IGGY POP, with an especially destructive "Lust For Life" on Dutch TV, circa 1977.

NEW RELEASES from Ryan Adams, Ben Lee, Andrew Bird, Peter Gabriel, Ben Folds, Johnny Cash, B-52s, Erasure, John Wesley Harding and more are streaming this week via Spinner.

BODY LANGUAGE is advance streaming Social Studies.

M83 is advance streaming Hurry Up, We're Dreaming.

SLOAN was featured on Weekend Edition Saturday.

SHE & HIM drop "The Christmas Waltz" in advance of A Very She & Him Christmas.

KATE BUSH drops "Wild Man" from 50 Words For Snow.

MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO., Live at the Fire Escape, May 17, 2009.

JANES ADDICTION played "Irresistible Force" and "Stop!" for Kimmel in time for Twofer Tuesday.

RYAN ADAMS: Although the L.A. Times may correctly note his new LP is a personal triumph, Adams seems keen to separate the personal from the musical at Drowned In Sound. (Thx, LHB.)

BLITZEN TRAPPER: Eric Earley talks to USA Today about homelessness, honoring a dying wish, and more.

BRYAN FERRY talked to Bobby Conn about Roxy Music, John Lennon, and Lady Gaga.

A BLACK SABBATH REUNION is "a very, very strong possibility," according to Ozzy Osbourne.

DEMI MOORE has consulted a divorce lawyer after the failure of a last-ditch bid to save her marriage to Ashton Kutcher? RadarOnline reports the couple reunited at a campfire heart-to-heart in Santa Barbara.

DAVID BOREANAZ tells TV Week that coming clean about cheating on his wife Jaime Bergman with Rachel Uchitel has been "a bonding experience, in the long run."

JESSICA SIMPSON, looking kinda pregnant at LAX.

SAM SHEPARD talks to the L.A. Times abut his rare lead role in "Blackthorn," which imagines that Butch Cassidy did not die in that Bolivian shootout.

WORLD WAR Z: On Monday, a SWAT team raided a Budapest warehouse holding weapons being used in Pitt's upcoming zombie movie, seizing 85 fully-functional weapons, most of which were automatic, military-style assault rifles.

AL QAEDA in the Arabian Peninsula confirmed that Anwar al Awlaki and Samir Khan were killed in a Predator airstrike in southern Yemen late last month.

SYRIA: The Syrian National Council agreed on a democratic framework for a future Syria and wants international observers. However, Syria's foreign minister warned other nations not to bestow international legitimacy on the opposition group.

IRAN rejected a US direct "military hotline" proposal. Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karoubi was briefly freed from house arrest, a move indicating that authorities might ease conditions for him.  The EU expanded sanctions against Iran. An Iranian opposition website says an Iranian actress has been sentenced to a year in prison and 90 lashes for appearing in a movie critical of the Islamic republic's hard-line policies.

IRAQ: As the US draws down its forces, fears abound that Iran will simply move into the vacuum and extend its already substantial political influence more deeply. But in Najaf, a center of Shiite Islam, some officials say that Iran wore out its welcome long ago.

KILLER SHARKS create a real water hazard on a Queensland golf course.

THE SWARM: Suspected smugglers set loose a swarm of bees on 15 Turkish police officers searching for contraband cigarettes hidden among a truckload of hives.

MOO: What's that you say, Bossie? A pregnant cow is trapped in a well?

AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, I thought turkeys could fly. A special report from Les Nessman.