CLARENCE CLEMONS - the Big Man with the big horn - died Saturday of complications from a stroke he suffered last weekend, said Bruce Springsteen's spokeswoman. He was 69 years old.  Here's more from Rolling Stone and the New York Times.  And here he is in 1984, wailing, shaking 'em, and delightful as Bruce's foil on "Sherry Darlin'." The A.V. Club obit has still more video. And Spinner has one of his final appearances -- in Lady Gaga's "The Edge of Glory."

BUDDY HOLLY: Rave On, the star-studded tribute album, is advance streaming via NPR.

BOB MOULD read from his autobiography, answered audience qquestions and played a mini-set at the UBS Forum.

NELLIE McKAY plays a set on the Mountain Stage.

JAPANESE POPSTARS are advance streaming Controlling Your Allegiance.

SONIC YOUTH: "Out and In" is a previously unreleased track (2000) from a forthcoming four-vinyl-LP box set.

BATTLES dropped the danceable math-rock of "Futura" on Fallon.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle gives The Atlantic the backstory of "Dance Music."

THE HISTORY OF INDIE: A Guardian playlist which inexplicably skips The Replacements.

GUIDED BY VOICES: Robert Pollard talks to the Wall Street Journal and suggests the reunion may be more than touring.

VINCENT MOON, the French filmmaker responsible for the Takeaway Shows, is profiled by the New York Times.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Green Lantern tops the chart with 52.7 million against a 200 million budget. If not for the 3-D premium ticket price, this would have been in the 40s.  The NYT says it fizzles, but the WB may feel relieved that it did even this well given the intially bad marketing and nearly-universal negative reviews.  Worldwide receipts may produce a breakeven.  Super 8 drops 40 percent to the second slot with 21.3 million (and 72.8 million against a 50 million budget), which ain't bad considering the extra-wide openings of not only Green Lantern, but also Mr. Popper's Penguins, which debuted at No.3 with 18.2 million against a 55-65 million budget. Jim Carrey just ain't the draw he once was.  X-Men First Class took a hefty 52 percent hit in the fourth slot with 11.5 million, a victim of the Lantern.  However, the mutants cross the 100 million mark here, with more than that overseas.  The Hangover Part II rounds out the Top 5 with another 9.6 million; it has grossed over 450 million worldwide against an 80 million budget.

TOM CRUISE: Access Hollywood has the first look at him in Rock of Ages.

MAD MEL UPDATE: Gibson is now dating a goth model.

JOHN MALKOVICH talks to Andrew Dickson on video about being back on stage, John Wayne Gacy, and why he won't take lectures on politics from The Guardian.

KEANU REEVES talks about his first book, Ode to Happiness.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: Marvel drops a dozen stills from the upcoming movie.

THE TOP 25 HIGHEST-PAID MUSIC ACTS, according to Forbes.

TERROR in the USA: Yonathan Melaku, a US Marine Reservist from Ethiopia and a Muslim, was arrested inside Arlington Cemetery for carrying suspicious package labeled ammonium nitrate. He also had a notebook with phrases such as "Al Qaeda," "Taliban rule," and "defeated coalition forces" written in it.

OUR FRIENDS, THE SAUDIS: A Saudi woman defiantly drove through the nation's capital Friday while others brazenly cruised by police patrols in the first forays of a campaign that hopes to ignite a road rebellion against the male-only driving rules in the ultraconservative kingdom.

PAKISTAN: US officials say Pakistan has apparently tipped off militants at two more bomb-building factories in its tribal areas. The officials say that allowed the militants to flee after US intelligence shared the locations with the Pakistani government.

AFGHANISTAN: Pres Karzai claimed the US is in peace talks with the Taliban.

EL WILLY DANCES: Let's go to the video.

COOPER the CAT: From budding photographer to media personality and author.

UNPERMITTED MONKEY, doing the work Americans won't do.

RATTLESNAKES don't like to be poked. I didn't think this needed to be publicized, but apparently not everyone got the memo.

THE ANARCHIST Dog-Walking Collective.