BEACH HOUSE has a new video for "Used To Be."

STEVE WYNN stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set drawn from his latest album, which was crafted in Slovenia.

THE SPELLS: Carrie Brownstein blogs an interview with collaborator Mary Timony and offers tracks to stream and download.

OLABELLE a supergroup of sorts, mixing gospel, blues, bluegrass and country influences, played the World Cafe on Friday; you can stream the gig on demand via NPR.

NEW ORDER has issued a recall on its reissues.

THE MC5 and related artists have shows to stream or buy from Wolfgang's Vault. A good excuse to "Kick Out The Jams" on a Monday, though be careful of the strong profanity at the outset, won't you?

OKKERVIL RIVER: Part Two of the Will Scheff interview is posted at Drowned In Sound.

MGMT is profiled in the Independent.

THE BEATLES: John Lennon is forgiven by the Vatican for that "bigger than Jesus" crack in 1966.

INDIE MUSIC could learn a lot from American Idol?

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The teen vampire flick Twilight blew the roof off your local cineplex with 70.5 million.  It's the fourth biggest November debut behind three Harry Potter movies.  It almost made back its 37 million production budget on Friday.  It made more that day than any other film its distributor ever made.  It beat gurus' estimates by 10-20 million. A 200 million total is not out of the question.  Big.  Quantum of Solace dropped 60 percent to pull in 27.4 million.  But it made over 100 million in eight days, is already massive worldwide and stil may make 200 million in the US.  Bolt nipped at Bond's heels with 27 million.  Probably disappointing for Disney, but this one had to contend with both the Madagascar sequel -- which came in fourth with 16 million -- and the media onslaught from Twilight.  Maybe the dog will show some legs next weekend. Rounding out the Top Five was Role Models, which held onto the comedy niche with 7.2 million; it could end up making 75-80 million on its 28 million production budget.  Below the fold, HSM3 was hit hard by Twilight, dropping 64.5 percent this weekend -- but 86 million on an 11 million budget still looks like good ROI to me.

ASHLEE SIMPSON & PETE WENTZ welcomed a baby boy late Thursday night, Ashlee's pneumatic blonde sister is said to be over the moon.

LINDSAY LOHAN & SAMANTHA RONSON reportedly have been fighting like cats and dogs, with a smidge of video to support the claim.  The pair supposedly had their second major public spat in a week at the extravagant launch of a Dubai hotel.

NICOLLETTE SHERIDAN were... wait for it... caught canoodling during Sheridan's 45th birthday party at Beverly Hills restaurant Luau.

JENNIFER ANISTON does a Q&A with the NYT, in which she goes just a little too far out of her way to assure us she's not the creepy stalker chick she just played on 30 Rock.

AMY WINEHOUSE says her marriage is over, amid tales of threesomes and "really gross stuff you couldn't mention in a newspaper," according to the uber-reliable News of thew World.  And if it's too gross for the NotW, I'm thinking it's pretty wacky.

JON HAMM: Mad Men's Don Draper takes GQ on an autobiographical tour of LA. On delayed success: "If I were 21 and doing this, we'd be having a very different conversation," he says. "I see actors in this town who make it big young. They don't understand the word no: ‘What do you mean I can't kill this elephant, drop it on a car, set it on fire, and then snort it?' Well, you just can't."

MEGAN FOX, like Jon Hamm, was honored as one of GQ Magazine's "Men of the Year" last week.

MAD MEL UPDATE: Gibson denies his marriage is in trouble.

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT takes another step toward the big screen. 

SIENNA MILLER won about 79K in damages from a photo agency on Friday over claims of paparazzi harassment in a settlement her lawyer said could have significant implications for other celebrities.

PAKISTAN: A US missile strike that killed Rashid Rauf -- the UK's most wanted terrorist -- suggests the US is getting better intell. Backstory of the raid is at the Independent.

IRAN complains that the International Atomic Energy Agency isn't doing a good enough job preventing information leaks to the news media.  Meanwhile, shortly before dropping North Korea from the blacklist of states that support terrorism this summer, the Bush admin. reportedly thwarted the transfer of missile parts from Pyongyang to Iran, according to US officials.

IRAQ: Parliament votes on the US security pact Wednesday.  Iraqi ministers are pushing the deal; Hezbollah is opposing it. US forces captured eight members of the League of the Righteous and six Hezbollah Brigades operatives during raids in Baghdad, and captured seven al Qaeda fighters during raids throughout Iraq.  In Mosul, Iraqi forces are leading the surge against the remnants of AQI.

HAMSTER on a PIANO (eating popcorn): Let's go to the music video.

SO, A DOG drives into a coffee shop...

THE PANDA is just not that into you.

SHIBA PUPPY CAM UPDATE: The newly famous Internet puppies have been adopted.  But UStream's replacement is at the link.

3200 FEMALE WHITE MICE were purchased by the Kremlin. I have a bad feeling about this.