KINGS OF LEON could "Use Somebody" in the latest video from their new album, Only By The Night.

CONOR OBERST and The Mystic Valley Band have a full gig streaming on demand via NPR.

BLITZEN TRAPPER stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set you can stream on demand via MPR.

EAGLES of DEATH METAL stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set you can stream on demand via MPR.

THE YEAR'S OVERLOOKED GEMS: All Songs Considered is streaming reader-selected candidates.

BOYCE & HART lip-sync their way through "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight," after introducing themselves with live snippets of their other hit songs.

GRIZZLY BEAR: Ed Droste gives Drowned in Sound a progress report on the band's next album.

JOHNNY MARR talks about his role in mastering The Sound of the Smiths, which is streaming this week via Spinner: "Frank  (Arkwright) and I actually took a load of crappy EQ off it and tried to get it to sound like it did in the studio, which we've succeeded in doing..." (Thx, Chromewaves.)

STEREOPHONICS: Richard Jones and Javier Weyler answer the infamous <i aptureproxy="49">PopMatters 20 Questions.

LEMONHEADS: Evan Dando blogs about the delay of the band's covers record, and reviews No Country For Old Men.

JENNIFER ANISTON complains to Vogue about Angelina Jolie's yapper, while maintaining she does not want you to feel sorry for her.  More excerpts about her maybe-on again thing with John Mayer in the NYDN.  And E! Online has advance clips of her cameo on 30 Rock.

BRAD PITT, meanwhile, was restrained by his own bodyguard at the premiere of his movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

MADONNA let Guy Ritchie see his kids... on 12 conditions.

MICHELLE WILLIAMS' father, a prominent stock market trader, agreed Tuesday to return to the US to face tax evasion charges.

THE DARK KNIGHT closes in on one billion dollars in box office receipts.  You can download the script at the link.

LINDSAY LOHAN hailed the election of Barack Obama as America's first "colored president." You would think someone so hip would be a little more current on the lingo. Video at the link.

IRAN: The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council - Britain, China, France, Russia and the US - plus Germany meet this week to discuss stalled efforts to impose new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.

AFGHANISTAN: The newest weapon in the US military's fight against the Taliban is the country's first unit of motorcycle-riding Afghan police, trained and mentored by an Army captain with the help of a biker bar owner and Harley devotee from Washington state.

IRAQ decided on Tuesday to await a complete translation of the amended draft of a military pact to govern the presence of US troops in the country after 2008 before making a final decision on it. Sunnis and Shiites reopened a Baghdad bridge between the two communities closed since a 2005 stampede. The battle for Mosul still waxes and wanes. Rebuilding in Samarra continues.

NINJA KITTENS: The folks at Toyota are smoking something.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A militant squirrel attempts flag desecration on Veterans' Day.  ALSO: A red squirrel called Elvis the Pelvis has attacked a children's writer who nursed him back to health.

TOADFISH MATING CALL interests scientists, which may say something about scientists.

HATTIE the TERRIER, banned from her local pub, has been readmitted -- but only if she wears a high-visibility vest. Video at the link.

PYTHON vs. COCKATOO; For the second time in three days, the cockatoo was never in it.