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THE SWELL SEASON plays Neutral Milk Hotel's "Two-Headed Boy" for The A.V. Club Undercover.
AMOS LEE does a free, six-song mini-set for Daytrotter.
LAURA MARLING stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.
MASSIVE ATTACK stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a (rare) session.
NO AGE drops "Glitter" and "Inflorescence" as advance tracks.
999: "Homicide." You better believe it.
ARCADE FIRE — and what their success says about the industry — is essayed by Sasha Frere-Jones.
WEEZER: Rivers Cuomo talks to the L.A. Times about the upcoming Hurley LP.
GREIL MARCUS talks to 3 Quarks Daily about Van Morrison, the subject of his latest book.
VAN HALEN is working on a new album with David Lee Roth, after a quarter-century or so,
MAD MEL UPDATE: Detectives will present their evidence in the Mel Gibson domestic violence investigation to L.A. County prosecutors in two weeks.
LINDSAY LOHAN was hardly treated like a typical inmate. Shocka!
CHARLIE SHEEN celebrated his sweet plea deal at the Playboy Mansion. I think the rehab is really going to stick this time.
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN & RACHEL BILSON have officially ended their engagement. Did someone show her the Star Wars prequels?
JOHNATHON SCHAECH & JANA KRAMER have split after only a little more than a month of marriage.
KELSEY GRAMMER is "deeply in love" with a young blonde just weeks after his divorce was filed.
LEO DiCAPRIO talks about the break-up of Kate Winslet's marriage.
RESSE WITHERSPOON looks to be singing onscreen again.
IRAN plans on opening the Bushehr nuclear plant in September. A former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said graves are being dug for US servicemen in anticipation of an American attack.
AFGHANISTAN: The United Nations said the Taliban is responsible for 76 per cent of all civilian casualties.
CAT adopts BUNNY… Mass hysteria!
THE BIRDS: Postal workers in Moose Jaw, Sask., are taking cover after hawks have started to dive-bomb them.
THE SWARM: A tree trimmer stung about 500 times by Africanized killer bees on Saturday described the attack.
MOTHER DUCK, er, delays commuter trains for hours.
