OKKERVIL RIVER played "Pop Lie" for Dave recently at the Ed Sullivan Theater.

NEW RELEASES: Antony & the Johnsons, Franz Nicolay, The Derek Trucks Band, some vintage Bee Gees and more are streaming in full this week via Spinner.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED is currently previewing tracks from M Ward, Animal Collective, Bon Iver, Heartless Bast^rds and those Bee Gees.

BEN KWELLER does the four free songs thing for Daytrotter.

MOTOWN TURNS 50: The people who made Motown "The Sound of Young America"  tell tales to Spinner.  The A to Z of Hitsville USA is charted by the BBC.

RYAN ADAMS plays "Sink Ships" (from Cardinology) in a Black Cab Session. And there's a very Adams-esque story to go with it at the link.

25 STADIUM ANTHEMS, courtesy of the Chicago Tribune's Greg Kot.

A&R 101: Don Grierson, a record industry veteran who helped shepherd acts including the Beatles, Little River Band, Heart and Tina Turner, is teaching the Internet generation.

HOW TO SAVE ROCK & ROLL, according to nine insiders asked by Rolling Stone.

THE HEAVY METAL BAND NAME CHART: Don't miss it.

BRADGELINA were... wait for it... caught canoodling at a Golden Globes afterparty, where onlookers commented on Jolie's semmingly frozen face.

TOM BRADY & GISELE BUNDCHEN engaged? This time for sure?  Nothing up their sleeves? Presto?

KATE HUDSON & A-ROD getting cozy?

AMY WINEHOUSE is getting divorced by her recently incarcerated hubby, Blake Fielder-Civil.

ISLA FISHER says she's "very close" to marrying Sasha Baron Cohen, And again jokes that she's close to a bipolar nymphomaniac.

BRITNEY SPEARS loses a lucrative relationship with OK! magazine.

MEGAN FOX made a number of wacky comments on her way into the Golden Globes Awards.

SETH ROGEN has written an episode of The Simpsons and has cast himself as a lead character.

DC MOVIES currently over at Warner Bros. have been put on hold for the time being, according to writer-director David Goyer.

IRAN: A hidden camera catches an Iranian cleric committing adultery, and the video rockets around the blogosphere, where a new generation can finally skirt state censorship.

AFGHANISTAN: Australian special forces have killed a Taliban commander involved in recruiting suicide bombers and foreign fighters in Afghanistan, Australia's Defense Ministry said on Sunday.

IRAQ: Local security forces say they have captured leading Sunni militant Tha'ir Kadhim Sraiwi.

NINJA KITTEN: Let's go to the video.

KITTEN NAMING erupts into domestic violence.

CATS & DOGS, living together... he should have known better.

PIG catches a fish. Pic at the link.

BABY GORILLA debuts at the National Zoo: "Awwww," the small crowd murmured as Mandara and the baby settled onto a straw-cozy ledge for a midday feeding...