YUCK released a NSFW video for "Shook Down."

NEW RELEASES from Bon Iver, Bo-Keys, Gomez, Paleo, BOBBY, Weird Al Yankovic and more are streaming this week at Spinner.

THE DECEMBERISTS played a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND, Live at the Main Point, Bryn Mawr, PA, Feb. 5, 1975.

JOHN MAUS is advance streaming We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves. NPR says Maus "unabashedly borrows nearly everything in his bag of sounds from the 1980s school of analog synth-pop."

WILD FLAG drops "Romance" in advance of their eponymous debut LP.

JACKIE WILSON performs "Higher and Higher" plus "Lonely Teardrops" for Twofer Tuesday, introduced by Del Shannon and Roy Orbison. (via Pate's Jon Hahn).

FLEET FOXES: Robin Pecknold explains to The Guardian how the second album put the band in a 'dark place' and how they came through it.

BLACK LIPS singer/bassist Jared Swilley talks to OC Weekly about the new album and tour, plus all that gay stuff. (Thx, LHB.)  Guitarist Ian St. Pe talks about the LP with Prefix.

DESTROYER: Dan Bejar talks to The Quietus about the making of Kaputt, his lifelong love affair with British music, Momus and why "I can no longer afford to be held under Dylan or Lou Reed's sway."

THE ROSEBUDS: Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp discuss with Aquarium Drunkard the process in making Loud Planes Fly Low, and the second chance they have at making the "first" Rosebuds record.

MOUNTAIN guitarist Leslie West is recovering and is with his family following an emergency surgery over the weekend in which his leg had to be amputated.

LARRY "WILD MAN" FISCHER, street artist and outsider singer/songwriter, died in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 16 due to heart failure.

HUGH HEFNER, jilted just before his wedding, is already recruiting a new blonde. Shocka.

RYAN DUNN, who performed daredevil stunts in all three "Jackass" movies, died in a car crash Monday morning in West Goshen Township, Pa. He was 34. And he reportedly spent four hours in a Philadelphia-area bar before he got behind the wheel.

STEVEN SPIELBERG reportedly demanded Megan Fox be fired from the Transformers franchise after she compared director Michael Bay to Hitler.

MYSTERY CELEB HERPES CASE reportedly settles for over five million bucks.

SEAN PENN DUMPED SCARLETT JOHANSSON because she didn't know enough about politics, according to the National Enquirer. Too funny on too many levels to check.

HARRY POTTER: Daniel Radcliffe says it would be self-defeating to ever reprise the role.  Author J.K. Rowling has launched a mysterious new website named Pottermore.

HEATHER GRAHAM talks about her long, strange career.

THE HOBBIT: Peter Jackson announces the casting of Evangeline Lily via the Facebook.

IRAN: US SecDef Gates said Iran continues to support Shia terror groups in Iraq. Parliament banned the entry of the UN Special Rapporteur on Iran. The commander of the Basij said the UN is "a colonial institution and a puppet of arrogant powers."

EGYPT: Prime Minister Sharaf and the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces are under pressure to postpone September's parliamentary elections. The Muslim Brotherhood also announced that it will not run a candidate for president. Prominent Brotherhood member Abdul Monem aboul Fotouh was officially axed from the group on Saturday after revealing his plans to run as an "independent" candidate.

SYRIA: Assad pledged reforms within months to address a wave of protests against his rule, but blamed saboteurs for the unrest and warned that no deal could be reached with gunmen. Activists and analysts dismissed his promises.

AFGHANISTAN: US SecDef Gates confirmed that the US is holding "outreach" talks with members of the Taliban in Afghanistan. The US ambassador publicly reproached Pres Karzai for painting American forces here as occupiers and enemies. Relatively few Taliban leaders have taken up the goverment's offer to switch sides.

BIRD vs TURTLE: Who you got?

WHEN COWS ATTACK: A rural Iowa woman died after a cow attacked her while she was feeding her animals, leaving people baffled.

A LLAMA on the LAM was captured after months roaming central Oregon.

A WILY SNAKE escapes during a camping trip. Or maybe it wasn't the snake being wily so much as its owner being not so clever.