LAURA VEIRS drops a video for "July Flame," the title track from her new LP.

NEW RELEASES: Vampire Weekend, OK Go, Freedy Johnson, and more are streaming this week via Spinner.

DANIEL JOHNSON did seven free songs for Daytrotter.

MORNING BENDERS make "Promises" an advance track from their upcoming album.

DIRTY PROJECTORS drop a free digital single (yes, 2 songs).

SONGS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY, compiled by The Telegraph.  From Paul Simon to The Kinks to Def Leppard to Bishop Allen to Ringo Starr to Mission of Burma and more, it's like Twofer Tuesday times 23.

ROBERT CHRISTGAU unveils his 2009 Dean's List at Barnes and Noble.

JIMI HENDRIX: "Valleys of Neptune," a 12 previously unreleased song collection that includes the final studio sessions of the original Jimi Hendrix Experience lineup and Hendrix's first recordings with bassist Billy Cox, is set for release on Mar. 9 on Sony's Legacy Recordings.

YO LA TENGO is briefly profiled at Filter.

RINGO and PAUL, together again.

CONAN O'BRIEN has nothing to complain about, according to Jerry Seinfeld, who coincidentally has a show coming to NBC. O'Brien may disagree.

LINDSAY LOHAN's car struck a photog this morning, and her driver is now a person of interest in a criminal assault with a deadly weapon investigation.

DEREK JETER and MINKA KELLY are headed to the altar, possibly in November.

MARILYN MANSON and EVAN RACHEL WOOD are engaged, according to People magazine.

MICHAEL BUBLE is getting hitched to his Argentinian actress girlfriend, Luisana Loreley Lopilato de la Torre.

SPIDEY-SHOCKER: Sony has pulled out of 'Spiderman 4' with Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire because of scheduling conflicts with the director, and will reboot the franchise for 2012 with another team.

3-D MANIA: Hollywood is preparing to re-release some past hits, including Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, in 3-D following the record-breaking success of Avatar.

DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD is going bicoastal, after poaching Variety's biggest breaking news hound, Mike Fleming.

OLIVER STONE's upcoming Showtime documentary miniseries "Secret History of America" promises to put mass murderers such as Stalin and Hitler "in context."  What could go wrong?

YEMEN: Dozens of Saudi and Egyptian veterans of al-Qaeda's operations in Afghanistan have been pouring into Yemen, a senior official has warned.

IRAN: Gen David Petraeus confirms that the US has developed contingency plans to deal with Iran's nuclear facilities.  There are signs that negotiations with Iran over a nuclear fuel swap have resumed despite the expiration of the end-of-year deadline for a deal set by Pres. Obama.

AFGHANISTAN: Most Afghans are increasingly optimistic about the state of their country, a poll commissioned by the BBC, ABC News and Germany's ARD shows.

WHEN WARTHOGS ATTACK: Let's go to the video.

LIBRARY CATS are the new hotness.

AN ANT SPECIES has dispensed with males entirely.

JELLYFISH STINGS MAN 25 meters above sea level.

A FLOCK OF VULTURES are watching Nancy Cox, waiting on her lawn and slowly chewing their way inside her Ridgeway, VA, home.