PITCHFORK was recovering from the big Fest Monday, but posted a roundup of "overlooked records" from the first half of 2007, including Lucky Soul's The Great Unwanted.  While we wait to see of P-Fork posts any official video, enjoy some bootleg mosh-pit video of Sonic Youth's "Teenage Riot."

NEW RELEASES:  Meat Puppets, the Magic Numbers, Editors, Suzanne Vega and more are streaming in full via Spinner.

THE GO! TEAM:  Ninja and Ian Parton talk to Prefix from China about culture shock, the new album, and the drawbacks of government-authorized funk.

TRAVIS played DC's 9:30 Club last night, so you should be able to stream the gig on demand from NPR.

QUEEN guitarist Brian May has completed his thesis for a PhD in astronomy - more than 30 years after he started the academic paper.  He even passed up a duet with Joss Stone on "Under Pressure" at the Concert for Diana to finish it.

DEEP PURPLE are sounding pretty groovy on a percolating live take on "Hush."  Throw in The Chameleons' (UK) similar riff from "The Only One I Know" and you have your Twofer Tuesday.

PRINCE:  London's Mail on Sunday has threatened legal action against a ruling that means Prince's new album Planet Earth, which was given away in Sunday's paper, will not be chart eligible.  The Daily Mail published a short biography of the Purple One to promote the disc.

INDIE SELLS OUT:  The L.A. Times takes another look at the upsides and downsides of licensing songs for ads.

THE DETROIT COBRAS, cover band extraordinaire, get an audio feature with streaming songs at NPR, including Little Willie John's "Leave My Kitten Alone," which was also covered by the Fab Four.

PETE DOHERTY-KATE MOSS UPDATE:  Another singer, Peter Andre, calls the supposedly sober supermodel "Kate Fungus," adding "She is meant to inspire young girls, but how can a walking skeleton inspire anyone?"

LINDSAY LOHAN is afraid that nude photos taken of her by British bad boy Calum Best have been stolen by a computer hacker and will wind up on the Internet.  Page Six sources the story to "underground" web site Celebslam.com, but how underground is it when you can just click that link?  ALSO:  Should you really celebrate leaving rehab by going to a Vegas nightclub wearing an alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelet?

MAD MEL UPDATE:  Speaking of rehabbers, Gibson looks really... happy surrounded by young women in a bar in Nicoya, Costa Rica.  Good thing that looks like a water bottle placed right in front of him.

THE FRENCH HOTEL told Larry King off-camera that she voted in the Presidential election last year.  Hey, that's the Chicago way -- vote early, vote often.

MADONNA and GUY RITCHIE's private life is going under the microscope as Malawi's top child welfare inspector arrives in the UK to test whether they are fit parents.

ISAIAH WASHINGTON, embattled star fired from ABC's Grey's Anatomy last month, has been stunt-cast on the high-profile remake of 1970s drama Bionic Woman this fall.

BRITNEY SPEARS:  Her bodyguard and "manny" is reportedly caring for the pop tart, too; it probably beats selling adult toys or running a pr0n site on the web.

SIENNA MILLER used to be the subject of gossip over her boyfriends.  Now she's taking flak for her "caterpillar eyebrow look."

ORLANDO BLOOM, otoh, is raising eybrows with his new 70s-pr0n-star mustache.  Couldn't he just have visited PetMoustache instead?

JANN WENNER, publisher of Rolling Stone magazine, talks a green game, but has a carbon footprint like a circus clown.  BONUS:  Same goes for Barbra Streisand.

JACK NICHOLSON:  70-years-old, really overweight, smoking cigarettes... still a chick magnet.

JESSICA ALBA:  Gentlemen's Quarterly saved even hotter photos for the UK edition than the US edition.  Why does GQ hate America?

TERROR in the UK:  The Counterterrorism blog has a link-rich roundup.

NORTH KOREA, icymi, shut down its nuclear reactor.  Oddly enough, the press is not seeking comment from those who criticized the US insistence on multi-lateral talks with the Communist dictatorship.

IRAQ:  US and Iraqi forces have launched a multi-brigade operation south of Baghdad.  In Kirkuk, an AQI-style  coordinated attack by a suicide truck bomber killed over 80 and wounded upwards of 200. In Baghdad (and elsewhere), Iraqi and Coalition forces continue to hunt the deadly "Special Group" cells associated with Moqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army.  Michael Yon has a gripping and graphic dispatch of an IED attack on a Stryker named the "General Lee" while clearing the major supply route for Coalition forces.  The NYT has more on the uneasy relations among US forces, some Iraqi Army brigades, and former insurgent groups now aiding them.  UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that an abrupt US troop pullout could deepen the crisis in Iraq, and he urged the US to keep the Iraqi people in mind when making decisions on the increasingly unpopular war.

IRAQ in the MEDIA:  The L.A. Times reports: "Although Bush administration officials have frequently lashed out at Syria and Iran, accusing it of helping insurgents and militias here, the largest number of foreign fighters and suicide bombers in Iraq come from a third neighbor, Saudi Arabia, according to a senior U.S. military officer and Iraqi lawmakers."  In late 2005, however, longtime Iraq policy critic Anthony Cordesman of CSIS was disputing media reports that Saudis are the largest group of foreign fighters.  In late 2006, twenty percent reportedly were Syrian, a similar number Egyptian, and the rest came mainly from Sudan and Saudi Arabia.  However, what the linked stories also tell us is that the Saudis spent nearly 1.2 billion and deployed 35K troops, in an effort to secure its border with Iraq, with the major problem being the border with Syria.  Moreover, the same day as the LAT story, Reuters reported that Iraq and Saudi Arabia have agreed to monitor sectarian fatwas from clerics which could inflame violence between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims.  Moreover, the complaints about Iran and Syria never claimed that the foreign fighters were nationals of either country, so the story is attacking a straw man.  Indeed, the complaint that Iran is funding, training and arming Shiite extremists runs contrary to the criticism in the press that the Bush Admin is lumping our enemies together as "al-Qaeda."

IRAQ and the MEDIA II:  Another straw man appears in a  Washington Post story that "Mahdi Army, Not Al-Qaeda, is Enemy No. 1 in Western Baghdad," claiming that "West Rashid confounds the prevailing narrative from top U.S. military officials that the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq is the city's most formidable and disruptive force."  But if you read the story, you will not find any military official claiming that AQI is the biggest problem in Baghdad (as opposed to Iraq in general).

A BABY PANTHER has been adopted by a dog her mother refused to feed her and tried to kill her in the Belgrade zoo.  Let's go to the awww...some video.

STUMPY the DUCK UPDATE:  The four-legged duck who lost a leg after catching one of his feet in chicken wire can now waddle much faster, enabling him to catch up with his lady friend Alice when he is feeling amorous.  Pic of Alice, as well as a previously unseen pic of Stumpy as a duckling, at the link.

FRESH RAT!  Get your fresh rat right here... in China.

HORSE STANDS ON GIRL'S FACE:  The girl is reportedly in stable condition.  The pun writes itself.

STORM the BELGIAN SHEPHERD gets a bionic paw. All that's missing is the na-na-na-na-na-na-na...