DINOSAUR, JR. may be "Over It," but they aren't over, if this song is andy indicator. Downright catchy.

OF MONTREAL stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set streaming on demand via NPR.

EELS: Mark Oliver Everett has an interview+tracks streaming from NPR's Weekend Edition.

YO LA TENGO have released an advance track, "Periodically Double Or Triple," from their upcoming Popular Songs album.

NEIL YOUNG: The long-awaited and voluminous Archives, Vol. 1: 1963-1972 is reviewed for NPR's All Tings Considered.

THE JAYHAWKS: "Blue," because its genius was recognized by The Office's Rainn Wilson on Twitter last week.

SONIC YOUTH is profiled by The Guardian, which says their upcoming album "taps into the rough-and-ready energy of a trio of late-80s releases - Evol, Sister and Daydream Nation - on which more conventional song structures coalesced out of powerful dissonance to vertigo-inducing effect."

THE LEMONHEADS: Evan Dando takes a pop quiz for the San Francisco Chronicle.

BOOKER T. surveys his ongoing musical journey with the Boston Herald.

IGGY POP tells the L.A. Times, "Rock is worse than 'Kumbaya.'"

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Up repeats at No. 1, with a modest 35 percent drop, taking in 44.2 million bucks.  Equally impressive -- and more surprising -- was the second-place opening of The Hangover, which took in 43.3 million, which had no stars but excellent reviews.  Land of the Lost had the stars, and bad reviews -- and came in third with 19.5 million, far below the 30-35 million many predicted.  Night at the Museum 2 came in fourth 14.7 million, dropping 40 percent; it is underperforming the original by enough that it will need another couple of decent weekends for this to stop looking like a shaky investment.  Star Trek rounds out the Top Five with another 8.4 million; this sort of legs, plus another 100+ million overseas puts the franchise back at warp speed.  Below the fold, Terminator Salvation continues to bomb like an attack from Skynet.  My Life in Ruins opened in ninth, suggesting lightining does not strike twice for Nia Vardalos of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."

DAVID CARRADINE's family is "profoundly disturbed" by the publication of a photo that appears to be Carradine hanging in his hotel room.  Meanwhile The Smoing Gun found a reference to "deviant sexual behavior which was potentially deadly" in his 2003 divorce papers.

HEIDI MONTAG PRATT has been taken to a hospital in Costa Rica after falling ill on the set of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.

BROOKE SHIELDS has settled with the National Enquirer after alleging the tabloid checked her mother out of a New Jersey nursing home last month.

BRITNEY SPEARS has settled with a former manager on undisclosed terms.  The judge also signed off on 193K in legal fees for the singer's attorneys.

500 DAYS OF SUMMER has a new clip posted at Moviefone.

MEGAN FOX lost so much weight during a period of depression, her hair started to fall out.

GEORGE CLOONEY is reportedly moving a new cocktail waitress into his pad.

IRAN has sped up its production of nuclear fuel and increased its number of installed centrifuges to 7,200 -- more than enough, weapon experts said, to make fuel for up to two nuclear weapons a year.  The Islamic theocracy has blocked UN atomic inspectors for more than a year now from visiting a heavy-water reactor capable of being modified to produce plutonium that could be used in weapons.  In a separate report released Friday, the IAEA said it had found new evidence to support the claim that the complex that Israel bombed in the Syrian desert in 2007 was in fact a clandestine nuclear reactor. RTWT for the persistent Korth Koean connection.

LEBANON: The ruling pro-Western coalition appeared headed for a decisive political victory over its Iranian-backed Hezbollah rivals early Monday in the Middle East nation's most fiercely contested parliamentary election in decades.

D-DAY + 65 was celebrated Saturday, which means I really should have linked to Ike's message to the troops and Ronald Reagan's moving 40th Anniversary speech on Friday.  Better late than never.

SCRATCH-A-BEAVER: Let's go to the video. Hey, nice beaver!

THE SWARM: More than 10K honeybees appeared out of nowhere on Sunday and landed on the wing of a parked airplane at Beverly Airport in Massachusetts.

LEOPARD vs CROCODILE: Hal Brindley snapped the amazing moment a leopard snatched a crocodile at a South African game reserve on the only occasion this behavior has ever been documented worldwide.

COWS stare unamazed as they are the subject of an experiment to determine whether a change in diet will help them belch less methane, a potent heat-trapping gas that has been linked to climate change.