U2 paid tribute to Mike Peters and The Alarm on the BBC.

DAMON ALBARN is advance streaming Everyday Robots via iTunes. He also talks The Guardian track-by-track through the LP.

DIRTY PROJECTORS member Nat Baldwinadvance streams In the Hollows. Collaborator Olga Bell advance streams Krai.

WOVENHAND advance streams Refractory Obdurate.

GHOST OF A SABER TOOTH TIGER advance streams Midnight Sun.

ISLANDS' Nick Diamonds and Idiot Glee’s James Friley cover Harry Nilsson's "Are You Sleeping?" from The Point.

THE PRIMITONS play "Seeing Is Believing" at an in-store appearance from 1985.  Proof positive that the Internet makes the "Where Are They Now?" file bottomless.  Background at Trouser Press.

THE HOLD STEADY talks to the Wall Street Journal about Teeth Dreams. 

DAVE DAVIES, the Kinks guitarist who suffered a stroke in 2004, sent a message of support to AC/DC's Malcolm Young.

BLACK FLAG: Greg Ginn and FLAG have settled their litigation.

VINYL vs CDs: This supposed explainer from Vox on the superiority of CDs overlooks that wider dynamic range means nothing if you produce recordings for max loudness -- which many do in an age of listening with earbuds and Bluetooth speakers to iPods and smartphones. A similar point could be made about the relative "warmth" of different media. In many ways, pop music has reverted back to the early 60s, when records were produced to sound good on AM radio in cars and cheap transistor radios.  Call Vox "explanatory jornalism," but journalism is a business based on Gell-Mann Amnesia.

LINDSAY LOHAN: Fake miscarriage to cover for her unprofessional behavior?

DREW BARRYMORE and her husband, art advisor Will Kopelman, welcomed their second child, who doesn't have a silly Hollywood name.

LAURA PREPON personally nixed the Tom Cruise dating rumor.

KATE UPTON doesn't miss a beat when asked what she wants in a man.

UMA THURMAN and fiance Arpad “Arki” Busson have called off their engagement for the second time.

AARON SORKIN wants to apologize for The Newsroom.

COURTNEY COX squashed all hope of any potential Friends reunion.

BRIAN WILLIAMS raps Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice," confronts Jimmy Fallon.

CRIMEA grows chatoic under Russian control.

VENEZUELA's interior minister reported Tuesday the arrest of nine people on charges of leading, financing and organizing violent anti-government protests in the Caracas municipality of Chacao.

SYRIA: The US State Department said it had received indications that chlorine gas was used in an attack in Syria this month, which the US is investigating with the assistance of the UN and the OPCW.

A LLAMA and DMX.

A 13-FT HAMMERHEAD SHARK surprised beachgoers in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.

KILLER SPONGES discovered in the Pacific.

1130 LIVE DUCKLINGS were delivered to an employer as the result of a wage dispute.