BO DIDDLEY, a singer and guitarist who invented his own name, his own guitars, his own beat and, with a handful of other musical pioneers, rock 'n' roll itself, died Monday of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla. He was 79. The NYT also lists songs by other artists carrying the Bo Diddley beat. Sir Mick Jagger last night paid tribute, describing him as an "enormous force in music." There's a streaming obit at All Things Considered.  Watch him tear through "Hey, Bo Diddley" and "Bo Diddley" on the TNT show. It's Bo a go-go covering Willie Dixon's "You Cant Judge A Book By Its Cover" on Shindig! Other Diddley classics include "Road Runner," "I'm A Man," and "Who Do You Love" (w/ Ron Wood).

NEW RELEASES: Radiohead, Fleet Foxes, Aimee Mann, My Brightest Diamond, Christine Fellows and more are streaming in full this week via Spinner. Shearwater releases Rook. Centro-matic and South San Gabriel release companion albums.

SHEARWATER is profiled by the Austin American-Statesman.

CENTRO-MATIC's Will Johnson talks to the Dallas Observer abot duality, the split double album with South San Gabriel, and a project with Patterson Hood on the duality of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set you can stream on demand via MPR.

BOB MOULD did a mini-set for the Interface, including 'Again and Again', 'Circles', 'If I Can't Change Your Mind', 'Makes No Sense at All' and an Interview.  That's Fivefer Tuesday.

THE RACONTEURS: Jack White talks to the Boston Herald about the surprise release of the band's second album: "All it was about was getting it to the fans in every format at once," he said. "And, on a selfish note, I'm also tired about the fears over how to release something these days. You have to do extra tracks for iTunes and do an exclusive AOL session and something for MySpace. I don't have time for all that in my life."

FILM SCHOOL talks to Wired's Listening Post, with a couple of streaming tracks that hopscotch across My Bloody Valentine and early Dandy Warhols, but also feels as muscular as Swervedriver.

OiNK: Six former users of the torrent tracking site were arrested in late May by British authorities for sharing music via the website, all suspected of sharing albums prior to their release dates. They are currently out on bail.

THE OLD 97's talk to the Houston Chronicle about regrouping after four years apart, and navigating a complicated 21st-century music business without missing opportunities.

LINDSAY LOHAN has apparently passed on a million-dollar offer by OK! magazine to say she's gay.

JEN & JOHN: Pneumatic (and possibly neurotic) ex-gf Jessica Simpson is trying to warn Jennifer Aniston to be careful with new man John Mayer, because he is a notorious "ladies man."  But the duo was seen snuggling during a visit with Aniston's former co-star and BFF Courteney Cox and husband David Arquette at their new home in Malibu on Sunday.

KELSEY GRAMMER suffered a mild heart attack on Saturday, and is resting comfortably in a Hawaiian hospital.

CAMERON DIAZ & P. DIDDY: Keeping it on the downlow?

GYLLENSPOON: Sources say the couple has grown so close that Jake Gyllenhaal practically considers Reese Witherspoon's kids his own - and now friends of the actor say he's pushing to tie the knot with his Legally Blonde love so that the two can start a family of their own.

BRADGELINA: Jolie talks to Vanity Fair about the mother she lost last year, the father she's estranged from, and why, in her second pregnancy, she feels so sexy.  Maybe the over 15 million dollar bidding war over the baby pics is part of it.  Meanwhile, Pitt will be part of a team of consultants appointed to design a new five-star hotel and leisure development in Dubai.

TATUM O'NEAL, who has spoken and written about her years-long battle with addiction, was busted last night just blocks from her Lower East Side luxury apartment - charged with buying cocaine and crack, sources said.

TOM-KAT opened the doors of their new Beverly Hills mansion for an A-list housewarming party Saturday night. Xenu was not invited.

SHARON STONE said in a statement Saturday that she "could not be more regretful" of her comments this month regarding the earthquake in China, in which she suggested that the quake was an act of "karma."

THE MTV MOVIE AWARD WINNERS, including Johnny Depp and Ellen Page, are online, along with a whole mess 'o' multimedia.

THE INCREDIBLE HULK has new clips on line, including a bit of the street fight between the Hulk and Abomination.  Looks like Hulk smash.

AFGHANISTAN: Missions by special forces and air strikes by unmanned drones have "decapitated" the Taliban and brought the war in Afghanistan to a "tipping point", the commander of British forces has said. Taliban insurgents are fleeing south towards the Afghan border with Pakistan in the face of a US Marines offensive in volatile Helmand province, the NATO commander in Afghanistan said on Monday.  But the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, seems pretty jaunty in the South Waziristan region of Pakistan's tribal areas.

SYRIA will allow in UN inspectors to probe allegations that a remote building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike was a nuclear reactor built secretly with North Korean help, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday. 

IRAN: Pres. Ahmadinejad predicted on Monday that Muslims would uproot "satanic powers" and repeated his controversial belief that Israel will soon disappear, the Mehr news agency reported.

IRAQ: Coalition and Iraqi forces press operations against the Mahdi Army in Baghdad and Basra, despite the cease-fire signed with the Mahdi Army in Sadr City. The spiritual leader of the Soldiers of Heaven was captured in central Basra. The reconstruction of the al-Askari shrine, which was destroyed by al-Qaeda in the Sunni city of Samarra in February 2006, is seen as a pivotal step towards fixing the damage caused by almost two years of sectarian slaughter that pushed the country to the brink of civil war.

PFC. SCOTT A McGINNIS posthumously received the Medal of Honor for throwing himself on a grenade tossed into his HumVee in Iraq.  Much more here.

ELVIS the PARROT attacks the locals in West Yorkshire, chews through TV cables and smashes street lights -- earning an investigation by British anti-social behavior officials.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Paramedics treated five people for exposure to pepper spray after a man tried to force a squirrel out of his Rochester, NY house Sunday by spraying it with the substance.  Plus, it appears that militant squirrels are recruiting mockingbirds and snakes to their suicidal cause.

ITCHY COWS plunged a village near Wrexham, north Wales into darkness after they damaged power lines by rubbing against pylons.

THE SNAIL THREAT: Hundreds of migrating snails caused a six car pile-up at they swarmed across a busy dual carriageway in Germany.

TWO MOUNTAIN LIONS get a drink from a backyard pool in Denver.