ZOOEY DESCHANEL and JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT made a special video for She & Him's "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?" to promote their movie, 500 Days of Summer.  Deschanel and Gordon-Levitt say they hope to team up repeatedly and have aspirations of being a regular screen couple.

FRANCES did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter, three previously unreleased.

MOUNT EERIE is advance streaming the Wind's Poem album at NPR. Heavy stuff I think Pate bassist Mike Kelly might like.

THE BLIND SHAKE stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set streaming via MPR.

THE DECEMBERISTS: You can stream the two new tracks the band debuted at Newport via YANP.

THE OCTOPUS PROJECT has a new video for "Wet Gold."

LOLLAPALOOZA: Fuse has plenty of free downloads from the fest's featured artists.

THE TOP 20 JEFF TWEEDY SONGS, according to American Songwriter's Evan Schlansky.  It's sure to provoke disagreements (this is the function of lists) so readers can chime in also.

THE PRETENDERS: Chrissie Hynde tells the Winnepeg Sun (among other things) that the current doom and gloom about the record industry is really just a correction of the excess that preceded it.

MATT and KIM shuffle Kim's iPod for The A.V. Club, because she "was afraid things that are too wussy would come up" on Matt's.

INGLORIOUS BASTERDS: The trailer for "Nation's Pride," the movie within Quentin Tarantino's movie, is online.

TRUE BLOOD: Real-afterlife co-stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer are engaged to be married.

PAULA ABDUL quit American Idol via Twitter, reportedly after demanding a 20 million dollar deal. She may turn up as a judge on "So You Think You Can Dance."

PENELOPE CRUZ pregnant by Javier Bardem? The rumor is building.

BRAD PITT talks to Parade about his decision to become a father, why he won't marry Angelina Jolie and the risks he'll take for love.

SIENNA MILLER has regrets about romancing Balthazar Getty.

PAUL GIAMATTI talks to The A.V. Club about choosing his roles, playing "himself" Cold Souls, playing real-life people, and what's up with the sequel to Bubba Ho-tep.

THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB WAS DROPPED ON HIROSHIMA 64 years ago today. The act that ushered in the nuclear age, but also helped end World War II, still stokes controversy. Three men involved in the attack o­n Hiroshima share their memories with the BBC. Film showing the effects of the attack was classified for decades, as was the complete (unredacted) "Magic" military intercepts, which tend to show Japan was not about to surrender. Those interested in a relatively neutral view of the events leading to the bombing could do worse than 1995's Hiroshima, a joint Canadian-Japanese production for Showtime.

RUSSIAN NUCLEAR ATTACK SUBMARINES have been patrolling off the eastern seaboard of the US in recent days, a rare mission that has raised concerns inside the Pentagon and intelligence agencies about a more assertive stance by the Russian military.

IRAN: Ahmadinejad took the oath of office Wednesday, as security forces guarded the building and nearby streets in anticipation of protests.

IRAQ: The towering concrete blast walls that have both protected and suffocated Baghdad streets for the past two years will come down within 40 days.

BABY vs. DOG: Let's go to the video.

TWO BELUGA WHALES at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium are pregnant, with calves expected to be born this fall.

AN ALLIGATOR CAPTURE led to the arrests of some north Florida apartment tenants who forgot to hide their drugs.

POLICE DOG tracks a burglary suspect to a freezer.