THROW ME THE STATUE now has its own video for "Lolita," which you may have heard in an ad for Rhapsody.  Don't worry; she's 19.

NON-COMM: Stream sets from Dr. John, The Hold Steady, Ani DiFranco, and Newton Faulkner from an annual convention of non-commercial radio programmers and music directors, as well as other music-industry professionals.

THE HOLD STEADY's forthcoming Stay Positive album gets a Premature Evaluation from Stereogum.

THE AVETT BROTHERS have a new track, "Murder In The City," which you can stream via MOKB.

THE SEX PISTOLS: On the 30th anniversary of Punk, Johnny Rotten talks to the Telegraph about turning fat and fifty, punk, priests and family traumas. The Independent covers a new exhibition of photos -- some never seen before -- of the late Sid Vicious.

MGMT brings an appropriate jungle theme to the video for "Electric Feel," though it still has a bit of an Eighties feel to it.

THE FIERY FURNACES' upcoming "Remember" album, due out in August, is a double-CD live set, but the 51 songs on the release have been re-edited and recombined.  Chief songwriter Matthew Friedberger talks to the North County Times about how the songs change from the record to the live setting in the first place.

BE YOUR OWN PET is profiled on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, including a track cut from the band's major label debut for violent content.

DAVID BYRNE has turned a hangar at the foot of Manhattan Island into a giant, cast-iron orchestra.

PRVATE PARTIES:  The Times of London reports on the growing trend of pop stars playing intimate gatherings for wealthy guests.

CHARLIE SHEEN wed Brooke Mueller in a small ceremony in Beverly Hills Friday night, the couple's rep confirmed.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Sex & the City pulled a stunning upset, beating Indiana Jones with a 55.7 million opening weekend.  However, the fantastic pre-sales, tales of SATC parties and the Friday to Sunday sales trend leaves open whether the gals will have legs next weekend.  Indy dropped 54 percent to make 46 million -- less than Iron Man did in its second weekend, but more than Iron Man in their first 11 days, and 363.8 million worldwide to date.  The Strangers debuted in third place with 20 million -- not bad on nine million budget.  Iron Man had legs, pulling in another 14 million in its fifth weekend; it is increasingly likely to top 300 million in the US alone.  Prince Caspian tumbled 43 percent from second to fifth with 13 million; it topped 100 million this week, but Disney CEO Robert Iger admitted moving Narnia from the comfy Christmas season to mid-May was a mistake.

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS suffered a massive fire Sunday that destroyed the building housing the King Kong exhibit and damaged a video library vault.

KURT COBAIN's ashes have been stolen; Courtney Love is said to be suicidal over the theft.

AMY WINEHOUSE was late to and distracted at her comeback gig.

BRADGELINA: Jolie revealed she owns real versions of the guns she toted in the movie Tomb Raider - and she and partner Brad Pitt wouldn't be afraid to use them.  Rumors that she has already given birth to twins are not true.

STEVEN TYLER claims he checked into rehab to recover from foot surgeries to repair problems caused by his stage moves.

KIRSTEN DUNST claimed she went to Cirque Lodge for depression, not substance abouse, but Defamer reports that the rehab facility says "if someone is suffering solely from chronic depression, we're not the place to go."

LINDSAY LOHAN talks to the Times of London about her troubles and her new projects.

KATE HUDSON & LANCE ARMSTRONG are becoming inseparable.

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY sings "Blue Tahitian Moon" in a scene from The Edge of Love, which costars Sienna Miller and Cillian Murphy. The screenplay was written by Knightley's mom, Sharman Macdonald.

AL QAEDA Less than a year after his agency warned of new threats from a resurgent al-Qaeda, CIA Director Hayden now portrays the terrorist movement as essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout much of the rest of the world, including in its presumed haven along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. An al-Qaeda trainer and explosives specialist involved in a range of European terrorist networks has been killed in Pakistan, the latest senior militant to die in a spate of controversial US missile strikes. Meanwhile, Muslim extremist women are challenging al Qaeda's refusal to include - or at least acknowledge - women in its ranks.

IRAN: Now that the US has backed off and provided its info to the UN's nuclear watchdog, over the last few months, the inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency have come to worry that Iran - before suspending its work nearly five years ago - may have made real progress toward designing a deadly weapon.

IRAQ: As the Washington Post editorial board notes, there has a relative lull in news coverage and debate about Iraq in recent weeks -- which is odd, because May could turn out to have been one of the most important months of the war. While Washington's attention has been fixed elsewhere, military analysts have watched with astonishment as the Iraqi govt and army have gained control for the first time of the port city of Basra and the sprawling Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, routing the Shiite militias that have ruled them for years and sending key militants scurrying to Iran. At the same time, Iraqi and US forces have pushed forward with a long-promised offensive in Mosul, the last urban refuge of al-Qaeda.  Moreover, for all of that, US casualties are at a four-year low.  Prime Minister al-Maliki is facing growing opposition to a proposed security agreement that would set out how long American forces and military bases stayed in Iraq.  The govt has sent teams to four countries that have military pacts with the US ahead of entering a similar status of forces agreement (SoFA), Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Sunday -- which may alleviate some concerns.

BILBO the LIFEGUARD DOG may be allowed to return to the beach after his sacking earlier this month prompted a public outcry.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A faux-albino foal; the technical term for the colt is a cremello blue-eyed cream. Pics at the link.

HECTOR the TERRIER got his head wedged in an owl-shaped pot after chasing a mouse into it.  Firefighters had to use the jaws of life to free the dog.  Owl-shaped pot would have been a good title for a Nirvana song, had Kurt Cobain lived. Pics at the link.

SPINY NORMAN: A New Zealand man who assaulted a teen by hitting him with a spine-covered hedgehog has been fined by a court and ordered to pay most of his fine to his victim.

TURKEY VULTURES will have a smorgasboard in the Land of Lincoln. The state's transportation department says it won't be picking up as much roadkill left along roads because it spent too much of its budget during the winter.