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MATES OF STATE have made "My Only Offer" the second video from their Rearrange Us album.
ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Sigur Ros, Sparks, the Dandy Warhols and Wolf Parade are among those featured on the latest episode of the long-running NPR series.
LIZ PHAIR is profiled by NewCity Chicago, while you can download and stream one of her "Girly Sound" demos, "Ant In Alaska," via the 'Gum and 'Gum Mix.
ROBERT POLLARD's latest band, Boston Spaceships, has a new song "Go For The Exit" to download or stream.
CONOR OBERST has two new tracks, "Souled Out" and "Danny Callahan," streaming via his website.
TILLY & THE WALL have a video for their new track "Pot Kettle Black." Profanity.
SHEARWATER frontman Jonathan Meiburg compares songs to sculpture and much more at the Montreal Gazette.
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO has his new song, "Always A Friend," floating around online.
REDD KROSS is back after a decade-long hiatus, and talking to the Toronto Sun and Rock Sellout. (Thx, Chromewaves.)
SOLOMON BURKE, the King of Rock 'n' Soul, is interviewed by Crawdaddy: "Liberace was soulful. In fact, you couldn't get any more soulful than Liberace."
SIENNA MILLER & KEIRA KNIGHTLEY cut very lean figures as they hit the red carpet for the premiere of their new film, The Edge Of Love, in Edinburgh. Knightley really better have the metablism of a bird, or she's in desperate need of a sammich. Miller, who now says her relationship with actor Rhys Ifans was never that serious, has confirmed she will play the role of Maid Marian in a film remake of Robin Hood.
BRITNEY SPEARS tried to kill herself on two separate occasions, according to a new unauthorized biography.
MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY's girlfriend is due to give birth next month, but he had to be helped out of a Nicaraguan bar the other night after dancing with an assortment of babes, says a witness.
BRADGELINA are making plans to adopt a baby boy from Ethiopia after Jolie gives birth to the twins, according to OK! magazine.
HOTTEST BACHELORS 2008: Equal time for all the gratuitous cheesecake I link can be found at People magazine.
JOHNNY DEPP kept a promise to give a 12-year-old the hat from his upcoming Dillinger movie — and then some.
PAKISTAN: The architect of Pakistan's nuclear program on Tuesday rejected a report alleging that his network may have shared blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon with countries such as Iran and North Korea.
IRAN's Iran's parliament will on Sunday discuss a new package of economic, technological and political incentives aimed at stopping its uranium enrichment program.
IRAQ is committed to meeting a deadline for a long-term security pact with the US, as Washington confirmed it dropped a demand concerning the divisive issue of immunity for private contractors. The Iraqi air force is making great strides as it continues to train and begins supporting Iraqi army and police forces. Prime Minister al-Maliki ordered the security forces to refrain from random arrests of supporters of Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr in a new crackdown on militia. Iraqi officials say radical Shiite militias have agreed to let the government retake control of Amarah without a fight.
HARVEY, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier who used a trampoline to escape over a garden fence, has been reunited with his owners.
A MOTHER DUCK whose six ducklings were sucked into a drain tracked her offspring for more than a mile — across a busy roundabout, countless roads, a metro rail line, a housing estate, two school playing fields and hospital grounds — apparently listening to their cheeps of distress at manhole covers. Pics at the link.
PET GERBIL framed in automobile accident. Looks to be a rear-ender to boot.
THE ROYAL COWS of NEPAL are in limbo after a special assembly voted in May to abolish the 239-year-old monarchy and turn the Himalayan nation into a republic.
THE TOP TEN NEW SPECIES LIST, compiled by International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University. Pics at the link.
