BEN FOLDS covers Elliot Smith's "Say Yes" for The A.V. Club Undercover.

BAND OF HORSES is advance streaming Infinite Arms.

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. played DC's 9:30 Club last night, so you should be able to stream the gig on demand today.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) is Guest DJ, so there's plenty of PiL, plus Jimi Hendrix, Dudley Moore and more in the latest installment of the long-running series.

LOS CAMPESINOS! stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a chat and mini-set.

DIANE BIRCH pulls off a number of tricks in one shot for "Valentino."

STEPHIN MERRITT (Magnetic Fields) talks to PopMatters about the Realism album, and the legacy of 69 Love Songs.

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE talks to John Norris at Interview about putting the band back together.

BIG STAR: A homecoming concert in Memphis turns into a tribute to the late Alex Chilton, with guests including former Big Star bassist Andy Hummel, R.E.M guitarist Mike Mills and The Raconteurs guitarist Brendan Benson.

STEVE MASON (Beta Band, King Biscuit Time) talks to Drowned in Sound about Boys Outside, his first album under his own name.

BONO drinks your milkshake. He drinks it up.

CAMERON DIAZ is dating Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez... but he doesn't want her attending Yankees games.

KENDRA WILKINSON: Her sex tape co-star is revealed to be her ex-bf Justin. Shocka. The mess may be affecting her marriage to Hank Baskett.

MILEY CYRUS dirty danced with 44-year-old Adam Shankman at age 16. There is video. Mitigating factor: Shankman is openly gay.

GWEN STEFANI is expecting her third child with rocker husband Gavin Rossdale, according to various reports.

SEAN PENN  - who was charged with battery in connection with a paparazzi run-in last October - copped a plea in his criminal case.

GLEE creator Ryan Murphy has issued an open letter, urging people to boycott Newsweek until it apologizes for a now-notorious article about gay actors playing straight roles. Kristin Chenoweth also blasted the article. Tough call, as it only draws attention to Newsweek, which hardly anyone reads anymore.

THE JERSEY SHORE cast was involved in three bar brawls in one night.

DENNIS QUAID had to hit McDonald's to bulk up for the role of Bill Clinton in "The Special Relationship," which is about Britain, not Monica Lewinsky.

BETTY WHITE: Last week, SNL - next year, the Oscars?

TERROR in NYC: Officials investigating the failed car bombing in Times Square are still far from certain about the role Pakistani insurgent groups may have played in orchestrating the attempt, according to the Senate intell committee's top Republican.

ISLAMISM in SWEDEN: Lars Vilks, a Swedish cartoonist whose sketch of the Prophet Mohammad enraged many Muslims, was head-butted on Tuesday while giving a lecture about freedom of speech, he said. In March an American who called herself "JihadJane," was charged with plotting to kill the Swede and using the Internet to enlist co-conspirators.

AFGHANISTAN: The UN is to investigate claims that a mysterious illness that has hit Afghan schoolgirls recently was caused by poison gas attacks.

PAKISTAN: The Pakistani government did not arrest Taliban leader Mullah Omar, a senior Pakistani government official told The Cable.

IRAQ: Politicians have reached an agreement to halt a four-month campaign to bar candidates from politics for ties to the Baath Party, American and Iraqi officials said, papering over the sectarian tensions it unleashed, at least for now, and removing an obstacle in the long-delayed process of forming a new government.

TURTLE ON A SLIDE: Let's go to the video.

SHARK in a pickup truck.

A GIRAFFE kicked a woman to death at a game farm in northeastern South Africa.

DELTA AIRLINES lost a dog, offers compensation to its owner.