites for 16 more nuclear power plants. The Revolutionary Guard began a three-day ground and air military exercise, and claimed it captured a foreign "enemy drone" near the city of Sirjan.

EGYPT: Opposition figure Mohamed El Baradei called on Egyptians to boycott upcoming elections due to begin in April. The interior minister denied reports that had suggested a "Brotherhoodization" of the country's police force. Salafist groups in the Sinai called on the government to implement sharia law.

BABIES LAUGHING AT DOGS: Because it's Monday.

A GREAT HORNED OWL survives a highway encounter with an SUV.

A THAI POLICE DOG is packing heat.

A WALLABY is recovering after he was rescued from a precarious perch on the rooftop of a multi-story car park in Australia.