SONIC YOUTH reveal "What We Know" on Later with Jools Holland.

CONOR OBERST is advance streaming his next album, Outer South, via NPR.

PETER BJORN & JOHN played the World Cafe on Friday; you can stream the whole gig on demand via NPR.

CAUSES 2, a Darfur benefit album featuring tracks from The Decemberists, Davendra Banhart, Gnarls Barkley, My Morning Jacket, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and more, is streaming in full via MTV.

BOB DYLAN gets a special section at Paste marking his 33rd LP.

BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE: I shoulda posted "The Bottom Line" before the Kentucky Derby, but better late than never.

DEVO, recently featured here, is profiled at The Guardian.

COTTON JONES (Michael Nau and Whitney McGraw, formerly of Page France) break out at Rolling Stone, with embeded video.

DOVES' manager died, their studio burned down, and they missed out on a No 1 spot by four sales. But they are still rolling and talking to The Guardian.

THE BREEDERS talk to The Observer about switching drugs and drink for good food and music.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Wolverine finishes first with 87 million, right about in the middle of gurus' predictions. This is less than X3's opening, but not low enough to end the franchise.  Ghosts of Girlfriends Past places with 15.3 million, disappointing compared to past Matthew McConaughey openings, and middling as counter-programming to Wolverine. With a 60 million budget, this may end up a flop. Last week's champ, Obsessed, drops 57 percent to third place with 12.2 million.  But Obsessed has already made 47 million on a 20 million production budget. 17 again drops 45 percent to the fourth slot, taking in 6.4 million.  Mosters vs. Aliens crept back into the Top Five with 5.8 million.  Below the fold, Battle for Terra opened in the 12th slot.

ADVENTURELAND: I finally got to see this tale of post-college kids working at a second-rate amusement park circa 1987, and regret not seeing (and plugging it earlier).  More realistic than an Apatow comedy, with much less gross-out humor, this slice of life is carried by its charming performances and direction, not to mention its excellent soundtrack -- filled with The Replacements, Lou Reed, Husker Du, and hits of the period, plus incidental music from Yo La Tengo.  It's on only 200 screens or so now, but see it or queue it when it goes to DVD.

MADONNA: The man believed to be the biological father of Mercy, the 4-year-old Malawian girl Madge is trying to adopt, says he he wants to raise her in his own culture.

BRITNEY SPEARS: A stage-jumper was arrested at her gig in Connecticut.

PINK admits to being bisexual.

DISTRICT 9: A Peter Jackson production about aliens living as refugees in South Africa, has a trailer online.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON's directorial debut is a flop.

JAY LENO's recent hospitalization was due to exhaustion.

PAKISTAN is continuing to expand its nuclear bomb-making facilities despite growing international concern that advancing Islamist extremists could overrun one or more of its atomic weapons plants or seize sufficient radioactive material to make a dirty bomb, US nuclear experts and former officials say. The government established Islamic courts in the Malakand Division.  The Taliban rejected them and said their followers would never surrender their weapons, as the security situation in Swat rapidly deteriorates. The Guardian claim's Pakistan's army is as inept as it is corrupt.

IRAQ has not allowed the US military to interrogate a detainee the Iraqis contend is the leader of the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq. Iraqi forces backed by US troops have arrested a US-allied Sunni Arab militia leader.

FRIENDLY DOG: Very friendly. Very, very friendly.

SHOW-JUMPING BUNNIES! Awww...some pics at the link.

MEERKAT PUPS were abandoned by their mom at the London Zoo, but the pics are awww...some.

HENRY the CAT BURGLAR was nabbed after stealing dozens of socks from his neighbors.

SHARKS UNDER the DANCE FLOOR at a bar in Austin TX.  Gonna need taller platform shoes.