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HAIL TO THE CHIEF: 70 songs about American presidents, courtesy of The A.V. Club. Including Devo's "Whip It." Yes, really.
NEW RELEASES: Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion is streaming in full at NPR. The Bird & the Bee, Bon Iver, A.C. Newman, Matt & Kim, Cut Off Your Hands, Antony & the Johnsons and more are streaming at Spinner. Robert Pollard releases The Crawling Distance (here's a free download).
A.C. NEWMAN got a feature plus tracks from his new solo album on NPR's Day to Day.
THE GOURDS play a mini-set for KUT, streaming as one of NPR's Favorite Sessions.
THE DECEMBERISTS will give you an advance track from their upcoming album in return for your e-mail address.
BEIRUT has a video for "La Llorona" from the upcoming March of the Zapotec EP.
WHAT'S GOING ON: My Morning Jacket's Jim James talks to the Guardian about his favorite album.
OF MONTEAL frontman Kevin Barnes is profiled by Sasha frer-Jones for The New Yorker.
MATT & KIM talk to Pitchfork about mixing art and commece, and mixing a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a Red Bull.
LAND OF TALK: Liz Powell is profiled by Carl Wilson for Canada's Globe & Mail.
LINDSAY LOHAN & SAMANTHA RONSON: Together again.
KELLY OSBOURNE has been arrested for allegedly slapping a gossip columnist who called her fiance stupid.
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. is angry with Sherlock Holmes director Guy Ritchie for making him wear four-inch platforms in his shoes.
MICKEY ROURKE, interviewed by Christopher Walken. Need I say more?
SEPARATED AT BIRTH: Dyan Cannon and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler.
ADVENTURELAND is among the movies premiering at the Sundance fest this year. Here's your trailer.
SPIDER-MAN 4 will begin shooting in 2010, according to J.K. Simmons, a/k/a J. Jonah Jameson.
WATCHMEN, fresh off that lawsuit settlement, launches a new website.
AL QAEDA terrorists died from the plague… or from an experiment gone wrong?
THE STANS: The Pakistani government indefintitely closed the Khyber Pass to NATO supply columns moving into Afghanistan. "We're preparing for an assault."
IRAQ: A man who claimed the People's Mujahideen of Iran trained him to become a suicide bomber turned himself in to Iraqi authorities.
CAT & MOUSE, living together… mass hysteria!
THE PUPS OF WAR, by the British soldier who saved them from horrors of the Afghan front.
HEY, BULLDOG, have you seen 15 pacifiers?
JAVELINA attacks a Dutch tourist at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Will it turn up in the Tenenbaums' closet?
CAT SEASON…, Rabbit Season!
