JEFF TWEEDY plays a new song, "Open Your Mind" on Canadian TV.

NEW RELEASES from the Feelies, Foo Fighters, Meat Puppets, Felice Bros, Sonny and the Sunsets, Bell X1, Head and the Heart, Paul Simon, Alison Krauss and more are streaming this week via Spinner.

JOLIE HOLLAND did five free songs for Daytrotter.

GROUPLOVE stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set. As the name suggests, kinda freak folk-y.

GUILLEMOTS are advance streaming Walk The River.

THE FEELIES: With a new LP, it's nice to revisit classics like "Away" and "Deep Fascination" for Twofer Tuesday.

JERRY "ICEMAN" BUTLER was an A-list soul singer, playing with Curtis Mayfield and Otis Redding. Today, he mulls taxes and health care as the longest-serving member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners.

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART: Kip Berman talks to Blurt about the story behind decisions and ambitions that lead to the new LP, Belong, and the meaning of lo-fi and the supremacy of good songwriting. (Thx, Chromewaves.)

TUNE-YARDS: Merrill Garbus talks to The Guardian about life after lo-fi.

THE BEST AND WORST BASEBALL SONGS, according to the Omaha World-Herald. Shamefully missing "Cubs In Five" by the Mountain Goats.

NATALIE PORTMAN: Pregnancy drove her to eat meat. The horror!

BENICIO DEL TORO & KIMBERLY STEWART are having a baby. Pretty sure everyone's surprised by that one.

CHARLIE SHEEN's second NYC show was reportedly a rebound.

DENNIS QUAID talks about his cocaine addiction.

KATIE COURIC & MATT LAUER may reteam for a syndicated daytime talk show.

MICHAEL SHANNON will play General Zod in director Zack Snyder's Man of Steel.

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS has an international trailer online.

SYRIA: Security forces attacked student protesters at the University of Damascus, killing one and wounding and detaining dozens of others. The Muslim Brotherhood now backs the anti-government protests.

LIBYA: The rebels rejected an African Union peace plan that did not require Gaddafi to resign. Gaddafi's son, Saif al Islam, said talk of his father stepping down from power is "ridiculous."

PAKISTAN: The United States is committed to improving its relationship with Pakistan, despite tensions over the shooting deaths of two Pakistanis by a CIA contractor, the US ambassador told a skeptical audience Monday.

EGYPT: A blogger was sentenced to three years in prison for criticizing the military in what human rights advocates called one of the more alarming violations of freedom of expression since a popular uprising led to the ouster of Pres Mubarak two months ago.

CLEANING THE COBRA PIT: Let's go to the video.

DOGS getting fake ID to pass as service animals. Ironically, there's no official ID for service animals.

SKUNKS: The latest must-have pet.

"NAKED" PENGUINS Baffle Experts. Watching too many cartoons?

A GOOSE ambushed a Cincinnati police lieutenant, somehow knocking him from his bike and into a plate-glass window.