DUFFY plays "Mercy" and "Rockferry" at Glastonbury. It's Twofer Monday, cause the BBC is on the prowl.

BURT BACHARACH performs a medley-filled hour-long concert at Disney Hall, streaming on demand via NPR.

EL PERRO DEL MAR: Sarah Assbring talks to Drowned in Sound about her new From the Valley to the Stars LP.  Videos at the link also.

TEDDY THOMPSON has a chat and mini-set streaming via NPR's Weekend Edition.

THE WATSON TWINS are profiled by the Times of London and interviewed by the Baltimore Sun.

SUPERGRASS: The rocking-for-them video for "Bad Blood" was released back in March, but is making waves in the US now.

EX-PIPETTE Rose Elinor "Rosay" Dougall talks to Pitchfork about developing her new music and dispels rumors about her former band.

COCOROSIE: Sierra and Bianca Casady get a lengthy profile in the New York Times magazine.

BECK talks to the New York Times about the making of Modern Guilt, which comes out tomorrow (on his 38th birthday).

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS' A.C. Newman talks to Nerve about Nietsche, nerds and sex after marriage.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Will Smith's Hancock dominated the holiday weekend, making 66 million over the three-day frame and over 107 million since opening. It is the 5th film he has opened No. 1 during the Fourh of July holiday and his 8th No. 1 opening in a row and his 8th film to gross over 100M in a row since July 2002.  WALL-E and Wanted felt the Hancock effect and the impact of the 4th falling on a Friday, dropping 47 and 59.5 percent respectively to make 33 mil and 20.6 mil.  Get Smart and Kung Fu Panda also dropped a notch apiece, bringing in 11.1 and 7.5 million, respectively.  Below the Top Five, the story is that Kit Kittredge: An American Girl expanded, but languished in eighth place; Picturehouse has to be thinking it should have opened the pic wide on June 20th, instead of letting Will Smith and WALL-E bulldoze it to the DVD market.

MADONNA: Alex Rodriguez's heartbroken wife Cynthia believes A-Rod has been "brainwashed" by kabbalah-pushing pop icon Madonna and lured away from his family.  Madge reportedly has asked troubled Britney Spears to join her on tour - and pals hope she will give guidance to the young star.  The Sun also highlights some dirt from the upcoming book from Madge's brother, including a story about Madonna giving Gwyneth Paltrow a steamy kiss on the lips during a table dance at a boozy showbiz party.

AMY WINEHOUSE sipped from a glass of red wine and looked a bit unsteady on her feet as she appeared in front of a large audience at the Rock in Rio music festival southeast of Madrid on Friday.

CHRISTIE BRINKLEY forgives her hubby's then-teenage mistress, who is also said to have dallied with Puff Daddy when he was supposed to have been with his longterm girlfriend and mother of his twins.

CINDY BRADY was hungover and nearly vomited in the studio of an oldies radio station in Colorado Springs Thursday morning. Video at the link!

PRESTO! And the slapstick short running before the movie about the robot appears... until the Mouse makes it disappear, so hurry.

ISLAMISM in the UK: Two schoolboys were given detention after refusing to kneel down and 'pray to Allah' during a religious education lesson. Police sniffer dogs will have to wear booties when searching the homes of Muslims so as not to cause offense.

IRAN says its stance on its nuclear program remains unchanged, despite an EU offer of incentives to suspend uranium enrichment. The Netherlands will ban Iranian students from studying nuclear technology, the Dutch government said Friday. Syria is ready to break off its close links with Iran if America gives it financial and military backing, a former Israeli diplomat involved in unofficial peace talks has revealed to The Sunday Telegraph.

IRAQ: American and Iraqi forces are driving Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in the north of the country in the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror.  The Times of London has a detailed account from Mosul. Iraq's foreign minister said that concessions by both sides had advanced the prospects for a new security agreement needed for US forces to remain in the country beyond the end of the year. The Iraqi parliament voted to postpone its summer recess for 30 days, in a bid to finalize legislation needed to hold provincial elections in the fall. US Servicemembers from all over Iraq gathered in the Al Faw Palace rotunda at Camp Victory, Baghdad, to reenlist and celebrate Independence Day.  The L.A. Times profiles Baghdad's hot-rodders and gearheads.

CATS AND DOGS, living together... with the occasional duck and monkey. A disaster of Biblical proportions

A PERVERT has admitted downloading 30000 depraved images - including sex acts with an octopus. And a tiger, though apparently not together.

AN AGGRESSIVE COW was shot dead by British police marksmen claiming it posed "a danger to the public."

A PANDA relocated after China's deadly earthquake damaged her home gave birth to twin cubs on Sunday, a state news agency said.

MARLEY the CAT dropped 14 storeys out of a window of a high-rise and lived to meow about it.