HAPPY ROCKTOBER!

YUCK dropped a video for "Middle Sea."

BASIA BULAT is advance streaming Tall Tall Shadow.

HAIM is advance streaming Days Are Gone. (Not really my bag, but Pitchfork likes it.)

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session. 

4AD: Drowned In Sound offers a 70-song introduction to the label via Spotify.

FEIST staples "Mushaboom" and "1 2 3 4" are your Twofer Tuesday.

CAMERA OBSCURA: Tracyanne Campbell talks to PopMatters about the new LP, performing while pregnant, and the tour's "no cameras" policy.

NIRVANA: Read Steve Albini's letter to the band prior to producing In Utero.

PSYCHEDELIA: The Guardian surveys a new generation of trippy bands.

30 DISCO SONGS Every Millenial Should Know. There is no Bee Gees on the list.

AMANDA BYNES left the UCLA Medical Center, where she was getting treatment for a serious mental illness, and is now ensconced at a fancy Malibu rehab center that caters to celebs.

KALEY CUOCO's engagement started with a fight.

LAMAR ODOM stopped paying his father's rent.

KATE UPTON and former Dancing with the Stars pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy are "very serious."

LINDSAY LOHAN's parents are banned from Li-Lo's upcoming TV show.

BRIDGET JONES is a widow.

SYRIAN Foreign Minister Mouallem told the UN that Syrian "terrorists" are being supplied with chemical weapons, and claimed there are no moderate militants in Syria, where jihadists from 83 countries are allegedly fighting. He likened the terrorism suffered by Syria to the 9/11 attacks. Syria said it would not sit at peace talks with the Syrian National Coalition. Russia has offered to guard sites in Syria where chemical weapons will be destroyed, but will not allow Syria's chemical weapons to be transferred to Russia for disposal.

ISRAELI President Peres said Israel would consider joining the chemical weapons ban treaty. Prime Minister Netanyahu urged the US to keep up sanctions against Iran.

SAUDI ARABIA: Women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and producing children with clinical problems, according to a conservative Saudi cleric.

AFGHANISTAN: The government claimed it retook a district in Badakhshan from the Taliban; the Taliban claimed they are still in control of the district.

IRAQ: Al Qaeda in Iraq killed at least 55 Iraqis and wounded more than 150 in a series of coordinated bombings throughout Baghdad.

THIS CAT totally cheats at ping pong.

ROTTERDAM RATS are the newest recruits at a Dutch police department, giving new meaning to the term "rat squad."

A FOX frustrates Swiss golfers.

A FROG breaks up a shrimp fight.