YO LA TENGO shot a Takeaway Show for La Blogotheque, starting with a cover of The Troggs' "With a Girl Like You."

SONDRE LERCHE stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set streaming on demand via MPR.

DAN WILSON also stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

SOULSAVERS, featuring Mark Lanegan, are streaming the Broken album.

A FALL MUSIC PREVIEW, including Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard, the Flaming Lips and a Kinks choral track, is streaming via All Songs Considered.

MONSTERS OF FOLK are in "The Right Place."

THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Nominees for 2010 the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kiss, Genesis, ABBA, L.L. Cool J, Darlene Love, Donna Summer, Jimmy Cliff, Laura Nyro, the Chantels, the Hollies and the Stooges.  Now that one of the Stooges is dead, perhaps these bozos will finally wake up.  Snubbed: Yes, Rush, Chicago, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Willie Nelson, the Monkees, Neil Diamond, Judas Priest, Bon Jovi, Brian Eno and Gram Parsons.

MADONNA: NPR is streaming Madge's big hits (inexplicably missing "Like a Virgin") to mark her latest "best of" package.

FLAMING LIPS: Wayne Coyne talks to Brooklyn Vegan about the band's upcoming LP, curating and headlining All Tomorrow's Parties New York, and more...

NO AGE: Randy Randall and Dean Allen Spunt talk to CMJ about the band's origins.

CHYNNA PHILLIPS already knew about -- and believes Mackenzie Phillips's claim that she had a 10-year affair with her father, musician John Phillips.  Michelle Phillips doesn't buy it, telling the Hollywood Reporter that Mackenzie has "a lot of mental illness," and that "she's had a needle stuck up her arm for 35 years."

ELLEN POMPEO (Grey's Anatomy) and husband Chris Ivery have welcomed their first child, a girl.

BRITNEY SPEARS: A court document detailing 11 months of the pop wreck's credit card spending has leaked online.

K-FED (Britney Spears's Fed-Ex) is joining the cast of VH-1's Celebrity Fit Club.

KHLOE KARDASHIAN and LAMAR ODOM's quickie wedding has shocked Odom's baby mama.

ANNA NICOLE SMITH IS STILL DEAD, but attorney Howard K. Stern faces new charges in the death of former Playboy model.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE and JESSICA BIEL... and Rihanna?

JACKLYN SMITH, contrary to Honduran media reports, is alive, but her stunt double was shot.

DIABLO CODY is in talks to adapt the Sweet Valley High books for the big screen.

TERROR in the USA: Police in NYC stepped up their patrols and increased their random searches on subways and buses Wednesday following reports that as many as 24 more people are under observation in a suspected cross-country terror plot.

IRAN: Argentina, Australia, Britain, Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand and the United States walked out on Ahmadinejad at the UN General Assembly.

AFGHANISTAN: Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal writes that he has evidence that factions of Pakistani and Iranian spy services are supporting insurgent groups that carry out attacks on coalition troops.

BORN FREE: A man and 38 lions, hanging out together... mass hysteria!

MONKEY on a GOAT on a VASE on a ROPE: Your Seussian photo of the day.

A GIANT SQUID, larger than a New York City taxi, was captured in the Gulf of Mexico.

A DUCT-TAPED CAT: Is there anything lower?

A DOG-FIGHTING RING at a daycare center. I guess we have an answer.

SHARKS on a plane.

PANDAS, Die with Dignity!