THE POLYPHONIC SPREE fails Rube Goldberg in "Raise Your Head."

QUASI is advance streaming Mole City.

LIZ PHAIR perfoms Exile In Guyville Live at the Fillmore East, June 23, 2008.

JIMMY WEBB: The legendary songwriter stopped by WFUV for a chat and mini-set.

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS perform Southern Rock Opera Live in Salt Lake City, January 2002.

YUCK's latest single is "Memorial Fields."

ANNA CALVI "Suddenly" drops a new trackahead of One Breath.

POLICA gets "Smug"ahead of ahead of Shulamith.

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

BOOKER T. JONES stopped by WFUV's Studio A to talk music and play records.

CULTS talks to Pitchfork about bath salts, Beyobce, and the tough decisions and loneliness that led to their second LP, Static.

TY SEGALL talks to The Guardian about taking the (drum) throne for his Fuzz side project.

OKKERVIL RIVER, ranked by Stereogum.

BRITNEY SPEARS: Are ticket sales for her Vegas run "disastrously poor"? Or is it "the best-selling show in the history of Vegas"?

SAMUEL L. JACKSON talks Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, grammar and more in highlights from his Playboy interview.

ROBERT PATTINSON's mystery brunette is Sean Penn's model daughter.

LAMAR ODOM is breaking his silence to rip his own father to shreds for claiming that the Kardashians drove him off the deep end.

LINDSAY LOHAN and Matt Nordgren have decided to go their separate ways just one week after their romance became public.

MICHAEL DOUGLAS & CATHERINE ZETA-JONES are fighting for their marriage.

LIBYA: Authorities acknowledged that the theft of US military equipment from a US Special Forces base in Libya is more serious than previously reported; dozens of armored GMV vehicles are missing, along with hundreds of weapons and most of the night-vision goggles. The son of Defense Minister Al-Thani is said to have been kidnapped in the Tripoli suburb of Janzur by gunmen.

SYRIA: In a statement issued yesterday, 13 Syrian rebel groups, including the al Qaeda-affiliated Al Nusrah Front, agreed to create an Islamist opposition force in Syria to be run only by groups fighting in Syria, rejecting the Syrian National Coalition and other groups "formed abroad." The new coalition of powerful Islamist groups also includes at least three major Free Syrian Army units. The US-backed Free Syrian Army has not responded to the announcement. A flurry of accusations that Syria has transferred some of its chemical weapons to Lebanon and Iraq is casting suspicion over Damascus' compliance with a deal brokered by the US and Russia to hand over its chemical arsenal.

IRAN: President Rouhani claimed that the greatest danger in the Middle East is that of chemical weapons in Syria falling into the hands of terrorists, and warned against a military intervention in Syria. He also said Iran is ready to engage on talks about its nuclear program as long as Iran's right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes is respected.

PENGUIN CHICKS learn to swim at the Chester Zoo.

WILD PIGS menace suburban Atlanta.

A SEXIST GORILLA is sent to therapy.

THE COOKIE MONSTER OF THE SEA, caught on camera.