BISHOP ALLEN rocks out a bit on "Middle Management," a clip to coincide with the upcoming release of the movie, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist.

BOB DYLAN: Tell Tale Signs (Bootleg Series, Vol. 8) is streaming in full via NPR.

NEW RELEASES: Albums from Ben Folds, the J&MC, Dungen, the Dead, Roy Orbison, Todd Rundgren and more are streaming in full this week via Spinner.

LED ZEPPELIN REUNION DENIED: Robert Plant has no intention whatsoever of touring with anyone for at least the next two years.

BLACK KIDS:  Lead singer and chief songwriter, Reggie Youngblood talks to the Baltimore Sun about going from faith-based rock to indie buzz-band.

TEN BRILLIANT ONE-ALBUM WONDERS, courtesy of IGN.  First on the list is Moby Grape, so here's the band playing "Omaha." Plus, we have a separate clip including "Hey Grandma" and "Sitting By The Window."  It's like Twofer Tuesday, but one longer.

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT gives Elizabeth Day of The Observer a mini-tour of her favourite places in Brooklyn.

SILVER JEWS: David Berman explains to LAist that his songwriting is like playing chess against himself.  Plus, guitars, etc. 

WHAT IS HYPE?  Me, you and everyone you know.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND: Confirmed for Super Bowl XLIII.

TOM-KAT UPDATE: Holmes showed off her sultry side in an all-singing, all-dancing guest role on Eli Stone.  Pics at the link.  Meanwhile, the new trailer for Cruise's Valkyrie is online.  Industry insiders who have seen it say it's an absorbing thriller -- but there's no audience for it.

BRITNEY SPEARS' ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib has confirmed he owns a sex tape featuring himself and the pop wreck and will sell it for the right price.

HEATH LEDGER: The company that wrote Heath Ledger's ten-million-dollar life insurance policy is being sued after claiming the actor's death might have been a suicide, even though officials concluded it was accidental. Lawyers for Ledger's daughter say it's a transparent ploy to avoid paying the money.

HEATHER LOCKLEAR: TMZ has pics of her arrest, as well as the mugshot.

ANNE HATHAWAY is rumored to say something really interesting in an upcoming interview with Esquire magazine.

SARAH PALIN, current GOP vice-presidential nominee, in the 1984 Miss Alaska competition.  If anyone has a clip of Joe Biden in a swimsuit competition, please keep it to yourself.  Presumably, there will be no swimsuit segment in Thursday's debate.

JIMMY KIMMEL & SARAH SILVERMAN were snapped holding hands, but claim they remain friends after their break-up.

ISLAMISM in the UK?  The publisher of "The Jewel of Medina," a novel about the early life of A'isha, one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad, was the target of an attempted firebombing.

PAKISTAN: Villagers in parts of the North West Frontier Province and the tribal territory, faced with the violent advance of the Pakistani Taliban, have started to organize an armed indigenous resistance.

IRAN:  Gary Milhollin, the director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, writes that by the time we inaugurate our next president, Iran is likely to achieve "virtual" nuclear weapon status.

IRAQ: Followers of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and frmr Iranian Pres. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani urged Iraq's government and religious leaders to block the proposed US-Iraqi security pact.

SO, A HORSE walks into a pub... Video at the link.

FEEDING DUCKS: Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

STOLEN HAMSTER brings a police response in Clinton Township, NJ.

A TINY CLEANER FISH picks parasites from the mouth of a giant bullethead parrot fish in a stunning entry to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

WORLD-CLASS BUDGIES: The secret is bathing them in sherry or cough syrup.