ELVIS PERKINS IN DEARLAND: "Chains, Chains, Chains." Chains cubed.

NEW RELEASES: Son Volt, Tiny Vipers, Factory Records, Marcy Playground and more are streaming this week via Spinner.

PATRICK WOLF did the three free songs thing for Daytrotter.

JULIE DOIRON plays a Tiny Desk Concert in the NPR Music offices, and did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter at SxSW.

MERGE RECORDS founders Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance have an interview+tracks at NPR marking the label's 20th anniversary.

ROLLING STONES classics "Satisfaction" and "Tumbin' Dice" are your Twofer Tuesday.

OF MONTREAL frontman Kevin Barnes talks to The Skinny about the "divisive" Skeletal Lamping album and touring the UK (Thx, LHB).

DIRTY PROJECTORS: Dave Longstreth talks to Pitchfork about the new album and its new band dynamic.

JAY REATARD talks to the Village Voice about failures, Canada, hot dogs, and his worst New York City gig.

ALLEN KLEIN, who managed the business affairs of Sam Cooke, the Rolling Stones and, for a short time, the Beatles, and who was both admired and feared for his reputation as a fierce negotiator, died on Saturday of complications from Alzheimer's disease. He was 77. Critic Bill Wyman calls him the biggest crook pop music has ever seen.

MICHAEL JACKSON: A L.A. Superior Court judge granted control of Jacko's assets to the executors of his will, over the objections of his mother. Oh, and I think his public funeral, but it's hard to tell, what with the media blackout.

BILLY MAYS's pallbearers all wore the blue OxyClean shirts.

TOM GREEN is in serious condition at Golden State Regional Hospital after a minor car accident that turned ugly, and fast.

STEVE McNAIR's wife may have been faked out by the quarterback sneak. The 19-year-old found dead with the former pro QB hoped to marry him.

JOYCE DeWITT, best known as Janet on Three's Company, was arrested for DUI on July 4th in El Segundo.

JENNA FISCHER will wed writer Lee Kirk.

JENNIFER'S BODY now has a red band trailer online.

CADDYSHACK: The "Where Are They Now?" file.

COUNTER-INSURGENCY: "Six Reasons Insurgencies Lose."

THE STANS: A complex assault on a base in Afghanistan's Paktika province was stopped short by US troops, who then hunted down the Haqqani Network fighters behind the attack. In Pakistan, Taliban heavy Hafiz Gul Bahadar issued night letters warning tribesmen he would use suicide bombers against anyone cooperating with the government. In a reversal of public opinion, most Pakistanis now consider terrorist groups a "critical threat" to their country and support their government in its fight against the Taliban in Swat valley.

IRAN: Supreme Leader Khamenei warned the West about the "negative impact" of their election meddling. The top leaders of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard publicly acknowledged they had taken over the nation's security during the post-election unrest and warned late Sunday, in a threat against a reformist wave led by Mir-Hossein Mousavi, that there was no middle ground in the ongoing dispute over the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

KITTEH KARATE: Let's go to the video.

ELEPHANTS BEAT HUMANS in a hotdog eating contest, scarf down bananas just to rub it in.

PET PSYCHIC put to the test.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A Bengal tiger with no stripes.